AnorexicGator

What do they expect him to look like 29 years later? :dunno:

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Researchers say they have found the world's oldest brewery, with residue of 13,000-year-old beer, in a prehistoric cave near Haifa in Israel.

The discovery was made while they were studying a burial site for semi-nomadic hunter-gatherers.

Brewing beer was thought to go back 5,000 years, but the latest discovery may turn beer history on its head.

The findings also suggest beer was not necessarily a side product of making bread as previously thought.

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The researchers say they cannot tell which came first, and in October's issue of the Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, they suggest the beer was brewed for ritual feasts to honour the dead.
"This accounts for the oldest record of man-made alcohol in the world," Li Liu, a Stanford University professor who led the research team, told Stanford News.

- Oldest evidence of bread discovered
- Cheese discovered in Ancient Egypt tomb
- Prehistoric Europeans spiced food

Ms Liu said they were looking for clues into what plant foods the Natufian people - who lived between the Paleolithic and Neolithic periods - were eating, and during the search they discovered the traces of a wheat-and-barley-based alcohol.

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The traces analysed were found in stone mortars - up to 60cm (24in) deep - carved into the cave floor, used for storing, pounding and cooking different species of plants, including oats, legumes and bast fibres, such as flax.
The ancient brew, which was more porridge or gruel-like, is thought to have looked quite unlike what we know as beer today.

The research team has managed to recreate the ancient brew to compare it with the residue they found.

This involved first germinating the grain to produce malt, then heating the mash and fermenting it with wild yeast, the study said.

The ancient booze was fermented but probably weaker than modern beer.

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You say that until you start cooking your own meals, cleaning the house, washing your clothes, and keeping the yard clean. Plus being alone every night.

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I do most of that already :lol: I do see your point.

A good friend of mine lost his wife of 29 years to cancer several months ago and he's about to do it all over again with a woman around his age (59) that he met through other friends. I'm happy that he found someone and I wish him all the best of luck, but if it were me, I wouldn't do it again. Next week, I'll be celebrating my 28th anniversary and it has been a good run, but there was a lot of work put in by both of us to make it a good run.
God forbid for anything to happen to my wife, I just don't think I have the energy or patience for another commitment. I think I'd live the remaining of my days out as a bachelor.

What say OT?

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2) There is no system of high pressure pushing the storm into the US, which lends more credence to the notion that it's being steered artificially

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I had just walked into the office and everyone was in the break room watching the news on a TV mounted to the wall. I just stood there watching, I guess the shock of it didn't fully register until later.

Never heard of him.

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That's a good one except that it has nothing to do with "chances". The idiom is "Busier than a one legged man..."

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That was told to me back in HS when I attempted to beat a big baws arse :lol:

colder than a well-diggers arse (cold weather).