[Info-vax] Terrible news for Mr VAXman

[Robin Fairbairns]

 VAXman-  @SendSpamHere.ORG writes:
> Neil Rieck <n.rieck at sympatico.ca> writes:
>>On Dec 21, 11:27=A0pm, JF Mezei <jfmezei.spam... at vaxination.ca> wrote:
>>> While this should be a festive season, I am affraid that I am to be the
>>> bearer of devastating news for Mr VAXman...
>>>
>>> http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/local-national/workmen-spark-b...
>>>
>>> ##
>>> Workmen repairing a roof with a blowtorch yesterday sparked a major
>>> blaze at the iconic Guinness plant in Dublin city centre.
>>>
>>> Plumes of thick black smoke billowed across the city skyline as a dozen
>>> fire crews battled to bring the inferno under control and stop it from
>>> spreading to a nearby ammonia plant.
>>>
>>> Pat Fleming, assistant chief fire officer with Dublin Fire Brigade, said
>>> it took three-and-a-half hours to get the inferno under control.
>>>
>>> =93There have been no injuries to any of the Guinness staff but two
>>> firefighters have been taken to hospital as a precaution,=94 he said. It
>>> is understood the fire broke out when workmen tried to repair a felt
>>> roof with the blowtorch.
>>> ##
>>>
>>> My most sincere condolences to Mr VAXman, and I truly hope you have
>>> sufficient number of barrels of the dark gold elyxir to survive until
>>> production resumes at the plant...

does vaxman drink beer from dublin?  certainly guinness in this
country comes from a brewery in north london (apart from the odd
special import).

my limited experience of "american guinness" is that it has a very
different taste than that we get over here.

>>What's next? Global warming melts the ice caps causing floods of the
>>Heineken factory in Amsterdam?

entirely possible.  the heineken brewery, while it doesn't produce
any terribly exciting fluids, does smell quite nice if you're in the
area (i once had to go to that part of amsterdam, from time to time,
to visit a customer).

>Just ship the 24" (60+cm) of snow that was just dumped on us here to the
>polls.  That'll stop your global warming issues and save Amsterdam.  The
>Heineken? 

i don't think it works like that.

> The Heineken?  Who cares?

i do -- if amsterdam's under water, cambridge won't be far behind.
(likewise large swathes of florida, i would guess -- i'm not much of a
geographer, but i know flat landscapes when i see them -- i live in
one.)
-- 
Robin Fairbairns, Cambridge