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You can always tell the terminally-earnest… they’re the ones who give you a lecture if you offer them a beer…
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Tuesday, 25 September 2012
25 September 2012. From the Russian Web… Oktoberfest! Let the Good Times Roll!
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I saw this image on one of my fave Russian sites… and it led to another lightning flash of inspiration. The German is translated in the title above. Oh, yes… do save a litre or two for me…
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Sunday, 23 September 2012
23 September 2012. RIA-Novosti Infographics. A River of Beer at Oktoberfest
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Every year, the legendary Oktoberfest festival in München attracts millions of tourists. However, the locals call it the Wies’n, which in the Bavarian dialect means “meadow”. That isn’t surprising… traditionally, the venue of the festivities is a special area in the city centre called the Theresienwiese.
The history of Oktoberfest dates back to the 19th century, when the first festival honoured the wedding on 10 October 1810 of Crown Prince Ludwig and Princess Thérèse of Saxe-Hildburghausen, after whom the meadow where the modern event is held is named. Later, due to the peculiarities of weather in München, the authorities decided to change the date of the traditional celebration to the end of September. However, of necessity, the last Sunday of Oktoberfest must take place in October. The locals have strictly honoured this tradition up to our day. The modern Oktoberfest lasts 16 days. Each year, not less than 6 million visitors visit this colourful event, and München brewers brew up special Oktoberfest Beer for the holiday, with an alcohol content of 5.8 to 6.3 percent. If there’s no such beer, well, there can’t be a festival.
21 September 2012
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Tuesday, 14 August 2012
14 August 2012. Now, For Something Truly Different and Important… Four Bears in Beer-Fuelled Norway Cabin Break-In
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Everybody thinks that a family of bears broke into a cabin in northern Norway, where they polished off over a hundred cans of beer. Cabin owner Even Borthen Nilsen told NRK, “They had a hell of a party in there. The cabin has the stench of a right-old piss-up, trash, and bears”. Reports say that the bear and three cubs forced their way into the cabin by ripping a wall off. Nilsen told the local Finnmarken.no, “They destroyed the entire cabin”.
Nilsen told how his mother and grandmother arrived at the cabin in Jarfjord in Finnmarken, only to find the place turned over; they were the first ones to discover the carnage left by the beer-thirsty bears, saying, “They smashed the beds, kitchen appliances, stove, oven, cupboards, and shelves all to pieces”. Furthermore, the bears had finished off all the food and drink in the house… including all the marshmallows, chocolate spread, honey, and over 100 cans of beer.
Nilsen explained that excrement on the outside of the cabin left him in no doubt that it was a family of bears which had taken over his cabin for a night of feasting and drunken revelry, noting, “You can see footprints on the windows”. Borthen Nilsen expressed concern that the bears may return to scene of their crime at some point in the future, pointing up, “The mother has taken her young there, thus, there’s no guarantee that it won’t happen to other cabins, or to our hut again”.
9 August 2012
The Local: Norway’s News in English
http://www.thelocal.no/page/view/bears-break-in-to-norway-cabin-drink-beer
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“Four bears walk into a cabin”… that sounds like the start of the kind of joke that usually involves a bar, right? Well, there’s no bar in this story, but there’s lots and lots of beer. A mother bear and her three cubs are believed to have smashed their way into a Norwegian cabin and knocked back more than 100 cans of beer. The thirsty creatures went on a rampage, according to The Local, an English-language news website in Norway. In addition to the beer, they also ate up all the food in the house, including honey (naturally), chocolate spread, and marshmallows. The animals reportedly made their way into the cabin by ripping through a wall. They demolished the kitchen appliances, cupboards, and shelves. Owner Even Borthen Nilsen told NRK, according to The Local, “They had a hell of a party in there”. Nilsen told the local Finnmarken.no that the cabin smelled of urine, trash, and bears, saying, “The entire cabin was destroyed”.
10 August 2012
ABC News
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According to Norway’s Finnmarken newspaper, a mother bear and her three cubs broke into the wooden lodge in the north of the country by ripping off a wall, and went on to eat and drink nearly all its contents. The cabin’s owner, Even Borthen Nilsen, told reporters that over 100 cans of Norwegian beer… stored in the hut in preparation for the autumn hunting season… had disappeared. Bear excrement and footprints… and an awful stench… left him in no doubt that it was the animals that had trashed the place during a night of revelry. Mr Borthen Nilsen’s mother and grandmother discovered the carnage when they returned to the family-owned 26-square foot hut in Jarfjord in Finnmarken.
The bears had also polished off their store of marshmallows, chocolate spread, and honey. Mr Borthen Nilsen, who has studied natural resource management and bears, said, “They had a hell of a party in there. They destroyed the entire cabin. They smashed the beds, kitchen appliances, stove, oven, cupboards, and shelves all to pieces. They bit into the cans and drunk the beer. It’s almost like taken out of Goldilocks and the three bears”. He added that now that the mother had shown her cubs how to get into the cabin and given them a taste for beer, he feared they might come back for more.
13 August 2012
Sky News
http://news.sky.com/story/971920/bears-break-into-cabin-and-drink-100-beers
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A mother bear and her three cubs broke into a Norwegian cabin this week, reportedly drinking more than 100 beers, eating all the food, and even knocking over a wall. Owner Even Borthen Nilsen told The Local, “They had a hell of a party in there. The entire cabin was destroyed”. Nilsen says paw prints on the cabin windows and bear excrement outside the dwelling leave little doubt they were responsible. Besides, your average criminals don’t typically break down a wall when the front door will work just fine. His mother and grandmother were first on the scene, finding the entire cabin ransacked, including a set of destroyed appliances. He said, “They smashed the beds, kitchen appliances, stove, oven, cupboards, and shelves all to pieces”.
ABC News added that along with the 100 beers, the family of bears also reportedly ate all of the food inside the cabin, which included chocolate spread, honey (of course), and marshmallows. You know, just the bear essentials. Perhaps, worst of all, Nilsen is worried that the family of bears might return for a follow-up engagement, saying, “The mother has taken her young there, thus, there’s no guarantee that it won’t happen to other cabins, or to our hut again”.
There have been a number of recent, unexpected bear appearances. Earlier this week, a black bear walked into the lobby of a New Mexico resort. The resort’s surveillance camera captured the incident, but the bear backed out the same door before authorities arrived on the scene. Back in April, a family of bears walked onto a Pennsylvania news weather set, rummaging around freely whilst the meteorologist hid away in a side room, continuing the broadcast.
10 August 2012
Eric Pfeiffer
Yahoo News
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/family-four-bears-breaks-cabin-drink-100-beers-181034427.html
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(related story)
In the children’s story of Goldilocks and the three bears, a little girl breaks into the bears’ home and eats their porridge. An upstate New York family is living that story, but in reverse. The Knowles family… who live, ironically, in Bearsville NY… have had their home broken into and trashed by a mother bear and her cubs three times this month.
According to a report in the Times Herald-Record, Martin Knowles and his wife and children came home on Friday, 13 July, to find that bears had ransacked their kitchen. The family went out to dinner that evening, and locked the house up tight, but when they came home a few hours later, the bears had trashed their home again. They cleaned up, but the animals came back the following day. The bears trashed one of the children’s rooms, and even defecated on the bed, the newspaper said. State wildlife specialists decided that the mother bear was a nuisance, and that they’d have to be kill it. Officials fired two shots at the bear, but missed. She and her cubs haven’t been back to the house since.
25 July 2012
ABC News
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Click here for video of a bear ransacking a chocolate shop (there will be an advert, first).
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Friday, 10 August 2012
10 August 2012. Have a Smile Amidst All the Crapola News… Have a Snort and Grin…
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I’m still working on putting the baby back into full running mode, so, it may be a day or two before I get back to real down n’ dirty posting. However (as Chukcha the Wise would say)… the Good Lord loves HAPPY warriors, who face the fray without gloom n’ doom. Smile… that really riles ‘em more than anyone else does…
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Wednesday, 21 December 2011
21 December 2011. Not Only Does Kolya Need a BIG Chair… He Needs a BIG Beer, Too
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In the above image, former WBA Heavyweight champ Nikolai Valuev (1973- ) stands with Cruiserweight fighter David Haye (1980- ). Can you believe that Haye was one of the few men to take on Valuev and win? That’s TWO LITRES of pivo in them there glasses… Kolya would say, “I need another one or two to really wet my whistle”… and mean it….
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