The typical accordion player?

[Rosie C]

With slightly warmer weather here I was loading up [in the supermarket] with light beer, and it seemed to me that the guy on Moretti beer bottles looks like he would know his way around an accordion...

 

[murathan]

I made a lot of shopping with beverages lately. Coca Cola, Fanta, Tangerine Soda, Turkish Gazoz (colorless mixed fruit soda), Ice tea, I never get used to alcohol drinks although I rarely drink. I also made cold water bottles from their bottles. It seems never enough. I also drink hot coffee and tea. Sitting in front of air conditioner. I also started heavy accordion practice (5 hours today) I eat less and drink more. Maybe thisway this hottest summer will pass.

 

[Rosie C]

I leave alcohol for Friday and Saturday evenings generally - beer or whisky. But I do find most soft drinks too sweet, so it's been good that in the last couple of years a lot of 0% or 0.5% beer has been available.

 

[Tom]

I like Birra Moretti, good stuff! Yeah, he looks like a stereotypical accordion player from the 50s. Had the heat on here this morning, no summer heat yet which is fine by me, playing outside in over 80 heat and over 80 humidity is not so fun for yours truly.

 

[Rosie C]

Had the heat on here this morning, no summer heat yet which is fine by me, playing outside in over 80 heat and over 80 humidity is not so fun for yours truly.

We've had an awful summer so far - cold, rainy, etc. Yet, on Saturday I had a bunch of leaflets dropped off to distribute locally (we have a general election coming) and ever since it's been sunny & hot and they sit there in the hallway taunting me!

 

[murathan]

I leave alcohol for Friday and Saturday evenings generally - beer or whisky. But I do find most soft drinks too sweet, so it's been good that in the last couple of years a lot of 0% or 0.5% beer has been available.

Soft drinks are much sweet because they assume you put a lot of ice. Then they become normal. You may escape from excessive sugar thats also nice.

 

[Ffingers]

With slightly warmer weather here I was loading up [in the supermarket] with light beer, and it seemed to me that the guy on Moretti beer bottles looks like he would know his way around an accordion...

More likely a “typewriter” in a violin case, I reckon.

 

[Siegmund]

More likely a “typewriter” in a violin case, I reckon.

The term in the US, once upon a time, was "Chicago piano." I don't know if the phrase ever made it to other continents or not.

 

[Rosie C]

More likely a “typewriter” in a violin case, I reckon.

I'd not heard it called that, but a Thompson gun fired from a passing car (ideally one with running boards) is a familiar image!

 

[John M]

I'd not heard it called that, but a Thompson gun fired from a passing car (ideally one with running boards) is a familiar image!

My friend had a 1920 Thompson made by Colt with a 100 round magazine. We shot it into a hill behind our house. Amazing the firing speed of the fully automatic. He brought it in the violin case he had for it.