Arthur C. Clarkes 86th BDay

In article , George Orwell wrote:
On Tue, 16 Dec 2003 10:39:15 -0500, "Michael Gallagher" wrote:

Best regards to Arthur C. Clarke on his 86th birthday (even it it is almos
over in Sri Lanka).

Arthur C. Clarke confesses paedophilia

An interesting definition of "confess"; one made-up article in a
downmarket rag and a series of other references, er, denying it. You
might have wanted to select your material more carefully.

Of course, if you did that you'd have found the Sri Lankan police
statement - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/s/w_asia/74938.stm - and
noted that the last which is heard of the story is the Mirror promising
to supply tapes - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/150223.stm - which never
surfaced. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/765385.stm does
imply that it was All Formally Dealt With, but this seems to have been
kept quiet. (I don't believe a lawsuit ever got anywhere...)

--
-Andrew Gray

On 16 Dec 2003 18:38:45 GMT, Andrew Gray
wrote, in part:

An interesting definition of "confess"; one made-up article in a
downmarket rag and a series of other references, er, denying it. You
might have wanted to select your material more carefully.

But, you see, Arthur C. Clarke *isn't* a *born-again Christian*!!

So he *must* be a pedophile, and probably he kills virgins in Satanic
rituals to boot!

I can only presume that the continued perpetuation of this smear is
motivated by some such form of hatred.

John Savard
http://home.ecn.ab.ca/~jsavard/index.html

On Wed, 17 Dec 2003 04:22:47 GMT, lid
(John Savard) wrote:

But, you see, Arthur C. Clarke *isn't* a *born-again Christian*!!


No, but he is English. The closest they come to human sacrifice in
the UK is threatening to feed their American friends fish and chips.


ducks

On Thu, 18 Dec 2003 11:49:10 -0500, Michael Gallagher
wrote:

No, but he is English. The closest they come to human sacrifice in
the UK is threatening to feed their American friends fish and chips.

....Or Mad Cow Burgers. Or Jellied Eels. Or Guiness on warm tap.

OM

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OM wrote:

...Or Mad Cow Burgers. Or Jellied Eels. Or Guiness on warm tap.

YOU DAMNED HEATHEN! Don't EVER throw warm Guinness in with Jellied Eels!
The *******s live in the sea, and have had far too much to drink
already! Besides the damned pot is bound to boil over...
I like my Guinness warm... like my women. And warm tap Guinness has a
real good head on it, and I like my warm women to give really
good....I'm drifting.
(Christ, next he'll be on about Jameson's and Haggis or something...)

Pat

Pat Flannery wrote in
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OM wrote:

...Or Mad Cow Burgers. Or Jellied Eels. Or Guiness on warm tap.

YOU DAMNED HEATHEN! Don't EVER throw warm Guinness in with Jellied Eels!

Amen. A cold beer releases little aroma, and since the sense of smell is a
big part of the sense of taste, you can't really taste it as much either.

So, fundamentally, cold beer is for people who *don't like the taste of
beer*. Unfortunately, that includes many Americans, since they have been
exposed to nothing *but* bad beer, and so wouldn't *want* to taste it.

I like a cold pilsner or kolsch during the hot Texas summer as much as
anyone, but chilling a stout or porter really ought to be a crime.
Unfortunately, most pubs down here do exactly that, since Texans expect
their beer cold, and most pubs aren't rich enough to afford multiple
cooling systems to keep different beer types at the appropriate
temperature.

--
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Jorge R. Frank wrote:

Amen. A cold beer releases little aroma, and since the sense of smell is a
big part of the sense of taste, you can't really taste it as much either.

So, fundamentally, cold beer is for people who *don't like the taste of
beer*. Unfortunately, that includes many Americans, since they have been
exposed to nothing *but* bad beer, and so wouldn't *want* to taste it.

I like a cold pilsner or kolsch during the hot Texas summer as much as
anyone, but chilling a stout or porter really ought to be a crime.
Unfortunately, most pubs down here do exactly that, since Texans expect
their beer cold, and most pubs aren't rich enough to afford multiple
cooling systems to keep different beer types at the appropriate
temperature.


I'll drink to that...and indeed have- with the 17 warm beers of the
Michelob Christmas "Ales & Lagers" that I just imbibed within the past
11 hours... that would have been 18... but my friendship is limitless;
so I gave my friend one... knowing full well that there may come a
night when my pocketbook is low... and that _one_ beer could turn into
six repaid... with interest, credit, guilt....and a smooth licking of
the Blarney Stone.

Pat

On Fri, 19 Dec 2003 00:41:04 -0600, OM
om@our_blessed_lady_mary_of_the_holy_NASA_researc h_facility.org
wrote:

...Or Mad Cow Burgers. Or Jellied Eels. Or Guiness on warm tap.


LOL!

On 19 Dec 2003 13:49:03 GMT, "Jorge R. Frank"
wrote:

.... A cold beer releases little aroma, and since the sense of smell is a
big part of the sense of taste, you can't really taste it as much either.

So, fundamentally, cold beer is for people who *don't like the taste of
beer* ....

Actually, I think cold beer (which is kind of an academic issue for me
because I don't drink at all; but as I was saying, cold beer) is for
people who don't want their esophogus' lining scalded off by super hot
fluid, and that includes most Americans. The English, on the other
hand, have evolved glandular secretions that that protect their
throats from anything short of a thermonuclear explosion, which
explains how they can endure tea hot enough to set fire to a sheet of
paper held three feet above it (the acid test for whether the water is
hot enough, IIRC). Compunding this is the fact that the English are
not given to suprelatives, so whenever an English person is making you
tea and asks if you want it hot, he or she is really asking if you
want your insides melted to slag.

It's no wonder they like their beer 'warm,' because they would
probably consider it cool. However, us Yanks and other such peoples
who lack the esophogus-protecting glandular secretions will take it
cold, thanks.

...... yes, the winter weather may be driving me a little crazy. How
did you guess?

Jorge R. Frank wrote:
Pat Flannery wrote in
:

OM wrote:

...Or Mad Cow Burgers. Or Jellied Eels. Or Guiness on warm tap.

YOU DAMNED HEATHEN! Don't EVER throw warm Guinness in with Jellied
Eels!

Amen. A cold beer releases little aroma, and since the sense of smell
is a big part of the sense of taste, you can't really taste it as
much either.

So, fundamentally, cold beer is for people who *don't like the taste
of beer*. Unfortunately, that includes many Americans, since they
have been exposed to nothing *but* bad beer, and so wouldn't *want*
to taste it.

I like a cold pilsner or kolsch during the hot Texas summer as much as
anyone, but chilling a stout or porter really ought to be a crime.
Unfortunately, most pubs down here do exactly that, since Texans
expect their beer cold, and most pubs aren't rich enough to afford
multiple cooling systems to keep different beer types at the
appropriate temperature.

In the UK a few years back they introduced 'Guinness Extra-Cold', which is
about 3 degrees C. Not every pub sells it, though those that do also have
the standard room-temperature stuff as an alternative.
--
Gordon Davie
Edinburgh, Scotland

"Slipped the surly bonds of Earth...to touch the face of God"