In article ,
Jaques d'Alltrades writes:
| The message
| from martin contains these words:
| On Wed, 3 Mar 2004 21:32:59 GMT, Jaques d'Alltrades
| wrote:
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| I used to buy horticultural sodium chlorate (dirty pink, it was) for
| 1/6d a pound.
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| I used to buy beer at 1/- a pint.
|
| But it didn't kill weeds. (Boom-boom!)

Some of it (e.g. Watney's Gaslight) didn't make you drunk before
your belly filled up, either.

I heard rumours that a couple of brands were as cheap as they were
because the brewery wasn't taxed on them.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.