Jim Elbrecht > wrote in
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> Aussie > wrote:
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>>Jim Elbrecht > wrote in
m:
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>>> Aussie > wrote:
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>>>>>>
>>>>>>Should be interesting in the Tom Collins I'm going to make shortly
>>>>>>:-)
>>>>>
>>>>> I don't know how this will translate to Australian-- but perhaps
>>>>> you're making an 'Uncle' Tom Collins.
>
>>> Didn't think it would translate.<g> In USA'n, an 'Uncle Tom' is
>>> a black American who is perceived to be betraying his race by
>>> sucking up to 'the white man'. The term comes from the book
>>> Lincoln credits with starting our civil war- "Uncle Tom's Cabin'.
>>
>>
>>
>>I have to ask........ what the *hell* has that got to do with making a
>>Tom Collins???
>
> Guess it was a worse attempt at a humorous name than I had feared. You
> are making a *dark* Tom. One that is not traditional.. . . .
>
> Oh well-- it probably tastes good & that is really all that matters.
>
> Jim
>

he's a little slow jim.
i think it's safe in assuming everyone else got the humor.