TO MOLLIFY LINGJACKSON OVERDRIVEBERT WHO IS THE SQUEAKY DESERT FIEND, POST ON THIS THREAD AND ONE OF YOUR FRIENDLY ITR MODS WILL TELL YOU THAT YOU ARE WICKED AWESOME, AND POSSIBLY OFFER AN EFFUSIVE ST

Scotland! I think it would be like trying to sell rain here tbh

SARA YOUR PARENTS OWN A LIQUOR STORE ??? !!!

this board just continues to awe and amaze me.

Okay, living in Scotland must all be worth it to have an awesome accent.

Yes, my parents have two liquor stores (or maybe three - my brother runs one of them and is partial or full owner; this is where family business stuff gets hazy). I would say that it is a solid business to have. Also, I've worked in a variety of retail and my two favorites: books and booze.

Before someone else mocks me (AHEM, JOHN), I should also explain that I rarely drank as a teenager. Crazy teenage rebellion of NOT drinking!

This is apparently so well remembered that, upon seeing me in a bar after not seeing me for 14 years, FB's first comment to me was, "you're drinking colored water, aren't you?" (hahaha, NO, it was a for realz alcoholic beverage)

Also, I was not averse to other people drinking: witness my efforts to help John make Jell-o shots during his first term at college. I left and he immediately screwed them up (he can tell that part of the story), but still.

MY LAST BUMP BEFORE SLEEP PEOPLE

good night!

LIST OF TERRIBLE DRINKING IDEAS RECENTLY CONSUMED BY ME (AND OTHERS) AT BAR

whiskeymilks
dog and pony
something unnameable including tequila and sriracha

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terrible drinks ideas to a one bump

what's up people

I'm finally awake again bump

a good morning to you all. i am very cold.

I have spent the last couple of hours trying to get the word "whiskeymilks" out of my head.

Also, cannot WAIT until holiday break is over. Way too much family time.

yesterday at a post-holiday gathering, i was served bud light in a can and wheat thins with easy cheese on them

later that evening i'm pretty sure i saw dave mustaine at a chinese restaurant. he passed me by the fishtank

and later still, i ordered a half pint at a bar for the first time ever

lil glass keep your pinky pointed out

lingbert, your day yesterday was much more exciting than mine

I cannot get warm and so I'm going to go walk 5.5 miles on my treadmill again and then take the hottest shower I can stand.

Whiskeymilks could be good with the right whiskey and the right milk.

from now on i'm calling lbert lil pinky. all in the name of mollification.

(HI DERE, i don't believe you.)

insert joek about scottish people and goats

alternatively, appalachian hillbillies and also goats

Well, imagine the whiskey is "gin" and the milk is "tonic".

I'm imagining that, but it's JUST NOT HELPING

Watching Simpsons episodes on the treadmill, though, A++++

Now I will email my mother and ask if she can watch my kids on Sunday. I have to get ready for rejection! (Not that she likely has anything else to do; she just isn't too into the grandmother thing.)

!!hi dudes!!

W4LTER WHAT UP?

He's probably left; gone out to get a suntan or something. ;_;

Going home to a GIN AND TONIC bump

Enjoy!

I am going to spend another dull evening at home. The upside is that I don't have to go out in the cold weather. Also, I have booze here and movies, so I won't be totally bored.

I'm bumping this thread and you cannot stop me!

SEE - DONE!

what about now?

Still alive!

But yeah, that is the trouble: you have to keep bumping the thread. Luckily it fits into my Do Nothing For Days On End lifestyle.

Final bump before I get into bed and try to thaw myself out.

Good night, ITR

refusing urge to roll out the sockpuppet army to clusterfuck the various ILE athiest etc. threads bump

refusing/resisting drunk whatever

on a lighter note, we forced my friend shaun to drink a dog and pony onstage tonight and the shock caused a evident negative effect on his ability to play guitar.

DANGER DANGER DANGER bump

Aw, your poor friend! I hope he recovers from humoring you.

(also - DANGER?)

DANGER of titular reversion due to lack of participation

Well, I blame myself, but even I leave my computer once in a while, if only to sleep.

jerk

think of the children!

These mornings where you somehow appear to have gotten up and posted before me are v. alarming. But it's true: I will lie around in bed until something forces me out of it. And it usually IS children.

So John, is your inventory done or are you just slacking today?

Also, is it snowing again in places other than Northfield? Because I think it could stop now.

Oh, the guilt I experience for giving John a hard time.

I am going out this afternoon to take the kids sledding at a friend's house. I will thus be unable to bump this thread all afternoon; I am counting on the rest of you.

But I'll bump it right before I leave the house, just for you all.

Well, plus, I don't really like being outside that much, so it will probably be my last stalling method.