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18!

Tim Tempest

21:27 / 30.05.06

Well hello ladies and gentlemen! Tis a glorious day in Barbeland. Oddman has turned 18 years of age, and even though it is a Tuesday in Canadia, he is still going to drink. Alcohol. To celebrate. So, anyone and everyone is welcome to partake in the celebration, and drink in memory of the night of my birth, so many moons ago.

Dead Megatron

21:38 / 30.05.06

I'm too far to arrive at the party before cleaning up time, but hey, happy responsibility as an adult for ya!

Korso Jerusalem

21:41 / 30.05.06

This is a fantastic time to begin destroying your lungs and liver, and to begin scrawling regrettable images on your flesh.

Mourne Kransky

21:55 / 30.05.06

Congratulations, Oddman. I drank a fine Chablis in your honour earlier. Or it would have been had I known.

You can stay up late
'cause baby you're a full grown man

petunia

21:56 / 30.05.06

Cheers!

Spyder Todd 2008

22:11 / 30.05.06

Yay for drinking too much!

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

22:23 / 30.05.06

Happy birthday!

TeN

22:25 / 30.05.06

damn, here in America the only rights you get when you turn 18 are the right to buy cigarettes and porno, but those are incredibly easy to acquire anyway, so it's not really a big deal

oh yeah, and that whole voting thing too... yeah...
:P

All Acting Regiment

00:28 / 31.05.06

Have a tip-top birthday.

Saint Keggers

00:37 / 31.05.06

Have a happy birthday, eh. Tag a two-four and enjoy.

sibyline, beating Qalyn to a Q

13:02 / 31.05.06

um, TeN, you forget the having sex with older people without the person you're having sex with being charged with statutory rape. that's a pretty big deal!

*bats eyelashes at oddman*

ONLY NICE THINGS

16:54 / 31.05.06

I feel this may be less important in some cases.

TeN

17:02 / 31.05.06

Q - nope... age of consent is 17 in NY

girakittie

20:43 / 31.05.06

Congrats!

Cailín

20:54 / 31.05.06

In Canada the age of consent is 14 (with a few minor restrictions). So in that regard, turning 18 only means you can now screw your teachers, for money or on camera.

Or both!

To celebrate your birthday week, Oddman, I have tonight enjoyed two fine bottles of Sauvignon Blanc. hic

Please pass another milestone soon. There's a vintage bottle of the Widow in the fridge and I need an excuse to drink it.

Tim Tempest

22:05 / 31.05.06

Thank you Xoc. You are a most delightful person and I would be happy to think up an excuse to consume more fine alcoholic beverages...Perhaps we could celebrate Oddman's first adventure into a bar...Which is occurring within the next 3 days.

Oh, and I would also like to thank you all for participating and supporting the de-soberizing of Oddman.

And tell me people, is a bar different from a pub?

Dead Megatron

19:14 / 01.06.06

And tell me people, is a bar different from a pub?

From what I understand, the main difference between a bar and a pub is the continent it's in...

And, for some reason, the word "pub" makes me think of irish folk songs, but that's just an unprecise generalizing stereotypified response of my part, I guess.

ONLY NICE THINGS

22:06 / 01.06.06

As I understand it, a bar is the item of furniture in a public house where alcohol is ordered. A public house is a pub. Ironically, the metonymic usage of "bar" is usually intended to suggest that something is going on besides the ordering of alcohol. Thus, a "bar and restaurant" is a place which has a restaurant, and also a bar where drinks can be ordered.

Outside areas where the concept of the public house has developed, "pub" is often used to describe something that seeks to replicate the experience of a public house. Fights outside at closing time, that sort of thing.

lekvar

22:21 / 01.06.06

From an American viewpoint, the difference between bars and pubs is pubs sell food.

Dead Megatron

22:21 / 01.06.06

Outside areas where the concept of the public house has developed, "pub" is often used to describe something that seeks to replicate the experience of a public house. Fights outside at closing time, that sort of thing.

Hence my thinking of irish folk songs. Every "bar" that calls itself a "pub" in my turf is an "irish pub"*.

* one, btw, is a GBLT "irish pub", and I have very good memories of a night in there with a buddy who was visiting from outtatown and four sexy bisexual women. This story has nothing to do with this thread, except to the extend that such is the world that is now opening up to the young Oldman. Enjoy it, dude!

Saint Keggers

22:37 / 01.06.06

I always was under the impression that a pub serves hot meals whereas a bar does not.

ONLY NICE THINGS

22:43 / 01.06.06

Ah, but what about a bar and grill?

Saint Keggers

22:48 / 01.06.06

I said it was an impression, not a correct one.

Hydra vs Leviathan

20:14 / 07.06.06

Pubs have wooden furniture, carpets, ale (or c(i/y)der, or stout) and possibly dogs. Bars have shiny metal furniture, shiny wooden floors, wine or cocktails and definitely not any non-human animals (except, on rare occasions, fish in a shiny decorative tank). Otherwise, they're pretty much exactly the same thing.

Also, confusingly, a pub, club or other alcohol-serving establishment may have several "bars", as in rooms where (sometimes different selections of) alcohol are served...

BTW, i thought i was probably the youngest person here, and i'm 24. So congratulations...

All Acting Regiment

21:13 / 07.06.06

I'm six. Got any smack?

matthew.

01:12 / 08.06.06

Pfft. Legba, you old geezer. I'm a gigantic floating fetus typing with a giant telekinetic overdeveloped brain.

FinderWolf

14:19 / 08.06.06

Happy Very Belated Birthday, Oddman (I don't often check/read the Conversation threads and was just scanning 'em)...I still owe you a drawing of your character, I haven't forgotten! Hope all is uber-cool with you!

Spyder Todd 2008

14:25 / 08.06.06

But matt, what if Legba is actually telling the truth? Perhaps he's a leap year baby? Or a child prodigy? Or a clone of the original Legba that was artificially aged? Anything's possible. I think we should give him his smack regardless.

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