Happy St Davids Day

Re: Pomagne

None can match Lanliq ... marketed as having a kick!

<hr width=100% size=1>.. whit way roon should it be again ..
 
Re: Party Seven

Did you not have a party Seven opener on your key ring !!!!!, they punched a triangular hole in the lid.
We built a wall with 45 empty ones at one party, unfortunatley her father was tea total Chapel, never saw the funny side.

Brian

<hr width=100% size=1>
 
Re: Pomagne

ooh, i wondered what all the horrible drinkery stuff was called. There was one occassion when the local off-licence nearly killed us all by mistakenly giving out a free Mcewans Export with every can of Mcewans Export they sold, only to realise after a week that it was supposed to be a free can for every crate.

<hr width=100% size=1>
 
Martini Bianco

This is what the girls were drinking with lemonade if I remember right and Babycham or Dubonnet or...... POMAGNE.

<hr width=100% size=1>
 
Colt American Malt liquor ...

.. was brewed by John Smith's at Tadcaster (1978-79 or so) and a demo of the filling line had been arranged .. the bottling hall manager (name Mr G Bottle - I swear it to be true) pointed out the various fail-safes, including an XRay level detector which chucked out underfilled cans. when 'the girls' returned from their break, the line started up and as the brewery was in a very old and tall building, the filler was way up high on the top storey and after 10 mins or so, cans of malt liquor could be seen and heard cascading 40ft down onto the floor at the rate of 2,000 per minute whilst none were coming down the conveyors. Mr Bottle shot up the stairs with myself in hot pursuit - this had to be worth seeing. The XRay machine had gone loopy, rejected every can whereupon they transferred into a can crusher which was never built to run at this speed but was making a jolly good stab at it. the backlog of cans became 'spring loaded' and were being ejected at some speed. it was lethal inside this room with cans ricocheting everywhere ...

the laugh was though, that the beer was not wasted. back it went in to whatever was coming next ...

<hr width=100% size=1>
 
Re: Colt American Malt liquor ...

Wonderful! Not suprised that they recycled it - nobody would have noticed /forums/images/icons/smile.gif.

I saw several similar "recycling" incidents whilst working for a frozen food company during one summer vac. I have never touched a frozen pea since /forums/images/icons/crazy.gif

<hr width=100% size=1>Je suis Marxiste - tendance Groucho
 
Girl\'s drinks

SWMBO went through a spell of drinking "Poor Man's Black Velvet" - Guinness and Cider /forums/images/icons/crazy.gif - in the early '80's; a nod to her Celtic roots. One evening, when she had become a little confused as a result of drinking several of these, she staggered to the Bar to get her round in (I believe in equal rights for women) and asked, in tones that rang round the room, for "One of those Black Man's Things".

Not for the first time, I pretended not to know her..............

<hr width=100% size=1>Je suis Marxiste - tendance Groucho
 
Re: Welsh villages

Have you seen the BBC 2 series 'Little Britain'. I was wondering whereabouts in Wales the village of Llandewy Brevy is situated?

<hr width=100% size=1>
 
Axshully my little Highland wind-assisted person , there was a company in Brecon about 10 ??? Years ago who attempted successfully to market Welsh Chwysgi (Whisky) but were successfully sued by your contrymen's distillers ( well at least the English companies that own them ) that the name whisky could only be applied to the Scots product - well that is how I remember it anyway.

I don't know if this mob is the same guy ( who was a local ''character'') ; could well be as Penderyn is quite close to Brecon.

<hr width=100% size=1><font color=blue>I am WHAT I say I am</font color=blue>
 
Re: Colt American Malt liquor ...

Remember the advert?...

"Any Tom Dick or Walt,
who likes the taste of malt,
will like the malt,
in a Colt 45...."

Then of course there was Concorde - British Wine. This was the stuff you took to a party if you didn't know or didn't like the host. Something like 79p for a bottle (but then 20 JPS were about 45p, so not an absolute bargain).

<hr width=100% size=1>
 
Llandewi Brefi

is in Ceredigion ( Cardigan as was ) /. Was it on Little Britain, if so in what context as I have never seen the programme.

Not as small a place as you might think..





<hr width=100% size=1><font color=blue>I am WHAT I say I am</font color=blue>
 
Re: Pomagne

Never mind the 70's (before I was even a twinkle in my parents eyes!!)
There is still lots of very bad alchol produced for us students aftershock, vin de table (only type of wine seam to be able to buy in the union bars), white lighting cider (choice for students who want to get bladdered and for achoholics), polar bear vodka or should I say paint stripper!!
Plus all the foul concotions we are very good at comeing up with most memberabal one being snake bite.


<hr width=100% size=1>
 
You must log in or register to reply here.

Share this page

Top