I don't have a reply specific to your topic. I'm looking for info from our
Aussie listers. Tomorrow we will be taking in an exchange student from
Medowie, NSW which I see is north of Sydney. Any other info about Medowie,
or Australia in general that might make things more enjoyable for him (14
y.o.) If he gets homesick, can he send some of his countrymen a note?
Thanks,
Steve Conley
Marysville, WA USA
MG wannabe
mailto:swconley@foxinternet.net
MGB.com: http://web3.foxinternet.net/swconley
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-mgs@autox.team.net [mailto:owner-mgs@autox.team.net]On
Behalf Of Eric Erickson
Sent: Friday, January 01, 1999 5:00 AM
To: MG Nuts
Subject: Re: OT Beer Bottles (was Turkey Day)
Skye Poier wrote:
>
> Word on the street is that Eric Erickson said:
> > Well, in Australia we have these half-sized bottles of beer... so
> > seeing as they are short and squat they are called "stubbies".
>
> We call them stubbies in Canada too, must be a colonial thing.
>
> Mmmmm Red Stripe.
>
Purely for those into the art of beer bottles...
In far north Australia (just "up the road" from where I live.. a
thousand miles or two on the other side of Ayers Rock/Uluru) they have
the "Darwin Stubby" which is a few times the size of the normal beer
bottle.
Darwin/Northern Territory is like the Texas of Australia. Everything is
bigger there! Maybe, as with Charles Darwin, they believe it is a
"further evolved" bottle.
Now... back to cars...
Eric
'68MGB MkII
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