Re: OT- Aussie Beer.

["Amanda Biggin" <abiggin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Just delerking for 2 seconds to demand to know how you could possibly 
forget to mention VB and Carlton Draught. Granted both take like s%$t 
(and smell even worse when stale) but you can't forget them. Two great 
symbols of Victoria beer.

Amanda
*slips back into lurkerdom*



--- In buffywantswillow@xxxxxxxxxxx, CDRERamius@a... wrote:
> You get mistaken for an Aussie? Why? Can you actually play 
cricket? :-) 
> No offence. If I ever hear one more chant of:
> 'Aussie! Aussie! Aussie! Oi! Oi! Oi!'
> there will be much blood. To answer the question 'is XXXX really 
that popular 
> in Australia?'you need to know something about Australia for the 
answer to 
> make any sense.
> 
> Australia covers an area of about 3 million square miles (about 
the same 
> size as the 48 continental US states or 15 times the size if 
France)with a 
> population of 19 million (about the same as New York).
> Alcohol is a major part of Australia. It was used as legal 
tender 150 
> years ago (this came in after the Rum Rebellion. I'm not joking!), 
> Australians drink more of it than just about anyone else. We even 
had a Prime 
> Minister who held the world record for the fastest yard glass. 
Another Prime 
> Minister (Harold Holt) got drunk, tried to impress a woman at a 
beach by 
> swimming in shark infested waters and was never seen again. (I can 
hear some 
> of my American friends planing to send Al Gore and G.W. Bush 
swimming in 
> Australia). This is the origin of the phrase 'to do a Harold Holt' 
or to bolt 
> or disappear. So when it comes to beer or alcohol we are experts and 
take it 
> more seriously than we do religion. Maybe that is why we are a very 
peaceful 
> country:- it's pretty hard to get people upset when they generally 
don't take 
> things too seriously. But I digress.
> There are 6 states and two territories. Each state has it's own 
> preference when it comes to beer. Queensland (a state in Australia) 
has an 
> area of 700 000 square miles and a population of 3.5 million. XXXX 
is popular 
> there (so are redneck conspiricy theories).
> New South Wales (Sydney is the state capital and largest city in 
> Australia.) has an area of 350 000 square miles and a population of 
about 7 
> million. Tooheys is popular there and is about 20 times more popular 
than 
> XXXX. There are two reasons for this.
> 1. There are twice as many people in New South Wales than in 
Queensland, and
> 2. XXXX tastes like gorilla piss.
> 
> 'What about Fosters?' I hear some of you ask. No one in 
Australia drinks 
> Fosters. It tastes like gorilla piss filtered through a bus drivers 
sock.
> 
> Hope this clears some things up for you.
> 
> Tony.
> 
> Xander:- 'What have we learned about beer?'
> Buffy:- 'Foamy!'
> Xander:- 'Good. Just as long as that's clear.'
> Beer Bad.