Comments on: Happy Columbus Day!

By: a random John

a random John — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 16:48:56 +0000

Ben There is correct. The WoW specifically allows for “mild barley drinks”. The difference between mild drinks and strong drinks is whether there has been a distillation process.

The WoW also specifically mentions wine and that we should drink it.

By: Bookslinger

Bookslinger — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 05:15:13 +0000

Oh-fercryin’outloud. All this lusting-in-your-heart after tobacco, alcohol, and coffee. It’s just all too similar to other kinds of lusting-in-your-heart stuff.

I hate it when the liquor shelves of a grocery store face the soda-pop and snacks shelves in the same aisle. I’d rather avoid than suffer through the temptation of renewing my old acquaintances with Jim, Johnny, Jack, Ron, the Captain, and Julio. May they all rot in aich-ee-double-hockey-sticks.

By: DKL

DKL — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 17:28:39 +0000

MAC, thanks for the correction — reminds me of the joke from Arrested Development about Portugal being in South America. It’s all too obvious sometimes that I write posts mostly from memory.

By: Ben There

Ben There — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 17:15:58 +0000

If Joseph Smith could run and tend a bar (which he did), I think it’d be a suitable millenial or celestial occupation. Run with it!

As for alcohol bringing out the worst in people, for some people that is true. For others, not so much. We should all know our own needs and limits and act responsibly.

By: MAC

MAC — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 16:35:18 +0000

“Hispania” is the ancient name of the Iberian Peninsula, try Hispaniola.

By: mfranti

mfranti — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 16:32:42 +0000

vodka.

By: annegb

annegb — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 16:19:35 +0000

I wonder if his temple work has been done? I wonder what goes through his mind when he looks beyond the veil at the world he discovered.

By: John Mansfield

John Mansfield — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 14:57:14 +0000

Back in ’92, I considered making a trip to the Dominican Republic to celebrate the quincentennial of Columbus’ landing. Instead of celebration, chestbeating about the evils of European expansion were the order of the day, so I’m mostly glad I saved my money and stayed home.

By: DKL

DKL — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 14:26:56 +0000

Ann, someday, when we’re I’m resurrected, I hope to be a bartender again. Then I can serve all of my resurrected friends a beer — not that my beers would compete with Christ’s beers, but still…

By: Jota G

Jota G — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 14:03:01 +0000

Wine. That would be my thing.

I have a friend who joined the church as an adult. He said that the only thing he missed from his former life was wine with dinner.

I could really get into the culture of wine. In the end however, it is probably good that I don’t drink wine or coffee because I’m a major food snob. I would only drink the best stuff and would probably go bankrupt doing so.

While I don’t drink wine, I will cook with it (even though I readily acknowledge the alcohol doesn’t all cook off). I don’t use alcohol in food that does not require cooking the alcohol. I guess we all set our own lines.

I did, however, have a rum cake once that someone brought to work. It was so good that I ate a couple of pieces. I thought the rum was baked into the cake. It wasn’t until later that I found out that you make rum cake by pouring rum over the fully baked cake. While I won’t make that mistake again, I savor the memory.