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#8824 10/25/00 12:06 PM
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"Guiness is good for you"

Helen, your point is well made and entirely pertinent. Beer provides much more than mere nutritional requirements, too. In fact I was reminded earlier today that it's important to keep your spare tyre inflated.

But if we're just talking nutrition, I'm reliably informed
that you can get all the nutrition you need from Guinness and tomato juice. Probably wouldn't recommend mixing them in the same glass, though.


Chocolate lovers note that munching a few chunks alongside a pint (or ten) of Guinness is meant to be a heavenly experience.

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(c/o Marketing Dept, Guinness & Sons, Dublin)




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Yeah, its to bad I don't like beer, and as for Guinness, UGH! Potatoes and dairy food will give you complete nutrition, too, so skip the bangers, and just have the mash--with lots of butter.
Chocolate isn't a bad idea though, USDA recommends 6 to 8 servings of fruits, and coco beans are are a fruit... so i guess a well balanced diet includes chocolate. or at least a well balanced American (US) diet.


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I always thought that a well balanced diet was when, in my student days, I worked part-time in a restaurant and carried food to the table on a tray held high in the air on the splayed fingers of one hand - - -


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Well that's because diet and regimens are very different on either side of the Atlantic.
This side of the Atlantic, regimens would more often be use to define your exercise schedule, not your food intake. Diet is usually a plan for food intake, especially for limiting the same, or for some unusual habit of food intake ("Her diet consisted exclusively of twinkies and diet coke!") So a well balanced diet wouldn't be carried to you on a tray, especially not in a restaurant!
What you want to be balanced on the tray is Food! comestibles! libations! A restaurant is no place for a diet!


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>So a well balanced diet wouldn't be carried to you on a tray, especially not in a restaurant!

I think you should ask Rhubarb in which cheek his/her tongue was when he/she was carrying the diets in question.


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Hell, Jo, you keep your tongue straight ahead when waiting on - one false move with your tongue in your cheek and you've bitten it orf.
The only time you can get away with silver serving whilst blood is dripping from your mouth is at a Halloween Dinner!


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>I think you should ask Rhubarb in which cheek his/her tongue was when he/she was carrying the diets in question.

I love the puns and word play, the tongue in cheek, the "nod, nod, wink, wink", but I am total helpless. I am literal!
I love best the literal comments–TEd Remington's comments about still pease in the pease porridge thread,
http://wordsmith.org/board/showflat.pl?Cat=&Board=words&Number=5989&page=0&view=collapsed&sb=5&part=1&vc=1 , and so on.

I get the puns, well most of them, I speak American English, but also know a good deal of english English. Its easy to learn it, there are plenty of opportunites to read, (the Economist), and listen to, (lots of BBC broadcasts are available in NY)that varient.



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Sorry Helen

It is a very British form of humour and one that doesn't always cross the Atlantic too well. Several friends have struggled when they have moved over here, they said that they had to leard irony as a second language. It's even harder when you throw in the dead-pan expressions that people use when talking such rubbish!



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It is a very British form of humour and one that doesn't always cross the Atlantic too well.

Does anybody know why that is? The Britsh love of irony, and "tongue-in-cheek" humour, thrives in most other former colonies, why not among the tea-haters?


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>why not among the tea-haters?

Probably religion. The Pilgrim Fathers weren't exactly known for having a good laugh were they? After that I suppose they were too busy winning the West and fighting all those grizzlies to have time to make fun of it all.

Jackie said something a while ago about how nice people are to each other - I suppose as we said in another thread, irony may be just too cruel for some people's tastes.


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