[UA] [OT] Beer? Bad?

[Joe Murphy (Broin)]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Gregory Paul Stolze" <holycrow at mindspring.com>
To: <ua at lists.uchicago.edu>
Sent: Friday, September 29, 2000 10:31 PM
Subject: Re: [UA] [OT] Beer? Bad?


> At 08:44 PM 09/29/2000 +0100, you wrote:
> >Having just joined the UA list, having just bought the book this week,
I'm a
> >little baffled by all this talk of beer.
> >
> >Is it as a result of a suggestion of Lemonadomancy as a new school?
> >Fizzmongery? The Path of Snapple?
>
> Hm... could we drag this, kicking and screaming, back on topic somehow?
>
> There could be some sort of sect that avoids alcohol to an excessive
degree
> -- not only won't drink it, they won't talk to someone who's been drinking
> (because the fumes from their breath might contaminate, dont'cha know),
> they leave the room if a bottle is opened, they won't disinfect with
> alcohol...  Hm.

Breatharians. Y'know, the people who don't eat or drink, but survive,
supposedly, on air. They'd make a suitably odd school. Taboos against
eating, obviously, and magic relating to... self-improvment? Wild flights of
fancy?

> Alternately... is there something magick-with-a-real-k about those moments
> of perfect consumption?  (Gourmancy redux?)  I can personally still
> remember the best meal I ever had.  And the best desert.
>
> -G.

Absolutely. A picnic just a month ago, in fact. The best cheddar cheese
ever...

Actually, that puts me in mind of the 'Cheese' school of sorcery for D&D.
Cheeseball, Prismatic Cheese, Wall of Cheese...

Joe.
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Joe Murphy (Broin)
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