He'll probably drink Kirin, Japanophile that he is. Besides, since the Earth Alliance crackdown, it's been mighty difficult to source Molson Canadian offworld. Man's got to do what he's got to do.

--G.
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"Yeah, I'm definitely going to hell/But I'll have all the best stories to tell" -- Frank Turner, The Ballad of Me and My Friends

Have to take your word. My interest in these matters extends only so far.

--G.
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"Yeah, I'm definitely going to hell/But I'll have all the best stories to tell" -- Frank Turner, The Ballad of Me and My Friends

There's also the distinct possibility your man Logan'd like Norwegian sake. I am not making that up. Mob of screaming-mad modern Vikings trading under Nogne O from the quite wonderfully named town of Grimstad make it.

As one grows older, the consequences of indulgence mount, and temperance often becomes a necessity rather than a choice.

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"Yeah, I'm definitely going to hell/But I'll have all the best stories to tell" -- Frank Turner, The Ballad of Me and My Friends

Then excellent for you and do well!

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Geoff Depew - Darth Mephron
Haberdasher to Androids, Dark Lord of Sith Tech Support.
"And Remember! Google is your Friend!!"

Another thing many of us discover with age is a talent for, and indeed a capacity for positive delight in, buzzkillery. As we arrive in middle age, we cannot wait to tell the young how disappointing the world they've not yet grown into is going to be when they get here; how their peers, their leaders, and especially their bodies are inevitably going to let them down; how they, too, will one day be doomed to wear eternally the chains they forged in life; etc. Some of us ultimately adopt wiping the smug smiles off their fresh little faces as our chief, in some cases sole, recreation.

You're welcome, kids! One day you'll do the same to the irritatingly brash and cheerful little punks who are being born around now, and we'll watch you do it from the porch and nod sagely, reserving to ourselves the even more satisfying knowledge that it gets far, far worse than even the middle-aged you knows. :)

--G.
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I used to purposefully stand next to the newest freshest faced kid during the onload of ship's stores when I was attached to a cutter. Then I would purposfully show them the "Not fit for human consumption unless in military" written in fine print on the boxes of meat. It was a nice way to give them 'the future isn't going to be that bright kiddo' reality check. Of course after a bit they changed it to simply "For insitutional use only" So half the fun is gone.

"For institutional use only" - This means its good enough for crazy people, prisoners, and you... doesn't that make you feel special?

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No, it reminds me that college could have been worse.

Peter Eng
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Snopes, I am told, will try to tell you that the institutional hot dogs labeled "Grade D But Edible" are a myth. Snopes apparently did not live adjacent to the stairwell that came out by the Morgan Hall Dining Commons loading dock at WPI in 1991-92.

At the time, according to the chart on the wall of the Dining Services manager's office, WPI was actually receiving a lower level of DĀKA services than prisons customarily sprang for. We were getting DĀKA "C", while their standard institutional offering was DĀKA "B".

--G.
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They weren't simply putting out stuff that hadn't been taken by the students the day before, they were taking leftovers from returned trays and serving it.

Needless to say, the health inspector had a field day with that one.

Maybe because they knew Prisoners would riot, and Students would just demostrate...

Craig

The thing that really amazed me about that chart was that there was such a thing as DĀKA "A", which was allegedly served at a number of high-class resorts, hotels, and what have you. Posh DĀKA - the mind still rather boggles at the thought.

--G.
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"Yeah, I'm definitely going to hell/But I'll have all the best stories to tell" -- Frank Turner, The Ballad of Me and My Friends

I'm not fond of Hemingway in general, but the passage both those quotations come from has always been a favorite of mine. The second bit you quoted above ("The world breaks everyone...") is in Year's End Confrontation Blues - Wakaba and Kate reflect upon it while helping Utena deal with the bad memories her clash with Vigdis Brightblade stirred up.

A fuller form of the quotation appeared way back in Neon Exodus Evangelion 3:6. DJ quotes it when he's talking with Asuka about her mother's suicide:

	DJ took a deep breath, let it out slowly.  "Perhaps it wasn't
that she was a coward... perhaps it was that she was too brave."
	"What do you mean?"
	"'If people bring so much courage to this world the world has
to kill them to break them, so of course it kills them,'" DJ quoted.
"'The world breaks everyone, and afterward many are strong in the
broken places.  But those that will not break, it kills.  It kills the
very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially.'"

--G.
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