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Royal Milan & Bordighera H³ NewsletterMay 11, 1999 |
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Royal Milan & Bordighera H³ NewsletterMay 11, 1999 |
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From: Duff Robin < rmd@msoft.it >
Date: Tue May 11 15:53:11 1999
Subject: #837
#837 Saturday 10 may 1999 starting 5pm at Ristorante Castagna. Hares :
Stuffing, Sofa and Tonedeaf. Come to the glorious foothills of Bergamo.
Revel in the agony of others. Drink fine wines and barley-related products.
Eat some of the best food on the Hash tour. Drink more beer. Revel once
again in the agony of others. Sing a song. Make it simple. Make it as long
as...well never mind, but come dammit!
Time: 5pm
Place: Ristorante Castagna (see directions)
Cost: Lit. 30,000
Run Fee: 5,000
Dinner includes: a first dish (including the world-famous casoncelli)
a second dish (vegetarian available)
coffee (usually served with the suspension of nullus grappas)
Book before Friday mthomp@tin.it
Valbrembo near Bergamo.
From Milan take the A4 autostrada direction Bergamo and exit at Dalmine.
After the toll you are on the Strada Provinciale Villa d'Alme-Dalmine road.
Stay on this for 8 kms (until you see a GS supermarket and Bowling alley on
your left). After the traffic lights you see a sign "Valbrembo" and 500
metres further on, turn right into Via Padre Murialdo (the restaurant is
sign-posted). At the T-juntion turn left, go 150 metres, turn right and go
300 metres to the restaurant. If you want to eat afterwards, please book as
soon as possible. Small kids small price. Bookings to Mike or Gina Tel
035-639968 evenings or e-mail them at:- mthomp@tin.it
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The new online Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy http://h2g2.com has
this to say about beer:
Don't drink too much!
This fizzy drink has been voted more popular than water in some parts
of the world, as well as more useful. In fact, some people say that
if water tasted like beer, they would drink more water. Not that they
drink it for its flavour, but rather for what it does to their brain
cells, i.e. kills them. This, they argue, is one of the many
advantages beer has over water.
How one drinks it, and in what quantities, is more or less a case of
cultural relativism. Americans take it in pitchers; the British take
it in pints; the Germans take it in litres; the Irish take it in
excess; and so on. Of course, it makes no difference, as the final
result is always the same, with lots of singing, lots of stumbling,
lots of eating, lots of regurgitating, and lots of sleeping, normally
in that order.
There are, however, two disadvantages, in that the more beer one
drinks, the more one wishes it tasted like water; and furthermore,
the amount of beer drunk in an evening is in direct proportion to the
amount water drunk the following morning. It is also the cause of
terrible headaches and the abominable cotton mouth.
Not that anyone minds.
Ramblin' Rod
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