From: Doug Jones (random@qnet.com)
Date: Thu Aug 24 2000 - 22:39:40 MDT
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.
So a sarsaparilla it is, eh, mate?
(Heh- wait till he gets a gander of a root beer float...)
-- Doug Jones Rocket Plumber, XCOR Aerospace http://www.xcor-aerospace.com
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