depth charge

[Laurence Horn]

At 7:33 AM -0500 3/31/00, Dennis R. Preston wrote:
>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)

Not surprising, given the locale.  Wisconsin is (or at least WAS, when I
lived there in the late 1970s) proud of the studies demonstrating that it
leads the nation in per capita consumption of both beer and brandy.
Usually, though, they're not consumed at the same sitting.

larry