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Default When making a sugar syrup for Tom Collins'....

skeeter > wrote in news:Xns9E686ADEAF6D7nospamnet@
198.186.190.162:

> Jim Elbrecht > wrote in
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>> Aussie > wrote:
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>>>Jim Elbrecht > wrote in
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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'.
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>>>I have to ask........ what the *hell* has that got to do with making a
>>>Tom Collins???

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>> 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
>>

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




The subject was about making a cocktail called a Tom Collins, numnuts.

Bringing racial slurs into it was unwarranted, and you advocating the use
of it shows what a ****wit you are.



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