Dave Budd wrote:

>In article , 
>anarchSPAMKILLER@ntlworld.com says...
>> On Tue, 22 Jul 2008 14:08:42 +0100, Dave Budd 
>> wrote:
>> 
>> >Mead is a bit sweet
>> 
>> Not if it's dry, it isn't.
>> 
>> How about nettle beer?
>> Nettle and ginger is pretty good.
>
>Every year I forget to pick them when they're young and lovely
>> 
>> Or just cider?
>
>It's what L's been drinking since she was diagnosed, but it's not beer 
>and never will be.

Has she tried Kopparberg pear cider? It's yummy.

On Tue, 22 Jul 2008 19:56:28 +0100, Ariel  wrote:

>Dave Budd wrote:
>
>>In article , 
>>anarchSPAMKILLER@ntlworld.com says...
>>> On Tue, 22 Jul 2008 14:08:42 +0100, Dave Budd 
>>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> >Mead is a bit sweet
>>> 
>>> Not if it's dry, it isn't.
>>> 
>>> How about nettle beer?
>>> Nettle and ginger is pretty good.
>>
>>Every year I forget to pick them when they're young and lovely
>>> 
>>> Or just cider?
>>
>>It's what L's been drinking since she was diagnosed, but it's not beer 
>>and never will be.
>
>Has she tried Kopparberg pear cider? It's yummy. 
>  
Why have the marketing droids suddenly started calling it 'pear cider'?
What's wrong with perry?
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On Tue, 22 Jul 2008 20:30:08 GMT, Fevric J Glandules
<fevric@invalid.invalid> wrote:

>On Tue, 22 Jul 2008 20:14:30 +0100, JAF wrote:
>
>> Why have the marketing droids suddenly started calling it 'pear cider'?
>> What's wrong with perry?
>
>Babycham.

The only thing wrong with Babycham was/is its ridiculously inflated price.
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     Sapere Aude

JAF   wrote:
>On Tue, 22 Jul 2008 19:56:28 +0100, Ariel  wrote:
>
>>Has she tried Kopparberg pear cider? It's yummy. 
>>  
>Why have the marketing droids suddenly started calling it 'pear cider'?
>What's wrong with perry?

Perry is made mostly of pears.
-- 
                                                         Selah

On Tue, 22 Jul 2008 22:08:32 +0100 (BST), Stephen Gower wrote:

> JAF   wrote:
>>On Tue, 22 Jul 2008 19:56:28 +0100, Ariel  wrote:
>>
>>>Has she tried Kopparberg pear cider? It's yummy. 
>>>  
>>Why have the marketing droids suddenly started calling it 'pear cider'?
>>What's wrong with perry?
> 
> Perry is made mostly of pears.

Yes...


-- 
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On Tue, 22 Jul 2008 20:30:08 GMT, Fevric J Glandules wrote:

> On Tue, 22 Jul 2008 20:14:30 +0100, JAF wrote:
> 
>> Why have the marketing droids suddenly started calling it 'pear cider'?
>> What's wrong with perry?
> 
> Babycham.

What was the sherry equivalent of Babycham? For some reason it has been
blanked from my memory.


-- 
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before I came to this one, I've always looked like James Dean.

On Tue, 22 Jul 2008 22:13:02 GMT, Fevric J Glandules
<fevric@invalid.invalid> wrote:

>
>Oh dear.
>
>Anyway, the point is that thanks to Babycham and Lambrini, what's
>wrong with "perry" is that it's a "girl's drink", whereas Magners
>has made cider cool and blokeish.
>
Oh, dear, indeed.

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     Sapere Aude

On Tue, 22 Jul 2008 23:17:01 +0100, Hot Badger Deluxe
 wrote:

>On Tue, 22 Jul 2008 20:30:08 GMT, Fevric J Glandules wrote:
>
>> On Tue, 22 Jul 2008 20:14:30 +0100, JAF wrote:
>> 
>>> Why have the marketing droids suddenly started calling it 'pear cider'?
>>> What's wrong with perry?
>> 
>> Babycham.
>
>What was the sherry equivalent of Babycham? For some reason it has been
>blanked from my memory.

Cherry B?

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JAF anarchatntlworldfullstopcom
     Sapere Aude

On Tue, 22 Jul 2008 22:08:32 +0100 (BST), Stephen Gower
 wrote:

>Perry is made of pears.

-- 
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     Sapere Aude

In article , 
esprite@mailhaven.com says...
> Dave Budd wrote:
> 
> >In article , 
> >anarchSPAMKILLER@ntlworld.com says...
> >> On Tue, 22 Jul 2008 14:08:42 +0100, Dave Budd 
> >> wrote:
> >> 
> >> >Mead is a bit sweet
> >> 
> >> Not if it's dry, it isn't.
> >> 
> >> How about nettle beer?
> >> Nettle and ginger is pretty good.
> >
> >Every year I forget to pick them when they're young and lovely
> >> 
> >> Or just cider?
> >
> >It's what L's been drinking since she was diagnosed, but it's not beer 
> >and never will be.
> 
> Has she tried Kopparberg pear cider? It's yummy. 
>   
> 
Yes. It's still not beer. Furthermore, a Scandi of our acquaintance 
doesn't reckon it's all that.
-- 
Snob? Were I a snob, I wouldn't be talking to you.

In article , 
anarchSPAMKILLER@ntlworld.com says...
> >  
> Why have the marketing droids suddenly started calling it 'pear cider'?
> What's wrong with perry?
> 
Too many people remember the Babycham ads.
-- 
Snob? Were I a snob, I wouldn't be talking to you.

In article , 
anarchSPAMKILLER@ntlworld.com says...
> On Tue, 22 Jul 2008 20:30:08 GMT, Fevric J Glandules
> <fevric@invalid.invalid> wrote:
> 
> >On Tue, 22 Jul 2008 20:14:30 +0100, JAF wrote:
> >
> >> Why have the marketing droids suddenly started calling it 'pear cider'?
> >> What's wrong with perry?
> >
> >Babycham.
> 
> The only thing wrong with Babycham was/is its ridiculously inflated price.
> 
And the taste
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In uk.misc,  (JAF) wrote in
::

>On Tue, 22 Jul 2008 19:56:28 +0100, Ariel  wrote:
>
>>Dave Budd wrote:
>>
>>>In article , 
>>>anarchSPAMKILLER@ntlworld.com says...
>>>> On Tue, 22 Jul 2008 14:08:42 +0100, Dave Budd 
>>>> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> >Mead is a bit sweet
>>>> 
>>>> Not if it's dry, it isn't.
>>>> 
>>>> How about nettle beer?
>>>> Nettle and ginger is pretty good.
>>>
>>>Every year I forget to pick them when they're young and lovely
>>>> 
>>>> Or just cider?
>>>
>>>It's what L's been drinking since she was diagnosed, but it's not beer 
>>>and never will be.
>>
>>Has she tried Kopparberg pear cider? It's yummy. 
>>  
>Why have the marketing droids suddenly started calling it 'pear cider'?
>What's wrong with perry?

Because most of the yoofer only know "Perry" as Kevin's mate, and "pear
cider" sounds like "Oooh, something new, let's try it."
-- 
Marc

"Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable." 
  --  James Arthur Baldwin

JAF  wrote:
>On Tue, 22 Jul 2008 19:56:28 +0100, Ariel  wrote:
>>Has she tried Kopparberg pear cider? It's yummy. 
>>  
>Why have the marketing droids suddenly started calling it 'pear cider'?
>What's wrong with perry?

I think it's because in Sweden they make all sorts of different versions
of a similar drink, not just cider and perry, and call them all after
the fruit they're made from.

Or it could just be a marketing ploy, but people don't seem to know that
Babycham and Lambrini are actually perry anyway.

-- 
eleanor@the-blairs.co.uk                          http://lnr.livejournal.com/

In article ,
 Marc Wilson  writes:
> In uk.misc,  (JAF) wrote in
> ::
> >Why have the marketing droids suddenly started calling it 'pear cider'?
> >What's wrong with perry?
> 
> Because most of the yoofer only know "Perry" as Kevin's mate, and "pear
> cider" sounds like "Oooh, something new, let's try it."

There's a lot of it about.  We're also encouraged by ads to pronounce
`Southern Comfort' `soco'; to have a `Dolmio Day'; and instead of `BBC Radio
4 News' we now have `BBC News on Radio 4'.
-- 
SAm.

On Wed, 23 Jul 2008 13:46:55 +0100, Sam Nelson wrote:

> In article ,
>  Marc Wilson  writes:
<snip>
 
>> Because most of the yoofer only know "Perry" as Kevin's mate, and "pear
>> cider" sounds like "Oooh, something new, let's try it."
> 
> There's a lot of it about.  We're also encouraged by ads to pronounce
> `Southern Comfort' `soco'; to have a `Dolmio Day'; and instead of `BBC Radio
> 4 News' we now have `BBC News on Radio 4'.

BBC News 24 has become BBC News - presumably because they now show ABC news
broadcasts at night. Why, for the love of God?


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They wouldn't let me buy anything specific.

In article <nr394e30csr6.dxsw1mnkib29$.dlg@40tude.net>,
 Hot Badger Deluxe  writes:
> On Wed, 23 Jul 2008 13:46:55 +0100, Sam Nelson wrote:
> 
> > In article ,
> >  Marc Wilson  writes:
> <snip>
>  
> >> Because most of the yoofer only know "Perry" as Kevin's mate, and "pear
> >> cider" sounds like "Oooh, something new, let's try it."
> > 
> > There's a lot of it about.  We're also encouraged by ads to pronounce
> > `Southern Comfort' `soco'; to have a `Dolmio Day'; and instead of `BBC Radio
> > 4 News' we now have `BBC News on Radio 4'.
> 
> BBC News 24 has become BBC News - presumably because they now show ABC news
> broadcasts at night. Why, for the love of God?

Cheaper.
-- 
SAm.

On Wed, 23 Jul 2008 14:22:50 +0100, Sam Nelson wrote:

> In article <nr394e30csr6.dxsw1mnkib29$.dlg@40tude.net>,
>  Hot Badger Deluxe  writes:
<snip>
>> BBC News 24 has become BBC News - presumably because they now show ABC news
>> broadcasts at night. Why, for the love of God?
> 
> Cheaper.

In so many ways.


-- 
Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.

On Wed, 23 Jul 2008 13:55:30 GMT, Fevric J Glandules
<fevric@invalid.invalid> wrote:

>Only takes one bloke in the pub to point out that "perry = Babycham"
>to ensure that no other bloke [1] will ever order it.

Since when have you been an expert on being a boy?  Not that you're
not qualified, mind.

"bof"  wrote in message 
news:powjNkOtHslIFwU1@hotmail.com...
> In message , Sam Nelson  
> writes
>>In article ,
>> Marc Wilson  writes:
>>> In uk.misc,  (JAF) wrote in
>>> ::
>>> >Why have the marketing droids suddenly started calling it 'pear cider'?
>>> >What's wrong with perry?
>>>
>>> Because most of the yoofer only know "Perry" as Kevin's mate, and "pear
>>> cider" sounds like "Oooh, something new, let's try it."
>>
>>There's a lot of it about.  We're also encouraged by ads to pronounce
>>`Southern Comfort' `soco'; to have a `Dolmio Day'; and instead of `BBC 
>>Radio
>>4 News' we now have `BBC News on Radio 4'.
>
> And when did hikes stop being cross country walks and start being price 
> increases?
>
>
When we became Americanised

Steve Terry

In article <g781q3$2bc$1@news.albasani.net>, gFOURwwk@tesco.net says...
> "bof"  wrote in message 
> news:powjNkOtHslIFwU1@hotmail.com...
> > 
> > And when did hikes stop being cross country walks and start being price 
> > increases?
> >
> When we became Americanised
> 

ITYM "Americanized"

-- 
eric
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"bof"  wrote in message 
news:0KlEVt+1YCmIFwN9@hotmail.com...
> In message <g781q3$2bc$1@news.albasani.net>, Steve Terry 
>  writes
>>"bof"  wrote in message
>>news:powjNkOtHslIFwU1@hotmail.com...
>
>>> And when did hikes stop being cross country walks and start being price
>>> increases?
>>>
>>When we became Americanised
>
> ITYM Americanized
>
>
Goes without saying, just an UK  typo

How about making things simpler by adopting the Webster dictionary
and burning the rest?

Steve Terry