as someone who can beer snob with the best of them, i genuinely love the tasty of natty boh. and better yet, it sells for $2 a bottle at my corner pub. perfect accompaniment to a soft crab sandwich!

exactly…although, i'm pretty sure that poor ben already had a suspicion that he was more likely to die at the hands of rednecks with guns than zombies eating him.

to hell with any heathen who dost not worship at the alter of the drumming jesus.

annapolis got a shout out too!

yes…the ohio class 'boomers' were built by EB. but i believe the props (actually the navy lingo is 'screw') were manufactured by a subcontractor and were likely made somewhere outside the shipyard where the boats were actually assembled.

actually i would wager they belong to the ohio-class ballistic missile sub. the russian were far more concerned with our ballistic missile fleet. but your point is exactly right: the technical plans and manufacturing of submarine props were some of the most closely held secrets in the cold war. u.s. subs held…

i LOVED this reference so hard! my family had caps season tickets from '81-'88. maruk was the caps franchise-first 50-goal scorer…

i though for sure MD would be represented by mary prankster!

without looking up their albums, i kinda think they actually peaked a little earlier than '96…plus see heller's comments above regarding references to mainstream bands' releases

i don't remember giving permission for a party, joel.

my son learned to pour booker's neat when he was only 3!!!

wait…you didn't actually think that i would throw out bacon that soaked overnight in bourbon…did you? i already had plans for a bourbon-bacon and egg sammich!!!

will definitely try some of the fernet…sounds great.

man i love eggnog…always looking for new recipes, so i'll add the fernet to my bar…sounds interesting….how does it compare to angostura?

so…this time of year is all about fulton's pumpkin pie cream liquer. it is truly glorious stuff. my preferred method of imbibery is to mix it 50-50 with a dark, spiced rum (kraken is great, capt morgan will suffice) in a shaker packed with ice. pour into a martini glass and dust with nutmeg.

bulleit rye is great! even without considering price it's my favorite rye…always have a bottle on my bar!

a young(er) happyjack chose a low mileage, well-equiped (factory CB radio!!!) '79 toyota celica GT liftback over an all-original, needed work '69 trans am.

* 'sploded!!!

thank you for validating all that pre-adolesent tingling in my toughskins everytime i saw the sarlacc!  i just figured i was a weirdo!

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