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AFFS High Command: Leave the lampshades on.
« on: 30 November 2011, 10:52:47 »
Well gents the AFFS HC hits another thread limit so I set you all upo with a shiny new thread to hang out in. Just keep a space by the fire for me and don't annoy  the cat (an in-joke for all of you long time denizens). Cheers and a round on the house!
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Re: AFFS High Command: Leave the lampshades on.
« Reply #1 on: 30 November 2011, 11:00:35 »
And if you finish the scotch, don't forget to leave a Post-it!  ;)
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Re: AFFS High Command: Leave the lampshades on.
« Reply #2 on: 30 November 2011, 11:03:19 »
And if you finish the scotch, don't forget to leave a Post-it!  ;)

Indeed we get annoyed if there is no Scotch post it. :)
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Re: AFFS High Command: Leave the lampshades on.
« Reply #3 on: 30 November 2011, 11:07:25 »
*transports the Knockando distillery through space and time to the AFFSHC* No worries, mateys
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Re: AFFS High Command: Leave the lampshades on.
« Reply #4 on: 30 November 2011, 12:24:13 »
I'm fine with my Talisker, thanks.

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Re: AFFS High Command: Leave the lampshades on.
« Reply #5 on: 30 November 2011, 12:42:11 »
Lampshades? For our heads?
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Re: AFFS High Command: Leave the lampshades on.
« Reply #6 on: 30 November 2011, 12:58:09 »
I'm fine with my Talisker, thanks.

Fine brand too. I won't mind having some!  ;)
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Re: AFFS High Command: Leave the lampshades on.
« Reply #7 on: 30 November 2011, 13:20:52 »
Well, That was unexpected.
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Re: AFFS High Command: Leave the lampshades on.
« Reply #8 on: 30 November 2011, 14:48:23 »
Still sad there is not bacon.  :(

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Re: AFFS High Command: Leave the lampshades on.
« Reply #9 on: 30 November 2011, 15:11:02 »
Still sad there is not bacon.  :(
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Re: AFFS High Command: Leave the lampshades on.
« Reply #10 on: 30 November 2011, 16:23:26 »
Post-it note and duct tape are what hold the world together and let communication happen.
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Re: AFFS High Command: Leave the lampshades on.
« Reply #11 on: 30 November 2011, 18:34:27 »
Still sad there is not bacon.  :(

We need a BOD (Bacon On Demand) service.

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Re: AFFS High Command: Leave the lampshades on.
« Reply #12 on: 30 November 2011, 18:36:18 »
We need a BOD (Bacon On Demand) service.


Dont think it will work.  The entire phone network will crash due to an overwhelming number of calls.  :D :o ;D
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Re: AFFS High Command: Leave the lampshades on.
« Reply #13 on: 30 November 2011, 21:09:22 »
And would such service include Canadian Bacon
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Re: AFFS High Command: Leave the lampshades on.
« Reply #14 on: 30 November 2011, 21:12:55 »
And would such service include Canadian Bacon
You mean ham?
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Re: AFFS High Command: Leave the lampshades on.
« Reply #15 on: 30 November 2011, 23:24:35 »
Hmm. Regardless whether the distillery is here, you need the proper barrels, which require the proper wood, which require the proper trees. Better just to have an instant transport for the finished product. Otherwise, it's just a waste of ethanol.

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Re: AFFS High Command: Leave the lampshades on.
« Reply #16 on: 01 December 2011, 01:41:33 »
Indeed Geoff! One should not underestimate the importance of using the right kind of wood, and, I surmise, the right barrel making techniques (not joking, since traditional barrels making involves curve-folding the boards over a wood fire, hence whatr particular wood's used for it should matter)... one could also add the water that's used to make the scotch, which has, if you believe what they say, unique properties and can only be obtained at a special place.
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Re: AFFS High Command: Leave the lampshades on.
« Reply #17 on: 01 December 2011, 03:21:14 »
Bah to Scotch Whisky (too expensive for my wallet) and Huzzah to Jack Daniels (just the right price for my wallet)
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Re: AFFS High Command: Leave the lampshades on.
« Reply #18 on: 01 December 2011, 03:41:52 »
Bah to Scotch Whisky (too expensive for my wallet) and Huzzah to Jack Daniels (just the right price for my wallet)
I'm quite sure I can get a bottle of Jack for the same price as a bottle of Scotch.  What quality are we talking about?
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« Reply #19 on: 01 December 2011, 03:55:00 »
For stuff like Talisker and Laophroaig (single malts) expect to pay US$50 or more (depending on age). For blended whiskys you can pay less than half that depnding on brand. When it comes to Scotch whisky, it's single malt or nothing.
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Re: AFFS High Command: Leave the lampshades on.
« Reply #20 on: 01 December 2011, 04:41:03 »
Lampshades? For our heads?

As in Leave them on the Lamps they do that stuff in Asgard ;D 
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Re: AFFS High Command: Leave the lampshades on.
« Reply #21 on: 01 December 2011, 11:44:56 »
Wow, we hit the thread limit that fast?  Man I can't get used to that.

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Re: AFFS High Command: Leave the lampshades on.
« Reply #22 on: 01 December 2011, 11:50:32 »
Wow, we hit the thread limit that fast?  Man I can't get used to that.
They actually just halved the limit.

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Re: AFFS High Command: Leave the lampshades on.
« Reply #23 on: 01 December 2011, 12:25:00 »
For stuff like Talisker and Laophroaig (single malts) expect to pay US$50 or more (depending on age). For blended whiskys you can pay less than half that depnding on brand. When it comes to Scotch whisky, it's single malt or nothing.

Johnnie Walker Green and Gold Labels do quite well for this Highlander, and they're blends. ;)

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« Reply #24 on: 01 December 2011, 12:55:11 »
They actually just halved the limit.

Not precisely.  The main effect causing that was the default posts per thread changing to 25, although the posts per thread limit dropped to 1250 (50 pages under the new system) from 1500 (60 pages under the new system).  The AFFS thread wasn't that far from getting closed anyway.

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Re: AFFS High Command: Leave the lampshades on.
« Reply #25 on: 01 December 2011, 13:50:26 »
Nice to see you again in a AFFSHC thread. BTW... Foxbat, there's a town called Davion south of Lens or it is only a neighbourhood? I plan to visit it one day.
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Re: AFFS High Command: Leave the lampshades on.
« Reply #26 on: 01 December 2011, 14:52:01 »
Actually, it's not Davion, it's Avion. That's a town in the neighbourhood of Lens :

http://maps.google.fr/maps?hl=fr&tab=wl

If you believe their website, it's quite pretty :

http://www.ville-avion.fr/index.php

 I haven't been near there for 25 years (I have worked in Calais when young), but as I recall Lens, it's in the middle of the French Black Country, with a fairly bleak sky to go along. ;)
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« Reply #27 on: 01 December 2011, 15:34:06 »
Ok thank you, sir! I plan to visit it someday.. maybe the next summer.
(seriously, my first travel to France sucked... I stayed in Paris but I couldn't enter the Louvre and the Eiffel Tower  :'( :(.. I must return ASAP).

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Re: AFFS High Command: Leave the lampshades on.
« Reply #28 on: 01 December 2011, 21:47:18 »
Missed the last one.... hoisting the colors
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Re: AFFS High Command: Leave the lampshades on.
« Reply #29 on: 01 December 2011, 23:39:50 »
Hmm. I just finished my first novel. It's strange, but all it really took was turning off the TV for a few evenings. Not even the entire evenings, either. Now I realize I have no excuse for not having done this already.

 

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