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Post by flopsy on Aug 16, 2012 12:11:55 GMT -5
Because it is complicated but I promise you if you had one parent with two brown hair genes you will get children with brown hair every timeNo you don't. My parents both have very dark brown hair and my brother is a blond. She didn't comment on the hair color of the parents but one parents carrying 2 of the same dominant gene. So yup
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Post by Wisconsin Beth on Aug 16, 2012 12:15:01 GMT -5
LOL - Well, they still hate the French, so I wonder if they are drinking Australian wines or something. But, of course, they have this: picture of Crown Royal deleted. Do they have a brewery/distillery in the basement, like the White House brews beer for the President? ETA - Beth goes off to google
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Post by midjd on Aug 16, 2012 12:20:00 GMT -5
WHAT?!?!?
In that case, MidJD 2016! Campaign slogan: "I'm just in it for the beer." ;D
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Post by Deleted on Aug 16, 2012 12:20:54 GMT -5
I'd vote for ya! Heck, I'll be your running mate! "A 6 pack in every fridge!"
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Post by thyme4change on Aug 16, 2012 12:25:46 GMT -5
Not if Mitt wins. And, I don't think W utilized that - at least not if his lifestory was true.
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Post by GRG a/k/a goldenrulegirl on Aug 16, 2012 12:31:50 GMT -5
At least the Kennedys are drinkers. I would rather go to a party of Kennedys than have to be hanging with QE. The Queen is known to enjoy a cocktail or two. ;D
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Post by Wisconsin Beth on Aug 16, 2012 12:48:57 GMT -5
LOL - Well, they still hate the French, so I wonder if they are drinking Australian wines or something. But, of course, they have this: picture of Crown Royal deleted. Do they have a brewery/distillery in the basement, like the White House brews beer for the President? ETA - Beth goes off to google The 40 companies holding Royal Warrants to supply beverages include eight champagne houses (Pol Roger irrigated the wedding of Kate and Wills, while a single glass of Moët & Chandon will be offered to guests at tomorrow's picnic), HP Bulmer and GlaxoSmithKline ("suppliers of Lucozade"). 25. Prince Charles apparently retains a taste for the curious liqueur that got him into hot water at school. Shepherd Neame holds his warrant as "Supplier of Cherry Brandy". The Prince favours the brand Grant's Morella while his mother's warrant goes to Cherry Heering. 26. The Queen's favourite, Dubonnet Cocktail, also known as the Zaza, comprises equal quantities Dubonnet and gin poured over ice in a beaker and garnished with lemon peel. Curiously, the brand owner Pernod-Ricard does not hold a Royal Warrant. from www.independent.co.uk/life-style/food-and-drink/features/exclusive-insiders-guide-60-royal-foodie-facts-for-60-years-of-hrh-7804796.html
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Post by Wisconsin Beth on Aug 16, 2012 12:50:15 GMT -5
WHAT?!?!? In that case, MidJD 2016! Campaign slogan: "I'm just in it for the beer." ;D I saw an article yesterday in the Washington Post, that said Obama had a brewery put in the White House. It uses Michelle's honey for something it/they brew. Apparently the President has a beer a day.
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Post by Wisconsin Beth on Aug 16, 2012 12:52:10 GMT -5
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/white-house-installs-brewery-for-obama/2012/08/14/19a72546-e67d-11e1-936a-b801f1abab19_story.htmlObama plays up love of beer to ferment coalition of the swilling By Amy Gardner, Published: August 14 | Updated: Wednesday, August 15, 6:02 PM Dubuque, Iowa — When Michelle Obama asked her husband on Wednesday if he’d eaten a fried Twinkie at the Iowa State Fair, President Obama leaned into the microphone to boast: “Pork chop and beer.” “He’s so pleased with himself,” the first lady shot back, rolling her eyes to the crowd. He sure seemed to be. Across Iowa over the past three days, Obama talked about wind power and drought relief and middle-class taxes. But what he really seemed excited about was beer. He bought a round of beers at the fair. He told coffee shop patrons about one of the latest features at the White House: a home brewery. He spoke longingly of the beer he planned to quaff on the bus at the end of the day. The crowds drank it up. They cheered at every mention, chanting: “Four more beers!” That may be exactly the point. As Obama and his Republican opponent, Mitt Romney, battle for hearts and votes, Romney is trying to show that he shares their values of family, faith and hard work. He talks of marrying his high school sweetheart, supporting his wife through her battle with multiple sclerosis, raising his five boys and enjoying his grandchildren. Obama is taking it a step further by trying to seem an everyman himself. He talks of being raised by a single mom, his late father-in-law’s working-class career, his own family’s financial struggles in their early years. And he talks about beer. There is good reason to presume that beer is a way for Obama to connect with voters. It presents a contrast with Romney, who doesn’t drink (and who was ordering vanilla ice cream in a 1950s-style parlor in Ohio when Obama was buying beers at the fair). Consumer research shows that beer is most popular with the very voters that Obama and Romney are fighting over: middle-America independents. According to Scarborough USA, 35 percent of these voters say they’ve had a beer in the past 30 days, compared with 30 percent of Democrats and 27 percent of Republicans. The numbers are even starker when focused on microbrews, with 45 percent of independents saying they drank one in the past month — and only 25 percent of Democrats and 23 percent of Republicans saying the same. Obama likes microbrews, too — so much so that he bought a beer- making kit (with personal funds) for the White House. The kitchen staff has made three varieties so far: White House Honey Ale, White House Honey Blonde Ale and White House Honey Porter. All are made with honey from Michelle Obama’s kitchen garden. White House officials were quick to point out that to call the beer- making operation a “brewery” would be an exaggeration. That hasn’t stopped Obama from talking about the beer-making enterprise — or sharing it. At a campaign stop Tuesday at a coffee shop in Knoxville, Iowa, he explained the light and dark varieties the White House produces. And when a patron requested a bottle, the president sent a member of his staff out to the campaign bus to get one. So he takes the beer on the road, too. It seems reasonable, in fact, to dub this swing the Iowa Beer Tour. “It was pretty good being back here,” Obama told a revved up crowd in Waterloo late Tuesday, at an outdoor rally along the twilit banks of the Cedar River. “Yesterday I went to the State Fair, and I had a pork chop and a beer. And it was good. Today I just had a beer. I didn’t get the pork chop. But the beer was good, too.” White House press secretary Jay Carney said the White House home brew is “superb.” But he did not divulge more about the brewery, such as who the brewmaster is or exactly when the brewery was set up. “I have exhausted my knowledge of this subject,” Carney told reporters peppering him with questions after Obama had mentioned it. “Usually, when somebody hands me a beer, I don’t ask how it was made. I just drink it.” Political strategists have long applied a “Who would you rather have a beer with?” test to contests as a shorthand for which candidate is more approachable. But it has been awhile since a real beer drinker occupied the Oval Office. George W. Bush had quit drinking by the time he became president, and Bill Clinton was a light drinker at most. Discerning Obama’s true level of passion for beer is difficult, given that all his recent comments and purchases occurred at orchestrated campaign events. Advisers won’t comment on what the president drinks in the privacy of his own home. But they do note that the public references are not new. As far back as 2006, when Obama took one of his first exploratory trips to Iowa, he drank beer for the cameras. He visited countless pubs over the subsequent two years of campaigning. He even presented the prime minister of Ireland with a six-pack of Chicago microbrew. Obama also drank a White House microbrew on the patio outside the Oval Office with Medal of Honor recipient Dakota Meyer. In a less illustrious moment, Obama held a “beer summit” in 2009 — a meeting orchestrated between Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Cambridge, Mass., police Sgt. James Crowley after the two found themselves at the center of a national debate over race in the United States. The dispute arose when Crowley saw Gates breaking into his own home because the front door was jammed and arrested him on charges of disorderly conduct after Gates became agitated. Gates accused Crowley of racism, and Obama said Crowley had acted “stupidly.” At the meeting, Gates drank a Sam Adams Light and Crowley drank a Blue Moon. Obama had a Bud Light, the same beer that White House staffers provided in a cooler on the press bus rumbling across Iowa this week. Most of the beer was left untouched. It was apparently beneath the standards of the beer lovers who cover the president. Philip Rucker and Josh Hicks contributed to this report.
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Post by ontrack on Aug 16, 2012 12:55:21 GMT -5
Because it is complicated but I promise you if you had one parent with two brown hair genes you will get children with brown hair every timeNo you don't. My parents both have very dark brown hair and my brother is a blond. She didn't comment on the hair color of the parents but one parents carrying 2 of the same dominant gene. So yup It's the difference between genotype (actual genes) and phenotype (how they are expressed, i.e. dominant ones masking recessive ones). You don't have darker hair if you have 2 brown hair genes, so you can't go by that.
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Post by thyme4change on Aug 16, 2012 12:55:39 GMT -5
Wow - only 35%?
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Post by milee on Aug 16, 2012 13:21:24 GMT -5
That Washington Post article reminds me of yet another in a long list of reasons I'd be the worst politician ever.
If a member of the press asked me if I were drinking a beer because I liked it or because I was appealing to the beer drinking masses, I'd look at the questioner like s/he was retarded and say something awful but truthful like, "I neither need nor want the votes of anyone dumb enough to choose a candidate based on their choice of beverage. People that dumb shouldn't be voting anyway."
Fail.
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Post by happyhoix on Aug 16, 2012 13:24:10 GMT -5
"Obama had a Bud Light, the same beer that White House staffers provided in a cooler on the press bus rumbling across Iowa this week. Most of the beer was left untouched. It was apparently beneath the standards of the beer lovers who cover the president."
Well, Bud Light is below my standards, too, so I can't say much about that.
There's this awesome microbrewery in our city that creates a fabulous Belgian white, now THAT's a beer.
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Post by thyme4change on Aug 16, 2012 13:24:57 GMT -5
LOL - I'm pretty sure 90% of what I have said here would keep me from becoming an elected officer in just about any capacity...Federal, state, PTA, neighborhood block watch.
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Post by midjd on Aug 16, 2012 13:25:12 GMT -5
I'd be a bad politician, too... my answer would be, "What the hell are you talking about? I just like beer!"
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Post by thyme4change on Aug 16, 2012 13:25:34 GMT -5
I love Bud Light. After all this time, it is still my favorite beer.
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Post by thyme4change on Aug 16, 2012 13:26:10 GMT -5
Or the horrifying "What are you talking about, I drink like 3 or 4 of these a day!"
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Post by midjd on Aug 16, 2012 13:27:18 GMT -5
Is that horrifying?
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Post by happyhoix on Aug 16, 2012 13:28:17 GMT -5
Is that horrifying? Only if you're trying to run for office.
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Post by midjd on Aug 16, 2012 13:29:21 GMT -5
I suppose so. Oh well, I think not going to church is enough to automatically disqualify me from any office in this state
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Post by midjd on Aug 16, 2012 13:30:00 GMT -5
And boy, this thread has really run the gamut in 3 pages! The Royal Family, genetics, beer...
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Post by thyme4change on Aug 16, 2012 13:31:01 GMT -5
I think my list of people who should be subject to post-birth abortions would probably disqualify me.
Watch out Honey Boo Boo.
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Post by thyme4change on Aug 16, 2012 13:32:40 GMT -5
We talked about hair color, but let's just talk about how ugly Charles is.
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Post by midjd on Aug 16, 2012 13:39:26 GMT -5
He's starting to give off a real American Gothic vibe...
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Post by ontrack on Aug 16, 2012 13:41:23 GMT -5
It's funny because Prince William used to be the hot one, with Harry being all awkward. Now Wills is balding and Harry has grown into his ears, and the relative hotness has switched. Odd...
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Post by Wisconsin Beth on Aug 16, 2012 13:41:33 GMT -5
I love Bud Light. After all this time, it is still my favorite beer. Thyme, really? <Beth shakes her head and sadly wonders what the world is coming to that ANYONE admits to liking Light beer, no matter what brand...>
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Post by thyme4change on Aug 16, 2012 13:48:07 GMT -5
I think the same thing. William was such a good looking kid, and now - boom - Chuck II. Good thing we got Kate in there - her hotty genes have an entire history of inbreeding to battle with, but if she can just get a little bit in there.
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Post by thyme4change on Aug 16, 2012 13:49:24 GMT -5
I find other beers really heavy, and they always make me so bloated and feel disgusting. But when it is hot, a nice light beer - really cools down the pallet. My friends make fun of it - so I only do it in secret. When people come over, or we go out, I just make margaritas.
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Post by midjd on Aug 16, 2012 13:52:13 GMT -5
Beer margaritas!
2 Coronas (or Bud Light), 1/2 cup of tequila, can of limeade, ice - shake and serve. Mmmm.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 16, 2012 13:56:51 GMT -5
I think hair and eye color is a little more complicated even than the classic two-gene recessive vs. dominant model. oh, and to weigh in: my mother has very brown eyes; father has very blue eyes. Both brothers are blue-eyed; I'm hazel. So much for that dominant brown thing. Does anyone have a story of two (naturally) blond parents and a brown-haired child? With no hanky-panky going on? My HS biology teacher, with a master's in genetics, liked to tell a story about their instructor telling them to try to come up with a way for a black man to have blue eyes and blond hair. They tried like crazy, never did come up with a rationale...but sure enough, the instructor brought in a blue-eyed blond black man. Hm. Now I retell the story I think it's a little racist. The storytelling teacher was black, if that helps...and the blond hair was apparently curly There's something I've been curious about, maybe someone can explain it to me even though I'm already confused by the genetics talk. lol There's a black lady I know very well that has a little girl with very bright blue eyes. The Dad is Black and Mexican and has light blue eyes. I don't know who else in his family has blue eyes. If there's any other race (or whatever the proper term in this case is) in the Mom's family on either side, it's more than 3 generations back. I know it's rare for black people to have blue eyes and from what I remember of biology (admittedly very little), blue eyes are caused by a recessive gene. She's a very pretty little girl and her eyes are almost startling because they're such a bright blue. I'm curious about how the genes worked that she ended up with those eyes.
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