razzle frazzin long-earned varmint of a 3KB limit on emails! fortunately i had this pointless arguement saved in my "Out" box, so i can re-pester y'all with it. so here is the first part.... ******* alright Alan -- you happy? now we have some fighting... Billy B. jumped to the bait with: << Surely anything in the US with the word 'micro' in is half owned by Mr Gates these days or he is at least leading a lawsuit against the righteous use of the word micro. >> HA! this is a good one and i will have to remember it! thanks. << Then tell me when you have actually got back from Brugge if you have any 'pubs' in the US that do over 300 different beers >> the Taco Mac chain in Atlanta does that. mind you, some of those 300 are shitty mass-produced US beers.... << including ales, pilsner, stouts (what do you mean, 'what the F is stout'), >> oh come on -- like any human on the planet doesn't know what a Stout is, thanks to Guiness's ubiquitous marketing. please. << Not to mention those other wonderful European concoctions of Jagermeister, >> Jagermeister is a curse on society. and on my liver. << O yeh, and we can still smoke in our pubs as well, for the moment at least. >> same here in the ATL. however, our bars can (currently) stay open until 4 AM. i seem to remember from my trip to London that you all are forced to go to bed at 10 PM. what -- do they Brits get sleepy earlier? << Something else to blame on you lot. >> yeah yeah.... ***** the second half of this message includes a rant from yours truly! stay tuned kids.... PJK please don't hate me because i can't type..... --- All the cool kids are doing it: HTTP://www.EvilSponge.org