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Subject: Re: [OM] RE: Visit to Oz (OT)
From: "Roger D. Key" <rdk@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2002 10:31:08 +0100
An expression common in Canada and the UK now too I believe. Necessary in
Canada, as you are meant to be seated to get any beers, so you have to
shout! Not the same rules in the UK, so most people fetch their own beers
from the bar - no shouting necessary (except when the pub is very full).

Roger Key



Foxy wrote:

A shout is the round of beers. There are five mates in a pub. You go and
get
5 beers. then the next bloke gets the next round. This is a shout. The
worse
part is after 5 beers you may need one more. So you go and get another
round. And you can't leave until that shout is finished. By the time it is
finished, so are you.

Shouting is the norm in Australia. If you don't shout, well it just isn't
worth the consequences.

Foxy

----- Original Message -----
Nice gesture. I wish I could take you up on it. Now, just to show you
how ungrateful I am: you still didn't enlighten me. By saying that you
will "shout" us a beverage, did you refer to a large, crowded beer hall
or tavern, smokey and noisy, in which you have literally to shout your
beer order to receive that well-earned beverage? Or does "shout" have
some other meaning?







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