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[Dennis R. Preston]

Larry,

It may be that your sittings were in different kionds of places. Mine were
definitely ones where shot and a beer meanst brandy and a glass/mug of beer
(at the smae sitting). Never took to it myself.

dInIs

>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


Dennis R. Preston
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