Even as she aged she remained beautiful and sexy."Doris Day, versatile singer, actress, TV star, animal activist and radiant icon of sunny, funny femininity has died early Monday at age 97."
Sunny Funny Femininity! Nothing wrong with that!
Amen
A truely great man. We did those yards in college too, I was never under a minute!
2 1⁄2 imperial pints (1.4 L for the measurement impaired)
I have one of those!
No, the idea of drinking as a form of punishment is not one that would occur to any Scot!
That leaves only the weather as a fit topic and in England, that's usually unfit...
Eulalia, you are a remarkable fount of information!!No, the idea of drinking as a form of punishment is not one that would occur to any Scot!
What's being referred to is the practice of 'sconcing', I often heard of it, but never witnessed it. Here's Wiki's account - as it says, sconce pots of different colleges vary in size, I've no idea what they have at Univ, Bob Hawks's college, but not necessarily the same as a 'yard of ale':
Sconcing is a tradition at Oxford University of demanding that a person drink a tankard of ale or some other alcoholic beverage as a penalty for some breach of etiquette. Originally the penalty would have been a simple monetary fine imposed for a more serious breach of discipline, and the word is known to have been used in this sense as early as 1617.
Minor offences for which a sconce might have been imposed included talking at dinner about women, religion, politics or one's work, referring to the portraits hung in the college hall, or making an error in the pronunciation of the Latin Grace.
History
The power to impose a sconce was not originally given to all present at a dinner. It might instead have been reserved for the person presiding on High Table, or perhaps the senior Scholar or other undergraduate at each table. Anyone feeling a sconce was deserved would be required to ask for its imposition (often in a "scholarly" language such as Latin or Ancient Greek). Should their request be granted a large vessel, usually full of beer, would be called for and the offender would have to attempt to drink it down in one go (perhaps while standing on the table). The amount of a sconce varied from two imperial pints (1.1 l) at Corpus, Oriel or Jesus, up to three and three-quarters imperial pints (2.1 l) at St John's. Several colleges retain impressive antique "sconce pots" in their silver collections.
In the event that a person failed to drain his sconce, he was generally required to pay for the contents. It was also once relatively common for the sconced person to choose to share the contents of the sconce with their neighbours at table, thereby making amends to the "victims" of the original breach of good manners.
The half is for wimps, woosies, and frat boys.
Maybe that is why they invented soccer. About soccer you can talk for hours without end.
OK, so you're saying that Scots will happily drink anything that has alcohol in it? Taste is irrelevant? The only exception is watered down beer?No, the idea of drinking as a form of punishment is not one that would occur to any Scot!
What's being referred to is the practice of 'sconcing', I often heard of it, but never witnessed it. Here's Wiki's account - as it says, sconce pots of different colleges vary in size, I've no idea what they have at Univ, Bob Hawks's college, but not necessarily the same as a 'yard of ale':
Sconcing is a tradition at Oxford University of demanding that a person drink a tankard of ale or some other alcoholic beverage as a penalty for some breach of etiquette. Originally the penalty would have been a simple monetary fine imposed for a more serious breach of discipline, and the word is known to have been used in this sense as early as 1617.
Minor offences for which a sconce might have been imposed included talking at dinner about women, religion, politics or one's work, referring to the portraits hung in the college hall, or making an error in the pronunciation of the Latin Grace.
History
The power to impose a sconce was not originally given to all present at a dinner. It might instead have been reserved for the person presiding on High Table, or perhaps the senior Scholar or other undergraduate at each table. Anyone feeling a sconce was deserved would be required to ask for its imposition (often in a "scholarly" language such as Latin or Ancient Greek). Should their request be granted a large vessel, usually full of beer, would be called for and the offender would have to attempt to drink it down in one go (perhaps while standing on the table). The amount of a sconce varied from two imperial pints (1.1 l) at Corpus, Oriel or Jesus, up to three and three-quarters imperial pints (2.1 l) at St John's. Several colleges retain impressive antique "sconce pots" in their silver collections.
In the event that a person failed to drain his sconce, he was generally required to pay for the contents. It was also once relatively common for the sconced person to choose to share the contents of the sconce with their neighbours at table, thereby making amends to the "victims" of the original breach of good manners.
And the best for CF. The intersection of Nazi interrogation and torture, and Tim Conway.
The number of people living past 100 is the highest it has ever been, (I'm talking about the 1st world, it's still rare elsewhere). Twenty years ago someone celebrating their 100th birthday got coverage on the local news. Now, it won't even get a paragraph in the local papers.
