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Dr Jack
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Message 1 of 6 (114377)
06-11-2004 7:53 AM


I'm currently reading Man Walks into a Pub: A Sociable History of Beer by Pete Brown. Every brit should read it, and most of you foreign-types too - it's funny, informative and fascinating. Quite frankly if you drink beer you should read this book, and if you don't drink beer you should read it anyway.
The book deals with how beer came to be what it is today, and more specifically how British drinking habits, and the British pub came to be.
Some highlights include: pointing out that while the Inuit's may* have 90 words for snow, the english have well over a hundred words for being drunk and the quite hilarious account of the 1814 Shoe Hill brewery distaster.
* - they don't actually, incidently.

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Dan Carroll
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Message 2 of 6 (114407)
06-11-2004 10:08 AM
Reply to: Message 1 by Dr Jack
06-11-2004 7:53 AM


You put me in mind of a funny one...
A priest, a minister, and a rabbi walk into a bar. The bartender says, "Is this some kind of joke?"
Ha ha.
But seriously, the book sounds neat. Is it in print in America?

"Egos drone and pose alone, Like black balloons, all banged and blown
On a backwards river the infidels shiver in the stench of belief.
And tell my mama I'm a hundred years late; I'm over the rails and out of the race
The crippled songs of an age that won't thaw are ringing in my ears"
-Beck

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Dr Jack
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Message 3 of 6 (114412)
06-11-2004 10:15 AM
Reply to: Message 2 by Dan Carroll
06-11-2004 10:08 AM


'Not released yet' apparently.
http://www.amazon.com/...

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jar
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Message 4 of 6 (114456)
06-11-2004 12:47 PM


Does it go into the issue of the relationship between English Beers and the Prince of Darkness?
{it may take someone who owned British cars from the 50's and 60's to understand that}

Aslan is not a Tame Lion

  
frank
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Message 5 of 6 (114501)
06-11-2004 3:45 PM
Reply to: Message 1 by Dr Jack
06-11-2004 7:53 AM


A neutron walks into a bar
Thanks for the tip. I brew my own and am sure I will find the book very interesting.
A neutron walks into a bar and asks how much a glass of beer costs. Tha bartender replies "For you, no charge !".
Cheers !
Frank
[edit to add "of beer"]
This message has been edited by frank, 06-11-2004 04:05 PM

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MrHambre
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Message 6 of 6 (114511)
06-11-2004 4:27 PM
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06-11-2004 7:53 AM


Real Ale
I'd love to read that. My family is Scottish, and there's nothing like a pub crawl in Auld Reekie. The British pub is indeed a thing of beauty.
Americans who consider British Real Ale flat, warm, and bitter are beneath contempt. If I were to drink nothing but Caledonian Eighty Shilling Ale for the rest of my natural existence I'd die a happy man.
regards,
Esteban "Athletic Arms" Hambre

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