Where did you stash your Booze ??
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Topic: Where did you stash your Booze ??
Posted By: Mins
Subject: Where did you stash your Booze ??
Date 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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Posted By: Blondie
Date 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 ------------- Blondie I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it ! |
Posted By: Vinyl Junkie
Date 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!! ------------- TPFKAB (The Poster Formerly Known As Brunswick). |
Posted By: rosie
Date Posted: 21-January-2007 at 22:31
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 By: LORRI
Date Posted: 21-January-2007 at 22:53
| 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 !!) |
Posted By: Floyd
Date 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... ------------- There are three kinds of people in the world,those who are able to count,and those who can't... |
Posted By: Floyd
Date 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... ------------- There are three kinds of people in the world,those who are able to count,and those who can't... |
Posted By: Bluebell
Date Posted: 22-January-2007 at 09:48
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 
------------- You are what you wanna be....age doesn't matter |
Posted By: whippersnapper
Date 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. ------------- I'm searching for that cash I should have saved for the crash |
Posted By: Fester
Date 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 ... |
Posted By: Rolo
Date 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. |
Posted By: finno
Date 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.........
------------- A man must have a code |
Posted By: Vinyl Junkie
Date 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.. ------------- TPFKAB (The Poster Formerly Known As Brunswick). |
Floydman wrote:Posted By: smithy
Date Posted: 22-January-2007 at 19:55
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. ------------- smithy |
Posted By: Rolo
Date 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 |
Posted By: finno
Date Posted: 23-January-2007 at 22:49
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Rolo must have a beer and sod the "discussion"
------------- A man must have a code |
Posted By: Rolo
Date 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. |
Posted By: irish_mammy
Date 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!!!! ------------- Lesley 25th June - 25th July. Get organising my nights out. Child can stay in the car. Grove 1980-1984 |
Posted By: eejit91
Date 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. ------------- "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better." |
Posted By: Floyd
Date 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! ------------- There are three kinds of people in the world,those who are able to count,and those who can't... |
Posted By: Tonto
Date Posted: 24-January-2007 at 20:08
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Where did I
stash me boose? Mostly in me belly The hedge
in Floydman’s front garden was a very good place. But being
quite tall I always got served in the RoL (when I was living up in Brookwood) and
buy be beer just before the grove and drink it on the way, hopefully having it
finished by the time you got out the other end of the laneway that ran at the back
of the houses on Brookwood Ave. Another
spot was at the back of the nursing home (across the road from Paul’s) there was a statue of Mary (I think) and
behind here was a nice log to sit on and
little cubby holes for stashing your beer I even remember keeping a can
for after the grove to have for the walk home. This didn’t last too long ‘cos
the inside of the Sheds in Clontarf was much warmer and it was only around the
corner from me. Hay Floydman who is Tom Bixby??? Tonto ------------- Grover 84-88...ish... I think.. I dunno! I was all dazed and confused...(with Floyd).. http://www.facebook.com/tmirolo - http://www.facebook.com/tmirolo |
Posted By: Vinyl Junkie
Date Posted: 24-January-2007 at 20:35
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I know who it is Tony.... (its not me by the way)... ------------- TPFKAB (The Poster Formerly Known As Brunswick). |
Posted By: Floyd
Date Posted: 25-January-2007 at 09:10
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A fellow Brookwood Avenuer...any guesses? ------------- There are three kinds of people in the world,those who are able to count,and those who can't... |
Posted By: RoundaboutToo!
Date Posted: 26-January-2007 at 23:51
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Great stories here! I don't remember stashing beer - didn't drink in the early Grove days, but when we did get a taste for it, the offie (Kelly's? ) near the Cosy chipper was the place of choice. 3 or 4 bottles of harp or stag each were ample!!! Thanks exArtanehead for stocking up for us in those days when we looked too young to be served - (still have that prob now sometimes  ). Sometimes we'd try the Goblet or Sheaf.In the summer, we'd have a few in St Annes near the main gate; Winter time had many a great evening in ExA's house with Genesis, Floyd & Bowie before the grove..... |
Posted By: whippersnapper
Date Posted: 29-January-2007 at 10:15
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Heard a story over the weekend about pre grove knacker drinking in a lane off Brookwood, but don't think anyone here was involved. Names removed to protect the "innocent" Lads having a few cans in the lane, when they saw a flashing light and realised it was time to scarper. One lad managed to climb up various walls,onto a garage and out over more walls and onto Brookwood and casually saunter down to the Grove. Nickname of Spiderman earned for that one. The rest tried to hide in the back garden or behind walls, but eventually came out (twenty seconds when hiding can seem like about twenty minutes) Anyway, the cops asked each of them their name and address. when they got to the youngest, they asked him to repeat both name and address, before saying "well it must be your auld fella that called us out" Battered by his mates and his folks I'd say. ------------- I'm searching for that cash I should have saved for the crash |
Posted By: Stevie
Date Posted: 20-February-2007 at 23:58
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Hey Roundabout-still getting asked for ID buying drink, Yeh I can understand that , me too...whats that pig doing flying passed the window???? I found that those big deep pockets in the duffle coats were great for holding cans, reefer jackets a bit handy too Stevie |
Posted By: Caroloz
Date Posted: 03-July-2007 at 08:54
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Can't remember ever stashing booze. When we were able to get into pubs we drank at the Raheny Inn but before that we just "skulled it" on the way there - walking of course- from Tonlegee Road. We always had a little top up of Vodka in the plastic Holy Mary bottles for later in the evenings in the ladies toilet where we disected the evening thus far ;)
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Posted By: Lady Momo
Date Posted: 19-July-2007 at 16:57
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Same here. I used to make it up on Fridays into a small water or cola bottle, before my mother came home from work, and stashed it in a bag under my bed. Nothing very exciting, but it did make for some interesting coloured puke if you drank too much. I still can't touch Pernod. ------------- www.myspace.com/bloodhouse |
Posted By: muller
Date Posted: 19-July-2007 at 19:18
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hear you Lady Mono - I have the same problem with gin. The smell of it makes me want to retch. btw welcome to the GSC. Are you going to the reunion on Sat? ------------- Life is for living |
Posted By: Floyd
Date Posted: 19-July-2007 at 22:42
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Tonto and I went on a binge one fine summers night... Me with a whole flagon of cider (God-how did we drink that? And that much of it?) and himself with four cans of Harp. Off we went,I think up the lane by the railway line which went under Brookwood Ave?) and started our binge. 2 litres each. Half way down,I said " I'm getting a bit bored with cider" and he says " me too with this Harp. Wanna swap?" Now,neither of us had a clue what Snakebites were but un-be-knowns to us we made the perfect snakebites-in our tummies! Litre of lager on top of a litre of cider,and vice versa for him. In we got,off goes Tonto up the front (think he was chasing a 'trendie' back then) and me in the alcove,acting like an eejit. An hour later we found each other in the compound-bringing up absolutely EVERYTHING! For two hours!!! Barry Reynolds and Ciaran White sat with us for a while in convultions laughing at us. I never thought you could be sick for that long. Next day I called around to him and noticed a clever ad on the back of the Sunday paper with a Viking ship on top of a pint of Harp (remember the ads?) and I said-"hey-thats a good idea" and he thought I meant going for a drink...with that the regurgitating began again... ------------- There are three kinds of people in the world,those who are able to count,and those who can't... |
Posted By: Vinyl Junkie
Date Posted: 20-July-2007 at 11:02
Welcome to the site, Lady Momo!  ------------- TPFKAB (The Poster Formerly Known As Brunswick). |
Posted By: finno
Date Posted: 20-July-2007 at 12:27
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Welcome aboard Momo. My parents didn't drink so never got into the "cocktail" mixes. Might have had a pint or two in the Beachcomber, but went sober most times (appart from the occasional smoke) ------------- A man must have a code |
Posted By: finno
Date Posted: 20-July-2007 at 12:28
Tonto have you been at the drinks cabinet again? ------------- A man must have a code |
Posted By: Tonto
Date Posted: 20-July-2007 at 16:54
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Tonto have you been at the drinks cabinet again? [/QUOTE]Ah yeah. I'm all grownup now and have my own drinks cabinet Full of sh**e that I don't drink... ------------- Grover 84-88...ish... I think.. I dunno! I was all dazed and confused...(with Floyd).. http://www.facebook.com/tmirolo - http://www.facebook.com/tmirolo |
Posted By: Bluebell
Date Posted: 20-July-2007 at 17:15
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Hey Tonto.....we'll drink any sh**e so we'll be over to your house about 7pm tomorrow evening to empty your drinks cabinet for you. Then you can fill it up again with everything you do like to drink.
------------- You are what you wanna be....age doesn't matter |
Posted By: gary peacefrog
Date Posted: 24-July-2007 at 14:04
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hi folks!...peace frog here.grat to be on the site! brings it all back...garlge wise we use to also hit the oul rosemount offy facing larry mullins gaffe on the way down to the grove walking down from the ma's gaffe on skellys lane!... Who remembers the SUPER CANS OF COKE AND FANTA!'...in the 80 s they brought out these beer can sizes of coke and fanta ...drink half of it and then lash in the naggin of VOSTOK cheap vodka!!...from the rosie offy....come to think of it..STIEGER cans were also on the menu then!...pint of harp and a drop of lime please!...
------------- in-a-gadda-da-vida! |
Posted By: freebird
Date Posted: 24-July-2007 at 14:14
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welcome to the site Peacefrog
- Didn't lace any SUPER CANS OF COKE in the 80s Peacefrog, I was quite happy enjoying the comforts of the pub at that time |
Posted By: finno
Date Posted: 24-July-2007 at 17:59
Tonto have you been at the drinks cabinet again? [/QUOTE]Ah yeah. I'm all grownup now and have my own drinks cabinet Full of sh**e that I don't drink... Up to two weeks ago we had a bottle of bacardi that was bought in Jan 1986! Also a bottle of ouzo I was given in 1987 (I think its still there) Reason for their survival ? Neither of us like either [/QUOTE] ------------- A man must have a code |
Posted By: Bluebell
Date Posted: 24-July-2007 at 20:07
Eh..... we brought 2 1Ltr bottles of Bacardi home with us from Majorca last Tuesday and the 1st is almost empty.....hic....hic think we have a drink promlem 
------------- You are what you wanna be....age doesn't matter |
Posted By: Vinyl Junkie
Date Posted: 24-July-2007 at 21:17
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Welcome aboard 'Peacefrog'. Blubell, this probably belongs on the "Sayings" thread but whats that one about drinking "I dont have a drinking problem - I drink, I fall over, no problem!". or alternatively, I HAVE a drinking problem... "Two hands but only one mouth!" ------------- TPFKAB (The Poster Formerly Known As Brunswick). |