The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #30020   Message #580210
Posted By: Steve Parkes
26-Oct-01 - 07:42 AM
Thread Name: Non-smoking folk clubs in the UK
Subject: RE: Non-smoking folk clubs in the UK
If only it were possibe to be affected by the fumes from someone else's drink! We wouldn't half save some money ... "Hey, big boy ... blow some of the froth my way!"

Steve

P.S. That's an allusion to an old story, btw--I haven't come ver al funny.
P.P.S. It's possible to be overcome by the fumes in a brewery--hence "barmy": the result of having lost lots of brain cells by inhaling the fumes from the "barm" i the brewing vats.

Isn't this educational?