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"'Kate" wrote in message
... On Tue, 11 Jan 2005 18:23:34 -0000, "Paul Griffiths" wrote: If ya find it, set it for 1975 for me. I got a score to settle. :-) Should I ask what happened then? Perhaps not. yeah.. no. It wouldn't mean anything to anyone but me even if I told the story. I would have hid the money I earned better and said "No" more often to my family even if it had meant that they'd have to have bread for dinner instead of the meals that I slaved to cook. Maybe someone would have realized something was very wrong in the house and helped. I was just a kid. Yeah, I know how that works. I got a Summer job when I was 15 and waiting for exam results but I don't think I saw a penny of what I earned. Times were hard though. We had the gas and / or electricity cut off quite a few times when I was a kid. Both my parents had fairly serious illnesses at various times and logged quite a bit of hospital time. With that history and the economic climate at the time jobs weren't alweays easy to come by. Thereya go. Wasn't that less pleasant than you thought it would be? Sorry about that but I wasn't the *very* nosey one. ;-) It was for me. For better or worse our history is what helps to make us what we are, right? Nothing to be ashamed of. -- Paul Griffiths |
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"Cele" wrote in message But then, you'll be the one with the Irish accent, I suspect..... Sorry, I'm English! Freddie is Irish though. Dennis |
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On Sat, 15 Jan 2005 10:40:48 -0000, "denanson" Dennis@Large .ie
wrote: "Cele" wrote in message But then, you'll be the one with the Irish accent, I suspect..... Sorry, I'm English! Freddie is Irish though. Dennis Well, there'll be other guys there with English accents, so I guess it's up to Freddie, then..... ;-) Cele |
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On Mon, 10 Jan 2005 23:06:22 -0500, "P. Fritz"
wrote: "Cele" wrote in message .. . On Mon, 10 Jan 2005 04:02:12 GMT, 'Kate wrote: On Sun, 09 Jan 2005 15:40:12 GMT, Cele wrote: On Sat, 8 Jan 2005 20:05:40 -0000, "denanson" Dennis@Large .ie wrote: "Cele" wrote in message So do I get a beer too, or is this a guy-only thing? See Paul! Like I was saying! Dennis ;-) Heh. Nah, it's the beer I want, not the stag. That's ok. Christine and Kate and I will just take our beer somewhere where we're wanted..... (No! I'm not talking about the Post Office!) Cele So what you're saying is the reason why I don't like beer (just catching on here) is because I'm 'Merican and not just 'cause I don't happen to like beer? 'Kate Nope. What I'm saying is that it's *possible* that the reason that you don't like beer is that American beer isn't...well....the gold standard...as it were..... ducking and running Cele No need to duck and run......I don't drink that crap either....what is really bad is when you get to places like Ga, and all they have ever heard of is bud........ Or Billy-Beer I'll take a 'blue' or 'golden' any day over the domestic stuff here, runner up choice is fosters :-) |
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On Tue, 11 Jan 2005 18:34:14 -0000, "Paul Griffiths"
wrote: "P.Fritz" wrote in message ... "Cele" wrote in message ... [snip] Blue - now that's a lot closer. Kokanee would be my preference. Fosters...Lordy...you shoulda seen the size of the Fosters tin Paul was served in Manhattan! The tin was so big T took it home to show her friends. Must have been one of those 'oil cans' That was the only way you could get it in the states 20 years ago (now I'm showing my age ;-) ) 20 years ago in the States was the first time I had one that size too. We must be of similar ages. you young whippersnappers I can remember "special events" of 20 yes ago, but not the beer, probably because I drank Jack D. Cptn Morgan, Odd thing is that I remember a time when it was illegal to transport Coors east of the Mississppi River ( or so I was told at the time ) , and my grandfather coming home with a couple of cases after a trip to Reno. Now if I could only remember what it tasted like. These recent ones were 24 ounces but I have a feeling the older ones might have been even bigger. Never saw one like that when I was in Australia, so I don't know what that's all about. BTW, in Oz, I discovered that only tourists order Fosters. It's XXX or DB there, it seems. But the Aussies make good beer. Those liters of beer went down easy in Munich too! A beer fest is something I've always wanted to go to but so far haven't managed. I also liked the 1/2 wheat beer and 1/2 lemonade.......didn't get you hammered in the middle of the day :-) What's wrong with getting hammered in the middle of the day then? :-) |
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On Tue, 11 Jan 2005 10:06:01 -0500, "P.Fritz"
wrote: "Cele" wrote in message .. . On Mon, 10 Jan 2005 23:06:22 -0500, "P. Fritz" wrote: [snip] So what you're saying is the reason why I don't like beer (just catching on here) is because I'm 'Merican and not just 'cause I don't happen to like beer? 'Kate Nope. What I'm saying is that it's *possible* that the reason that you don't like beer is that American beer isn't...well....the gold standard...as it were..... ducking and running Cele No need to duck and run......I don't drink that crap either....what is really bad is when you get to places like Ga, and all they have ever heard of is bud........ HEY....I happen to like Bud...Only out of a bottle and at my favorite watering hole. Bud was made to be drank out of bottle, none of this can stuff. Papst was made to be drank out of a can. However I do have a fondness for Bass Ale, and Negra Medello I'll take a 'blue' or 'golden' any day over the domestic stuff here, runner up choice is fosters :-) Ugh. Bud. (It's not really beer).............just goes to show that P.T. Barnum was right ;-) Blue - now that's a lot closer. Kokanee would be my preference. Fosters...Lordy...you shoulda seen the size of the Fosters tin Paul was served in Manhattan! The tin was so big T took it home to show her friends. Must have been one of those 'oil cans' That was the only way you could get it in the states 20 years ago (now I'm showing my age ;-) ) Never saw one like that when I was in Australia, so I don't know what that's all about. BTW, in Oz, I discovered that only tourists order Fosters. It's XXX or DB there, it seems. But the Aussies make good beer. Those liters of beer went down easy in Munich too! I also liked the 1/2 wheat beer and 1/2 lemonade.......didn't get you hammered in the middle of the day :-) Cele |
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