Time for Tippling

[Mariab]

2more!
1for drinking (a"beverage")
1for characters winning in the pick up for emigration (1:10 chances!)

[Sarah]

Kat wrote: "Seeing as I'm reading The Road, my tippling will be 'just because' ;)"

My tippling is also 'just because'. Nearly finished my first glass of rose but none of my sips were down to my book.

[Sarah]

Liz wrote: "Sounds yummy.

Sheetz makes me laugh, too. Perhaps, I need more sleep. Feeling giddy today."

Sheetz also made me laugh too. Not sure I'd want to eat anything from them ;-)

[Sarah]

Almeta wrote: "No weapon injuries, unless you count beer bottles crushing into skulls!☻
"

I'd count beer bottles as a weapon if they're being smacked over someone's head! Drink! Drink! Drink!

[Almeta]

Sarah wrote: "Almeta wrote: "No weapon injuries, unless you count beer bottles crushing into skulls!☻
"

I'd count beer bottles as a weapon if they're being smacked over someone's head! Drink! Drink! Drink!"

Okay then, I t'ink thats sI'll have Anudder!☻ (view spoiler)[Get it? "An udder" Hahaha (hide spoiler)]

[Mariab]

3more
Drink of water by the heroe
The heroe was dreaming of eating a strawberry cake ( I thought it counts as well)
They made me laugh describing how the main character try to smuggle an old uniform into the spacecraft (the all have precise amount and count of mass and weigh permitted)

[Sarah]

Almeta wrote: "Okay then, I t'ink thats sI'll have Anudder!☻ (view spoiler) "

I think you might have already had enough ;-)

[Sarah]

Wow Mariab. You're going to be trolleyed soon!

[Sarah]

My characters discussed pouring coffee but no actual drinking of it. I figure I've drank enough to cover anything I've missed so far ;-)

[Almeta]

Sarah wrote: "Almeta wrote: "Okay then, I t'ink thats sI'll have Anudder!☻ (view spoiler) "

I think you might have already had enough ;-)"

[Mariab]

And 3 more already
Thre ships started in the space

[Mariab]

Lol Sarah. I have to eat a snack inbetween (or I wont be able to go on...) I m drinking whisky after all...

[Sarah]

That's a bit sensible Mariab.

[Esther]

*raises glass of stout *
the tippling toppler has begun.

[Mariab]

3 more... (I was expecting trips and rides, after all I m reading a SF book...But I wanst expecting all the drinking and dessert eating. Not to mention the funny parts in which they are on G minus in space...

By the way my book is Farmer in the Sky by Heinlein (app, sorry!)

[Stephanie]

Life of Pi has made me laugh a little out loud a couple of times so far when Pi explains others pronunciations of words..his foster mother Auntieji when she first heard of Hare Krishnas she didn't hear right and she heard hairless Christians. I laughed out loud because it sounds like something I would do.

[Kristie, Moderator]

So, I'm reading 2 books, The Color Purple and Redshirts. I have had no tippling with The Color Purple, however Redshirts is probably going to be bad. lol It has been funny and just based on the concept, I'm sure people will be harmed. Didn't think of it when I picked it. Oops! ;)

[Cherie]

I guess I will only be drinking coffee. The only thing they are drinking in The Road is water. I think the last packet of cocoa for the boy was mentioned once.

[Sarah]

I'm done tippling for tonight otherwise I won't get any reading done tomorrow because I'll be nursing a hangover.

[Casceil]

I'm reading A Beautiful Blue Death. It's a good thing I am drinking non-alcoholic beverages. These people drink constantly! There is even an alcoholic doctor who carries a flask around with him. So far I have been through a mug of hot tea, two large glasses of iced tea, and two glasses of water.

[jaxnsmom]

Kandice wrote: "Is this an ongoing thing? I absolutely want to join, but don't really understand! Right now I have strawberry lemonade, but am hoping to graduate to wine or something else by dark. ;) I could actua..."

I just re-read your post. Did you mean you want to join the Toppler, or just tipple along with us?

[jaxnsmom]

Kat wrote: "I *ahem* have a small hangover. So it's hair of the dog for me."

So you were practicing. Good idea :)

[Mariab]

Ok. It is tea time for me (to bring equilibrium to the Force ;-) ... or to myself, whatever occurs first)

[jaxnsmom]

Mariab - I hope you stay just sober enough to finish your book :)

Liz - I don't like coffee, but anything with Nutella has to be good!

Stephanie - That's too funny. I call light and fluffy books fluffernutter. Does Sheetz still make salads? When I lived in Winchester, at work we used to go get them all the time, it was great how you could choose whatever items you wanted

[Stephanie]

They do :) and the garlic sauce you can put on their fries is amazing :) I love how affordable their food is and the ordering part is fun on the kiosk :) makes it easier, lol!

[jaxnsmom]

Connie - Wow! You should have saves your book for later. All that tippling would have made it seem less depressing :~D

Almeta - it sounds like you and Debra had a fun time with the movie. Hear that everyone else planning to watch Cool Runnings - sounds like a good one to warch at night with all the tippling :p Oh, I think Almeta better eat something before any more tippling!

Casceil - sounds like you also have a book that would be good for reading in the evening :)

[jaxnsmom]

Stephanie wrote: "They do :) and the garlic sauce you can put on their fries is amazing :) I love how affordable their food is and the ordering part is fun on the kiosk :) makes it easier, lol!"

I don't have a Sheetz near me anymore, but maybe the next time I go visit my dad I'll have to get the fries to try the garlic sauce!

[Lisa]

There has been a bit of travelling by horse drawn carriage in Affinity and I also watched 'Cool Runnings' earlier so it's just as well I am on the soft stuff. My bladder is not thanking me though! #thinkImayhavedrunktoomuchjuice.

I am off to bed now. Try not to get too tipsy folks! ;)

[jaxnsmom]

For some reason I never get much read on the first day of a Toppler, and this one is no exception. But there's been some tippling even for the little bit I've read.

My book, The Dog Who Healed a Family is a collection of very short true stories about animals and their humans.
The first story was called The Puppy Express, where various people volunteers each drove a 17 year old dog part of the way to get the dog home.
One story was about a little white rabbit that had me laughing several times, especially his relationship with the cat.
Another was about Sister Michael entering a snake racing contest. She and Windshield Viper won the first heat, the semi-final, and the final race.
Cherie, you'd enjoy the one about the African gray parrot - lots of laughing.
There's a lot of auto travel so far, and I have many stories to go.

So far I've had milk,tea, water, and lemonade. About to start on the stout now.

[Stephanie]

jaxnsmom wrote: "For some reason I never get much read on the first day of a Toppler, and this one is no exception. But there's been some tippling even for the little bit I've read.

My book, [book:The Dog Who Hea..."

jaxnsmom wrote: "Stephanie wrote: "They do :) and the garlic sauce you can put on their fries is amazing :) I love how affordable their food is and the ordering part is fun on the kiosk :) makes it easier, lol!"

I..."

Hope you like it when you try it :-) I have that book on my TBR of course :-)

[Rusalka, Moderator]

I'm not sure I'm brave enough to get food or drink from a place called Sheetz.

You've all been having a grand old time!

[Cherie]

On The Road, the man and boy drank water, tea, coffee and juice from the canned fruit they managed to find along with some canned milk and a package of grape cool aid. I stayed with my coffee, but did have a large sweet tea from McDonalds on my way home from the grocery store. On to see how Archie and Nero Wolfe fair. I am starting The Black Mountain on audio while I get some work done and maybe while I am babysitting tonight.

[Rusalka, Moderator]

Main character in The War of the Worlds had to have some wine to steady his nerves after seeing Martians. Water scull. I'm going to be so hydrated this week!

[Travis]

Angels Flight had some stiff drinks by cops after rough day. Finished book but now wife and kids are in bed. Started new book, lit bonfire, having some drinks. Audiobook in one ear coyotes yipping in distance in the other.

[Almeta]

Cherie wrote: "... On to see how Archie and Nero Wolfe fair. I am starting The Black Mountain on audio while I get some work done and maybe while I am babysitting tonight. ..."

One of the few times Nero Wolfe actually leaves his brownstone! Enjoy.☺

[Almeta]

Travis of NNY wrote: "...Started new book, lit bonfire, having some drinks. Audiobook in one ear coyotes yipping in distance in the other. ..."

Ahhh, This is the life, eh?

[Janice, Moderator]

I've had at least 3 LOL moments with my book, and the lads do like their drink. It's a good thing I'm just drinking tea, or I'd be passed out

[jaxnsmom]

Travis of NNY wrote: "Angels Flight had some stiff drinks by cops after rough day. Finished book but now wife and kids are in bed. Started new book, lit bonfire, having some drinks. Audiobook in one ear coy..."

Sounds like a great setting for reading. Knowing Harry Bosch I bet there will be some injuries :)

[Kazen]

I'm reading The Master of Go which is giving me some nice green tea drinking opportunities. :D

[Ava Catherine]

Mariab, I am so pleased to see a mate enjoy her book and her drink at the same time! : )

I switched to wine for the The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao. I think it made the book go down much smoother.
Lots of tippling! : )

Straight off I need to let you know that I finally had to take a few big swigs because I could not keep count of the number of flights the various characters took back and forth between JFK in NYC and Santo Domingo.
Lots of driving around in cars. Ana Obregon drove a Cressida. What is that? She drove Oscar everywhere.
Ana was awarded a full scholarship to Penn State.
Lola wins a spot on the school track team.
Max rides a motorcycle. (not sure if this counts, but I'll drink to it anyway)
Rosio has a scholarship to the private high school.
When Beli was 13, she landed a scholarship to El Redentor, one of the best schools in Bani.
The Gangster drinks whiskey.
Beli rode the Blue Ball Express one last time.
Beli and the Gangster drank rum.
A motorcycle driven by a hugely overweight policeman arrives at their cabana.
By noon she was in a dust-choked Chevy, heading home.
She drank two beers.
Beli ran barefoot to his car, and they drove east.
The secret police took Beli to the cane fields and beat her using nightsticks. It was the sort of beating that breaks people, breaks them utterly.
Throughout most of the car ride, she maintained the fool's hope that the Gangster would save her.
An unelectrified truck burst out of the darkness in a roar of gears to rescue her.
And who knows what might happen to the girl among the yanquis? LOL moment! Beli's grandfather appears in a dream and tells her grandmother to send Beli to NYC so she will be safe. Grandmother is not so sure about Americans.
Trujillo is gunned down. He is dead.
Oscar starts taking his mom's car out for midnight spins.
Yunior wins the dorm lottery and gets a single room in Frelinghuysen.
Abelard is taken prisoner, hooked up to an electrical contraption, and beaten with leather truncheons.
Astrid is killed by a bullet to the back of the head.
Abelard was manacled to a chair, placed in the scorching sun, and then a wet rope was cinched around his forehead. It was called La Corona, a simple but horribly effective torture. At first the rope just grips your skull, but as the sun dries and tightens it, the pain becomes unbearable and would drive you mad.
The foster father splashed a pan of hot oil on the orphan girl's back because she skipped out on her work to go to school.
Oscar is driven to the cane fields by the secret police.
Grod struck Oscar in the head with the butt of his pistol. Then they both started whaling on him with their pistols.
Clives took Oscar home in his taxi.
The secret police drove Oscar back to the cane fields and shot him.

[jaxnsmom]

Connie - you really picked some good tippling books for this Toppler!

[Almeta]

Connie wrote: "I switched to wine ..."

I think you are going to need to install a cask!☻

[Ava Catherine]

Almeta wrote: "Connie wrote: "I switched to wine ..."

I think you are going to need to install a cask!☻"


Hehe! I have put the wine away. Too much of a good thing and all. I have tea now.

[Mariab]

Connie wrote: "Mariab, I am so pleased to see a mate enjoy her book and her drink at the same time! : )

I switched to wine for the The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao. I think it made the book go ..."

You certainly enjoyed yours too ;-)

[Rusalka, Moderator]

People killed by heat rays. Whiskey to calm the nerves. People killed by heat rays. Whiskey to calm the nerves. People killed by heat rays. Whiskey to calm the nerves.

So goes interterrestrial warfare in 1895 or whatever.

[Rusalka, Moderator]

1898. And how fun is it reading books from then.

"He heard footsteps running to and fro in the rooms, and up and down stairs behind him, His landlady came to the door, wrapped in a dressing-gown and shawl; her husband followed, ejaculating."

*SNORT*
Drink.

[Rusalka, Moderator]

And yes. I am totally 10.

I'm usually pretty good, that one just completely caught me by surprise.

[Ava Catherine]

Switched to tea for obvious reasons.

Life of Pi

not so much tippling

The author flies to India and then takes a train.
The author has coffee at the Indian Coffee House.
A train runs on Sundays for children at the botanical garden.
Pi's French foster mother, whom he calls Auntieji lives in Toronto and sometimes has difficulty with English sounds. When she first heard of Hare Krishnas, she misunderstood and thought they were "Hairless Christians." LOL moment
Pi has tea with Father Martin three days in a row. Double sip
Father bought ice cream sandwiches. We ate them in silence.
LOL moment: One zoo asked for "an authentic Brahamin cow" for their children's zoo. Father walked out into the urban jungle of Pondicherry and bought a cow with dark wet eyes, a nice fat hump and horns so straight and at such right angles to its head that it looked as if it had licked an electrical outlet. Father had its horns painted bright orange and little plastic bells fitted to the tips , for added authenticity.
LOL moment: I made clear to Richard Parker that it was my right, my lordly right, to fondle and sniff his feces if I wanted to.
My fantasy meals grew to be the size of India. Ice cream heaped as high as the Himalayas.
LOL moment: A whale surfaces beside the lifeboat and looks directly at Pi until Richard comes up from under the tarpaulin and hisses. The glint in the whale's eye changes as it looks at Richard Parker about thirty seconds before gently sinking under the surface. Pi said, "I believe it was a whale looking for a mate. It must have decided that my size wouldn't do, and besides, I already seemed to have a mate."
A police car took Pi to the hospital.
Mr. Tomohiiro Okamoto and Mr. Atsuro Chiba rented a car and drove from Long Beach, California, to Tomatlan, Mexico.
Would you like a cookie? I'll have another cookie.
Here are your bananas.
Look! A chocolate bar!

[jaxnsmom]

ROFL! Are they using the word ejaculating with a different meaning than what immediately comes to mind? I can't even imagine it being sexual. Either way, I'd nominate it for the Bad Sex in Fiction Award!

[Rusalka, Moderator]

No no. It's common usage in the late 1800s was like "to exclaim" or "to burst out".

Sherlock Holmes has Watson ejaculating frequently at Sherlock, so if it was our modern meaning that would change the dynamic of their relationship A LOT.