[TR] Lucas

[Ian]

As a counterpoint to that, "How is drinking American beer like making out in
a row boat?  They are both *&%$!^) close to water."

--
Ian
62 TR4

-----Original Message-----
From: triumphs-bounces+lbc.resto=comcast.net at autox.team.net
[mailto:triumphs-bounces+lbc.resto=comcast.net at autox.team.net] On Behalf Of
Dave1massey at cs.com
Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2007 1:32 PM
To: Brian.L.Jones at gsk.com; triumphs at autox.team.net
Subject: Re: [TR] Lucas

In a message dated 8/16/2007 8:59:33 AM Central Daylight Time, 
Brian.L.Jones at gsk.com writes: 
> The American joke about Lucas making refrigerators being the reason why us

> Brits drink warm beer (actually it's cellar temperature, around 55 Degs 
> Fahrenheit), always makes me smile. It reminds me that, unlike American 
> beer, British Ale needn't be chilled to the point of freezing in order to 
> hold it in your mouth long enough to swallow it.
> 
Spot on.

Or, as Satch Carlson, who used to write for Autoweek, said (and I paraphrase

since it was many years ago) "It is not true that the British drink warm
beer. 
 The Brits drink beer at room temperature.  And since the whole country is 
heated with Lucas furnaces they drink COLD beer.

Dave   
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