Very brief election update
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blamebramptonCrabbe on the final stretch of the hustings, ordering a drink: 'I'd like a shandy* of light**, with about 60 per cent lemonade.'
I know that Abbott treats his body as a temple, but that's ridiculous. Just order a bloody lemonade!
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quatrefoil notes, Hermione, in similar conditions, ordered a schooner of dark beer***. Bless.
* A shandy is a beverage part-beer, part-lemonade or other fizz. Wikipedia assures me that in Germany it's known as a Radler, and in France as a panache. In Australia, it's known as a genteel drink for genteel ladies of a certain age ETA: and,complications_g assures me, medium-sized children..
** Light beer is an abomination and utterly unAustralian. I'm not even a real Australian and I'm offended by it!
*** It was only a matter of time until she turned to drink.
I know that Abbott treats his body as a temple, but that's ridiculous. Just order a bloody lemonade!
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quatrefoil notes, Hermione, in similar conditions, ordered a schooner of dark beer***. Bless.* A shandy is a beverage part-beer, part-lemonade or other fizz. Wikipedia assures me that in Germany it's known as a Radler, and in France as a panache. In Australia, it's known as a genteel drink for genteel ladies of a certain age ETA: and,
complications_g assures me, medium-sized children..** Light beer is an abomination and utterly unAustralian. I'm not even a real Australian and I'm offended by it!
*** It was only a matter of time until she turned to drink.
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Date: 2010-08-20 05:41 pm (UTC)I have such mixed feelings about this! On the one hand, "Booo! Australia shallow!" On the other - not Tony Abbot, PM ... "Yay!"