TIL: Today I Learned

[Timsup2nothin]

That's nothing. In the US it is common as dirt to name a bar "Carrie Nation's"

http://www.carrienationcocktailclub.com/

One in Boston does not 'common as dirt' make. It is pretty clever.

 

[Cutlass]

One in Boston does not 'common as dirt' make. It is pretty clever.

Others have come and gone. Like restaurants, bars often don't last long.

 

[Arakhor]

I don't get the reference, I'm afraid.

 

[Cutlass]

I don't get the reference, I'm afraid.

That's what the wikipedia link was for...


Carrie Nation was an prohibitionist who destroyed drinking establishments with an axe to work to get alcohol prohibited.

 

[Arakhor]

I totally missed the Wikipedia link and went to the bar's website instead.

 

[Takhisis]

TIL that Johnnie Walker, of whisky fame, was a lifelong teetotaler.

When two of the major pillars of your national culture are distilled spirits and Calvinism, I suppose something like that is bound to happen.

Remember that you have to get yourself ordained as a Protestant minister in order to forestall future evictions.

 

[Timsup2nothin]

I totally missed the Wikipedia link and went to the bar's website instead.

I looked at the Wikipedia to see who she was. Even there they only listed three, as far as I noticed, and one of those was from the seventies and I'm pretty sure is long closed.

 

[Tigranes]

TIL it is a crime in Miami to sit on a milk crate. This law is used against homeless people by city police!

Vernard Sands was sitting on a plastic crate at NE 79th Street and Miami Court in Little River on November 11, 2016, when a Miami Police car rolled up. The cops told the 35-year-old homeless man he was breaking the law — by illegally sitting on a crate. Then, a cop identified in police reports as Officer Mclean cuffed Sands, charged him with "unlawful use of a dairy case," a misdemeanor, and took him to jail. Sands spent the night behind bars, all because he had been sitting on a crate.

 

[Traitorfish]

That's nothing. In the US it is common as dirt to name a bar "Carrie Nation's"

http://www.carrienationcocktailclub.com/

To clarify, Johnnie Walker wasn't a famous teetotaler who has a whisky named after him; he founded the company.

Related, TIL that Johnny Walker's grandson, Sir Alexander Walker II, was a vehement anti-Semite. A Scottish Presbyterian finding the time to invest in conspiracy theories that aren't about the Catholic Church is almost stranger than a teetotaler become a whisky blender.

 

[Cutlass]

To clarify, Johnnie Walker wasn't a famous teetotaler who has a whisky named after him; he founded the company.

Related, TIL that Johnny Walker's grandson, Sir Alexander Walker II, was a vehement anti-Semite. A Scottish Presbyterian finding the time to invest in conspiracy theories that aren't about the Catholic Church is almost stranger than a teetotaler become a whisky blender.

Are there enough Jews in Scotland for anyone to bother to get worked up over?

 

[Traitorfish]

Are there enough Jews in Scotland for anyone to bother to get worked up over?

I've encountered more American Jews in Scotland than I have Scottish Jews, so unless there was some great tartan Aliyah in the fifties that nobody ever bothers to mention, I can't imagine there would have been.

 

[Zkribbler]

My favorite Swiss pop singer Francine Jordi contracted cancer last April. Her website and the news stories about her are all in German, so I can't tell how she's doing now.

 

[Timsup2nothin]

My favorite Swiss pop singer Francine Jordi contracted cancer last April. Her website and the news stories about her are all in German, so I can't tell how she's doing now.

You could try Google translate, but it would probably tell you that she is a carnival barker in a soda booth and that her recent purchase of a cancer has not been confirmed.

 

[Dachs]

A Scottish Presbyterian finding the time to invest in conspiracy theories that aren't about the Catholic Church is almost stranger than a teetotaler become a whisky blender.

There was the Scottish Presbyterian who basically invented the whole conspiracy theory about Easter being named after a made-up goddess. I don't think that counts as "Catholic", does it?

 

[Arakhor]

You mean this chap? Ishtar wasn't an invented deity, even though his screed was clearly nonsense.

 

[Hrothbern]

My favorite Swiss pop singer Francine Jordi contracted cancer last April. Her website and the news stories about her are all in German, so I can't tell how she's doing now.

What I see is that she was diagnosed with an early stage breast cancer in May 2017. The tumor was shortly thereafter removed completely and she got chemo threrapy on top.
She made it public in April 2018.
She answered in June this year on stage on the question how thing were going with excellent and that she was grateful.

 

[Traitorfish]

There was the Scottish Presbyterian who basically invented the whole conspiracy theory about Easter being named after a made-up goddess. I don't think that counts as "Catholic", does it?

The alleged culprit for that is usually Bede, isn't it? "A Benedictine monk did it" slots pretty readily into a broader structure of "Catholics did it".

 

[Zkribbler]

She answered in June this year on stage on the question how thing were going with excellent and that she was grateful.

Thanks for the update,

 

[Dachs]

The alleged culprit for that is usually Bede, isn't it? "A Benedictine monk did it" slots pretty readily into a broader structure of "Catholics did it".

He used a misreading of a dubious passage in Bede to bolster his opinion, yes.

The first post was kind of a joke. Hislop's book is violently anti-Catholic. It's just that it is almost literally all made up, and the things that are semi-sensical are the things that don't have anything to do with Catholicism in the real world.

 

[Traitorfish]

The first post was kind of a joke. Hislop's book is violently anti-Catholic. It's just that it is almost literally all made up, and the things that are semi-sensical are the things that don't have anything to do with Catholicism in the real world.

That is consistent with my experience of Presbyterians discussing Catholicism, yes.