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Subject: BS: Beer Mats From: SINSULL Date: 23 Feb 06 - 08:55 AM This is a heads up to anyone planning on attending the November Getaway. I have decided to "paper" a bedroom with beer mats - coasters to those of you on this side of the Pond. My collection is growing but I would like some variety. SOOO if you could see your way to collecting them and delivering them to me in November, I would be very grateful. Might even show up with a large supply of bourbon balls to say "Thank You". SINS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Beer Mats From: Morticia Date: 23 Feb 06 - 09:10 AM will start collecting them right away...pity I can't pay for the flight with them.....sigh. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Beer Mats From: artbrooks Date: 23 Feb 06 - 09:18 AM Well, we are hoping to go, but all of my extras are from obscure brewpubs in the Southwest. Those surely wouldn't interest you, would they? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Beer Mats From: Amos Date: 23 Feb 06 - 09:19 AM And leave those poor bourbons alone!!! They're just trying to multiply and survive like everybody else! A |
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Subject: RE: BS: Beer Mats From: gnu Date: 23 Feb 06 - 09:20 AM I suppose leather coasters are out? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Beer Mats From: SINSULL Date: 23 Feb 06 - 09:24 AM Anything but roller coasters guys. All donations gratefully accepted. And when the room is complete - the offer of bed and breakfast whenever you're in Maine. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Beer Mats From: artbrooks Date: 23 Feb 06 - 09:25 AM I went to Maine once. It was August. It snowed. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Beer Mats From: Roger the Skiffler Date: 23 Feb 06 - 09:36 AM I was a tegestologist in my youth, strangely at a time when I had given up the booze. When I left university I gave my collection (a cardboard carton full) to my roommate. Earlier, I was a boy scout in a troop attached to a Methodist church. We tried to brighten up our clubroom with beer mats (many of which didn't actually advertise alohol) nailed to the beams, but the horrified Akela, one of the most bigoted women it has been my misfortune to meet, harangued the scout leader until he made us take them down! RtS (no longer on the wagon) |
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Subject: RE: BS: Beer Mats From: jacqui.c Date: 23 Feb 06 - 10:13 AM If any UKers can collect but will not be coming to the Getaway I'm hoping to be in the UK a couple of times before the Getaway and can collect on SINSULL's behalf. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Beer Mats From: catspaw49 Date: 23 Feb 06 - 10:19 AM Still got some of that college spirit in ya' huh Sins? I remember a guy who completely covered the ceiling of his dorm room with pull-tab chains. I'm certainly pleased you opted for coasters as opposed to say, testicle sacks from a thousand yaks......although that does have a certain poetry about it. When I was a freshman at Berea, my high school girlfriend sent me a letter every day and enclosed the daily and Sunday "Peanuts" comic strips which I dutifully taped to the walls of my room. I have no idea now as to why she did this but it had an added benefit of providing a scent to the air in the room which covered the smells associated with teen-age males. She drenched her letters in "White Shoulders" perfume which I liked but it was pretty strong!!! The College had it's own Post Office and we all had a PO box.....and I gotta' tell ya' that the general area within ten feet of box 1505 smelled like a whorehouse.....or at least stunk to high heavens of "White Shoulders." This all lasted til about February when I realized there were some very fine women to be found right there at Berea! Anyway, I wanted to warn you that NEW coasters might be preferable as stale beer is a lot worse than White Shoulders. Spaw |
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Subject: RE: BS: Beer Mats From: gnu Date: 23 Feb 06 - 10:43 AM Art... you were disgusted in Agusta? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Beer Mats From: Bill D Date: 23 Feb 06 - 12:30 PM mats = coasters? You mean the things of various shapes that sit under your beer? Or 'paper' things like they print maps & menus on? (yas, yas...ignorance does run in my family!)(but the term 'place mats' is in my head.) I have some 'coasters' |
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Subject: RE: BS: Beer Mats From: The Fooles Troupe Date: 23 Feb 06 - 03:52 PM I've got a big coaster - an old van that the engine needs redoing - not sure your ceiling would take the weight though... |
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Subject: RE: BS: Beer Mats From: NH Dave Date: 24 Feb 06 - 01:58 AM A local man had been collecting matchbook covers for years, so when he decided to open a McDonalds, he covered the tables with the extras, embedded in epoxy, so they were almost bomb proof. Unfortunately, during later renovations all of these great tables were replaced with standard McDonalds ones. I guess McDonalds hierarchy has no sense of humor. Dave |
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Subject: RE: BS: Beer Mats From: The Fooles Troupe Date: 24 Feb 06 - 02:20 AM If you want tables like that, you can;t have a Macas franchise. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Beer Mats From: Geoff the Duck Date: 24 Feb 06 - 04:59 AM Bill D - This sort of item - loose cardboard which soaks up any spillage under a glass. Quack! GtD. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Beer Mats From: GUEST, now old enough to drink Date: 24 Feb 06 - 06:05 AM Collecting beer mats used to be what we did when we were too young to drink in pubs legally - a kind of trophy to prove we'd been there, but you had to collect them yourself. If other people got them for you it didn't count. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Beer Mats From: Liz the Squeak Date: 24 Feb 06 - 06:16 AM Anyone else remember the 'sport' of flipping beermats off the table and catching them before they dropped? I think the record was for something like 30 in one pile. The square ones were better, the round ones had poor balance when poised on the edge of the table and more often than not, fell off or you failed to hit them. LTS - yes, I was that sad. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Beer Mats From: GUEST,Bruce Baillie Date: 24 Feb 06 - 10:19 AM ...You could have one of the extremely rare Dave Mallinson Beermats advertising Cleckheaton Folk Festival 2006, a true collectors item, and excellently designed... |
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Subject: RE: BS: Beer Mats From: Paul Burke Date: 24 Feb 06 - 10:48 AM They used to sell big bags of beermats for a few pounds at CAMRA beer festivals (still might do so, not been to one for a while). I got a bag for the Boy, but I don't know what he did with them. I see that jackets made of bar towels are the latest thing in such circles. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Beer Mats From: GUEST,.gargoyle Date: 24 Feb 06 - 11:15 PM Willing to contrbute several dozen or so outside your plebian collection:
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Subject: RE: BS: Beer Mats From: SINSULL Date: 25 Feb 06 - 03:54 PM Thank you, garg, but no. I get enough junk mail as it is. But you can send them to Max and he will get them to me at the Getaway. SINS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Beer Mats From: Liz the Squeak Date: 25 Feb 06 - 05:31 PM Paul Burke - latest thing? I remember being asked to lift a few from the pub I worked in, as far back as 1979, for jacket adorning purposes...... LTS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Beer Mats From: autolycus Date: 26 Feb 06 - 03:15 PM Liz - I remember the mat flipping craze. A propos of covering ceilings, did you know the Marx Brothers hadn't got the script of a scene for one of their films. The screenwriter concerned, Al Boasberg ("the funniest man I ever knew" - Groucho), was notoriously slow, but told them on the phone the scene was in his office. The Brothers got to said office, couldn't find the script anywhere, till one of them looked up. Boasberg had cut up the scene into small bits and stuck them on the ceiling. When the bits were retrieved and put in order, what they had was the stateroom scene, where impossibly large numbers of people,(cleaners, chambermaids ,waitresses,guests etc) get into one tiny room on a ship. A classic. Ivor |
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Subject: RE: BS: Beer Mats From: SINSULL Date: 13 Mar 06 - 02:38 PM Refreshing...as a beer on a beer mat. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Beer Mats From: Bert Date: 13 Mar 06 - 02:55 PM Hey Squeaks, we used to do that with a deck of cards. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Beer Mats From: Morticia Date: 13 Mar 06 - 03:00 PM collection started. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Beer Mats From: Morticia Date: 13 Mar 06 - 05:38 PM of course, I forgot to mention that, since I hardly ever frequent such dens of iniquity as might stock such items, this may take some time. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Beer Mats From: SINSULL Date: 13 Mar 06 - 06:40 PM You must have some friends who frequent bars, Morty. We single maiden ladies always do. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Beer Mats From: jacqui.c Date: 14 Mar 06 - 08:02 AM SINSULL - just as you don't snore Morti doesn't frequent pubs. She is not, these days, a single maiden lady, having acquired the affections of a rather nice gentleman whose bottom Liz the Squeak has eulogised on in a number of threads. Morti - I'll bring an extra large suitcase over when we come this time for a beer mat collection. I'm sure that, by the end of May, you'll have managed say - a couple of hundred. :0) |
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Subject: RE: BS: Beer Mats From: GUEST,catsPHiddle@work Date: 14 Mar 06 - 08:32 AM Micca and I will be at the Getaway in November! I have a collection of beer mats somewhere and I will continue to collect them for you. Any UK catters in the London area...or those likely to be at various festivals over the summer who are collecting but aren't going to the Getaway can pass teh beer mats to Micca and I for safe transportation to SINSULL on the other side of the pond!! |
