Time for another touchy- feely get-to-know-you thread.

[Instar]

Cream soda
And just so you know pure distilled water has no taste. Ah, the days of chemistry class and those distilled water bottles. Heh, what a water battle, I got soaked and the teacher blamed me!

[Askan Nightbringer]

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But I don't drink much alcohol these days, as my fiancee doesn't like the stuff, not even the smell of it. So I stick to Dr. Pepper/Mr. Pibb, root beer (any brand), and Arizona "Memory Mind Elixir" (tastes like sweetened grapefruit juice with green tea mixed in - supposedly has ginkgo biloba and other memory/mind-enhancing herbs in it). Oh yeah, and 3 cups of coffee every weekday morning. No other way to get through a workday. [/b]

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If my girlfriend didn't like alcohol I think I'de give up the girl and not the drink.
As for that Dr. Pepper stuff....I think it must be some sort of acquired taste.
And is root beer = ginger beer? Or does it have alcohol in it?

I'm actually surprised (well more like completely staggered) by the amount of non drinkers.
Is that because your all young americans and you have that really oppresive drinking age?
Or is everyone just really old and completely out of that pub/club/bar/tavern/inn/bottle shop/21st birthday party/hotel/having a drink with mates on the porch/disco scene?
What do you people do after work?

Cheers,
Askan Nightbringer
Voice of the People's Empire of Night
(who would never appoint a Fleet Commander who couldn't discuss strategies over a scotch)

[dogscoff]

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Originally posted by askan:
I'm actually surprised (well more like completely staggered) by the amount of non drinkers.

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*whew*, thanks Askan - I was beginning to worry that I maybe there was something wrong with me=-)

I would find it really really hard to go alcohol free - not because of any kind of addiction, I just love beer too much. I also like that fuzzy feeling which lies on the drunk/ sober border.

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"Pinky, are you pondering what I'm pondering?"
"I think so Brain but, if you replace the P with an O, my name would be Oinky, wouldn't it?"

[capnq]

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I'm actually surprised (well more like completely staggered) by the amount of non drinkers. Is that because your all young americans and you have that really oppresive drinking age? Or is everyone just really old and completely out of that pub/club/bar/tavern/inn/bottle shop/21st birthday party/hotel/having a drink with mates on the porch/disco scene? What do you people do after work?

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Well, in my case, I only drink socially with friends, and I'm pretty much a hermit. The Last I remember opening the white rum I have on hand was for a candlelight dinner in '93. I was never into the bar scene, and honestly can't remember the Last time I bought alcohol at a restaurant.

I've been on disability since '83, but if I had a job, I'd play computer games and Web surf after work. As it is, I'm Online at least six hours a day, and probably at the computer but offline almost as long.

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Cap'n Q

The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the
human mind to correlate all of its contents. We live on a placid
island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was
not meant that we should go far. -- HP Lovecraft, "The Call of Cthulhu"

[Phoenix-D]

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I'm actually surprised (well more like completely staggered) by the amount of non drinkers.
Is that because your all young americans and you have that really oppresive drinking age?

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Well, in my case I can't (see drinking age) but I don't think I would anyway. At least beer. I have this strange aVersion to drinking anything that looks like piss

Besides, I'm screwed up enough as it is, I don't need alchol in there too.

Phoenix-D

[ZeroAdunn]

There's a drinking age in the US? Oh no... Why don't they tell you these things! What is it? I'm screwed....

[DaftWager]

It's 21, not that is stops anyone younger.