Delirium :-) by billyboy

Great shot! and honestly, the thing in the beginning with the spiders was hair-raising! i’ve always been rather scared of spiders, always thought they’d try to hunt me. lol well, i’m tiny, so i’d be easy prey :) the holes in your gloves ‘cause they know where your fingers are… hilarious and also spine-tingling for me. a very relatable reason not to garden! lol ps; i’m glad you enjoyed the beer. it looks delish!

LOL, BB …… you’re a bit on the slow side if you only discovered Delirium now after so many years in this moules/frites country!!! ;-) I’m staying the heck away from the stuff – one gets seriously sick from it, so don’t have more than one! Trust me !
Hope your hair won’t hurt too much tomorrow, buddy ! Skaal ! xx

hahaha! great!! nothing like a beer after a day working outside…. it does look good.

I’m going to report your report to the pub next door (The Maiden Publick House of Big Sur). Their most popular advert (and beer) of multiple beer signs is Arrogant Bastard Ale. I don’t know if it’s Belguise or not but now I’m thinking maybe….
I love the Protestant ethic buildup you supply here, the justified treat following derring-do spider wars, even that you once more with courage slip on garments the enemy left in bloody wounding holes. It’s all very Jack the Giant Killer, David and Goliath imagery and pure delight. And, I suspect, the kind of imagination required by most men facing off against the bloodthirsty and savage honey-do list.
You are divine.

lol. great tale.
after all your hard work, you totally desrve a proper beer.
I’m now intrigued as to whether that beer can be bought in australia – will let you know! (my husband loves a drop of the amber ale)

nice post, going to start lookin for this beer, hope this kid doesn’t make this his career path, but like his detailed breakdown !

What an amazingly resourceful guy you are. To find a Texan or Louisianan (?) filming himself drinking your favorite beer…incredible. Good description, even the big words like palette. Thanks for the contact high, way cool.

LOL~and I needed to! Thx!

Brave you with the spiders, you’d hear me screaming for miles….. Love the photo, especially homer . Excellent story, nice to have all the chores out of the way, it’s never ending…. :o)x

hahaha…that would be awesome!!

SOCK MONKEY!!!….No, I’m not delirious…
following up to what Bill stated about this beer, he did know about it when he was a teenager and we experimented its true powers in Montreal. One evening we played a board game called “Cranium”, we did a boys versus girls match… both Bill and I knew we had to step up our game…and that’s when Bill turned to me and gave me a look…. and I knew it was time to open the “Delirium” The women chuckled knowing that the more we drank the less of chance we had to play this game…
We poured the beer into the authentic Belgian Delirium glasses and we did notice surprisingly a constant stream of bubbles rising from the bottom, it seemed as if the beer was showing its deliriously delirious powerful brewing powers. We did notice on the bottle pink elephants and dancing alligators and look puzzled!?!?!…we didn’t know what that thing on the dancing ball was…anyhow it was our turn to dice.. and the game begun….
Bill & I were on a role! A total 6 turns in a row and moving past the women that still didn’t get a chance to play, we were on our game! It was so delirious in fact that we were finishing each other sentences, guessing each other’s drawings, guessing each other’s humming versions of famous songs, and laughing deliriously!… and my gosh… we were 1/3 of the way through this beer and then we understood why there are happy pink elephants and dancing alligators… it was totally deliriously normal to us! Cause were deliriously happy & pink & dancing as we celebrated our progress in this game!
Now the women thought this was pure luck but we did finally get an answer wrong and then they diced…they got their answer wrong and our super streak continued!!!…the women knew they were up against an impossible delirious force!
And then it happened…. We knew what the thing on the dancing ball was… and it was our final turn…and I had to draw something really weird and Bill had to guess… I drew the best I could and thought deliriously to myself…”Bill has to be really really delirious to get this one right!”… and then the most delirious thing happened… he screamed… “SOCK MONKEY!” the women rolled their eyes and we won the game!
So now you’re thinking and glancing back at Bill’s picture… is that really a sock monkey on the bottle??… Well, let me tell you this…we came to the conclusion that when you get really delirious…that thing on the bottle can be whatever delirious thing you want it to be!…for us it was a sock monkey…sounds delirious…I dare you to take the delirious challenge!
Cheers!

Spiders … we get these HUGE spiders called hunstman spiders, about 3 to 4 inches across from leg tip to leg tip … they really like to hang about under the sheets perhaps, or on the lightswitch in a dark room … in any case it’s sometimes challenging to go to bed with one on the ceiling when you’re not quite sure where it might end up … but I try not to kill them. I like to trap them under a glass and take them outside. But … they do move horribly quickly if disturbed and then I lose it and swat them!

But back to beer … Delirium looks good, will look out for it here in Oz, love your pic, and your story:)

Your’e a nutter………………….. lol. :))))))))))))

Bill,you’ve done it again!. I love how you can take an incident and stretch it into such an amusing story – and add pictures to enhance that story. I can’t comment on the beer since that’s not my forte. However I can attest to the fact that Belgium has the most hairiest, ugly spiders I’ve ever seen! I remember that your dear sister was baby-sitting at someones house overnight. Some time during the night she heard a “thump” along side her bed. She looked over the side and there was this big spider. That’s how big they are. Creepy! Anyway, loved reading about Delirium and all the comments. Love you. Momxo

I could use something like that to de-stress. I had to do a presentation using powerpoint on the Wild West for an American Art History class. I ended with an anime clip created to go with Kid Rock’s “Cowboy”. (You know . . . I wanna be a cowboy, baby) Boy, am I going to have to do some extra credit papers! (LOL, It sure was fun though. I thought it was . . . “inspired.” hahaha) Hmmm spiders eh? shudders

Great video! Great song with any video! I ain’t got graded yet, but I’m all set for doing time.

Aww, a star . . . and it don’t say sheriff on it neither. So sweet! Happy Halloween to you too! :)

Love the videos and the the visuals. LOL My morning is starting out great!

LMAO billyboy he must not have known how awesome you are ! LOL he is the loser and you are the winner.

Ok, so I’m a bit late reading this, as I see you posted it way back in October, but I love it!! Sounds like you and I have a lot in common Billy!! I do all the gardening around my house too and am constantly battling the fukked up spiders we have in Texas that love to live in the little dark nooks of a garden, like the Black Widow!! Pretty Scary shit!! I too, like you, love to sit back and admire and enjoy the fruits of my labor with a cold beer or nice glass of red. I wanted to share with you an American lager we just recently got turned on to that sounds like your Delirium!! It is called Nitro and the bottle isn’t near as cool as the delirium, no pink elephants, but I can supply those on my own…lol!! I digress, but the color, foaming action and continuous activity of the beer from the bottom of the glass upward, is the same. This beer is soooo delicious, it will leave you wanting another and another and another… hence the pink elephants;) We have recently found another we like called Lobotomy Bock. Weighing in at 10.8% alcohol, it has earned it’s name…lol. It is the best bock to ever touch my lips, no lie!!
I have no idea if either of these is available in your part of the world, but seek them out if they are!!

Cheers Friend!! Let me know if you are able to find and try them!!
Dion

You got black Widowz?? Think that would be enough for me to justify a gardener… PLUS I’d have more time to kick back with a beer and admire my work (well, I would actually tell him what to do :-)
But what Belgium lacks in deadly spiders, they make up with brands of beer… about 800 which is pretty massive for such a small country.

But what you said about Nitro and Lobotomy Bock is really good news. Every time I go back to the US (mainly visiting my mom in Florida), I’m disappointed how few micro breweries offer their beers on the public market. And when they do, it seems I always get stuck ordering the ones that taste like chocolate and fish… OK, I love both on their own but definitely not BREWED !!
So yeah, gonna check out those two… Lobotomy? I can’t think of a cooler name for a beer with over 10%. The highest content of a belgian beer I know if is 12% (Bush Beer), though they even distill some beers here to get them up to over 30% (!) The cool thing here is that you can go into any supermarket and get strong beers like Delirium and Bush, whereas in Florida it seems you’ve got to know the right places.
Maybe I should get my butt to Texas? Already got Louisiana on my list to check out True Blood :-)

Thanks for making me smile SO wide today :-))

Big hugz,
Billy