[Info-vax] Terrible news for Mr VAXman

[Robin Fairbairns]

 VAXman-  @SendSpamHere.ORG writes:
>rf10 at cl.cam.ac.uk (Robin Fairbairns) writes:
>>my limited experience of "american guinness" is that it has a very
>>different taste than that we get over here.
>
>That's because you're drinking the bottled pish.  I get my Guinness
>in 50L cans.

the only bottled guinness i drink is the bottle-fermented stuff, which
is different again.

mostly (when i drink it at all) i drink it draft.

>>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).
>
>All I smelled in Amsterdam was the sewage in the canals.  :(

boggle.  ime, the dutch are more careful about their environment than
we are -- i've never smelt pollution in the netherlands.

>>>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.)
>
>Relax, you'll be fine.

sure.  i'll be dead by the time the water's lapping my front doorstep
-- i'm no spring chicken any more.  i worry about my son, really (and
my grandchildren, if they ever transpire -- getting a bit late,
actually).
-- 
Robin Fairbairns, Cambridge