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DAPA Newsletter 19th Edition “St. Patrick’s Edition!” 01 MAR 2011
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St. Patrick 1
Beer Labels 1
Potential MDPV Ban 2
Joke / The Funny 3
Drunk Quiz 3
Local info 5
Local info 6
Inside this issue:
Beer Warning Labels:
WARNING
The consumption of alco-
hol may cause you to
think you are peeing
standing up, when you are
face down!
Note from the
Editor
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***Time to move on! ***
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take over the creation, publica-
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ADCO with interest in taking
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B orn as Maewyn Succat, between 373 and 390, St. Patrick is the pa-tron saint of Ireland. St. Patrick was the son of Calpurnius, a Roman-British army officer. He was growing up as naturally as other kids in Britain. However, one day a band of pirates landed in south Wales and kidnapped him along with many others. Then they sold him into slavery in Ireland. He was there for 6 years, mostly imprisoned. While impris-oned he dreamed of having seen God. Legend says, he was then directed by God to escape. Finally, he did escape and went to Britain and then to France. There he joined a monastery and studied under St. Germain, the bishop of Au-xerre, where he spent 12 years in training. He became a bishop and soon he dreamed that the Irish were calling him back to Ireland. So he set out for Ireland with the Pope's blessings. There he converted the Gaelic Irish to Christianity. It is said that he used the three-leafed shamrock to ex-plain the concept of the Trinity.
For over a thousand years, on the 17th of March, the Irish have ob-
served lent. Lenten prohibitions against the consump-tion of meat were waived and people would dance, drink and feast. Irish families would traditionally at-tend church in the morning and celebrate in the after-noon. So…..
How did we go from this?
To this?
Today St. Patrick’s day is an excuse to binge drink vice a time to celebrate with community and family.
History of St. Patrick
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– Mon Jan 31, 11:45 am ET
NEW YORK (Reuters)
– Two drugs that pro-
duce a "meth-like" high
and are being sold under
the guise of "bath salts"
would be banned as fed-
erally controlled sub-
stances under a bill un-
veiled by U.S. Senator
Charles Schumer of
New York.
"These so-called bath
salts contain ingredients
that are nothing more
than legally sanctioned
narcotics, and they are
being sold cheaply to all
comers, with no ques-
tions asked, at store
counters around the
country," said Schumer,
a Democrat.
Schumer said he will in-
troduce a bill to outlaw the
two synthetic drugs --
mephedrone and meth-
ylenedioxypyrovalerone,
or MDPV. The drugs
come in powder and tablet
form and are ingested by
snorting, injection, smok-
ing and, less often, by use
of an atomizer.
Users experience an in-
tense high, euphoria, ex-
treme energy, hallucina-
tions, insomnia and are
easily provoked to anger,
according to the Drug En-
forcement Administration,
which is currently investi-
gating the drugs.
They have emerged as le-
gal alternatives to cocaine
and methamphetamines,
and one or both have al-
ready been banned in the
European Union, Austral-
ia, Canada, and Israel. In
the United States, Florida,
Louisiana and North Da-
kota have all recently
banned the substances.
"The longer we wait to
ban the substance, the
greater risk we put our
kids in," Schumer said.
Media reports over the
last year describe the
drugs as becoming in-
creasingly popular, par-
ticularly among young
people attending night-
clubs, although the actual
number of individuals
using the drugs is un-
known.
"These products are read-
ily available at conven-
ience stores, discount to-
bacco outlets, gas sta-
tions, pawnshops, tattoo
parlors, truck stops and
other locations," said an
alert issued by the DEA.
"Prices range from $25 to
$50 per 50-milligram
packet," the DEA alert
said.
The European Union
banned mephedrone in
December, saying the
drug was directly linked
to the deaths of two peo-
ple, and may have been
tied to 37 other cases of
death.
The European Union's
report said there was lim-
ited scientific evidence
on the effects of the drug
-- believed to be mostly
manufactured in Asia
before being packaged in
the West -- but that there
was sufficient evidence
of its health risks to sup-
port a ban.
Schumer has also asked
the health commissioner
of New York State, Nirav
Shah, to ban the two sub-
stances. (Reporting by Jonathan Allen;
Editing by Barbara Goldberg
and Jerry Norton)
Senator moves to ban drug
sold as bath salts
METHYLENEDIOXYPYROVALERONE
(MDPV)
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NAVAL HUMOR
A n Irish man walks
into a pub. The
bartender asks
him, “what’ll you have?”
The man says, “Give me three
pints of Guinness please.”
So the bartender brings him
three pints and the man pro-
ceeds to alternately sip one,
then the other, then the third
until they’re gone. He then
orders three more.
The bartender says, “Sir, I
know you like them cold. You
don’t have to order three at a
time. I can keep an eye on it
and when you get low I’ll
bring you a fresh cold one.”
The man says, “You don’t un-
derstand. I have two brothers,
one in Australia and one in
the States. We made a vow to
each other that every Satur-
day night we’d still drink to-
gether. So right now, my
brothers have three Guinness
Stouts too, and we’re drinking
together.
The bartender thought that
was a wonderful tradition.
Every week the man came in
and ordered three beers.
Then one week he came in
and ordered only two.
He drank them and then or-
dered two more.
The bartender said to him, “I
know what your tradition is,
and I’d just like to say that
I’m sorry that one of your
brothers died.”
The man said, “ Oh, me broth-
ers are fine— -I just quit drink-
ing!!!!!”
JOKE
1. You lose arguments with inanimate objects. 2. You have to hold onto
the lawn to keep from falling off the earth. 3. Job interfering with your drinking. 4. Your doctor finds
traces of blood in your alcohol stream.
5. Career won't progress beyond Senator from Massachusetts.
6. The back of your head keeps getting hit by the toilet seat.
7. Sincerely believe alco-hol to be the elusive 5th food group. 8. 24 hours in a day. 24 beers in a case - coinci-
dence? 9. Two hands and just
one mouth... - now THAT'S a drinking prob-lem!
10. You can focus better with one eye closed. 11. The parking lot seems to have moved while you were in the bar.
12. Your twin sons are named Barley and Hops. 13. Hey, 5 beers have
just as many calories as a burger, screw dinner!
14. Mosquitoes catch a buzz after attacking you. 15. At AA meetings you begin: "Hi, my name is...
uh..." 16. Your idea of cutting back is less salt. 17. The whole bar says
'Hi' when you walk in.
18. You think the Four Basic Food Groups are
Caffeine, Nicotine, Alco-
hol, and Women. 19. Every night you're
beginning to find your roommate's cat more and more attractive. 20. Roseanne looks good. 21. Don't recognize wife
unless seen through bot-tom of glass. 22. That stupid pink ele-
phant followed me home again.
23. Senator's Kennedy and Packwood shake their heads when they walk past you. 24."I'm as jober as a
sudge." 25. The shrubbery is drunk from too frequent “watering”.
Signs that YOU
may be drinking
too much!
-QUIZ-
Check all that apply.
Signs; continued…
Score: ____of 25