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Hehehe... you thought this thread was gone, but no... Nature Trail to Hell Coming this Christmas to a theater near you The most horrifying film that hit the screen There's a homicidal maniac who finds a cub-scout troop And he hacks up two or three in every scene Please don't reveal the secret...

Well, then, thank you for setting the record straight. Apparently the issue is more complicated than I thought, but then I was mostly going by Terry Foster's descriptions of 18th century porters vs 19th century ones.

Correct me if I am wrong, but isn't modern Brown Malt a relatively new thing? I didn't think that it was made in the 1920s at all, at least not under that name - AFAIK, until about ten years ago, the term 'brown malt' always referred to the straw-fired torrified malt used as the base malt in...

Maybe he's a Devisor! (For those who can't be bothered to read the link: The Whateley Academy series is a sort of "The X-Men meets ex-men" series about a school for superpowered mutant teens; the main series covers the stories of several students who, for various reasons, had their gender...

The website gruitale.com presumably has a few recipes. There are several good ones (un-hopped beers, that is, not funny things) in the book Sacred and Healing Herbal Beers, with a focus on those with some mildly entheogenic properties such as yarrow. The historical part of the book is about...

Hopefully, all it will lure are some travel agency spammers.

This is truer than you probably think; current theories hold that in a given year, in the absence of an major carcinogens, the average individual develops between 2 and 5 neoplastic cells a year. It's only when the immune system is unable to find and eliminate them that they develop into a...

****! I meant to cut that last part, it was rather... intemperate of me. It's more a reflection of my general depression and disgust at the world than anything I really think. I just... I can't see how anyone could have a child in such a rotten world and feel good about it, sometimes. As for...

As I've said elsewhere, I'm seriously thinking of doing a lot more than getting snipped. I'm not sure if I'll have the balls to do it, but if I do, well, then I guess I won't... I am genuinely ****ed up. Getting back on topic, if I remain male and get involved with a woman at some point, a...

Don't let the dangly bits fool you, you are a woman after all. Deal with it. Seeing how I am only just dealing with it now, and still not entirely sure if I am making a mistake or not yet, I think that some early notice would have helped.

Actually, I imagine it is more along the lines of 'I want to keep my job and not go to jail'. And before you ask, yes, it is a felony in many jurisdictions to sell nicotine or alcohol products without asking for ID, no matter whether the person is of age or not. And even if you aren't arrested...

Yeah, this is about the way my life has been going

... blacked out. The last thing I remember from that night was watching the half-full tumbler of Bacardi 151 (the second of the night) falling out of my hand in slow motion. The next memory is of waking up at 5 AM in the bathtub, with my father and my roommate scowling down at me. I apparently...

Yeah, that's a problem any time you have something that suddenly balloons in importance or popularity the way craft beer has. In the IT industry, you could practically set your watch by the rise and fall of the stock bubbles, which invariably involve a few hundred thousand carpetbaggers who...

Yes and no. HST is the guy on the left, and the ref is to a scene in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, but I mostly had the guy on the right in mind: Oscar Zeta Acosta, the real-life analog of Dr Gonzo. He was actually Mexican-American (the whole 'Samoan' bit was partly misdirection about who the...