[Elfsea] [Elfsea]]Gunthar's ode to Shiner Beer

[Tessa Nieto]

can't say that I blame him, Pyro. ;O)

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--- Betsy Marshall <betsy at softwareinnovation.com>
wrote:
> not acclimating too well, is he?
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: elfsea-admin at ansteorra.org
> [mailto:elfsea-admin at ansteorra.org]On
> Behalf Of Tessa Nieto
> Sent: Thursday, July 04, 2002 1:13 PM
> To: ansteorra at ansteorra.org; elfsea at ansteorra.org
> Subject: [Elfsea] Fwd: Re: [aten]Guntar's ode to
> Shiner Beer
>
>
> I thought y'all would get a kick out of this. This
> was
> posted after a long discussion on whether Shiner can
> be found here. Someone needs to send this to the
> Spaetzel Brewery and get this fine man a lifetime
> supply of Shiner!
>
> --- Michael Gunter <countgunthar at hotmail.com> wrote:
> > To: atenveldt at yahoogroups.com
> > From: "Michael Gunter" <countgunthar at hotmail.com>
> > Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2002 11:03:42 -0500
> > Subject: Re: [aten] Shiner Beer
> >
> >
> > >Hmmmm.. I'm hoping that's the 12 steps for
> getting
> > off of Shiner,otherwise it's the eye gouged out
> leading the blind :)
> >
> > >Grim Shieldsson (James A Barrows)
> >
> Now why on Earth would I want to do a 12-step
> program
> to get off the nectar of the gods themselves?
> Considering that the Spaetzel Brewery (hallowed be
> thy
> vats) is a short distance from San Antonio, it is
> believed that the Battle of the Alamo was fought for
> the brewery. But religious and political pundits of
> the time felt that going to war with Mexico over a
> brewery (these were Yankees talking here and
> obviously
> had never been deemed worthy of partaking of the
> true
> Water of Texan Might) so they changed the legend to
> the defense of a mission.
>
> Nay, poor philistine, to be removed from the glory
> of
> Shiners to lose sight of Texas heaven. The
> tumbleweeds
> lose the art of rolling, the cacti dim in their
> green
> beauty, and the song of cattle begins to sound like
> simple mooing without the glamour created by that
> wholesome nectar.
>
> No more Shiner? Why, drain the very blood from my
> veins! Soon I'll be wearing shirt with the sleeved
> rolled halfway up my forearms and wear white socks
> and
> no belt with my jeans. I'll find beauty in te
> moonrocks surrounding Phoenix and think theGrand
> Canyon is more than A Really Big Hole. I'll no
> longer
> be a breathing Texan and start becomming a <gasp
> aargh! Arizonan!
>
>  Yers,
>
>  Gunthar
>  (I need a beer....)
> >
> >
>
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