Dear Dietrich

[Jeremiah/Az]

I have nothing against engineers, but I play poker 2 or 3 times a week with 2 retired engineers among several others. They are both so regimented in their way of playing that almost everyone can read their hands. They almost always lose. Good guys both & we can always use their money!

[Bawanna]

I knew an engineer in my youth and sometimes he'd let me ride and toot the horn and everything. Even got me one of them engineer hats too.

[Bawanna]

Dear Dietrich.

I find myself overwhelmed (easy for a person with a non full functioning brain) with negativity and dispare at work, and losing hope in our countries chances of good things happening in our next election. Please don't turn this into a political conversation, I think that's what has me in a downward spiral as it is.

My question is in reacquiring my taste for good Scotch, is it unmanly to add a wee bit of water to the good stuff or should I just get a bottle of the lesser good stuff till my taste buds reacquire their taste. I do note that after 3 or 4 it don't seem to matter as it taste kind of like kool aid.

I do seem to benefit from it's medicinal value, why today I can't even remember what I had with it for lunch. Chiefs been eyeballing me though, course he always does that when I'm happy. Wonders what I'm up to.

Yours happily in the afternoon

bawanna

[TucsonMTB]

My question is in reacquiring my taste for good Scotch, is it unmanly to add a wee bit of water to the good stuff or should I just get a bottle of the lesser good stuff till my taste buds reacquire their taste. I do note that after 3 or 4 it don't seem to matter as it taste kind of like kool aid.

Until Dietrich can provide the definitive answer please allow me to share the wisdom of my usual "Brit" drinking partner whose tastes prompted the purchase of this bottle. Phil suggests, "a wee splash of water in your tumbler" to "wake up the flavors". It seems to work.

[Bawanna]

Until Dietrich can provide the definitive answer please allow me to share the wisdom of my usual "Brit" drinking partner whose tastes prompted the purchase of this bottle. Phil suggests, "a wee splash of water in your tumbler" to "wake up the flavors". It seems to work.

I'm feeling a little better already. I think I might go add a wee splash andwake up the flowers (?huh?) oh flavors right this very minute.
Well after a little while, I'm gonna go freshen up the Cbob and the PM45, they've been carried far and long and cared for short and little.
Gotta show em some love. The great teleprompter is on the tube, always gives me the urge to show them love, or reload, or buy guns..........

[mr surveyor]

nothing like a splash or three of high quality, cheap tequila to smooth out the rough spots... I finally found my dirty glass under the pool table

[TucsonMTB]

nothing like a splash or three of high quality, cheap tequila to smooth out the rough spots... I finally found my dirty glass under the pool table

And what, pray tell, were you doing under the pool table? A man's gotta retain his dignity, ya' know . . .

Except maybe me . . . who has none. :001_tt2:

[mr surveyor]

Tuscon


You may have forgotten, but I lost my dirty glass somewhere in Rick's Place a few month ago

surv

[CJB]

Dear Dietrich,

My girlfriend Elizabeth is getting out of hand. She has sailed from the UK to the Caribbean twice, solo both times, once in a 29 foot sailboat, the other was a 36 foot sailboat. She is a pilot of single engine planes (VFR), she is a hot air balloon pilot, she is a rock and ice climber, white water kayaking enthusiast, and has scaled Mt McKinley and other assorted Alaskan peaks. She enjoys deep sea (hard helmet) diving and is also a musher and amateur motorcycle racer.




Now she wants me to jump from a perfectly good airplane, sky "diving" she calls it. For a sky "diving" date like that, is it proper etiquette to invite the lady for dinner and drinks afterward? Is a casual place ok?

[Bawanna]

Wow, I can't wait to hear Dietrichs answer to your issue. Is that plane a Beaver, much sought after and cherished by bush pilots in the north country.
Good plane I'm told, lots of manual and very little electrical. I'd not jump out if I was in your shoes. But I'll leave that to the renouned Mr. Dietrich.

[mr surveyor]

even though I refuse to fly commercial now, I would still not jump out of a perfectly good ariplane, nor would I want to fly in a contraption that's trying to sling it's own wings off

keepin my feet on the dirt (on top of the dirt)

[CJB]

Is that plane a Beaver

There's a Beaver joke there somewhere, and I hope somebody tells it!

[Bawanna]

I'm sure there is or I'd probably not be a part of it but there is a Beaver airplane. I think it's a Dehaviland. Ask your girlfriend (cute by the way), I bet she knows of it.

A real down and dirty workhorse. Hauls alot of weight, lots of power, not as much to go wrong as some of the more modern aircraft.

[CJB]

I'll do that!

.....Lizzy... Bawanna wants to know about your Beaver....

I'm sure she'll instantly turn the conversation to aircraft.

[mr surveyor]

I ain't touchin' the beaver/bush discussion.

Nothin' to see here... move along

Bawanna is baiting a trap. I refuse to step in it. Nope, I ain't gonna touch it. Too much subliminal information involved. I refuse to acknowledge it. Not prudent. I'm going to bed now, and will not put on my Depends (I hope I wake up in time)

surv

ps.... Dear Dietrich, am I nuts?