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- From: Blair.Haworth@launchpad.unc.edu (Blair Haworth)
- Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
- Subject: Re: Short shameful Xmas confession
- Message-ID: <1992Dec28.145508.24354@samba.oit.unc.edu>
- Date: 28 Dec 92 14:55:08 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec28.074154.19461@emr1.emr.ca> taylor@ccrs.emr.ca (Trevor Taylor) writes:
- >In article <schnitzi.725395405@eola.cs.ucf.edu> schnitzi@cs.ucf.edu (Mark Schnitzius) writes:
- >>When I was home for the holidays, my dad was drinking 'Black Label
- >>Non-Alcoholic Malt Beverage'. I am disowning him.
- >
- >What the hell is 'black label'...... no booze beverage
- >
- >We have Black Label beer on Johnny Walker Black label,
- >but both these are full of alcohol
-
- Down here, the otherwise-estimable G. Heileman Brewing Co. has recently
- started selling a deballed version of Black Label "Canadian Style [I hope
- they don't consider calling it that an act of war]" Beer, one of my four
- major food groups in college, when it cost about six and a half bucks a
- case.
-
- "Non-Alcoholic Malt Beverage" is one of those bureaucratic weaselwords,
- like "pasteurized process cheez-food product-like substance".
-
- Non-alcoholic Black Label. Jeezus, I was just getting used to the idea of
- Black Label Light...
-
- Being funded by my tax money, they can probably afford imported brewskis, so:
-
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