99 bottles of beer on the wall, 99 bottles of beer...

[Bossy Monkey]

(I want to start a thread that dies after 99 posts.)

[Name removed]

1. Deleted message

Message removed by moderator. Click here to review the message board rules.

[bigwillq]

2. 97 bottles of beer on the wall, 97 bottles of beer...

[HopeHoops]

3. 96 bottles of beer on the wall, 96 bottles of beer...

[LynneSin]

4. 95 bottles of beer on the wall, 95 bottles of beer...

[HappyMe]

5. 94 bottle of beer on the wall, 94 bottles of beer...

[charlie and algernon]

6. 93 bottles of beer on the wall, 93 bottles of beer ...

[snacker]

7. 92 bottles of beer on the wall, 92 bottles of beer...

[Bossy Monkey]

8. I'd LOVE to know what the deleted message was...

though given its positioning, I have a shrewd guess how it started.:)

[MiddleFingerMom]

10. My theory? graywarrior saying something insensitive about "99 bottles of Warm Duck on the wall".

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[freshwest]

11. 91 bottles of beer on the wall... And counting... What about the ants coming marching two by two...

And the deletion... That is rather odd.

Someone with pain related to alcoholism, as it happens...

[Bossy Monkey]

13. They have my apologies. Having considerable pain related to alcoholism myself,

I can certainly relate. But it's a song sung by little kids who've by and large never tasted alcohol. The connection would have never occurred to me.

[freshwest]

14. Me, too. I always associated the song with beer gardens. They have a nice atmosphere, the ones I've

Visited, anyway. And their focus is on the food, not getting stupefied. No idea where these songs came from. The beer song along with the ant song seemed to be about learning to count down wards.

As far as the drinking goes, I never got into it regularly, had bad feelings about from knowing it had destroyed my family; perhaps a lack of ability to love destroyed them, as I know some families that have survived the insanity. But it left gaping holes in my life and took the minds and health and lives of people I have loved.

When I did partake the luxury, it was when I was either angry or depressed. Since I have a high tolerance for alcohol, from prenatal exposure or genetics, I guess, it required a lot of whiskey, consumed quickly to get the effect, which was actually self-medicating.

I soon realized a logical fallacy in my intended 'drinking career.' Obviously, I was having an emotional or life problem that I didn't want to face, or didn't have the patience or skills to work out. Another element was fear of failing and fear of succeeding, going into unknown territory. I considered why I would be willfully sabotaging my own life. Consuming the alcohol had no effect on the cause of my distress, only put off my work to solve it.

For about six months, I went about deliberately drinking as a social outlet, even going to a certain bar on Sunday. That gave me pause, as the little angel or devil on my shoulder, take your pick, warned me that was something 'alcoholics' did. Although I did my heaviest and actually dangerous amounts of drinking alone.

I knew if I continued down that road, I would develop a second problem without solving the first problem that led me to drink to escape it. I dropped drinking altogether and got involved with more constructive things. I'm not saying that works for everyone.

I thought the thread was going to make it to 99... It may still do so...

:hi:

[Evasporque]

9. No bottles of beer on the wall, No bottles of beer.....

I win.

[GoCubsGo]

12. Went to the store. Bought one more....

A hundred bottles of beer on the wall.

Must re-stock.