On Fri, 25 Aug 2000, Damien Broderick wrote:
> Pity the poor non-Yank here for a moment. I can work out just about
> everything American from all the movies & TV that deluge us, but `root
> beer' is a very wonderful and disturbing concept when seen from up here in
> Oz. In our dialect, a root is an, uh, act of vigorous sexual congress,
> often performed with (or impaired by) the aid of many tinnies of beer. So
> naturally no gentleman could ever offer a lady such a beverage without fear
> of being misunderstood; it would be entirely shocking. Nor could any manly
> man possibly sink a root beer with a bunch of other guys while maintaining
> a straight face.
>
> As for those fellows coming to the door with their mighty industrial
> RotaRooters, it is to faint quite away.
>
> Damien Broderick
No no Damien. It's not "rooting with beer" we are talking about here. It
is ROOT beer. You guys in Oz are a strange lot, eh? Mind you if I lived in
a country with the most deadly spiders, snakes, jellyfish and octipi on
the planet (to say nothing of the "cane toad") I'd probably do a LOT with
beer!
Cheers-FWP
("On The Beach" at Vancouver Ventre)
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