15th June 2014 - Of Stuttering & Sobriety...

Thought for the day: "How does NASA organise a party ?? They Planet!!"

It is today half way through the year. Yes I know that the solstice and longest day is on the 21st June, but looked at another way - June is half way through the year in months and the 15th June is half way through June - so I reckon this is the turning point of the year...

It is also Father's Day, which in our family we conveniently ignore as another piece of commercialism, set to sell another Moonpig or Hallmark Card and an unwanted pair of socks or aftershave.... It is a time for watching some of those programmes on the TV that have been stored in Sky plus or equivalent, so as to avoid the incessant references to Football.....

Saw a nice notice from the National Office of Statistics - Susie kindly posted it to my Facebook wall - I am not sure what she is implying !!  It reads:

"The UK Government is worried that penises are getting smaller. 

To find out how great the problem is they have asked all men with
a penis smaller than 3" to put a white flag with a red cross on their
car  in order to identify themselves.  

Thanks you for your cooperation.  

(Office of National Statistics)"

Made me laugh.....
So - half way through the year, and luckily the grape juice situation is improving. Both Red and White Grape juice are available again and the White Chateau 41 is bubbling away merrily in the kitchen while the Red settles.. Embarrassingly, I look to my feet by the computer and I can see 5 empty bottles - not all drunk at once I hasten to add.. but all in need of taking downstairs...  But this does bring to mind the 5 stages of inebriation as related in 1860 - by a very foresighted gentleman who obviously was able to guess the result of the five bottles of Chateau 41 by my feet..

One Bottle of Chateau 41

Two Bottles of Chateau 41

Three Bottles of Chateau 41

Four Bottles of Chateau 41

Five Bottles of Chateau 41

The sepia snapshots, taken by Charles Percy Pickering in the 1860s, are thought to be staged, educational photos recreating the effects of inebriation for a temperance group. Advocates of temperance encouraged good citizens to be teetotallers, a term describing those who abstained from alcohol completely. Fun fact, according to the State Library of New South Wales, the term emerged because temperance proponent John Turner had a stutter and mispronounced the word "total."

I'll drink to that ....

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