depth charge

Dennis R. Preston preston at PILOT.MSU.EDU
Fri Mar 31 12:33:46 UTC 2000


Lynne,

Well, can you reckon how I felt, fresh up from Louisville, walked into a
bar in Milwaukee, asked for a shot and a beer, and got a beer and a BRANDY!
Whiskey was for drinking; brandy (and cognac and the like) was what guys in
tuxes in movies (who talked funny) drank.

dInIs (who was weaned off bourbon in Poland)

>Andrea Vine said:
>>
>> A depth charge is a mug of beer with a shotglass full of schnapps in the
>>bottom
>> of it.  So a depth bomb must be a different drink entirely.
>
>Where I went to college (UMass, aka ZooMass), a depth charge was a mug of beer
>with a shot glass of whiskey (usually bourbon) dropped into it.  The
>combination
>of schnapps and beer sounds a bit disgusting to me...
>
>Lynne


Dennis R. Preston
Department of Linguistics and Languages
Michigan State University
East Lansing MI 48824-1027 USA
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