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- From: emeeks@unity.ncsu.edu (Edward Meeks)
- Subject: Re: How about something new?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov18.184448.8166@ncsu.edu>
- Sender: news@ncsu.edu (USENET News System)
- Organization: North Carolina State University
- References: <1992Nov18.172741.12913@wam.umd.edu> <1992Nov18.182049.27922@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>
- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 18:44:48 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov18.182049.27922@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> jhoskins@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (James M Hoskins) writes:
- >In article <1992Nov18.172741.12913@wam.umd.edu> zedaker@next02wor.wam.umd.edu (
- >Pamela Marie Weller) writes:
- >
- >>How about something new? I can't think of anything off hand to say but I
- >>have seen the same subjects for the past two weeks. New Posts Anyone?
- >>
- >
- >Well, being something of a new reader myself, I am interested in how
- >much beer a beer lover drinks. Perhaps this is an old topic. I
- >heard that the Puritans of New England, United States, some 300 years
- >ago drank about 4-5 quarts of ale per day. Are any modern quaffers
- >living up to this tradition?
-
- Yes, I have been drinking that much a day for the past 300 years. "How?"
- one might ask. Easy, I've been pickled all these years. :)
-
- --Ed
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