On Thu, 21 Mar 2002 06:41:20 -0800, "Brian Bilderback"
<bbilderback@hotmail.com> wrote:
> John Crimmins wrote :
I'm not a big whiskey drinker, but my lord! That stuff is *smooth*.
This has managed to get my brain working, though, so I'll drag this back to
topic:
This got me thinking about an FMA scenario that could be a heck of a lot of
fun... Last Call: A Full Metal Bar Fight. You could have a good excuse for a
variety of factions (all on their own side), a minimal amount of projectile
weapons (so there's a good excuse for everyone to go
hand-to-hand), and
probably a couple of Jedi who've wandered in from a different movie.
Somewhere in my parent's attic is an old "album game" based on this concept.
Anyone remember what it was called? Could use that for a map.... And I seem to
remember seeing a really nifty idea somewhere on the 'net: for a similar
scenario two guys constructed a bar out of an empty (and unused) pizza box.
Most of the scenery was glued into place, there were walls to make a few
smaller rooms, and the whole thing folded up for transport and storage. It was
intended to be used for historical games (pirates) instead of science fiction,
but the idea is still stealable.
One comment on this thread, just one.
How many people on this list have heard Tom Smith's "307 ALE" ? :)
I think you're thinking of Swashbuckler. It allowed HTH combat in a tavern or
a ship to ship boarding action. It came with some great little counters like
mugs, shelves you could topple, etc. Hmmm.....so when ya going to run it?
Tony Finan - This is who we are.
"Let the revels begin, let the fire be started. We're dancing for the restless
and the broken hearted." This.sig terminates with Swan.
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> Radio Free R'Lyeh wrote:
Swashbuckler was the Musketeers and Pirate game.
Adventurer was the science fiction game of a similar theme.
Both published by Yaquinto.
> --- John Crimmins <johncrim@voicenet.com> wrote:
> I'm not a big whiskey drinker, but my lord! That
I learned to drink _good_ Scotch in Germany. There's
a bar (Irish Pub, actually) in Giessen that served
about 30-40 types of Scotch. I stuck to the
high-quality stuff. Then I come to the US and the
only single malts I can find are Glenfiddich (tolerable, but barely),
Glenlivet (better) and
Glenmorangie (mid-grade in quality, but $52 US a
freakin' bottle!!!). Can't find the really good stuff.
> John Atkinson wrote:
> > I'm not a big whiskey drinker, but my lord! That
I can't afford the REAL good stuff, but we can get some OK names here in
Eugene - Oban, Laphraog (sp?), MacCallan, etc.....
3B^2
> --- Brian Bilderback <bbilderback@hotmail.com> wrote:
> I can't afford the REAL good stuff, but we can get
I don't know MacCallan, but I have some very fond memories of Oban (and at DM
6 a shot, you would too...). Laphroaig (I think that's about right) was a
special, "I'm celebrating something" whiskey as it was DM 7 a shot instead.
I'm partial to Bushmills myself, a single-malt single-grain blend. It's
not for the purist, but in San Francisco it's the best whiskey for any
reasonable price.
> John Atkinson wrote:
> --- Brian Bilderback <bbilderback@hotmail.com> wrote:
> John Atkinson wrote:
> I don't know MacCallan,
The husband of my wife's co-worker, a wealthy exec with a biotech
company, contracted Hepatitis years ago while working as a hospital aide
(rowdy patient, infected needle....). When he found out, the docs said no
booze. So years later, we're at his wife's birthday party. We're discussing
liquor, and I mention my fondness for Aqua Vitae. He pulls out a bottle of 18
yr old MacCallan (A very nice Scoth, a Speyside IIRC) and says "You can't take
it home, but drink as much as you want while you're here.
.
.
.
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.
Do the math.
but I have some very fond
> memories of Oban
Oban was my first single malt. *sigh* (First Scotch, first love, similar
sentimentality).
> Laphroaig (I think that's about right) was a
Yup, still that for me too. Of course these days ANY Scotch is a rare
treat. But I just got promoted, so we'll see what happens. :-)
3B^2
> Michael Llaneza wrote:
> I'm partial to Bushmills myself, a single-malt single-grain blend.
I'm not as big a fan of Irish whiskey, which suprises me since I have more
Irish ancestry than Scot. What surprises me more is that I can actually
tell the difference.
> It's
Define reasonable. There's an Irish pub in SF, I think O'Grady's, has a
huge but gentle Irish Wolfhound that holds court in the hallway to the
bathrooms. They won a Perfect Pint award from THE Guinness Corporation, I'd be
willing to bet they'd offer a few good drams. Hell, I could find good Scotch
in San Diego, and it's a cultural WASTELAND (culture there is something in
yogurt).
3B^2
> John Crimmins wrote:
<bbilderback@hotmail.com> wrote:
> > John Crimmins wrote :
I don't understand this at all. Retsina is a Greek wine, oddly flavoured with
pine resin (thus the name), not a spirit. Top Greek
Brandy is called Metaxa and rated 3-, 5- and 7-star for
smoothness.
Another famed Greek spirit is "ouzo", flavoured with aniseed, which helpfully
turns cloudy when adulterated with water.
> At 04:25 PM 3/21/02 -0500, you wrote:
Soon as I can find the thing, I suppose. I'll need to stop by parent's place
someday soon anyway...I've still got a ton of gaming stuff in their attic. Car
Wars as far as the eye can see, a box fulla Zoids, some old D&D stuff. I hope
that I still have the game, and didn't sell it on ebay or anything.
> At 05:31 PM 3/21/02 -0500, you wrote:
Yes, that's it! Thank you!
> On Thu, 21 Mar 2002, Scott Jaqua wrote:
> One comment on this thread, just one.
http://www.tomsmithonline.com/lyrics/307ale.htm
Very good. An SF drinking song; or at least a song about drinking with SF
elements!