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

[David Lennick]

How Many Burps in a Bottle of Beer? (Frankie Yankovic)

42 (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy)

dl

Mike Harkin wrote:
> 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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