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- From: snail@lsl.co.uk
- Newsgroups: uk.misc
- Subject: Re: Newsgroup uk.pubs ??
- Message-ID: <1993Jan22.151943.2965@lsl.co.uk>
- Date: 22 Jan 93 15:19:43 GMT
- References: <1j6n5hINNa0t@violet.csv.warwick.ac.uk> <1993Jan18.140904.5426@gssec.bt.co.uk> <CAH.93Jan19154201@jemima.bham.ac.uk>
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- In article <CAH.93Jan19154201@jemima.bham.ac.uk>, cah@jemima.bham.ac.uk (Ceri Hopkins) writes:
- > What do you propose is discussed in such a forum?
-
- Not really.
-
- > Regurgitating tracts
- > from The Good Beer Guide 1993 (TGBG93) seems pointless unless
- > accompanied with additional information, e.g. "get there before 8.30
- > if you want a seat", "music too loud", "food a bit pricey" etc..
-
- maybe, seems a bit doubtful though.
-
- > I'm all for the group (uk.beer would be my choice of title) if it
- > provides useful information not available elsewhere. As happens with
- > other groups, it does invite questions such as "I'm going to be in
- > X-town this weekend, can you recommend any good pubs?". Admittedly, it
- > is not always clear where exactly a pub is without an A-Z which I do
- > not always buy when visiting a "smallish" town/city.
- >
- > Anyone like to hammer out a fuller description of its purpose?
-
- 1) Recommend a great alcoholic product you've just tried.
-
- 2) Good venues for entertainment that have good selection of alcohol
-
- 3) Types of alcohol and discussion of their merits.
- ie; Tequila is foul! because...
- Gin is even worse than Tequila because I have no predeliction for
- drinking perfume....
- Bourbon is great because...
- etc
-
- 4) Methods of creating (professional and amateur) types of alcohol.
- ie; Tequila is created from the Pioti cactusa nd you process it thus....
- Mescal/Mezcal is a rough form of Tequila and come swith a Tequila
- caterpilla/worm and is meant to give halucinogenic effect and tastes
- even worse/better than Tequila.
- ie; I would be interested in anyone making their own cider.
- etc
-
- 5) Stupid/odd/weird/interesting behaviour when under influence of....
-
- etc.
- --
- snail@lsl.co.uk
-
- "Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless
- means to side with the powerful, not to be Neutral."
- Quote by Freire.
- Poster by OXFAM.
-