Re: Para1 THRU Para2

Jeff York wrote:

>docdwarf@panix.com wrote:
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>Raquetball??  That's a game for little girls isn't it?  A denatured
>version of American-style Squash, which is itself a denatured version
>of "proper" European / Asian Squash..  :-)
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Jeff,

You gone done it again.  Robert used 'racquetball' which is what I would
have intuitively used, whereas you have 'raquetball' ? Just curious.

//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

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.

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 :-)

Jimmy, Calgary AB