woody with a view
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skoozies
with all this talk about beer i got to thinking about those one line sayings on the side of all those skoozies. here's my current favorite...
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backninedan
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My wife and I tried eating tourists, some taste like hawks, some taste like doves and the people buying Loreto Bay taste like fish.
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oladulce
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The guy at the local gasolinera wouldn't be caught using a skoozie ( well ok,he probably would use one if they came in grande size ).
Curiously, he thinks it's cool to wrap his Ballena in a Pamper!
I'll have to get a photo someday.
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pokey
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| Quote: | | he thinks it's cool to wrap his Ballena in a Pamper! |
I wrap mine in newspaper Not sure if it helps though.
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Natalie Ann
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Mi esposo has a nice skoozie which says on one side:
"If a man says something in the woods, and there are no women there, is he still wrong?"
The answer on the other side is a very large "YES!'
And Dan, I'm wondering.... didn't any of those tourists taste like chicken?
Be yourself, everyone else is already taken.
.....Oscar Wilde
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backninedan
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Natalie, I think the ones that taste like chicken dont come this far south.
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Oso
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| Quote: | Originally posted by pokey
I wrap mine in newspaper Not sure if it helps though.
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If you wet it it does (a little). That's an old farm trick. For cool water (or?) on a hot day without ice or refrigeration, set your water bottle
(or ballena) in a bucket, stuff newspaper around it and wet it down. The evaporation will keep it cool, if not exactly cold.
All my childhood I wanted to be older. Now I\'m older and this chitn sucks.
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Paulina
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For some reason, our beers seem to run empty before the need of a "skoozie", or "beer condom" arises. My favorite "skoozie condom" came from Camp
Gecko. No fancy saying, just from a good place back then.
Not to venture off subject, but on the Oso evaporation topic, we've bought Caguamas or Ballenas wrapped in wet newpapers as well. There was also a
summer in Bahia ('81) when the town generator was down, and the town was also out of ice. Every day during that month of August we towed our cerveza
behind the boat in a burlap sack while out on the water. When we were on shore we kept it in the same sack at the water's edge, secured by a big rock.
Warm beer and bread, they say can raise the dead... and we did so that summer! The air temps were 120, the water was a wee bit cooler, so were the
Pacificos. The air temp. margaritas and the interesting games of Risk were another story.
P<*)))><
[Edited on 19-6-2005 by Paulina]
\"Well behaved women rarely make history.\" Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
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bahiamia
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I'll second you on that, Paulina...
My beer never lasts long enough to require insulation either! Especially in the summer; they don't stand a chance. Just wait 'till Bahia Days! Cold
beer never tasted to good!
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Arthur
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Swamp cooling
I've got this old French collapsable bucket that seems to be made out of flax. We put our beverages in there as soon as we make camp, along with
whatever water is available, and it is amazing how fast they cool down. We've even used hot spring water. Of course, an icy mountain stream cools
things the fastest, but that bucket does a pretty good job.
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