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    HUUUUGE don't... It is considered very very very very impolite to drink from a horn with the curve going up that way. It is supposed to curve downwards.

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    There goes the good-to-the-last-drop drinking style shown in all the Hollywood epic movies.

    Arlen, I'm just curious, from where did that rule emerge?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Galician View Post
    There goes the good-to-the-last-drop drinking style shown in all the Hollywood epic movies.

    Arlen, I'm just curious, from where did that rule emerge?
    I'm not sure of the exact reasons behind it, but it was a Norse/Viking tradition. The sort of 'In Japan it's REALLY rude to leave any food on your plate' cultural kinda thing.
    One of my old teachers specialized in Highland and Norse customs and had his own drinking horn that a friend gave him. So he waxed lyrical about it a lot and I ended up doing some reading to back it up because I thought he was talking nonsense.

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    I'm puttin' the blame on Errol Flynn and that damn Robin Hood flick.

    I'm thinking that that was what put the idea into some of these folkses' haids that it was a real good time to hang out in the woods with a bunch of guys (and no wimmen) and drink out of a horn while wearing skins and homespun and a lot of cutlery.

    "Men with drinking horns and the wimmen who love them...next on Jerry Springer."

    I just hope that those red-headed people (and I speak from personal experience here) have enough SPF 100 sun screen on.

    Greg, weren't they at the Chicago Games last year...that big-*** hammer looks familiar.

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