[78-L] Drink any good records lately? [FWD]

[Mike Harkin]

How many records did/does it take to get an ounce of alcohol?

Mike in Plovdiv 

--- On Fri, 1/29/10, Michael Biel <mbiel at mbiel.com> wrote:

> From: Michael Biel <mbiel at mbiel.com>
> Subject: Re: [78-L] Drink any good records lately?
> To: "78-L Mail List" <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
> Date: Friday, January 29, 2010, 10:17 AM
> We discussed drinking boiled records
> many years ago here and thought it
> was an urban legend but here is an actual Reuters story and
> we got to
> believe it if it comes from Reuters!!!  What could be
> in it they would
> like?  Bug juice?  
> 
> Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com
> 
> -------- Original Message --------
> 
> From: David Lennick <dlennick at sympatico.ca>
> This appeared on 88sOn78s. dl
> 
>  One was Reuters. In addition to their very
> thorough stories about "hard" news. Reuters periodically
> sent brief
> droll ones about quirky things. This story came over during
> one of my
> shifts. I love it. I didn't save the year, but I think it
> was the
> 1970s.
> 
>  "Drink
>  "Shepton Mallet, England, July 2, Reuter --
> A magistrate's court here was told today of the local
> destitutes' top
> drink -- boiled phonograph records.
>  "Scotsman Thomas Duncan, 50, said the hit beverage was
> made by
> breaking up and boiling old 78 r.p.m. records.
>  "Duncan was jailed for stealing two brass vases from a
> house where
> he went for water to dilute his favorite drink.
>  "The police analyst in this town about 20 miles (22
> kilometers)
> south of Bristol is to study Duncan's claims.
>  "Reuter 1935"
> 
>  I brought the story home and framed it. It's on the wall
> of one of
> my rooms full of 78s.   Don Tait
> 
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