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August 04, 2005
EU Considers Banning Beer-Garden Wenches' CleavageThe St. Pauli Girl was not available for comment. Ridiculous. What the hell business is it of the EU if a Bavarian beer-whore wants to wear a plunging neckline? If a Swiss ale-trollop wants to show some decollatage, who's the victim, exactly? If some low-rent zaftig lager-slut working the Reeperbahn wants to put her filthy pillows up for exhibition and critique, what concern is it to some Brussels half-a-fag? This is fascism, my friends. And I mean the bad kind of fascism, not the fun kind where we get to seize all of Sean Penn's property and exile him to an Alaskan re-education camp on the grounds that he starred in I Am Sam with subversive intent and full willful knowlege that it sucked ass. posted by Ace at 02:29 PM
CommentsThere are certain outrages up with which I shall not put. And one of those things is my privilege -- no, by damn, my right! -- to see a barmaid's untrammeled sweater-ponies swaying gently to and fro as she serves up my brew of choice. If America stands for anything, it stands for ripe cleavage, by God! Let us make boobage the core of what separates us from the namby-pamby nanny-state EU. Posted by: Monty on August 4, 2005 02:37 PM
I knew this was right up your alley. Posted by: Lanceredstaterant on August 4, 2005 02:38 PM
They can have my St. Pauli Girl's breasts when they pry them from my cold dead fingers! Posted by: J. Wilde on August 4, 2005 02:54 PM
They must be sharing legislators with Canada. The ones who banned miss universe. Posted by: Kevin on August 4, 2005 02:58 PM
Doesn't surpirse me at all coming from Europe, which is more liberal every day. And you are right, it is Fascism. Liberalism leads to Fascism: remember, Hitler was the head of the NAZI party, which was the National Socialist Party. Posted by: Justin on August 4, 2005 02:59 PM
Now tell me again, why is the European Union's constitution failing? Posted by: Sevenmeds on August 4, 2005 03:10 PM
Amen brothers!! I say we start our own club to show those EU ninnies what real men want! We could call it Funbags for Fermentation! or Brothers for Bazooms n Beer! Posted by: compos mentis on August 4, 2005 03:28 PM
And don't forget, Ace, that St. Pauli is Hamburg's red-light district. So that gal on the bottle may well be serving her customers more than beer. By the Eternal, if we let the Europeans get away with this, then the terrorists really will have won! Posted by: Brown Line on August 4, 2005 03:35 PM
Actually, if you take time to read the entire article, it talks about being able to comply with the regulations by RUBBING some CREME on the barmaid's EXPOSED SKIN AREAS. Those sneaky bastards... Posted by: Dogstar on August 4, 2005 03:39 PM
Gentlemen, the EU may be doing the world a favor by sparing us the hairy cleavage of women from certain European countries. Later, Posted by: bbeck on August 4, 2005 03:44 PM
Yeah, but we're using beer goggles to sample said cleavackles. So it's all goode. Plus, an extra bonus, if the CREME part is true. Posted by: Dogstar on August 4, 2005 03:48 PM
In the interst of a PC smackdown, this is just another example of how our gays are so much cooler than their gays. After all, our gays want to get married and be committed to each other, and theirs are trying to use legal tactics to hide the competittion. Posted by: Defense Guy on August 4, 2005 04:01 PM
Ah, Dogstar, always lookin' on the bright side. :) Well, all I know is that I only get to wear my cleavage-exposing wench outfit when I'm being "dorky," according to Ace. It just seems out of place everywhere else. Later, Posted by: bbeck on August 4, 2005 04:29 PM
It just seems out of place everywhere else. NO IT IS NOT! Posted by: Michael on August 4, 2005 04:37 PM
Michael, well, I was referring to PUBLIC places. Later, Posted by: bbeck on August 4, 2005 04:44 PM
bbeck: I think we can all agree that there is no possible place, public or private, where a luscious expanse of female cleavage is not appropriate. Male ass-crack cleavage, on the other hand, should be punishable by a fine and possible imprisonment. Posted by: Monty on August 4, 2005 04:51 PM
This may be a dumb technical question, but just how much solar exposure do you get in Germany in October (and especially at night)? Posted by: Ron on August 4, 2005 05:04 PM
Ace, if you were a responsible blogger you would give us some pictures of said barmaids in order to allow your readers to make a fully informed decision. Posted by: JeffK on August 4, 2005 05:21 PM
Ah, yes, the Munich barmaids! I remember one evening at the Matthaeser Bier Stadt. I was amazed at the ability of these 'young maids' to weave through a crowd while holding 4 or 5 mugs of beer (That's liter mugs, each of which is about 3-4 lb. of glass, plus weight of beer) in each 'dainty' little paw. That's somewhere around 25 lb in each hand, balanced perfectly to avoid spillage while moving. I was young(er) and in great shape and I would not have attempted it once, don't even think of doing it all night, every night. Did I mention just how much decolletage it takes to balance 50 lb. of glass and beer? Let's just say that after 10+ years in Germany, I am still waiting to meet the St. Pauli girl and not her cousin, Bertha. Happy fantasies, guys. Posted by: on August 4, 2005 06:49 PM
The real irony here is that Europeans are all into the topless beaches and sweaty disco sex, and tend to consider Americans prudish. I'll be throwing this one back in their teeth, believe me. Posted by: See-Dub on August 4, 2005 07:58 PM
anonymous, you don't have to be big to be strong, when you're a woman. I have guys lugging 80 lb machinery on a cart into my place quite regularly, only to see little bitty me pick it right up and put it on the scale. I think it 'bout shrivels their little packages up when they see that. And I ain't no scary musclebound chickie. Posted by: lauraw on August 4, 2005 09:06 PM
lauraw, Sorry about the 'anonymous'. I had my info in, but forgot that when I preview on this site it goes away when I return to the edit screen. You're right that small can be strong. But most of the 'small' beer servers I ever met on that side of the pond worked smaller venues, like gasthauser, where it was glasses down the bar or a tray to the table. The Bier Stadt was kind of a year round preview of Oktoberfest. There were two beer halls, each of which seated 5,000 and had a band. The crowd was mostly local and the beer flowed hard and heavy. The servers stayed very busy and were quite nice, but definitely of good Bavarian farmer stock. They held there own quite nicely with the clientele. Of course, when things got hairy, there were the bouncers. Saw that floor show, too, and redoubled my efforts to be polite. Kind of like barrels with white shirts that wouldn't button at the collar, and real hard fists moving real fast. It was a good show while it lasted, but it didn't last long. Posted by: Dave on August 4, 2005 09:31 PM
And I ain't no scary musclebound chickie. I'll never be, your beast of burden, my back is broad, but it's a hurtin Posted by: Dave in Texas on August 4, 2005 09:36 PM
If our knees bent the other way, running would be ugly. Posted by: lauraw on August 5, 2005 09:28 AM
I don't suppose it's a workable arrangement unless you're a four legged critter (I was thinking about this while the puppy was running around the house like a maniac last night). Sure gives em a spring tho. I'm thinking about this way too much. Posted by: Dave in Texas on August 5, 2005 09:50 AM
Don't birds have the same thing? Posted by: lauraw on August 5, 2005 09:58 AM
good point Posted by: Dave in Texas on August 5, 2005 11:04 AM
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In more marketing for Project Hail Mary, scientists say they've found the biosigns indicating life growing on an alien planet. It's not proof, just signatures of chemicals that are produced by biological metabolism, and it could be nothing, but scientists think it's a strong sign that this planet is inhabited by something.
In a paper published in the Astrophysical Journal Letters, a team of scientists announced the detection of dimethyl sulfide (along with a similar detection of dimethyl disulfide) in the atmosphere of an exoplanet called K2-18b. This is actually the second detection of dimethyl sulfide made on this planet, following a tentative detection in 2023. He means they tried to prove the signal was caused by things other than dimethyl sulfide but they could not.
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Great marketing arranged by Amazon to promote Project Hail Mary. Okay not really but it does work out that way.
What? Skeleton of the most famous Musketeer, D'Artagnan, possibly discovered in Dutch church closet.
Dumas picked four names of real musketeers out of a history book, D'Artagnan, Athos, Aramis, and Porthos. So there was an actual D'Artagnan, though he made most of the story up. (Or, you know, all of it.)* Charles de Batz de Castelmore, known as d'Artagnan, the famous musketeer of Kings Louis XIII and Louis XIV, spent his life in the service of the French crown. A lot of Dumas's stories are based on bits of real history. The plot of the >Three Musketeers, about trying to recover lost diamonds from the queen's necklace, was cribbed from the then-almost-contemporaneous Affair of the Queen's Necklace. And the Man in the Iron Mask is based on real accounts of a prisoner forced to wear a mask (though I think it was a velvet mask). * Oh, I should mention, Dumas says all this, about finding the names in an old book, in the prologue to his novel. But authors lie a lot. They frequently present fictions as based on historic fact. The twist is, he was actually telling the truth here. At least about these four musketeers having actually existed and served under Louis XIV. Fun fact: You know the beginning of A Fistful of Dollars where the local gunslingers make fun of Clint Eastwood's donkey and Eastwood demands they apologize to the donkey? That's lifted from The Three Musketeers. Rochefort mocks D'Artagnan's old, brokedown farm horse and D'Artagnan is incensed.
A commenter asked which should be read first, The Hobbit of LOTR?
Easy, no question -- read The Hobbit first. It's actually the start of the story and comes first chronologically. It sets up some major characters and major pieces in play in LOTR. Also, the Hobbit is Beginner-Friendly, which LOTR isn't. The Hobbit really is a delightful book, and a fast read. It's chatty, it's casual, it's exciting, and it's funny. In that dry cheeky British humor way. I love that the narrator is constantly making little asides and commentary, like he's just sitting next to you telling you this story as it occurs to him. LOTR is a very long story. Fifteen hundred pages or so. The Hobbit is relatively short and very punchy and easy to read. If you don't like The Hobbit, you can skip out on LOTR. If you do like it, you'll be primed to read LOTR. Oh, I should say: The Hobbit is written as if it's for children, but one of those smart children's stories that are also for adults. Don't worry, there's also real fighting and violence and horror in it, too. LOTR is written for adults. (It's said that Tolkien wrote both for his children, but LOTR was written 17 years later, when his children were adults.) Some might not like The Hobbit due to its sometimes frivolous tone. Me, I love it. I find it constantly amusing. Both are really good but there is a starkly different tone to both. LOTR is epic, grand, and serious, about a world war, The Hobbit is light and breezy, and about a heist. Though a heist that culminates in a war for the spoils.
The Hobbit Challenge: Read two more chapters. I didn't have much time. Bilbo got the ring.
I noticed a continuity problem. Maybe. Now, as of the time of The Hobbit, it was unknown that this magic ring was in fact a Ring of Power, and it was doubly unknown that it was the Ring of Power, the Master Ring that controlled the others. But the narrator -- who we will learn in LOTR was none of than Bilbo himself, who wrote the book as "There and Back Again" -- says this about Gollum's ring: "But who knows how Gollum had come by that present [the Ring], ages ago in the old days when such rings were still at large in the world? Perhaps even the Master who ruled them could not have said." In another passage, the ring is identified as a "ring of power." I don't know, I always thought there was a distinction between mere magic rings and the Rings of Power created by Sauron. But this suggests that Bilbo knew this was a ring of power created by Sauron. Now I don't remember when Bilbo wrote the Hobbit. In the movie, he shows Frodo the book in Rivendell, and I guess he wrote it after he left the Shire. I guess he might have added in the part about the ring being a ring of power created by "the Master" after Gandalf appraised him of his research into the ring. I never noticed this before. I know Tolkien re-wrote this chapter while he was writing LOTR to make the ring important from the start. And also to make Gollum more sinister and evil, and also to remove the part where Gollum actually offers Bilbo the ring as a "present" -- Bilbo had already found it on his own, but Gollum was wiling to give it away, which obviously is not something the rewritten Gollum would ever do. But I had no memory of the ring being suggested to be The Ring so early in the tale.
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Tomorrow is March 25th, "Tolkien Reading Day," because March 25th is the day when the Ring is destroyed in the book. I think I'm going to start the Hobbit tomorrow and read all four books this time.
The only bad part of the trilogy are the Frodo/Sam chapters in The Two Towers. They're repetitive, slow, and mostly about the weather and terrain. But most everything else is good. Weirdly, the Frodo-Sam chapters in Return of the King are exciting and action-packed and among the best in the trilogy. (Though the chapters with everyone else in Return of the King get pretty slow again. Mostly people talking about marching towards war, and then marching towards war.)
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