Steve Skojec

OK, Oprah Moment Is Over

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• Mark Scott Abeln says:

  July 22, 2008 at 11:19 pm

  So what is your favorite load for hunting whitetail deer? Is your pickup truck a Ford or GM? You still going to drink Bud now that foreigners bought the company?

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• Steve Skojec says:

  July 22, 2008 at 11:22 pm

  Um, hate to admit it but I’ve never gone hunting (add it to the list of manly things I need to learn). If I had a pickup, it’d be a GM. And the only chance in hell you’d ever catch me drinking a Bud is because it’s now owned by the Belgians.

  Anecdotally, the guy in charge of residence life when I was at Steubenville was a notorious a-hole. As luck would have it, he wound up in Austria for some reason the same semester I was there.

  As much as I despised him, I once overheard him trying to explain Belgian beer to someone who had never had it:

  “Let me put it this way,” He said. “If Christ had come as a beer, he would have come as Chimay.”

  He earned funny points with me that day, and funnier still because it may just be true.

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• Mark Scott Abeln says:

  July 22, 2008 at 11:46 pm

  I gave you an out and you didn’t take it…..!

  Actually, I like Belgian beer very much, but my truck is still a GM.

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• ben says:

  July 23, 2008 at 11:33 am

  Nothing says MAN so much as my huge red 15-passenger Ford van.

  Chimay, and Trappist ales in general are one of the finer things in creation. However, ale just as excellent has been crafted in my basement. Americans can brew great ales, it is all a matter of entrusting the project to the right saint. Sts. Wenceslaus, Odo, Nicholas and Francis di Paola are good ones to pray to while making beer.

  Bud will never be any good until they realize that rice just doesn’t belong in beer—EVER.

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• Hilary says:

  July 23, 2008 at 11:46 am

  I’ve often thought that once I am FINALLY put in charge, the entire “country” of “Belgium” is going to be re-aligned to making two export products: Beer and chocolate.

  The Trappists who make Chimay will, of course, be put in charge of the former product for the entire country. Mass in the True Rite will be offered daily in the beer manufactories.

  When I worked in the pro-liferist office in downtown Toronto, I used to drag myself back to my unbelievably expensive apartment at the end of every interminable day with two bottles of Chimay, one under each arm which I would purchase in the Socialist liquor store adjacent the subway stop. In season, I would also stop at the poncey yuppie greengrocer and buy six or seven mangos.

  The Chimay and Mango dinner was what kept me from going mad in the first year I worked downtown.

  Then I started blogging and it all went downhill.

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• Dale Price says:

  July 23, 2008 at 11:59 am

  “So what is your favorite load for hunting whitetail deer?”

  Oh, I’ll take a flyer at that one: Either 12 ga., alternating 3″ slugs with buckshot, or .30-30. Actually, the only deer I bagged was with the latter, but I love my shotguns.

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• Mark Scott Abeln says:

  July 24, 2008 at 3:37 am

  My preference is .30′06 but .30-30 works well, too. In highly-regulated and micromanaged Illinois, right across the river, deer may only be taken by shotgun slugs.

  In defense of Anheuser-Busch, historically it was the most prominent employer in Saint Louis that would hire Catholics. Nowadays, I would guess that they would not hire Catholics, for that is probably a hate crime according to its new Belgian overlords.

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• Hilary says:

  July 24, 2008 at 11:27 am

  ain’t nothin like a Canadian military issue FNC1A1 like what I got to fire in cadets.

  Take the top o’ that moose’s head RIGHT off.

  woo!

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• Steve Skojec says:

  July 24, 2008 at 11:31 am

  The finest gun I’ve ever fired was an AR-15. It was scoped, and at a distance where I could hardly have seen the target with the naked eye, I bull’s-eyed it on the first shot.

  Loud as hell, but smooth as butter. Not much kick either, as I recall.

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AR-15

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