> On Fri, 30 Nov 2001, Brian Bilderback wrote:
> We have a joke here in the Pacific Northwest regarding the
Hey, that's a Canadian joke! Give it back!:>
Of course, we tell it about all American beer, not just Bud.
I will concede that there's some fine microbrews in the US - and that
some
of the big-brewery product in Canada isn't a vast improvement over US
stuff...
Brian - yh728@victoria.tc.ca -
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> Brian B2
> Brian Burger wrote:
> On Fri, 30 Nov 2001, Brian Bilderback wrote:
Here is the other canadian beer joke:
A farmer on Quebec's south shore goes drinking in Vermont, as that is where
the
> Here is the other canadian beer joke:
I heard it as "Your rabbit is pregnant"
That one goes back all the way to the Roaring 20s when it was told about
bathtub gin. Of course, I don't drink beer from most breweries that advertise
on television (Guiness being the exception).
Try the Mendocino Brewery if you have it in your area, very nice stouts and
ales.
> Richard and Emily Bell wrote:
> Brian Burger wrote:
Sorry, Brian, its an English joke from Oxford University, and its Punts, not
Canoes.... ;-)
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Since Indians have been using canoes for centuries, I'll stick with canoes. I
never claimed the joke originated here, but it was how I first heard it.
There's a justifiable pride in this region regarding the quality of our beer,
and a desire NOT to have it associated with the big US macrosludge
breweries.
To bring this back on-topic, if that's possible at all, I'm considering
the possibility that on other planets, as we colonize them, we'll be finding
new
edible plants (Sources of sugars to a brewer/distiller), with new
flavors, and thus new alchoholic beverages preferred by the populaces of those
worldss. Might make interesting background material for people to add.
Brian B2
"The Irish are the only race of people on Earth for which psychoanalysis is of
no use."
- S. Freud
> From: "Iain Davidson" <iain@arath.org.uk>
> On Sun, Dec 02, 2001 at 01:04:15PM -0800, Brian Bilderback wrote:
> To bring this back on-topic, if that's possible at all, I'm considering
Seems plausible - any plant that's edible by Terrans and contains sugar
is likely to be fermentable by Terran yeast. We probably won't be lucky
enough to find a replacement for beer, cider/perry or wine - but I
suspect that almost anything fermentable will get distilled to produce
field-expedient rotgut.
Saccharomyces cerevisiae ad astra!
H. Beam Piper postulated that the first crops planted on a new colony would be
wheat, tobacco and barley. Of course, he also had his characters routinely
knock off for cocktails at 5pm, which the natives of several planets assumed
to be a religious ritual.
> Roger Burton West wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 02, 2001 at 01:04:15PM -0800, Brian Bilderback wrote: