Miss Bea was by to tea today~~but she was not a happy puppy guest~

OK, Bea~~what’s your beef?

I was reading your article on Mandela while I was kept waiting in the lobby~

I see~~how did you find it?

The lobby?

The article on Mandela~~

Boring, yet, somehow dull~~and unspeakably long~

Thank you~~

Of course, it’s not my cup of tea~~politics and all that you know~~

Of course not~~

As for your tea~~how goes the war effort~~

Mr. Begg~~bringing Christian Temperance to the Americans is not a war~~

Oh?

It’s a noble experiment~~

Didn’t we already have one of them~

We did~~in the ’20s~

And now you’re ready for another~

The need never went away~~it went underground~~

So I understand~~I saw your Christmas speech on the You Tube~~very inspiring~~

It is a very serious topic, Mr. Begg~~alcoholism destroys more people and families that any other single thing on this earth~

You also took on football~~that won’t win you many American votes~~

American football exists to promote the gambling and alcoholism industries~~

Oh?

If one were to remove the incessant alcoholism adverts and the blatant gambling from football~~nobody would watch it~~it is a fundamentally boring game~~

I see~~

You say that you see but I can tell that you don’t~

You see football is a mass advert for alcoholism~~and illicit gambling~~that’s why it exists

Oh~~I didn’t know?

Look at the adverts~~unspeakably dull adverts for gray cars~~why are all cars gray today~~and booze~~those are the only sponsors of American football on tele-vision~~

Gray?

Well~~I am told these cars are marketed as being silver but they are gray to me~~dull gray~

There may be something to that~~the gray car business~~

Oh, there is something to that but the gray cars, while dull, don’t disturb me~~it’s all the drunk Americans swilling beer all day Sunday~~the Lord’s day~~and then getting into these dull grey cars and driving home~~that’s the nightmare~~

So~~Bea~~you are an advocate for stronger drink drive laws then~~

No~~I am an advocate for no drinking laws–NO drinking~

Is that an attainable end?

Is that how you access an argument, Mr. Begg~~whether or no its objective is politically attainable?~~

Well, no, no not precisely~~

Not precisely~~

It seems down to your tilting at windmills to me, dear Bea~~isn’t it down to that?~~your tilting at windmills~~

It is a hard and difficult path but it is the right and true path~~drink is a terrible social ill~~

I see~~but what about the Prohibition?

You mean the era that made all your dago rum running relatives rich~~

Hold on now~~

Well~~just where did they get all that money~~

Investments, I think~~

Investments in liquor and beer~~

I wasn’t around~~I don’t know~~

I do you~~you greasy wops used our noble experiment to get rich~~

Is that all bad~~

I guess not for you~~

Bea~~do you realistically expect to ban drinking~~we cannot even control illegal drugs~~

There is no difference~~

What?

There is no difference between drink and drugs~

What?

In fact~~drink is the most abused drug in the world~~always has been~~more than all the other drugs combined~~you know put together~

Yes, combined~~all put together~~

Yes, worse than all combined~~

But what can be done?  People are going to drink, ya know?

I do know~~but we must stop it~NOW~~

Bea~~relax, it’s Christmas~~enjoy your tea by the fireplace~~

I cannot enjoy my tea by the fireplace at Christmas when there are drunks all over the place using the Lord’s Birthday Celebration to tie one on~~

So, I guess all the beer and liquor adverts to please drink responsibly don’t fool you~~

Not for a  minute~~the alcoholism industry  wants you drinking day and night~~drunk dawn to dusk~~

I see~

I understand it’s a business~~and as with any business~~the booze merchants want you to consume as much as possible of what they make~

So~~in that sense it’s like selling soup?

Soup? Soup?~~You are even dumber than I had read about, Begg~~I’m surprised you aren’t a blonde~~

My~~

Well, I get temperamental when people don’t listen and learn how dangerous drinking is~~

I see~~

To me~~it’s my life’s crusade~~ban the bottle~~

Bea’s crusade~~a Holy War against the bottle~~

Precisely so, Sir~~

I thank you for your time today, Miss Bea~~Merry Christmas~~

Cheers to you, Mr. Begg~~

What an odd goodbye from a Temperanceite~~that’s a toast–is this a toasting occasion?

It’s Christmas~~

I see~~let’s raise a glass then, Miss Bea~~

Here’s mud in your eye, Begg~~

And looking at you kid~~

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 ~~Κύριε ἐλέησον~~

 Amen~~

Tuesday, 10th Decembre, Anno Domini Nostri Iesu Christi, 2013

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