The Holy Lady in a Azure

Rubecula · 08-07-2015 5:24am #1

We all know our dear friend OldGoat banned the usage of a certain wine in this forum.

However, has anyone actually seen it in the shops recently?

Or Black Tower?

Or Bull's Blood?

Or do any of you know what I am rambling on about?

Any Ould drinkies you don't see any more?

Corona Lemonade for example?

looksee · 08-07-2015 8:12am

Haven't seen Bulls Blood - no idea what it is! but the other two are available in Tesco afaik?

Jellybaby1 · 08-07-2015 9:50am

Babycham! Remember the ad....."Ooooh, I'd LOVE a Babycham!" Yes, I used to drink it when I went out with my 'gang' in my teenage days. I thought I was the bee's knees even though I didn't even like the stuff! Himself used to always buy either B--- N-- or Black Tower at Christmas. Made us feel terribly sophisticated it did! Amazing what eejits teenagers can be in any era.

Will there be a ban on mentioning Black Tower, sorry......B---- T---- now?

BBDBB · 08-07-2015 11:12am

Im not sure I could pass the Corona Fizzical these days

Rubecula · 08-07-2015 12:32pm

Jellybaby1 wrote: »

Babycham! Remember the ad....."Ooooh, I'd LOVE a Babycham!" Yes, I used to drink it when I went out with my 'gang' in my teenage days. I thought I was the bee's knees even though I didn't even like the stuff! Himself used to always buy either B--- N-- or Black Tower at Christmas. Made us feel terribly sophisticated it did! Amazing what eejits teenagers can be in any era. Will there be a ban on mentioning Black Tower, sorry......B---- T---- now?

I would have to ban ME! :eek:

looksee · 08-07-2015 12:44pm

Ah the height of sophistication in my teens was a snowball! A measure of advocaat with a small bottle of lemonade shaken up and squirted into the glass - controlled by the bar-tender's thumb across the top of the bottle! And a cherry-on-a-stick!

spurious · 08-07-2015 12:51pm

Bull's blood wasn't half bad. I think you can still get it under a fancier name now.

Remember when Fuerstenberg was launched and everyone went mad at the cheap (and very strong) lager?

Samaris · 08-07-2015 2:55pm

I know the name of the Holy Lady in Azure is not to be spoken, but can it be asked as to why Her Cerulean Divinity is so feared?

looksee · 08-07-2015 3:35pm

Wine snobbery really I think

Jellybaby1 · 08-07-2015 7:26pm

Yep, wine snobbery, and also only doddery O & O's would still drink it. OldGoat is one of your more more sofistic........sofis.......posher O & O's. :rolleyes:

Rubecula · 08-07-2015 9:27pm

Maybe we could ask Beruthial? Naah Not me I call for volunteers

BrensBenz · 09-07-2015 12:20am

Janey......Janey Mac. More evil drink talk.

CIDONA - A superior tincture, available in all good corner shops. Rots your teeth but, although it causes it, it doesn't make you laugh at your own....em....flatulence.

Samaris · 09-07-2015 12:53am

BrensBenz wrote: »

Janey......Janey Mac. More evil drink talk.

CIDONA - A superior tincture, available in all good corner shops. Rots your teeth but, although it causes it, it doesn't make you laugh at your own....em....flatulence.

I used to love Cidona. Fanta orange made me feel sick, as did Coca-cola, so Cidona was the one I went for. Since I went to England and had Tango Apple though, I can't be dealing with Cidona at all. It just tastes of chemicals.

OldGoat · 09-07-2015 9:27am

Rubecula wrote: »

Maybe we could ask Beruthial? Naah Not me I call for volunteers

Beruthial is the wine buff and at her behest the offending *cough* wine is a banned topic. I happen to agree with her on this.*

One thing I do miss seeing as frequently is a large bottle of guinness. I used to be fascinated at seeing the variety of iceberg shapes of stout-head floating in halfpint glasses at the bar.

*She scares me so I agree with ANYTHING she says.

Jellybaby1 · 09-07-2015 9:30am

My mistake OG. I thought 'twas yourself that banned IT! I remember Snowballs as well. That was another of my go to's when out with the gang in a pub. All my male friends would drink lager, and all my female friends drank vodka. Oh you can see how well I fitted in, can't you? :rolleyes:

FelineOverLord · 14-08-2015 11:04am

It might be an Urban Myth, but wasn't the wine that musn't be named the Queens favourite tipple?

Rubecula · 14-08-2015 8:59pm

FelineOverLord wrote: »

It might be an Urban Myth, but wasn't the wine that musn't be named the Queens favourite tipple?

It is the first I have heard of it if it is true FelineOverlord

Steve · 14-08-2015 11:57pm

OldGoat wrote: »

Beruthial is the wine buff and at her behest the offending *cough* wine is a banned topic. I happen to agree with her on this.*

One thing I do miss seeing as frequently is a large bottle of guinness. I used to be fascinated at seeing the variety of iceberg shapes of stout-head floating in halfpint glasses at the bar.

*She scares me so I agree with ANYTHING she says.

I'm gonna get banned for this but..

BLUE NUN BLUE NUN BLUE NUN BLUE NUN BLUE NUN BLUE NUN

Jellybaby1 · 15-08-2015 12:14am

Steve wrote: »

I'm gonna get banned for this but..

BLUE NUN BLUE NUN BLUE NUN BLUE NUN BLUE NUN BLUE NUN

So that's what famous last words look like! We haven't had much time to get to know you Steve. Pity, really.

looksee · 15-08-2015 7:06am

Steve wrote: »

I'm gonna get banned for this but..

BLUE NUN BLUE NUN BLUE NUN BLUE NUN BLUE NUN BLUE NUN

Mod wanders by enjoying the scenery and whistling quietly.

Jellybaby1 · 15-08-2015 11:26pm

Hmmmm, nothing has happened! Yet! Very strange.....

Steve · 15-08-2015 11:34pm

It's best not to wake Ber too often these days... what has been posted cannot be unposted tho, my toes are already feeling the warmth of the coming embers....

Jellybaby1 · 15-08-2015 11:42pm

Now I am waiting expectantly, waiting to see what fate has in store for you. The silence is quite unsettling, isn't it, Steve? Unsettling. Steve......oh yoo-hoo! Are you feeling unsettled yet?

(seems like while the cat is away.....etc)

Rubecula · 16-08-2015 12:03am

OMG an unsettling silence from Jellybaby .....

*Puts his towel under his feet as he lies down*

Get prepared to bow to the wonderful Ber. (Not really, better to run for cover)

looksee · 16-08-2015 9:08am

It seems to have escaped everyone's notice that earlier Mods are gone from our forum and are not likely to be in...

Steve · 16-08-2015 11:18am

Jellybaby1 wrote: »

Are you feeling unsettled yet?

I'm hiding behind the couch with the curtains closed...
<_<
>_>
:O

Samaris · 16-08-2015 1:15pm

looksee wrote: »

It seems to have escaped everyone's notice that earlier Mods are gone from our forum and are not likely to be in...

It's probably some sort of spell to summon them though. Somewhere, Ber is sitting peacefully doing something when s/he feels a disturbance in the Force. The sound of someone invoking the name of the B.N. on O&O. Now it is time to take up his/her Modship again and bring vengeance down upon the forum, so that never again shall that unholy name be spoken.

Amen.

looksee · 16-08-2015 1:26pm

Samaris wrote: »

It's probably some sort of spell to summon them though. Somewhere, Ber is sitting peacefully doing something when s/he feels a disturbance in the Force. The sound of someone invoking the name of the B.N. on O&O. Now it is time to take up his/her Modship again and bring vengeance down upon the forum, so that never again shall that unholy name be spoken.

Amen.

Yes, I have been trying summoning spells, not of past mods (who incidentally should really not be the subject of discussion in their absence) but in other areas of my life. They do not work.

Jellybaby1 · 16-08-2015 10:44pm

I do believe.....the spell.......have been broken. All hail Steve! (Everyone, fall to your knees in admiration, and gaze worshipfully on Steve's splendiferousness! :rolleyes:)

Rubecula · 16-08-2015 11:30pm

looksee wrote: »

Yes, I have been trying summoning spells, not of past mods (who incidentally should really not be the subject of discussion in their absence) but in other areas of my life. They do not work.

Maybe a kick ass Viking Curse written in Ogham script will do the job better :rolleyes:

Jellybaby1 wrote: »

I do believe.....the spell.......have been broken. All hail Steve! (Everyone, fall to your knees in admiration, and gaze worshipfully on Steve's splendiferousness! :rolleyes:)

:p:p

Jellybaby1 · 17-08-2015 12:41am

Someone wake the beast up, for crying out loud! I'm on tenterhooks here waiting for the apocalypse!

Samaris · 17-08-2015 3:12pm

The spell is broken; all hail Steve!

OldGoat · 18-08-2015 8:46am

/Shakes head
Steve is a false idol. Beware and forsooth! Doom!! I have sackcloth and ashes for all.

looksee · 18-08-2015 9:16am

OldGoat wrote: »

/Shakes head
Steve is a false idol. Beware and forsooth! Doom!! I have sackcloth and ashes for all.

Dammit OG, I have just had a shower.

Rubecula · 18-08-2015 10:44am

Sackcloth and ashes? Are we going upmarket now?

Samaris · 18-08-2015 12:47pm

Rubecula wrote: »

Sackcloth and ashes? Are we going upmarket now?

What did we have before?

Rubecula · 19-08-2015 1:58pm

eee when I were a youngster. We dreamed of sackcloth and ashes, used to get a rub down off a piece of cinder and dress up in second hand crepe paper.

warm cinder?

Aye.

Luxury, we had a rub down on cold cinder weilded by a manic mammy who built up muscles putting barrel staves through a mangel.

Very sorry I seem to have come over a little bit Monty Pythonish for a moment

looksee · 19-08-2015 2:27pm

Honestly, I know it sounds a bit MP-ish, but my mum really did have a mangle that lived outside. There was a copper boiler inside the kitchen, but the kitchen was very small so the washing tub and the mangle lived outside. I would not like to now have to put cotton sheets through a mangle in the middle of winter, outside, then putting them on the line to freeze-dry, but that's what she did. Have you ever brought frozen washing in? Hard work! It would be then put round the range to finish drying, and if it was there when my dad came in from work he would say 'huh, we've got t' trimmings up!' (Yorkshire 'sense of humour', still gets me into trouble!). We did get a twin tub washing machine when I was about 10.

Jellybaby1 · 19-08-2015 7:41pm

Many years ago I remember bringing frozen laundry in from the garden. Hubby's shirt stood on the floor all on its own!

Steve · 20-08-2015 10:00pm

Rubecula wrote: »

Very sorry I seem to have come over a little bit Monty Pythonish for a moment

Hah, I love MP, especially that sketch!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xe1a1wHxTyo

Rubecula · 22-08-2015 11:12pm

How many cheeses do you know?

Steve · 24-08-2015 12:53am

Rubecula wrote: »

How many cheeses do you know?

The one and only...
Cheeses of Nasareth

"Route 191, 350 East Lawn Road, Nazareth, PA 18064"

(only the yanks could do this)

Jellybaby1 · 24-08-2015 8:08pm

Hah, for a minute I thought you might have had shares in that cheesy place, Steve!

looksee · 24-08-2015 9:28pm

Getting back to dodgy drinks...I was having an in-depth discussion with a couple of tea enthusiasts about the ways in which tea can be abused in the course of preparation. The worst offerings seem to have involved a cup of hot water with an associated-but-not-immersed tea bag (on a string) accompanied by UHT 'milk'.

I was on Irish Rail on Sunday and bought a cup of tea (I usually get coffee on the basis that dodgy coffee is easier to drink than dodgy tea). And do you know what? Even given that it was in a cardboard cup, it was actually not bad tea at all. Even the UHT which claimed to 'taste like real milk' did in fact taste like real milk. Things are looking up!

Steve · 24-08-2015 10:18pm

I used to think UHT milk was called that because of the sound you made when you tasted it...

uht... spit...

(it means Ultra High Temperature btw, they boil the taste out of it..)

Jellybaby1 · 25-08-2015 2:17am

I have also had Irish Rail Tea. It was nice.

Still prefer real milk. But no-one gets that these days. :mad:

OldGoat · 25-08-2015 8:51am

I stopped using milk in tea a few years ago. It took a few weeks to get over the loss but now I'm happy that I did. I can taste the tea now.
A whole new world of tea tastes has opened and I never ever have to get annoyed when I get handed UHT anymore.

looksee · 25-08-2015 3:59pm

I really cant get used to the milkless tea scenario, it makes my face shrivel up. I can (and usually do) drink unsweetened and unmilked coffee, so that is the preferred brew. Or herbal tea.

Samaris · 25-08-2015 5:36pm

I gave up milk about six or seven years ago when I became intolerant to it again, and more or less stopped drinking tea altogether. Not keen on soya in tea, and not keen on black tea either, so moved over to black coffee and pretty much stayed with that.

Anyone else find that if they -do- drink milk in anything (after being off it for a while), be it cereal or tea or whatever, it makes it taste weirdly of cow?

Jellybaby1 · 25-08-2015 6:59pm

I have never given up milk. I prefer full fat milk, but am on the Supermilk on medical instructions. Got used to it I suppose. Tried the low fat milk but it is putrid, it colours the tea grey, yeugh! Sugar, now there's a thing we should all give up (sez she who is addicted to the stuff!). Sometimes I give up sugar but always go back to it.

looksee · 25-08-2015 7:33pm

I think a bit of sugar is preferable to the chemical sugar, but I can happily drink tea and coffee with no sugar, I prefer it that way.

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