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Mins 
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 Topic: Where did you stash your Booze ??Posted: 21-January-2007 at 21:34 |
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Evening everyone.....
Time for a bit of brain storming here.... Might even pick up a few hints ????? Thinking back to your Grove Days... 
BOOZE...Were you the type that bought on the night in the Offy or sent someone on your behalf ?? Maybe you had to rely on the little bit of this and that from the parents drink cabinet ??? Alternatively you might have been a little bit more orgnaised and had a little secret hideaway with a mean stash of liquor hidden in your house, in your room, in the garage or garden shed ?????. I never had money and the parents never drank so there wasn´t much going on with me. HOWEVER,..my boyfriend had the whole thing sussed and sorted... In his room against the wall was his Piano and down at the pedals there was a little panel that could be prized open easily. Inside, there was a perfect wooden shelf almost and on it were many bottles and cans of various shapes and sizes all inviting to be drunk, pre Grove, post Grove..whatever.....even on a Wednesday night when he was supposed to be helping me with my Maths sure we always had a little apperativo to help the Theroms sink in better. 
He replenished stocks on a regular basis with the odd over the border school exchange, where the booze was cheaper and from a certain Offy in Fairview. Many a night we opened the secret panel and clink, clinked a few little treats out for the evening that was in it. 
Ah yes..THAT was a great location and not one family member ever found it. I never forget the time my Dad must have come to prize me away home one night and for some reason sat down and played some nice wee tune on the piano whilst himself and myself sniggered and exchanged KNOWING looks watching the old fellas big sock and sandel foot work wonders with those pedals !!!! Secret locations for the Contraband.... 
Let´s get a list going here and educate one another !!!! Who can do better than the above ?? I will be waiting as always. Mins 
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Blondie
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Posted: 21-January-2007 at 21:39 |
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Well Mins dont know if it beats above but when I was 15 / 16 worked in H williams supermarket i n lorcan in the off licence dont thinlk would happen now but then piece of cake. So everyw end would pool our money and whichever guy looked the oldest would come in when I was covering lunch on my own and I would sell him some vodka / cider etc for the weekend worked like a dream and never got caught |
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Posted: 21-January-2007 at 21:43 |
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Cant do better than that Mins. In my early Grove years, it was a cocktail from my folks booze cabinet (ugh, awful mix of brandy, cognac, whiskey etc.,). Then we got an off licence that would serve us (first time nacker drinking I was locked on 3 bottles of stag!)..then we discovered the joys of flagons of bulmers!! |
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Posted: 21-January-2007 at 22:31 |
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Hi rosie here first timer and not sure wot story is but totally get this topic god used to raid parents cabinet all time and think so clever filling bottles up with water , vodka girl me, reallyu though they didntn know wot we up 2
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Posted: 21-January-2007 at 22:53 |
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As the tallest (why that was supposed to make a difference ??) of our coven I always got the job of going in the offy on sat. Even though they always served me I always felt sick going in ( mind you not half as sick as when we polished off the stag !!)
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Posted: 22-January-2007 at 00:00 |
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Mel.it may surprise you to find out,a certain Tom Bixby and myself (remember him from the game?) as we were the tallest would go into 'R.O.L.' (Rosemount Off Licence-a place Gerry Ryan namedropped in the same breath as the Grove on more than one occassion) as casually as we could every Sat. night. They used to have an alsatian chained to the counter-remember? We would go and pet it and ask the cashier about it etc. thinking anyone really underage wouldn't be that bold. Seemed to work. The trick we had was the other Artaners who couldn't get served would ask us to go so we would add 20p here or 50p there to the prices so we were quids in-would even walk to H Williams in Raheny as it was cheaper again there... Not sure who Tom Bixby was? Look in the Co.Kildare direction... |
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Posted: 22-January-2007 at 00:01 |
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Oh! And it was kept in our hedge in our front garden on Brookwood Avenue! Nice and cold... |
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Posted: 22-January-2007 at 09:48 |
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My friends and I would just "rob" our drink from our parents house and put it into small bottles of coke or orange and then drink it up on our two bus journey to the grove......the only downside to it was by the time we got to the grove, we'd be bursting to get to the loo
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Posted: 22-January-2007 at 10:36 |
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Only went drinking twice before the Grove - once stole from the folks drinks cabinet when they were away for the weekend. the next time I was 18 - so all perfectly legit. A mate of mine used stash his with his mate's, but his stash always seemed to get stolen and his mate's would be ok! Particularly if money was in short supply... Great to see the obvious hiding places are never discovered - front gardens! Class. |
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Posted: 22-January-2007 at 16:21 |
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Couple of nagons from the R.O.L. was your only man. That alsatian was a beast all right.
The trick was to buy it on a "quiet" night, Monday or Tuesday. Then a nice stroll down to St Annes to stash it while hopefully checking out a few of the exotic Clontarf or Howth Road young ladies on the way. Can't believe it looking back but we used to stash it in a bush, about 50 yards down the Avenue on the left hand side. For 4 or 5 days no less. Panic alerts trying to find it in the dark on a Saturday! All you needed then was a couple of cans of Coke or Fanta, pour half out and top up with vodka, by the time you finished the can it was 90% vodka 10% coke. All in earshot of Cecils sounds just over the wall in St Pauls. Great fun when stopped and searched on the way down by the cops in Raheny village on more than a few ocassions only for them to find cans of minerals ... |
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Posted: 22-January-2007 at 16:45 |
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Hafta say, was never one for the knacker drinking. In the younger days we were all athletes in our prime, with football matches on Sunday mornings so no pre match drinking was tolerated. Then as we got older , we just went to the pub. So, sorry to say,never experienced the dubious joys of knacker drinking. |
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Posted: 22-January-2007 at 18:35 |
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Hard to agree with Rolo on something (!) but I never really experienced knacker drinking. When 18 would have a few legit. However I used to smoke in them days.........
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Posted: 22-January-2007 at 19:17 |
Ah Martin, Tom Bixby...of course I know who ya mean..no trouble for me remembering those game characters names at all.. |
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Posted: 22-January-2007 at 19:55 |
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Got my mate who looked much older than me to get drink(2 flagens of cider)on friday night.Then go down to the back of the tennis courts and stash it in the bushes beside the river.Never worried about weirs disease back then.Then went knacker drinking up at the wall near the garage.Cant belive the 2 boys never went knacker drinking, they don,t no what they missed.
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Posted: 22-January-2007 at 22:24 |
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Ah thanks Finno.Was starting to get worried that we were to be in eternal conflict, first Mr.Fisk, then Ticketmaster.........God knows where it would all have ended |
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Posted: 23-January-2007 at 22:49 |
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Rolo must have a beer and sod the "discussion"
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Posted: 24-January-2007 at 00:59 |
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Reckon I could handle that Finno. Sunday Feb 18th, Kilkenny hurlers come to Parnell to play Dublin in the league. See ya in The Craobh after. |
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Posted: 24-January-2007 at 07:48 |
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Welcome Smithy and Rosie, I'm with you Rolo. Didn't like to go go knacker drinking. Liked to be comfortable when I'm having a drink!!!! My parents were pretty cool about drinking. I remember being 16 and my mam asked me which pub I was going to for New Years Eve. My friends thought she was so cool!! Any drink I liked I knew I could keep in the house. As I didn't like the taste of anything I tried until I was about 18 it was all legal by then anyway!! I never took their stuff - hated vodka and guiness. Still don't. Thank god I don't like stag & blackcurrant & lime anymore!! Now, where's that bacardi!!!! |
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Posted: 24-January-2007 at 13:43 |
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Ah Knacker drinking you missed out on an entire era there. Took everything from Vodka to Martini out of the drink cabinet! No probs I was a dab hand at it. With 5 older brothers the eyes never fell on me. Sometimes we would have some of the older crowd get the stag (yuck) from the off license and then down the park to sit on the mansion road and have our few sips. Honest though I don't remember giving too much of a toss about the drink back then. Take it or leave it. Edited by eejit91 |
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Posted: 24-January-2007 at 19:14 |
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One Summer's evening a certain Tom Bixby (his alias,to protect the innocent...) and I sat up the lane on Brookwood Avenue with our couple of cans-it was the one just before the railway line on the way to the Grove. There were a few others further up the lane so we didn't wander up too far,as they were making quite a racket. Next thin,after about one can down,a car drove up that lane with full headlights. The others in the lane scattered. 'The Law!' they shouted.Sure enough,it was. Two gardai got out and came up to us and we just sat there looking at them thinking 'Oh sh*t'. They chased the others and we still sat there.As they went back to the squad car one said to us 'bring your rubbish with you when you're finished lads'. We were gobsmacked! They probably thought because we didn't get up and run then we were probably OK. In reality we were scared stiff! We got to the Grove delighted with ourselves cos we thought we were still mad for knacker drinking but proud of ourselves as we were respectable knacker drinkers! Edited by Floydman |
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