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Post by leo xiv on Nov 19, 2004 14:37:19 GMT -5
hear something interesting on the news or read it on the internet? post it here
Gourmet brew or hangover cure?
LONDON (Reuters) - A beer flavoured with coffee beans may serve as a hair-of-the-dog hangover aide or pick-me-up with a kick but that's not really its purpose, says the award-winning maker Meantime Brewing.
Peter Haydon says the newly launched beer, on sale in Sainsbury, is for winter tipplers seeking speciality strains.
"It's definitely an adult flavour," he told Reuters, adding the four-percent-strong beer is not for the controversial teen' market for alcopops, or for clubbers downing double-hit adoodledootails such as the caffeinated soft drink Red Bull and vodka.
"It's definitely not for your vodka-Red-Bull punters. It's for your Sunday-supplement-reading, market-visiting, food-interested types," he added.
Haydon said the London-produced beer, which uses fair-traded roasted arabica beans from Rwanda, is intended to serve as a morning cappuccino or even as a meal-time digestif.
"It's not the sort you could drink loads of," he added.
uk.news.yahoo.com/041119/80/f6z4e.html
hey, hasn't this been done already? (referring to buzz beer from the drew carey show. anyone remember/watch that?)
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Post by dandy panky on Nov 20, 2004 7:12:25 GMT -5
10 THINGS WE DIDN'T KNOW THIS TIME LAST WEEK
Snippets harvested from the week's news, chopped, sliced and diced for your weekend convenience.
1. Tony Benn has erected a plaque outside his London home in honour of his late wife Caroline. It's red, not the more conventional blue.
2. Elton John doesn't have a computer and doesn't send e-mails.
3. Boris Johnson's full name is Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson. More details
4. US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice was taught by former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright's father. More details
5. People in the UK live an average of 29 miles away from a radioactive waste dump.
6. Indian households in the UK are more likely to be owner-occupiers than any other group.
7. The New York Times refers to singer Meat Loaf as Mr Loaf.
8. UK scientists have developed a clock which ticks 1000,000 billion times a second. Technically that's a quadrillion. More details
9. Until this week divorce was still illegal in Chile. More details
10. Over a year , the cumulative time spent picking up pillows after passengers have disembarked costs almost £500 per plane. American Airlines plans to save £320,000 a year by scrapping pillows from almost half its fleet.
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from bbc site
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Post by Revenge of the Cult on Nov 20, 2004 8:40:17 GMT -5
Can you imagine the hordes of Chilians rushing to their lawyers offices this week!
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Post by dandy panky on Nov 20, 2004 9:04:50 GMT -5
bit like when they legalised it in ireland a few years ago...
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Post by Revenge of the Cult on Nov 20, 2004 9:14:57 GMT -5
I remember that! I can just imagine the lines!
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Post by dandy panky on Nov 20, 2004 9:31:51 GMT -5
yay! no more trying to get marriages anulled!
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Post by Revenge of the Cult on Nov 20, 2004 9:39:14 GMT -5
Anulement, in Ireland? You'd be lucky! Maybe if you say your spouce is gay...then you might have a chance!
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Post by Desired Username on Nov 20, 2004 10:45:55 GMT -5
7. The New York Times refers to singer Meat Loaf as Mr Loaf.
HAHAAA! ;D I don't have any good news bits... sorry!
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Post by HotHotCookie on Nov 20, 2004 10:58:57 GMT -5
LOL...that's funny...
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Post by Desired Username on Nov 20, 2004 17:16:43 GMT -5
;D I found something sure to entertain you all.... Vanilla Ice lost his wallaroo ( a cross between a kangaroo and a wallaby!!) and his goat... they ran away apparently, and the wallaroo kicked some woman's car and scratched her! Hahahaaa... He might not get them back cos wallaroo's are ex*tic and goat's aren't allowed in that part of FL apparently. KIK! How f*cked up is that? ;D
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Post by HotHotCookie on Nov 20, 2004 17:50:30 GMT -5
It makes me wonder what he's doing with a goat in the first place...
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Post by orange on Nov 20, 2004 20:00:46 GMT -5
BLA HA HA!!! ;D
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Post by dandy panky on Nov 20, 2004 20:18:16 GMT -5
maybe his stint on the dodgy farm show here made him see farn animals in a new light... (and cult, a friend of my mum did get her marriage annuled... it only took 7 years!)
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Post by leo xiv on Nov 20, 2004 20:43:30 GMT -5
yay, and i was all day thinking nobody liked this thread cause nobody posted yay!! N.Y. Lawsuit Kicks Dodgeball Into Court AP - Sat Nov 20,11:20 AM ET The high-energy school yard game of dodgeball is getting kicked around a New York courtroom, where questions are being raised about whether it's just too dangerous for young children to play.story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=519&e=3&u=/ap/dodgeball_on_trial
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Post by Revenge of the Cult on Nov 21, 2004 2:24:12 GMT -5
(and cult, a friend of my mum did get her marriage annuled... it only took 7 years!) Good for her! So, did she have to claim her hubby was gay?
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