OFF: ALL HEIL THE _BEER_

Carl E. Anderson cea20 at CUS.CAM.AC.UK
Fri Dec 5 08:32:13 EST 1997


On fre 5 dec 1997 05.02 +0000 "Hoarse Whisperer"
<beautiful_foot at HOTMAIL.COM> wrote:
>>The man knows what he's talking about!  Imagine a country the size of
>>Connecticut with over 350 brands of beer?
>
> Ah now that sounds like home.  Only all 350 of them are flat, lukewarm
> and named in a very strange manner...Old Peculiar, The Dogs Bollocks,
> Bishop's Crook, etc...

     No, those are _English_ beers ("Peculier", BTW) and they were
discussing _Belgian_ beers ...

     Mind you, on average English beer is pretty good :)

--
Carl Edlund Anderson
Dept. of Anglo-Saxon, Norse, & Celtic
St. John's College, University of Cambridge
mailto:cea20 at cus.cam.ac.uk
http://hea-www.harvard.edu/~carl/



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