[SOC] The Guinness

[Norman Lee]

Onya Ian,
VB??????  Forget it - the Enemy starts at Bordertown/Kaniva!  About
150 years ago, some drunken surveyer put 8 miles of Vic into SA -
still unresolved -  and I don't think we've forgotten it (look at a
really good map and you'll see the anomaly from the nsw border down!)
Or is it the other way around?  Anyway, Guinness or no, we brew our
own version - Coopers Stout - and it's not bad, either.  Here in
Willunga (60 kilometers south of Adelaide in the McLaren wine
district), we're blessed with an Italian/Catholic// Irish/Catholic
community and it's great.  Thems that don't have the Guinness (or
Coopers) have wine and that's the way it should be!   I raise my glass
to your late b-i-l, God bless him.
With kind regards
Norm  VK5GI
ps you want to know about the Irish Mafia?  Try the South Australian
Law Society.....!  If you are not Irish, you can't be a lawyer in SA.

On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 5:57 PM, Ian C.
Purdie<ianpurdie at integritynet.com.au> wrote:
> Norm Lee wrote:
>> My word, Guinness really is good for you.  We even get it her in the
>> donga in Australia, mind you it's about six bucks a bottle!
>
> You're dead set crazy mate, then again what's VB locally?
>
> I thought I was the only Oz idiot here.
>
> My late brother-in-law and, also many other mates from around the
> Sydney region, for others the Cumberland Catholic Club from the olden
> days, genuine Irish folks, were never Guinness fans. His and their
> preferred favourite?
>
> ???? I can't for the life of me remember, my sister-in-law can't
> either and for the moment at 18:20 LT we can't contact anyone in the
> Irish Mafia who'd know.
>
> Me? I'm ambidextrous, I'll drink anything wet, especially with both
> hands... Also I don't have any class. Not that is any news.
>
> This is truly vexatious, I'll get back.
>
> Oh! Irish Mafia in Australia? Hard working, respectable folks you
> would give your right arm for, totally apolitical, anyone's religious
> beliefs excluded etc. etc.
>
> Just good decent, honest citizens. Carry a bit of clout though when
> necessary. Trust me.
>
> I'll get back, promise. It's bugging the hell out of me. Had a marble
> thingy in the can.
>
>> figure that I'm worth it!
>
> Of that there can be no doubt Norm.
>
> Goodonya!
>
>> Kind regards
>> Norm VK5GI
>
> Regards to VK5 country, lovely place, even lovelier people.
>
>
> Thanks! :)
>
> Ian C. Purdie - VK2TIP
> http://www.electronics-tutorials.com/
> ______________________________________________________________
> SOC mailing list
> Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/soc
> Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm
> Post: mailto:SOC at mailman.qth.net
>
> This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net
> Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
>