<canned-air-horn test>

mimus wrote:
> On Sat, 01 Dec 2007 23:08:18 -0500, mixed nuts wrote:
>
>>mimus wrote:
>>
>>>On Sat, 01 Dec 2007 09:44:44 -0500, Shirley wrote:
>>>
>>>><pscissons@sbcglobal.net> wrote in message
>>>>news:wg64j.27682$lD6.1169@newssvr27.news.prodigy.net...
>>>>
>>>>>"mimus" <tinmimus99@hotmail.com> wrote in message
>>>>>news:JqidnbJ2JNGOS83anZ2dnUVZ_jGdnZ2d@giganews.com...
>>>>>
>>>>>>On Fri, 30 Nov 2007 22:17:11 -0500, Shirley wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>"mimus" <tinmimus99@hotmail.com> wrote in message
>>>>>>>news:V7KdnSamRqVkTc3anZ2dnUVZ_hCdnZ2d@giganews.com...
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>On Fri, 30 Nov 2007 18:23:29 -0500, mimus wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>On Fri, 30 Nov 2007 14:59:13 -0500, Shirley wrote:
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>"mimus" <tinmimus99@hotmail.com> wrote in message
>>>>>>>>>>news:naadnXG7E-ih9M3anZ2dnUVZ_judnZ2d@giganews.com...
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>On Fri, 30 Nov 2007 14:43:30 -0500, Shirley wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>"mimus" <tinmimus99@hotmail.com> wrote in message
>>>>>>>>>>>>news:naadnXa7E-j6-s3anZ2dnUVZ_judnZ2d@giganews.com...
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>*hoonnnnkkkk*
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>It's almost time for the Davis Cup final between the US and
>>>>>
>>>>>Russia,
>>>>>>>>>>>>>with
>>>>>>>>>>>>>Roddick and Blake facing off at home against Tursonov and
>>>>>>>>>>>>>Youzhny,
>>>>>>>>>>>>>starting at 4 pm on Versus, replayed at 8 on TTC!
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>(Davis Cup has a much more, er, populist ambiance than normal pro
>>>>>>>>>>>>>tennis.)
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>Life is good when you can use the word *ambiance* in a sentence.
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>_And_ "populist".
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>_And_ <honk> an airhorn.
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>><glow>
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>That's cute...mimus is glowing...
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>First match in, Roddick serves like a servin' foo' (a dozen or more
>>>>>>>>>serves
>>>>>>>>>over 140) and slices Tursonov to death otherwise . . . .
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>Blake-Youzhny should be better, though, Youzhny's tougher than nails
>>>>>
>>>>>and
>>>>>>>>>Blake's got dazzling speed and is an equally dazzling shot-maker.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>Let the cowbells ring!
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>A three-hour-and-twenty-nine-minute firefight, with twists and turns
>>>>>>>>galore.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>Whoop.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>I always enjoy hearing mimus *whoop* with ambiance...
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>What are you doing for an encore?
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Going to bed drunk. *hic*
>>>>>
>>>>>So what beverage does a tennis fanatic drink? The other sports all go for
>>>>>beer.
>>>>
>>>>Wine Spritzer's??
>>>
>>>In this case, a couple of double brandy-'n'-waters chased with Dr. Pepper
>>>on the rocks . . . .
>>>
>>>Krogers was out of Barq's root-beer, and I won't drink an uncaffeinated
>>>root-beer.
>>
>>Most rootbeers aren't caffeinated. Not sure about barq's - no label to
>>check.
>
> It's the only one I know of that is.
>
>> I've been staying away from commercial sody pop 'cuz they all
>>have the benzoates in them 'to protect freshness' or sumsuch. Stuff's
>>hard on livers.
>
> Oh bah bah and humbug.
>
> Or are the internal medicine wards full of liver cases from "sodie pop"
> and I just haven't heard about it?
>

Don't drink disinfectant even if it tastes good - it'll mess you up.
The jury's still out:
- Benzoate has been shown to lose it's dangly thing and convert to
benzene given the presence of vitamin c and sufficient time at room
temperature.
- It also appears to have a bad effect on mitochondrial DNA (this may
well be a principal mode of action that gives it useful preservative
properties).

I believe acetaminophen is the most popular item for acute liver and
kidney necrosis.

>
>>Rootbeer urges get satisfied at the local farm stand
>>where they make it theirselfs from weeds and whatnot - good stuff with
>>just a hint of ethanol and not too sweet so you can just chug it down
>>(after each 1/4 acre seems about right) and not gum up the works.
>
> Interesting. Is this carbonated? Does it have sassafras in it?

Carbonated in the bottle by the champagne yeast added (no benzoate
allowed). Sorta like how you make champagne or hard cider except for
it being rootbeer. Takes about two weeks for the magic to happen.
Additional carbonation can be done but it's seldom necessary if you
don't filter out the yeast and wreck the fizz at the same time.

Don't know about the sassafras. I know there are still a few people
running around in the woods looking for roots to make tea - they tend
to be old farts that grew up on it. Cajuns dry the leaves to make file
gumbo and don't die in epidemic proportions. .

>
> (And if you're prone to correlationist paranoia, you might want to
> avoid looking up safrole.)

The correlation being that it's a starting material for untaxed party
pills, has acute neural effects and _may_ be associated with cancer and
neural disorders in very high doses.or after frequent consumption over
many years?

>
>>>It'd been decades since I'd drunk any Dr. Pepper, although I
>>>practically lived on it and Doritoes whilst going to college back in
>>>the mid-'70s, so, interesting-- I really think it's basically a cherry
>>>cola, although the box and cans brag of 22 other flavors as well.
>>
>>I'd say prune juice (plums being oversized cherries basically).
>
> I always wondered what plums were.
>
> And I can almost buy that.
>
>>You can
>>mix prune juice with fizzy water and come real close. I think there's a
>>trace of vanilla and wintergreen to give it a bit of the rootbeery zing
>>as well.
>
> Vanilla I wouldn't be surprised by.
>
> Wintergreen? can't taste it.

Can you taste it in rootbeer? Most people don't seem to be able to
separate the taste when it's competing with a bunch of other
frooty-zingy esters (or chocolate for that matter).

--
nuts