Wanting some input

[Provost]

I thought about deleting this thread as inappropriate for dinner conversation, but I didn't want to be a wet blanket, as it were.

Then I thought about moving this to the "how to" forum, but I figured most of us already knew "how to," so to speak. (Thanks CH for the instructions though.

Finally I decided to be kind and move it to the Whine Cellar. <You can insert your own jokes here.>

Ummm, respectfully,

Provost

[plankmaker]

There are several others that deserve like treatment. Just saying.

Mark Campbell
Piney Flats, TN

[GrumpyDave]

If you attend events with me, most likley, you're already wet so what the heck.And, a good laundress can fix most anything.

[Mint Julep]

Happy Birthday Dave!

[Spinster]

Originally Posted by GrumpyDave

If you attend events with me, most likley, you're already wet so what the heck.And, a good laundress can fix most anything.

And has. Even if she is too stupid to get paid.

[Opdyke88th]

Originally Posted by 8th TexCav

As a cavalryman, I do my best to make the fields "Authentic" for you infantry types.

Somebody refresh my memory: what General offered his troops $5 for the first one to show him a corpse wearing spurs?

[plankmaker]

Just saying.

Mark Campbell
Piney Flats, TN

The Three Billy Goats Gruff
Norway

Once upon a time there were three billy goats, who were to go up to the hillside to make themselves fat, and the name of all three was "Gruff."

On the way up was a bridge over a cascading stream they had to cross; and under the bridge lived a great ugly troll , with eyes as big as saucers, and a nose as long as a poker.

So first of all came the youngest Billy Goat Gruff to cross the bridge.

"Trip, trap, trip, trap! " went the bridge.

"Who's that tripping over my bridge?" roared the troll .

"Oh, it is only I, the tiniest Billy Goat Gruff , and I'm going up to the hillside to make myself fat," said the billy goat, with such a small voice.

"Now, I'm coming to gobble you up," said the troll.

"Oh, no! pray don't take me. I'm too little, that I am," said the billy goat. "Wait a bit till the second Billy Goat Gruff comes. He's much bigger."

"Well, be off with you," said the troll.

A little while after came the second Billy Goat Gruff to cross the bridge.

Trip, trap, trip, trap, trip, trap, went the bridge.

"Who's that tripping over my bridge?" roared the troll.

"Oh, it's the second Billy Goat Gruff , and I'm going up to the hillside to make myself fat," said the billy goat, who hadn't such a small voice.

"Now I'm coming to gobble you up," said the troll.

"Oh, no! Don't take me. Wait a little till the big Billy Goat Gruff comes. He's much bigger."

"Very well! Be off with you," said the troll.

But just then up came the big Billy Goat Gruff .

Trip, trap, trip, trap, trip, trap! went the bridge, for the billy goat was so heavy that the bridge creaked and groaned under him.

"Who's that tramping over my bridge?" roared the troll.

"It's I! The big Billy Goat Gruff ," said the billy goat, who had an ugly hoarse voice of his own.

"Now I 'm coming to gobble you up," roared the troll.

Well, come along! I've got two spears,
And I'll poke your eyeballs out at your ears;
I've got besides two curling-stones,
And I'll crush you to bits, body and bones.


That was what the big billy goat said. And then he flew at the troll, and poked his eyes out with his horns, and crushed him to bits, body and bones, and tossed him out into the cascade, and after that he went up to the hillside. There the billy goats got so fat they were scarcely able to walk home again. And if the fat hasn't fallen off them, why, they're still fat; and so,

Snip, snap, snout.
This tale's told out.


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Source: Peter Christen Asbjørnsen and Jørgen Moe, De tre bukkene Bruse som skulle gå til seters og gjøre seg fete, Norske Folkeeventyr, translated by George Webbe Dasent in Popular Tales from the Norse, 2nd edition (London: George Routledge and Sons, n.d.), no. 37, pp. 275-276. Translation revised by D. L. Ashliman.

[bsbaker]

Originally Posted by Opdyke88th

Somebody refresh my memory: what General offered his troops $5 for the first one to show him a corpse wearing spurs?

Somebody please enhance my knowledge: What was the reasoning?

[Micah Trent]

Originally Posted by Curt-Heinrich Schmidt

Hallo!
I have a question. When a pard begs for a chaw, and one pulls it out of one's mouth, why don't the lads want a piece?

Where's Paul Calloway and Mark Mason when you need them on this?...LOL. Natorious for "sharing" their chaw with each other like that. A rare practice that can be found within the ranks of the GHTI at rare time.