Posted by floatingbridge on August 2, 2011, at 15:16:33
In reply to Re: Happy thoughts (not), posted by sigismund on August 2, 2011, at 14:26:01
> I love drinking.
Bjork has an old song "violently happy". I was very very happy after a drink.
>
> Drinking plays a huge role in Australian history.>They came to:
*what they thought was a God forsaken land*
I wonder what that was like.
> and all they wanted was spirits. People brought out boatloads of speculative liqour. Sometimes they became wrecked and the survivors would be on an island in the south
with 7000
gallons of spirits.
>
> Unlike Americans who had a rebellion over taxes and teawe had one over rum.What was that like?
Since this was not a god forsaken country, but had, instead, manifest destiny, well, that might have led to the prohibition period....
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