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The dreaded lurgy has surfaced ... you can feel its presence as it slowly starts to infest your body ... infiltrating and breaching your defenses ... bashing down the door to your immune system ... but wait there's help coming ... there is a magic cure ... its ... aaaarr ... its ... aaarr ... uuuh ... cough cough splatter ... ... ...


Fresh lemon or lime juice and rum ... don't be scared of the rum ... one third lemon juice ... one third rum ... and one third soda or rum ... ad more rum to taste.
One ... two or ten glasses usually does the trick.

Just heading down the road to get the rum.

Just add garlic & ginger and it is a magic cure loose he rum - the booze kills the good stuff, then have a rum & coke later

AB ... you're missing the point ... the rum my good man ... the rum.
Old Crazy is a big fan of the cane cutters cordial ... yo ho ho and all that.
Although the cure can have a few minor side effects ...

A nice recreational drink ... bye the bye ... rum dry and lime ... crush some fresh lime into the bottom of a glass with a muddler ... add some rum, ice and dry ginger ... apply liberally to the liver ... repeat to taste ... mmm.

Womble, may I recommend using a higher quality rum and losing the lime and soda altogether. Also goes well with a nice cigar.

Womble old son you are preaching to the converted, rum or rhum is my addiction. Also i find that lime goes much better with rum in summer in tropical parts. I've been sarmpling a few from thar caribe laytly, som veery fiine ehxarmples mon 50% JM Rhum, 8 year old Appleton Estate mmmmmm
If you're heading down to Coffs we'll have to share a bottle, just to keep warm of course.

I guess Womble wasn't far of the mark . I remember years ago they were talking on the radio about the lurgy . They asked doctors what they did when they felt it coming on . Many replied cuddle up to a bottle (rum gin vodka , maybe all of them) and once your blotto , of to bed and sweat it out . Your gunna feel like s*it in the morning anyway , so why not give it a go .
Why would you want to ruin the taste with lime or lemon ?

Hands off the Bundy boys....sall mine...hic.....but listen 'ere me ole buddies......don't fr//gen tell every1 ....otherwise I'll have to bring me own supplies up from down south...an I didn wan to bring the trailer up....
Cheers boys....lookin forward to seein yall at Coffs in a coupla weeks...by the way you're all under 50 aintcha...not in my age group I hope...don't need more competition than I got already...bloody Parkesy'll be a vet next year....sheesh.... ....pre-pubescent vets got no respec..for us more mature types anymore.
If any of you are at Coffs early give me a bell and we'll snaffle a wave somewhere (got my own board this time)

Cheers Wolruss

KenM wrote:Womble, may I recommend using a higher quality rum and losing the lime and soda altogether. Also goes well with a nice cigar.

What say a Mount Gay Extra Old ... a very fine Barbados rum ... would that suffice ... probably.

Drinking high quality spirits ... should be done properly ... either neat ... with ice or a dash of chilled water ... on this I agree Kenny old son ... but when one is out on the town and the beers get boring ... break out the rum, dry and lime ... Old Crazy knows best ... after all he does have a doctorate in drunken debauchery.

The rum and lemon juice on the other hand is a cure for the dreaded lurgy ... and is taken for medicinal purposes ... please see your doctor (or liquor store) if pain persists.

AB and Wolruss ... more than happy to share a bottle in the name of research ... and the betterment of mankind.

Womble, i've drunk a fair bit of Mt Gay, but sadly not the aged, although i'd like to [ hint hint ] I always fide myself going back to Bundy though, might have something to do with running out of the other. Last time i was in Vanuatu 1.125l bottles of Bundy $ 16 ea now i know your gunna hate me.AB

Womble, I'm with you all the way but what the heck is lurgy anyway?

The Lurgy is a ficticious malady invented in old England.

Seems like it spread rapidly overseas to infect those poor old Aussie
bastards.

Here in Gods Country, America the Beautiful, the proper treatment
is regular dosages of fine corn whiskey.

It can also be partially cured by massive quantities of Coors Light.

Thanks Scott. Seems I had it and didn't even know I had it. Off to cure it now.

keep the fluids up me mum always said - my old man died an alcoholic, but he never got sick. I think there's something there for everyone

I was diagnosed with chronic lurgy, shortly after hiring on at Budweiser in the late 70s. Luckily I was working at the medicine chest
I usually feel an attack coming on about 3:30 pm. most days. Just after rolling up my tools I begin taking my medication. 1-12 usually does the trick


PS. I would have posted this on the " What's Funny " thread, but Waka and Feral Mick have another page to themselves

Not sure about this rum and beer thing, but in this former colony, the summer drink of choice in steamy Mid-Atlantic climes is gin. Although Bombay Sapphire is certainly quite adequate, Tanqueray Rangpur Lime, kept in the freezer, usually suffices to cure ANYTHING that ails you for a few hours