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Title: Kerry hit the Cow !
Post by: Cal Price on September 14, 2006, 02:48:07 PM
(http://www.bbburma.net/CalPrice/KerryredCow.jpg)

Remember how he once HIT a cow, well here he is inside one, the "RED COW" at the cattlemarket in Sandwich UK.

No rules broken stricktly J2O (Non-Alcoholic)
Title: Re: Kerry hit the Cow !
Post by: Alphamazing on September 14, 2006, 02:51:25 PM
Awesome! Is he there now? Didja meet him? I've been wondering where he was...
Title: Re: Kerry hit the Cow !
Post by: Cal Price on September 14, 2006, 02:56:23 PM
yes to both, he is off to Germany at 0500 hrs in the morning and all being well I will see him again next week. He is an ideal pillion passenger, sits still, says nothing !
Title: Re: Kerry hit the Cow !
Post by: pantablo on September 14, 2006, 03:21:59 PM
he's making the rounds...when he was here I gave him a tour of Angeles Crest Highway as pillion. He looks well. Send him my regards...
Title: Re: Kerry hit the Cow !
Post by: Mk1inCali on September 14, 2006, 03:28:51 PM
Send him my best wishes for safe travels, no matter where they might lead him.  Be safe, both of you!
Title: Re: Kerry hit the Cow !
Post by: TadMC on September 14, 2006, 03:32:50 PM
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Title: Re: Kerry hit the Cow !
Post by: scratch on September 14, 2006, 04:44:32 PM
 :cheers: to ya both!
Title: Re: Kerry hit the Cow !
Post by: pandy on September 14, 2006, 06:42:50 PM
 :cheers: :cheers: :cheers:

Hope he hits northern Cali next time!  :thumb:
Title: Re: Kerry hit the Cow !
Post by: scottpA_GS on September 14, 2006, 08:52:29 PM
You guys smoke some killer weed over there or what ??? looks like a GIANT BUD hangin over the bar  :cheers:  :icon_mrgreen:
Title: Re: Kerry hit the Cow !
Post by: Cal Price on September 14, 2006, 10:19:51 PM
He's fine, he has just left and is on the way to Stanstead airport to fly to Germany to see an old high-school friend and will be back here for a day or two next week before flying home to US.

I think he is travelling around for the best reason of all, simply because he can.

The "Killer Weed" over the bar is a bough of hops, this is hop growing country and there is a tradition to deck pubs with it at harvest time. (When you sip your pint of "Old Speckled Hen" you feel closer to the product!
Title: Re: Kerry hit the Cow !
Post by: Mk1inCali on September 14, 2006, 11:38:44 PM
I see what I assume to be a newly installed "No Smoking" placard.  How is the ban being received where you are, Cal?
Title: Re: Kerry hit the Cow !
Post by: Cal Price on September 15, 2006, 03:52:15 AM
Mk1inCali, The full ban starts next year sometime, some places have already enforced it and have experienced a slight drop in business volume. It has been common practice here for some years to have a "No smoking at the bar" policy in many places which I think is the case in the picture. Being someone who never started smoking but don't have a problem with smoke I have not taken a lot of notice but I think the general reaction is underwhelming.

Ironically the hops used to be used as they were thought to "absorb" cigarette smoke as well as have a pleasant smell of their own.

Here he is down at Ramsgate Harbour, in failing light....
(http://www.bbburma.net/CalPrice/KerryRamsgateHarb.jpg)
Title: Re: Kerry hit the Cow !
Post by: sledge on September 15, 2006, 12:54:08 PM
Cal?
Am I correct in saying: (from left to right)
1 Heineken
2 Strongbow
3 Stella
4 Dunno this one but could it be something by Flowers, perhaps IPA?
5 Guinness (not extra cold)
6 John Smiths
7 Speckled Hen
8 Havent a clue on this one???
9 London Pride

Flowers, Speckled Hen and London pride are rare up here in Manc` but they are about if you know where to look and I have had a few good nights out on that London Pride  :thumb:
Title: Re: Kerry hit the Cow !
Post by: Jake D on September 15, 2006, 01:01:11 PM
How did you guys get over the language barrier?
Title: Re: Kerry hit the Cow !
Post by: TadMC on September 15, 2006, 01:05:55 PM
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Title: Re: Kerry hit the Cow !
Post by: starwalt on September 15, 2006, 02:52:27 PM
Kerry and that dang "Handyman Club of America" jacket do get around.

Great shots Cal! Thanks for sharing!  :thumb:
Title: Re: Kerry hit the Cow !
Post by: Cal Price on September 15, 2006, 05:23:59 PM
Sledge,

Thank goodness I left the other real ale pumps (4) to the left of the preasure taps out of the pic!

I think you are about right, number 8 is an IPA, I think it is a very localised one "Cobbs of Margate" probably. I agree about fullers London Pride, it's a better drink than Fullers other, supposedly better offering, XXK is it or something like that.

For the benefit of our transatlantic cousins, IPA = India or Imperial Pale Ale, a strong brew for the "Raj" in 19th and 20th centuries. Cheers hic! ooops!

edit....

Hey I just checked the original image, 4 is Flowers best bitter and 8 is Greene King IPA, the Cobbs must be out of pic.
Title: Re: Kerry hit the Cow !
Post by: skoebl on September 15, 2006, 10:10:11 PM
Quote from: pandy on September 14, 2006, 06:42:50 PM
:cheers: :cheers: :cheers:

Hope he hits northern Cali next time!  :thumb:

You darn central cali people saying your from nor-cal.... :flipoff:
When I lived in San Diego everyone I talked to thought that california ended at San Francisco  :laugh: (I'm 25 miles from the oregon border)

Title: Re: Kerry hit the Cow !
Post by: Mk1inCali on September 15, 2006, 10:15:20 PM
There is civilization north of Frisco?



I thought it just skipped over to Seattle...
Title: Re: Kerry hit the Cow !
Post by: pantablo on September 15, 2006, 11:32:43 PM
san diego is not SoCal.
Title: Re: Kerry hit the Cow !
Post by: pandy on September 16, 2006, 06:24:12 AM
California DOES end at San Francisco.  :flipoff:  :laugh:
Title: Re: Kerry hit the Cow !
Post by: papiocho on September 16, 2006, 06:51:09 AM
stella (tops) was the best  :thumb:
these guys where french foreign legion
(http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f187/Familia_Cruz/100_2138.jpg)

this stuff was good too  ;)
(http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f187/Familia_Cruz/100_1950.jpg)

we spent oct 2005 in southeast UK
Title: Re: Kerry hit the Cow !
Post by: pantablo on September 16, 2006, 08:54:18 PM
stella-a good "session" beer. that is, if you're drinking a bunch, confirmed by the picture...
absynthe...hahaha, have you read the absynthe story at tuckermax.com? hi-larious.
Title: Re: Kerry hit the Cow !
Post by: pantablo on September 16, 2006, 09:04:50 PM
btw- on my 3rd Spaten tonight....
Title: Re: Kerry hit the Cow !
Post by: zukiGS500 on September 17, 2006, 12:57:06 AM
spaten is a great beer, i dont see it many places, but when i do, its what i drink