[Peace-discuss] Sunday 5pm meetings

[Karen Medina]

I can handle that. Their vegetarian sausage is an oxymoron

On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 4:45 PM, C. G. Estabrook <cge at shout.net> wrote:
> Gentles--
>
> As is my wont, I sacrificed myself for the benefit of my AWARE comrades:
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> I had lunch and a drink at the new White Horse Inn, in order to assess its suitability as a venue for AWARE's Sunday meetings - as suggested by Brother Szoke.
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> My report, viz. & to wit:
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> (1) the draft beer selection is extensive but pedestrian (e.g., no IPA); and
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> (2) for some unaccountable reason the menu consists almost exclusively of sausages*.
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> (Is a political spin available from recalling the remark attributed to Bismarck, "Laws, like sausages, cease to inspire respect in proportion as we know how they are made"?)
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> The bartender was so new as not to have worked a Sunday evening - but nevertheless opined that the WHI would not be crowded Sundays at 5pm.
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> There is a slightly removed table in a position that would be down right, were the bar a theatre: it would accommodate our usual Sunday complement.
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> ACTION PROPOSAL: in light of the foregoing I propose AWARE foregather at the White Horse Inn 5pm Sunday 2 September 2012.
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> ADDENDUM: should invention flag Sunday next, I shall offer a dramatic reading of Chesterton's wonderful poem of war and peace, THE BALLAD OF THE WHITE HORSE. (The poem consists of 2,684 lines of English verse in ballad stanza form - cf. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, which in addition I shall prepare, should there be a call for an encore that I can in no wise refuse...)
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>         ATTENDEES: Those alone shall escape this fell fate,
>         Ready to compass the overthrow of the state...
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> Respectfully submitted,
>
> --CGE
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> * I ate Andouille. I am unaware of the fate of Huey and Louie.
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