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Re: stubby beer bottles

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From: W. Jim Jordan
Date: Tue, 11 Nov 1986 00:23
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The American manufacturers of beer refrigerators (the ones in pubs)
thought we were crazy to un-standardise our bottles.  They thought the
stubby was the best thing going since they didn't have to worry about
different-sized bottles.

The demise of the stubby has also taken away one of the great ice-cream-
money-making pastimes of kids in Northwestern Ontario:  bottle-scavenging.
Kids now have to collect a bunch of each kind of bottle before they can be
taken to the Brewers' Retail for reimbursement.

						wjj
-- 
"Syncopation is staggering from bar to bar."

	     W. Jim Jordan
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From: wjjordan@watrose.UUCP (W. Jim Jordan)
Newsgroups: can.general
Subject: Re: stubby beer bottles
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Date: Mon, 10-Nov-86 19:23:10 EST
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Posted: Mon Nov 10 19:23:10 1986
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