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- From: dmeier@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Douglas Meier)
- Subject: Re: Idiotic Japan Bashing
- Message-ID: <1992Dec28.202218.19800@news.acns.nwu.edu>
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- Organization: Northwestern University, Evanston Illinois.
- References: <1992Dec28.010825.25445@oracle.us.oracle.com> <1992Dec28.080944.7939@pegasus.com> <1hnk0tINNnna@gap.caltech.edu>
- Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 20:22:18 GMT
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- In article <1hnk0tINNnna@gap.caltech.edu> carl@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU writes:
- >In article <1992Dec28.080944.7939@pegasus.com>, tleylan@pegasus.com (Tom Leylan) writes:
- >
- >>You take a trip to Germany and you sit yourself down in a brewery that
- >>has been brewing beer for 600 years and you get yourself a sense of
- >>continuity.
- >
- >I suppose they're still using exactly the same sort of vats they used 600 years
- >ago? And exactly the same processes? I rather doubt it. I suspect that
- >public health laws have caused significant changes in those breweries.
- >
- Not really. Most of those older breweries abided by a beer purity act first
- enforced in the early 1200's I believe. This purity act was more stringent
- then than our industry standards are now.
-
- On another note, what is it about you people (no offense intended) that make
- you believe all was toxic and rat-infested before the age of the social
- architects?
- --
- Douglas C. Meier | Didn't need no welfare state, everybody
- Northwestern University, ACNS | pulled his weight...Those were the days!
- This University is too Commie- | --From theme to "All in the Family"
- Lib Pinko to have these views. | dmeier@casbah.acns.nwu.edu
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