>>I bet there's not a stock clerk in Portland who could say that in Norwegian.
It's a case -- not of beer -- but of people making a virtue of necessity.
Most humans dwelling in a region of tiny countries constantly at war, constantly shifting boundaries, would, if only to sell beer, become polyglot blokes. How comfy then to advance this acclimatization as a particular excellence ... like circus clowns decrying those who cannot cram legions of their kin into tiny cars.
Yearning for the palatinates, Bozo ------------------------------------------------------------------ To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html