Our Return to the Beer Snob Tavern

beerdrinkerOn Saturday Toney and I visited the Insufferable Beer Snob Tavern (as I call it), inside Cooper’s Seafood in Scranton.

They have a rambunctious bar there that attracts college students, and features a large deck and people projectile vomiting into fireplaces, etc.  But hidden away in the rear of the sprawling restaurant complex is another, almost secret drinkery that’s more to my liking.

The room is small, relatively subdued, tricked-out with dark wood, and looks like a library in a millionaire’s mansion, circa 1948.  And, most importantly, they sell an amazing lineup of obscure, super-snooty draft beers…  Yes, the joint has my name written all over it.

We hadn’t been there in a long time, because our lives are crazy, but used to go two or three times per month.  On Saturday there was a sign outside that said they were offering Boddington’s on tap during the month of July, served in a British pub glass you could take home.

“Cool!” I shouted, before realizing it was no longer July.  Then I got irritated that we’re so lame we missed a great promotion that ran for an entire month.

I love Boddington’s.  It was on tap in the lobby bar at our hotel in London, and brings back pleasant memories of scratching my head in utter confusion while watching a cricket match on a huge TV amongst eastern Europeans in red sweatsuits.  I wanted a couple of those glasses…

And I got ‘em.  At first the bartender said they were completely out, that they were only being offered in July.  “C’mon man, it’s July 32!” I said.  And he somehow came up with two of the things.  It was a miracle!  Only fifteen seconds earlier none had existed, yet here they were.

And they look exactly like this.

Then we tried a Saranac summer ale that was fairly odd.  It didn’t even taste like beer really, it was more like lemonade, or something.  I drank it, and it wasn’t as horrible as it could’ve been, but it went directly to the NEVER AGAIN file.  I generally like Saranac beers (a lot), but this one was a little too novelty for me.

And to close out the category, I went with an Uncle Teddy’s Bitter, from a cask.  By far the best beer of the day…  It was served at room temperature, was mind-blowingly good, and is exactly why I love going to Cooper’s and “exploring.”

Yes, Toney and I are the Lewis & Clark of alcohol abuse…

While at the Snobby Prick Bar & Grill, we discussed many things.  Those little Saturday excursions are almost literally the only time we’re alone, without a million distractions.  Many of our biggest decisions have been made inside various barrooms in Lackawanna County, PA (for better or worse), but usually we’re just going on and on with the goofy shit…

And I’ll use our disjointed weekend conversation as the basis for our Questions of the Day.  I have two for you today.  Neither is great, I’m afraid, but together they might add up to something semi-interesting…  And here they are:

In how many states have you been issued a driver’s license?  Can you beat me?  I’ve had licenses in five different states:  West Virginia, Norf Carolina, Georgia, California, and Pennsylvania.  Have you had more than five?  How about foreign countries?  Tell us about it, won’t you?

And if you’re married, or living with someone, what’s the percentage breakdown on the household chores, male vs. female?  I admit I could do more…  Ahem.  I say it’s 75% Toney, 25% Jeff.  But Toney believes it’s more like 85/15.

However…  I load the dishwasher after meals, unload it once the filth has been blasted-off, make our bed every day, take out the trash, mow the grass, occasionally dust and vacuum, etc.  I’m not a COMPLETE slug.  Sheesh.

What about your house?  Give us your percentages by gender, in the comments section below.

And I’ll be back tomorrow, with a big ol’ Topic Dump ™.

See ya then!

Now playing in the bunker.

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105 Responses to “Our Return to the Beer Snob Tavern”

  1. 1!

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  2. Yes….back in the top 5!

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  3. 1 driver license ( had it taken away a couple of times if that counts for anything) and am single so I suck!

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  4. Yay! New update!

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  5. Top 5???

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  6. 6th- again

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  7. Sex, I mean six…

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  8. Oh — just one drivers’ license, and our Female to Male chore ratio is about 80 to 20.

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  9. I’ve had only 2 licenses. One in Texas one in Alabamie. I think our male to female chore ratio is 90/10 with me being the 10. But I do work all the time. And we do have house cleaners that come by on Mondays and Thursdays.

    I used to go to this pizza place in Waco, TX called Poppa Rollo’s. There was a phone booth in the hallway and if you pushed it would open up to a nice little bar.

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  10. I currently have a California license and a Cayman Islands license. In the past I’ve had both Michigan and Ontario as well. At one point I also had an international drivers permit that allowed me to drive in something like 100 different countries – I don’t think they even make/use those anymore.

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  11. I’ve only had driver’s licenses in 3 states: Indiana, Nevada, and Arizona.

    And since I live alone, I get 100% of the chore duty. I only actually do 50%, and the other 50% remains undone (ie., filthy). I only give it 100% if I know I’m having people over (other than my best friend).

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  12. Six states, 8 licenses

    Texas – twice, 17 years apart from original date of issue
    Arizona
    Minnesota – twice, 15 years apart, and the current one
    Michigan
    Wisconsin
    North Dakota

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  13. That guy in the further evidence video has nice tits. They look to be at least D cups.

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  14. Jason,

    I have actually been to that Papa Rollo’s a few times. We are old.

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  15. I’ve had three licenses: Virginia, USAEUR and West Virginny.

    As to the division of household labor, that is a topic agreed never to be discussed again. (God, what a long weekend that was . . . )

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  16. Funny, I always thought of myself as the Sacajawea of alcohol abuse.

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  17. Beside having an International drivers license,
    Indiana
    Mississippi
    California
    Virginia
    Indiana – yeah what of it, I came back.
    Georgia
    Norf Cackalacy

    Household chores is 100% me and you know why. The only other female in my house is my dog and she keeps out unwanted females. OK

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  18. If 3 beers represents alcohol abuse, then I’m Mickey Mantle and Larry Hagman all rolled into one.

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  19. I used to live where Larry Hagman lived. He looked like he died 5 years before

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  20. CHORES- 90% ME AND 10%- HE as it should be.

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  21. @NDfaninAZ…haha I can relate to the 50/50!

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  22. Lived in three states, only had licenses for two (PA and Ohio). I was only staying in NY for a year so I didn’t see the point.

    I’m going to say the female to male household chore ratio at our house is around 85/15. My husband falls on the old male standby of doing a chore so gawddamn badly that he’s never asked to do it again. And if he ever loaded of unloaded the dishwasher I’d die on the spot from shock.

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  23. whoops! of = or

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  24. @TILLY – chores 90% he and 10% me – as it should be.

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  25. HA! Thank you White Trash Barbie.

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  26. to each his own WTB!!!
    we have long ago established that my OCD will not allow for someone else helping me out.
    How’s the vacation?

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  27. Who plays the man?

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  28. Good Afternoon Surf Reporters…..

    Licensed in PA only. I’ve never lived more than a hundred miles from the town where I was born. Pretty boring, huh?

    As far as chores, I’d like to say I do my share and I’m sure She Who Must Be Obeyed would disagree.

    I’m on garbage duty, kitchen detail, lawn care. I do my fair share of laundry and I can cook several tasty(if I do say so myself) dishes.

    The biggest consternation between the wife and me is cleaning while cooking. I’m one that cleans while I prep and cook. Never more than a few spoons and pans while I’m at it.
    She could boil three eggs and make tuna fish salad and every freaking utensil, pot, pan, dish, cutting board etc. is sullied. Freaking amazing.

    While she was out of state with the youngest son, I had everything in it’s place and and squared away. They returned home and within 24 hours that kitchen looked like a jihadist had detonated an IED. Sweet Sainted mother of Julia Child.

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  29. @ TILLY – I would also say that your OCD creates chores that don’t exist in the natural world. How many times do you have to be told that steam cleaning the lawn is not something that people really do?!?

    Oh, and I am pretty sure that the reason my husband has taken over laundry duties is because he doesn’t want me to go in the basement because he doesn’t want me to know about the girl in the pit down there. Oh, but I do know. I do.

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  30. That girl in the pit, is she a redhead? Does she have a generous labia?

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  31. ah! a pint of Bod the cream of Manchester! In the cask pour tin enjoying one right now! 3 Liicences: International, (yeah Zack they still exsist), Ontario & my British one. Interestingly enough the brits have two if you take your drivers test in an automatic you are not qualified to drive stick over there! chores 90% wife 10% me isn’t that in the fine print of the marriage certificate? Paragraph 2 : “If you do more than 10% of the household chores you are not a husband just a gay friend”

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  32. Seven states and we split the house work about 70/30 for the wife/me. Seems fair since the family income is 90/10 me/her.

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  33. 2 States, OK & NM
    OK – Real
    NM – Real Gubmnt issued ID, Fake age, name, Address Birth cert, ss# = Real Beer

    I was 18 and had just graduated HS, Best trip I ever took! I used that thing all the time, I celebrated my 21st Birthday on my 10 consecutive weekend at one club. That confused the shit outta them! Ah, memories.

    I do 100% during deployments, then 50/50 once the man gets home.
    He helps more cause of the guilt.

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  34. @PAGAN- gay friend- hilarious!!

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  35. 95% me, 5% my dog — she cleans the floors for me. Better than a Shopvac. She sucks up wet spills, and she rolls around on the wood floor to collect the dust bunnies.

    Licenses in California and Utah, Our Land of Hope. Tried to get one in Germany using a direct transfer of the Utah license per some agreement that the gov’t had with that particular state, but unfortunately Germany decided that I was not a US citizen, which you must be in order to get the transfer without taking all the expensive classes and driving lessons. Their reasoning was that I lived in Germany and that my mother is German, and therefore, I am not a US citizen. Wha…? Say again? I have a US passport.

    I argued with them for a long time, and the best they could say was that at least I didn’t have to hire a translator to help me with the classes, lessons, and tests. Really? (It is admirable that they provide these only in German!) I finally gave up arguing because I had to take on the German tax man about my business expenses. You see, that dept also did not consider me a US citizen when it was convenient for them (when they thought they could squeeze me for more money if I were German.) Freakin’ bureaucracy was killing me.

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  36. Wait, I had an International license too. No idea where that’s now buried.

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  37. I’ve only been licensed in Ontario, but I did have my military license and in those days you had to test on every vehicle with and without trailers, so that was an experience.

    I do about 40% of the household chores. I took on the laundry because the wife doesn’t know how (seriously), and try to help keep the regular household debris under control. My son is a bout to turn 7 so in true Dickensian fashion I’ve been downloading work onto him.

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  38. The girl I live with (sort of) I think it’s split about evenly at 0% and 0%. Driver’s licence, Ohio, KY, MO.

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  39. Me – 97%
    Him – 3%. He mows the lawn and takes out the garbage. Any takers?

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  40. Tilly…My wife has GFOH.. .(Get the Fuck Outta Here) and DTT (Don’t Touch That). OCD pales in comparison. So I’ve perscribed heavy medication…for myself.

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  41. @ Brynhildr,

    An argumentative German bureaucrat? Say it ain’t so!

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  42. JCIII, are you my husband with an alias? That’s EXACTLY what he tells me. I couldn’t boil an egg without dirtying every single utensil in the kitchen. I call bullshit on that one.

    Chores 90/10. Mr. Knucklehead only empties garbage/recycling/compost bucket, vacuums and helps with the dinner dishes (If I make breakfast on the weekends, those dishes are my sole responsibility. WTF?).

    Only had licenses is California and a International license. I would imagine that will change at some point, although I hear it is a bitch to get a driver’s license in Italy.

    Happy Wednesday, Surfers!

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  43. @ Brynhildr – At least your dog kicks in 5%, I guess guarding all my stuff while I’m away counts for .5%.

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  44. The Further Evidence links to Jabba the Hutt with a speech impediment. The wrongness of it all is overwhelming. Why would anyone post that on You Tube?

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  45. @ Jason and Blake…Poppa Rollo’s and the phone door are still there.

    I have only had 1 driver’s license and it’s Texas…I don’t plan on having any other. As for the house work or chores it’s 50% for me, 30% for the honey and 20% for the boys. I do most of the cleaning outside of the kitchen and bathroom…I have 2 boys in the house that split the bathroom work (we all know why they’re cleaning it and not me) and the honey does all the cooking and kitchen clean up..yes I think I’m pretty lucky!!

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  46. ‘Go Girl Crazy’ !!

    HALLELUJAH !!!

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  47. 2 states for driver’s license (TX and IL). Yeah, I am boring. Since we are military I did not have to get a Georgia license for the year we were there.

    Housework 85% me, 15% Wally. And I dare him to disagree!

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  48. MI, CO, MI again 5 years later (same license # even though re-issued), CA, TN and TX for now….

    Chore division in my house is 95/5, which may help push the divorce rate a little higher pretty soon.

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  49. @ Jason and Blake… I was going to echo Erica on that… Poppa Rollo’s is there and they still make damn good pizza. When my niece has her birthday parties there I like to slip through the phone door and get away from all the screaming kids.

    1 License… although it’s been taken away a couple times. I don’t do chores very well… if I wasn’t such a cheap ass I’d have a maid. That reminds me… my lawn is beginning to look a lot like ‘Nam… I need to go fire up the mower. Speaking of which, I have owned my house for 1 year tomorrow and I have only had to fill up my mower gas can 1 time. How sweet is that?

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  50. I’m a single dad to a 23 y/o daughter, so I have to claim 80% me, 20% her. Although she has taken on cooking dinner most days, she is kind of a slob. I dare not even look into her room most times. The sad part is that she will clean things if I write them on our little task board, but I usually forget to do that. Heaven forbid she take it upon herself to clean something without a note. While I’m not one to dust or vaccume frequently, I do try to keep the clutter at bay.

    Have only been licensed in two states – WV & FL

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  51. 3 licenses, Michigan, Florida, then back to Michigan. House work is 90% wife and 10% me. I pay for it with nagging and lack of sex…

    Adam, Is your lawn the size of a welcome mat? I use between eight and twelve dollars week for gas to cut my yard. 4 acres of grass with on acre of woods.

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  52. My lot is a half acre but most of that is taken up by 2000 sq foot of driveway, the house, the deck, and forest. I can mow and trim my lawn in about 40 minutes with a push mower. It looks like a big lawn but when you realize the only thing out back is a forest, canyon, and river it makes it a awesome… low maintenance is 25% of the reason I bought the place. Stealing from old people is the other 75%.

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  53. 3 state licenses – WV, Cleveland and Eurasia.

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  54. @ Pickles the Clown – At least you have some hope, I wouldn’t mind a little nagging, dog fur does not move itself from the carpets although I have been looking at getting a Roomba but I’m afraid Ginger will think it’s a motorized floor frisbee. I’ll damned if I hire a housekeeper. I have to much work (music production stuff) that has to be kept on the DL. Artists don’t like their stuff leaking out before release.

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  55. Licensed in WV only.

    As far as chores, I’d say it is 75% me and 25% my wife. But seeing as how I got laid off and haven’t found a job yet, I don’t have a problem with that.

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  56. @Strangeart- I hear ya. We both work full time. He goes to school full time but has been off all summer. WTF?!?!

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  57. I ‘mow’ once a year. I knock down my thirteen acers (small tractor with a big drag along blade thing), and I let the snow do the rest . See ya later bye ! I don’t like knocking it down too far beacuse the deer and elk like the safety. I know.. I live in a different world…but it’s the one I’m in!

    Ohio
    Nevada
    New Mexico

    I’m in the nitwits protection program and get let off for stupid shit all the time.!

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  58. I’m a stay at home mom, so I’ll say 85% me, 15% him. He does rinse the dishes and load the dishwasher after dinner (he’s better at loading it to capacity than me), he changes light bulbs, takes out the trash and does all the yardwork. Oh, and he also does all the heavy lifting! He’s good about helping out in other areas as well, but I do the majority of the day to day chores.

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  59. FL
    NC
    GA
    MD
    MO
    WA
    UT

    I count that as being licensed in seven states. Wow! This should be reported on CNN because it is just so damn interesting. Will someone please alert the media?

    And how exactly am I supposed to calculate the breakdown of household chores in percentages? By devising some elaborate spreadsheet with all of the chores listed and expected times for completion? Give me a couple of days and I should be able to give you my results to within a couple of significant digits. This is what you and Toney speak about over beers?

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  60. Pre-stroke, mr. kenju did about 20% of the chores. Post-stroke, it’s more like 5%. Could be worse.

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  61. @Tyrosine
    First one to mention delegating household chores to the offspring! Our teens do 80% of the work around the house
    (dishes/garbage/vacuuming/sweeping/lawn)
    Since we both work full time AND THEY NEED TO LEARN this stuff for THEIR houses.

    Oh Jeff! Just wait until the oldest secret is old enough to cut the lawn! Three steps: Observe, discuss, do!
    Is he 12 yet? Seriously.

    My Duties:
    Laundry, killing spiders/catch&release lizards, fixing what needs to be fixed, bathroom cleaning.
    About once a month I will detail the whole house to my specifications.
    My D loves to cook so he does most of the cooking.

    Licenses in OH and GA only.
    Never knew there was an international license.
    Interesting in the UK there is one for stick and one for automatic.

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  62. 100% of all household chores are done by the Female Head of the Household.

    100% of all the Money earned is earned by the Male Head of the Household.

    And that’s the way I like it.

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  63. Me…Car maintainance… oil changes, belts. batteries, tire air pressure…ect. Maintain thirteen acres. Raccoon, skunk and bear control. And she helps. I do lots of outdoor stuff and I run a business that lends itself to assholes. I’ve avoided actually shooting someone.

    Her…Food, laundry/ clothing, cleanliness, calming the storm, biz bookwork. Birthday cards, throwing out old lettuce. All the other stuff. And I join in somewhat. She’s amazing.

    We both help each other in a little bit of each.
    So I guess we’re 90/10 on both fronts there.

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  64. Licensed in Mass., NY, DC and Virginia, plus international. Legality aside: if you don’t know how to drive a stick shift, you don’t know how to drive. In my opinion, of course.

    I have no idea what the percent chore breakdown is, but most of it remains undone unless people are coming over.

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  65. You should check out some of the funny early 90s Boddington’s TV ads,. Here’s one:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQfXkK1FD3s

    Naff beer though.

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  66. @ CitizenX,

    So true. My wife can’t do laundry because her mother considered chores to be abuse so she never had the opportunity to learn. The only reason she can sew and cook is because she took home econimics in high school.

    A few weeks ago I posted a comment here ranting about basic skills. It seems that Popular Mechanics agrees with me:
    http://www.popularmechanics.com/home_journal/how_to/4284709.html?page=1

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  67. Nice Link Tyrosine
    .. but I disagree on the title
    100 Skills Every Man Should Know

    Attention Women:
    Whenever you see a title with such a narrow message-
    master the gender specific list!
    Take it as a challenge..

    Chores=abuse?
    I don’t know what to say about that momma of hers.
    Yay to Home Ec though.
    Schools are cutting Home Ec (among other things)
    out of their budgets. Sad.

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  68. 2 states
    Arizona and PA
    All my housework is done by me. My cat refuses to do any housework. Bitch!

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  69. Jeff, next time at Cooper’s ask for Charlie. He usually works the bar you’ve described. He’ll take care of you. Knowledgeable and very efficient and very cool. Knows his beers and isn’t above throwing you a few on the house. Downside is he’s a huge Dave Matthews fan.

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  70. @ CitizenX,

    I agree the title should be amended, but Pop Mech is a fairly testerone heavy publication. I consider it a victory that they included ironing a shirt on the list without saying “give it to your wife, it’s her job”.

    We call my mother in law “The Shmoo”. She considers it a term of endearment, but it’s not.

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  71. Awwww….Gleep juice!

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  72. Stop babying those secrets and have them do more of the chores. What is this 1955?

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  73. I wasn’t going to chime in about that 100 things for guys to know… but please…I thought they knew this stuff by 8th grade. I’m not playing macho man over here but really? That crap is second rate merit badge stuff.

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  74. Not the venue I know but……….

    Holy crap in a bundt pan Jeff, that special email posting of the Angry White Guy letters was awesome!!! Please, please do a retrospective of all of the Angry White Guy postings. Those early postings about his restuarant jobs were absolutely outstanding and often had me laughing in tears! You know what would be great, is to have some new postings by him as well as from Meeten (I apologize for the spelling) and from the “Tales from the Holler Guy.”

    Thanks Jeff for all that you do, seriously, you make the day more tolerable and I appreciate the break from seriousness and reality my friend!

    Chuck, Salem, OR.

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  75. Licensed in MA, IL, CA and NC.

    Chores: the wife and I agree its 50/50, with some help from the boys now and then.

    Not bad for a couple of slouches.

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  76. The Gargoyle Letters
    Set the stage (for me) on AWG.

    Hilarity indeedy.
    Nice repost, Jeff!

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  77. Oh, I could so spend an afternoon, or weekend or a month with you and Toney at that kind of beer snob place.

    SOunds like fun.

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  78. 70% me, 5% each of the 2 kids, 1% the husband. You can see there’s a gap there.

    I’ve had licenses in PA, NY and CT.

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  79. The chores around here are classified as “inside” or “outside”. I do the inside stuff, the boyfriend does the outside stuff. I am not fond of any type of gardening, grass cutting, etc… Believe it or not, because my huge fear of spiders. If it needs mowed, picked, planted, weeded, watered, pruned, weed-wacked, or cut back, I am as far away as possible. F**k that s**t.

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  80. Jeff ultimately has my blessing to post all previous early stuff, if he still has them saved on a disk. I had asked him to have them removed due to several legal and personal issues, as well as a plan to put them in book form. That fell through and all the issues are resolved.

    DId you know- Eli Manning is getting overpaid?

    On IPOD right now- “Jesus of Suburbia”- Green Day

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  81. Drivers License in three states. West Virginia, North Carolina & Pennsylvania.

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  82. Did you know I – the Gargoyle Lettters are one of the reasons I first visited the WVSR?

    Did you know II – NFL players can’t get overpaid because they generate large amounts of income which, incidentally, comes from idiots like myself.

    On the IPOD right now – nothing, because I don’t have an IPOD. Or an I-anything.

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  83. @AngryWhiteGuy

    Thanks, Chris. The stories were awesomely entertaining, even if some parts made me a bit uncomfortable [?].

    It’s hard to explain. A lot of the frankness really made me cringe (but in a good way?), and I couldn’t stop reading.

    I hope you don’t mind my saying, but it was kind of like walking downtown every single day to watch a 60 story building get blown up. Simply fascinating, and funny, in a sort of dark way – like if Tim Burton were to direct a “Tasmanian Devil” movie, or something.

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  84. Where do I go to read AWG’s stuff? How am I missing this? Oh, and I don’t care how much they pay Eli, but they should pay Peyton more.

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  85. I hear that! Peyton will retire as the greatest QB ever. And will break all of Brett Favre’s records, except the most career interceptions one. Eli isn’t even in the top ten QBs in the league and now gets paid more than anyone. I guess since it’s NY, they can afford to do so. Colts rule!

    Maybe Jeff can put all the old stuff I did on one “best of” page or something. If you ask him nicely.

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  86. @AWG: So what happened after the fourth letter? Inquiring minds want to know!

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  87. @AWG: I need you to write a “nastygram” letter to the dirtbag/deadbeat tennants I have in my house to pay up or GTF out!!! Your letters get the point across better than I ever could do!

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  88. Maybe he can release the stories in a limited time edition. I think the material could make a good book and I’m sure that there are more subplots to fattten it up.

    Question. Has Mrs. AWG read any of the material?

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  89. Chris, I’d like to once again hear the old stories from the Bob Evans days. The storm sewer adventure, getting rolled up in a fence along Rt. 60. Hilarious, at least for me it was.

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  90. Gretchen, soon after the fourth letter, we ended up moving back to Hell, AKA Sarasota, Florida. I now have no troubles with the blind senior citizens in my ‘hood with the Gargoyle proudly on display.

    Garrett, Mrs. AWG was alerted to the material by a concerned friend who stumbled upon it. Although, pissed off at first, she decided that it was a good thing for me to get all out in the open, as part of my 12- step rehab and it ended up all OK.

    Bill, your memory is astounding, albeit, your older bro was familiar with many of these situations, I am sure it is not something yhe two of you discuss on a regular basis. I cannot believe you have such total recall of stories posted years ago like that.

    Bikerchick- put it all in your own words, with no editing. You will get the point across. Just lay it on the line.

    Did you know- The Green Day concert I went to Monday night with my 12 year old ranked in the top 5 of all concerts I have been to, which numbers over 350. It was a day that I wish I could live all over again. Trip to the Dali Museum in St. Pete, followed by the show. I left there happier than I have been in a few years.

    On IPOD right now- “Sell Out”- Reel Big Fish

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  91. The Gargoyle Letters are what brought me to the Surf Report 5 (?!) years ago! God those were great… And it’s also my recruiting tool when I come across a like-minded future Surf Reporter.

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  92. I’ve been sitting in my doctor’s office for 30 minutes with my pants off and nothing to do but read comments via iPhone… I wish my doctor would get his ass in here so I can cover mine back up.

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  93. @ Adam,

    While you’re there look in the cupboards for free drug samples. If you happen to find a speculum you should move that to the freezer.

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  94. Licenses (if anyone cares) VA, FL, CT, and NC. Pretty much have the east coast covered.

    Chores: 50-50, or quite possibly up to 70-30 with Biff doing most. Such a nice boy.

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  95. Licenses (if anyone cares) VA, FL, CT, and NC. Pretty much have the east coast covered.

    Chores: let’s just say that now thath the THings are teens and I have a shiny new husband who is a home remodeller AND laundry-holic, my life has improved dramatically. More time too on my dimpled butt and wonderwhy Facebook won’t let me play Bejeweled Blitz!

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  96. Why do they always say, “Hmmm… I don’t know what that is, let me prescribe this cream.” No drugs Tyrosine :-(

    Apparently the nurse blood pressure is high, so I went and picked up some Bush’s fried chicken and a sweet tea. If I have cogestjve heart failure at 28 they’re going to put me in medical books!

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  97. Evidently updating while getting drive through chicken makes me leave out words.

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  98. Facebook had a “degraded site experience” this morning, but they claim everything is up and running.

    Twitter experienced a Denial of Service hack this morning from 9:30 to 11:30. The latest is that they are still under attack, but they’re working on it.

    Source: Headline News Network (HLN)

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  99. Wow, I have to think. Um, in order:
    PA, IN, UT, IN again, UT again, CA, VA, KY, IN for the third time, still have that one plus Philippines. So 10 in all, 7 different places.

    We have a maid, so most of the housework gets done while we sit on our fat asses. The stuff that doesn’t get done, I probably do 80%, and my wife would be happy to vouch for that, since most of it involves cleaning up after the cat.

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  100. OK…so I’m STILL waiting for you to come visit me AWG!

    AND…I clean EVERYTHING IN MY HOUSE!

    That is why I drink and feel homicidal.

    THE GODDESS HAS SPOKEN!

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  101. I’m officially jonesing for my big ole topic dump, dammit.

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  102. I don’t get to the resort town of Dunbar very often, tammie, but when I do, I will surprise you by knocking on your front door and cleaning your house for you (just for giving us “Captain Kirk and His Dick of Death” alone.

    Hey, it’s quittin’ time!!!!!!! Fuck yeah!!!!

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  103. Aaaahhh, I finally figured out where the AWG letters are. The ones everyone is talking about, but I couldn’t find. For the first time in a very long time I felt like I wasn’t part of the cool kid crowd. Oh, but I am. Yes, I am. Oh, and I too was drawn into thewvsr buy these letters. They are AWESOME!

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  104. That would be BY these letters, not BUY these letters.

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  105. Good Afternoon Surf Reporters……

    just stopping by to see if I could catch sight of the ultra exclusive elusive weekend update. No such chowder.

    Turning the corner on my after work festivities, 6 pack down, maybe a few more to go.

    Yeah right.

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