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- From: eeyimkn@unicorn.nott.ac.uk (M. Knell)
- Subject: Re: Drink ages?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan25.144711.28746@cs.nott.ac.uk>
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- Organization: Cripps Computing Centre, University of Nottingham
- References: <1993Jan23.001115.8789@cs.nott.ac.uk> <1993Jan23.010700.25385@news.acns.nwu.edu> <1993Jan23.041031.145@gn.ecn.purdue.edu>
- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 93 14:47:11 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan23.041031.145@gn.ecn.purdue.edu> mechalas@gn.ecn.purdue.edu (John P. Mechalas) writes:
- >Here in Indiana, you have to be 21 to even enter a bar, so a lot of the
- >problems with underage students declining the attendance don't seem to
- >apply. I will admit that bars back in Illinois that admitted underage
- 21? Ouch... How do you survive?? :-)
- Out of interests, what do students do in their spare time? Over here quite a
- few spend a lot of time in the respective drinking establishments (we have 14
- on campus here, I occasionally work one of them..) as more of a social venue.
- It's not compulsory to get pissed all the time :-)
-
- > As for off-campus bars, I find them more appealing because I don't have
- >to deal with the campus crowd that thinks drinking is then end-all and
- >be-all of life. You get a better atmosphere, IMHO. Your mileage may vary.
- Too right. It's nice to get off campus and to a place where the drink comes in
- glass glasses.
-
- Cheers, Mike
-
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