Posted on 06/24/2005 11:04:56 AM PDT by Chiapet
"If you were a bartender at The Cellar back then, you served me quite a few bottles of Busch while playing NTN trivia with the regulars.... :)"
I tended bar there during winter '94/spring '95. I loved playing the NTN trivia. I used to sit there after my shift was over and play. Of course it helped that Jack (bar owner if you remember him) bought non-stop free drinks for the staff....
Then it's no longer a tobacco plant, it's a chemical plant........
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Yeah, I had heard that Jack sold the place, which I was kind of sad about. And he really was generous. There was a special "Jack" button on the register to use when we rang up one of his many rounds. Well, as long as he sold his secret bloody mary recipe to the new owner, I'll probably head down there for a drink if I ever get around to visiting again.
It's funny that the jukebox got replaced...it had just been replaced when I first started working there. The one that was in before had 45's or 78's (can't remember which) and the new one played cd's. I remember being really disappointed, because Willie Nelson's "Whisky River" didn't make it through the transition.
"Then it's no longer a tobacco plant, it's a chemical plant........"
Sure, in the same sense that moldy cheese is a miracle cure :)
It is?, for what? Frenchitis?.......
He would always be seen carrying his coffee can which was his spitoon!
He grew up in West Texas and starting "dippin' snuff" at age 11. He was in his late 60s when I knew him and he once told me that his annual physical at Brooks Army Hospital in San Antonio would befuddle the Docs! He had never had a cavity and he couldn't remember ever having a cold!!!
When you look at the standard doctors bag in the late 1800s you'll find that tobacco was a common curative!
". Analysis of the transgenic tobacco detected some 3,000 chemicals, with nearly 2,400 of them different from those found in ordinary tobacco plants."
I've never been phobic about so called "franken food", but when you read stuff like this it makes you wonder.
I wonder if they did the same test to corn to see if it also contained some brand new chemicals?
"It is?, for what? Frenchitis?......."
No, I believe that mold from cheese is the source for penicillin.
I thought that was bread mold. But, I always cut the mold off the cheese and eat it anyway. The cheese, that is......maybe I should eat the mold and throw away the cheese. My wife scolds me when I eat cheese anyway.......
The problem with standard Cigaretts may be all of the Addatives they put in there, i would like to see a study comparing pure tobacco vs standard cigaretts.
Just as marijuana has pallitive effects I'm sure that tobacco does as well. I quit in 1976 and never looked back after my 5 day nicotine addiction had passed. I'm amazed at the cigarest scams costing hundreds of dollars and taking months to withdraw which are foisted on the smoking public!
Excerpts from Bob Newhart’s classic routine describing a phone call from Sir Walter Raleigh to the head of the “West Indies Company” in England.
“Yeah? Who is it, Frank? Sir Walter Raleigh? Yeah, yeah, put him on, will you! Hey, Harry you wanna pick up the extension? It's nutty Walter again."
“What you got for us this time, Walt? You got another winner for us?”
“To-bac-co” er, what's “to-bac-co,” Walt? It's a kind of leaf, huh? And you bought eighty tons of it? Let me get this straight, Walt. You've bought eighty tons of leaves? This may come as a kind of a surprise to you Walt, but come fall in England, we're kinda up to our…”
“Are you saying ‘snuff,’ Walt? What's ‘snuff’? You take a pinch of tobacco and you shove it up your nose and it makes you sneeze? Yeah, I imagine it would, Walt! Hey, Goldenrod seems to do it pretty well over here!”
“It has other uses though, huh? You can chew it! Or put it in a pipe! Or you can shred it up and put it in a piece of paper and roll it up -- don't tell me, Walt, don't tell me -- you stick it in your ear, right? Oh! Between your lips! Then what do you do, Walt? You set fire to it! Then what do you do, Walt? You inhale the smoke, huh?”
“You know, Walt it seems you can stand in front of your own fireplace and have the same thing going for you! You see, Walt, we've been a little worried about you, you know, ever since you put your cape down over that mud. See, Walt, I think you're gonna have rather a tough time selling people on sticking burning leaves in their mouths!”
Scuse me, got to go take the burgers off the grill.....
Your "Cthulhu" (sp?) tagline/signature has to be one of the best I've ever seen.
I remember when he got orders to Viet Nam and was so excited to be in the fray once more. We gave him quite a send off!
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