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To: gubamyster
self contradiction - it sez beer cam 3eover on the Mayflower, then it quotes (accurately) the ship's log stating that one of the main reasons it landed at Plymouth was that they needed beer.
2 posted on 06/05/2002 8:58:41 AM PDT by camle
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To: camle
Maybe they ran out ... ?

My favorite quote re: near-beer is from Mark Twain. "The man who named it 'near-beer' was a poor judge of distance."

4 posted on 06/05/2002 9:02:58 AM PDT by Gumlegs
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To: camle
They brought the technology, but they were out of the actual product.
37 posted on 06/05/2002 4:35:44 PM PDT by Tony in Hawaii
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