| Jeff York 2004-11-23, 3:55 am |
| "James J. Gavan" <jjgavan@shaw.ca> wrote:
>Jeff York wrote:
>
>Jeff,
>
>You gone done it again. Robert used 'racquetball' which is what I would
>have intuitively used, whereas you have 'raquetball' ? Just curious.
Nothing more curious than simple bad spelling on my behalf.. :-)
>//Zummerzett :-
>
>Noow if er wants a good game lad, get yerself off to a village pub. Real
>noice loike wiv a skittle alley be'ind. Yet gets to quaff ale whoile
>rollin' the bleedin balls at them thar skittles. Does yer play
>Zummerzett stoiyle skittles up thur in Shrapsheer ?
>
>//End-Zummerzett
There are a few pubs with 9-pin skittle alleys, but it's a much rarer
even than in Zummerzett.
>Back forty years ago you could drink raw cider called 'scrumpy'. It was
>sold in one tavern in Yeovil, but 'mine host' eventually got pissed off
>with the local military, (presumably Somerset Light Infantry), going ape
>when they drank the stuff and smashed his furniture and glass windows.
It's quite widely available.. IMHO it's brain-damage on draught.. :)
>I had a dear friend served with the Glasgow 51st Highlanders (?),
>landed in Normandy a few days after D-Day. As the RSM, when they came
>across a new farmhouse he made a beeline looking for the Normandy
>equivalent - calvados. He would smash the barrel. He said you could drop
>a dead rat into the vat and it would disappear real quick On the East
>Coast here, they have, (or used to have), screech - even the name
>implies what it does :-)
Ooohhh.. Calvados isn't a scrumpy equivalent.. It's a *brandy*
equivalent - it's a distilled spirit.. Not an ideal beverage for
consuming in pints. :-)
--
Jeff. Ironbridge, Shrops, U.K.
jjy@jakfield.xu-netx.com (remove the x..x round u-net for return address)
and don't bother with ralf4, it's a spamtrap and I never go there.. :)
.... "There are few hours in life more agreeable
than the hour dedicated to the ceremony
known as afternoon tea.."
Henry James, (1843 - 1916).
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