Re: Para1 THRU Para2

"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.  :-)

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than the hour dedicated to the ceremony
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