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Skitt
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| Posted: Fri Nov 04, 2005 4:18 am
Post subject: Re: BYOB [was Re: "Booze", "girl cum", and register] |
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Tony Cooper wrote:
| Quote: | "Skitt" wrote:
Harvey Van Sickle wrote:
Maria Conlon wrote
fArWeGod wrote:
Dunno if this was covered already, but we say BYOB to mean
both Bring You Own Beer and Bring Your Own Booze. Ie: the
final B is non-restrictive. BWYL would be better I suppose
(Bring What You Like) but Michael would bring a string of 10
year old boys again...
BYOB = Bring Your Own Bottle (in southeast Michigan, at
least).
That's also what it meant in the parts of Canada I lived in.
And in California.
I think of it as Bring you own booze.
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I guess it can stand for several things, but it means that alcoholic
beverages will not be provided. MWCD10 says that the last B can stand for
beer, booze, or bottle.
What about "bitch"?
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Skitt (in Hayward, California)
www.geocities.com/opus731/
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Mike Lyle
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| Posted: Fri Nov 04, 2005 5:22 am
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Skitt wrote:
| Quote: | Tony Cooper wrote:
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I think of it as Bring you own booze.
I guess it can stand for several things, but it means that
alcoholic
beverages will not be provided. MWCD10 says that the last B can
stand for beer, booze, or bottle.
What about "bitch"?
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Maybe not; but it has certainly sometimes meant "Bring your own
bird", which is kinder.
--
Mike. |
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Skitt
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| Posted: Fri Nov 04, 2005 5:38 am
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Mike Lyle wrote:
| Quote: | Skitt wrote:
Tony Cooper wrote:
[...]
I think of it as Bring you own booze.
I guess it can stand for several things, but it means that alcoholic
beverages will not be provided. MWCD10 says that the last B can
stand for beer, booze, or bottle.
What about "bitch"?
Maybe not; but it has certainly sometimes meant "Bring your own
bird", which is kinder.
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Yeah, kinder. I've been to parties where I had to bring one, but it was not
to be mine at all. This was in the 'seventies ... at the Circle S Ranch and
the Terpsichore (a Sausalito houseboat that later broke in half and sank).
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Skitt (in Hayward, California)
www.geocities.com/opus731/
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Jared
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| Posted: Fri Nov 04, 2005 5:41 am
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Richard Bollard wrote:
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As in BYOG (bring your own grog) which is understood to mean that you
should bring along whatever you intend to drink, although
non-alcoholic drinks may be provided by the host.
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....and Aussie restaurants are just BYO so bring your own whatever. |
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Evan Kirshenbaum
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| Posted: Fri Nov 04, 2005 6:00 am
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"Mike Lyle" <mike_lyle_uk@REMOVETHISyahoo.co.uk> writes:
| Quote: | Maybe not; but it has certainly sometimes meant "Bring your own
bird", which is kinder.
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I'm reminded of this, from Geoff Pullum's _The Great Eskimo Vocabulary
Hoax_ (p. 212):
The document was a hotel management guide to convention crowds and
their special needs and characteristics...Conferences are very
different, it turns out, from the viewpoint of the hotels and
convention centers that host them. Some groups get rowdy after an
hour at the cash bar and start smashing glasses and furniture,
some learned associations are a regular bonanza for the local
whores, and so on; the book tells hotel managers what to expect.
And the entry under linguistics conferences had simply this to say
about linguists:
Eat and drink at all hours of the day and night. Breakages
few. Bring their own women.
We sound like a nice bunch, don't you think? The bit about
bringing our own women, of course, indicates a certain unconscious
sexism in hotel managers, but even more so, it is a comment on the
male-dominated character of most professions and most academic
disciplines in America. Linguists don't "bring their own women":
those women are linguists!
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Evan Kirshenbaum +------------------------------------
HP Laboratories |"The Dynamics of Interbeing and
1501 Page Mill Road, 1U, MS 1141 |Monological Imperatives in 'Dick
Palo Alto, CA 94304 |and Jane' : A Study in Psychic
|Transrelational Modes."
kirshenbaum@hpl.hp.com | Calvin
(650)857-7572
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Robert Bannister
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| Posted: Fri Nov 04, 2005 8:06 am
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Harvey Van Sickle wrote:
| Quote: | On 03 Nov 2005, Maria Conlon wrote
fArWeGod wrote:
Dunno if this was covered already, but we say BYOB to mean
both Bring You Own Beer and Bring Your Own Booze. Ie: the
final B is non-restrictive. BWYL would be better I suppose
(Bring What You Like) but Michael would bring a string of 10
year old boys again...
BYOB = Bring Your Own Bottle (in southeast Michigan, at
least).
That's also what it meant in the parts of Canada I lived in.
In fact, these days in Australia, it's usually BYO - bring your own |
drinks, food, chair, girl, music. More seriously, in my state, at least,
we still have BYO restaurants - bring your own wine or beer; no corkage
charge, and the restaurant supplies the glasses and opens your bottles
for you.
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Rob Bannister |
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Robin Bignall
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| Posted: Sat Nov 05, 2005 6:10 am
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On Fri, 04 Nov 2005 09:06:35 +0800, Robert Bannister
<robban@it.net.au> wrote:
| Quote: | Harvey Van Sickle wrote:
On 03 Nov 2005, Maria Conlon wrote
fArWeGod wrote:
Dunno if this was covered already, but we say BYOB to mean
both Bring You Own Beer and Bring Your Own Booze. Ie: the
final B is non-restrictive. BWYL would be better I suppose
(Bring What You Like) but Michael would bring a string of 10
year old boys again...
BYOB = Bring Your Own Bottle (in southeast Michigan, at
least).
That's also what it meant in the parts of Canada I lived in.
In fact, these days in Australia, it's usually BYO - bring your own
drinks, food, chair, girl, music. More seriously, in my state, at least,
we still have BYO restaurants - bring your own wine or beer; no corkage
charge, and the restaurant supplies the glasses and opens your bottles
for you.
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You can still find these in England. One which gained some publicity
in the late 1980s is the Bedlington Cafe in Chiswick. This was a
typical greasy spoon during the daytime, serving breakfasts and
lunches, but during the evenings a go-ahead Thai family took it over
and served excellent Thai food at ridiculously low prices. In those
days it had a BYO policy for wine, just as you describe.
http://www.london-eating.co.uk/archives/2002/1/246.asp
I believe that this was one of the first such "dual use"
establishments, and the idea caught on in other transport cafés. I'm
glad it's still going strong.
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Robin Bignall
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Paul Wolff
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| Posted: Sat Nov 05, 2005 6:43 am
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In message <3svql1FqbuscU1@individual.net>, Robert Bannister
<robban@it.net.au> writes
| Quote: | Harvey Van Sickle wrote:
On 03 Nov 2005, Maria Conlon wrote
fArWeGod wrote:
Dunno if this was covered already, but we say BYOB to mean
both Bring You Own Beer and Bring Your Own Booze. Ie: the
final B is non-restrictive. BWYL would be better I suppose
(Bring What You Like) but Michael would bring a string of 10
year old boys again...
BYOB = Bring Your Own Bottle (in southeast Michigan, at
least).
That's also what it meant in the parts of Canada I lived in.
In fact, these days in Australia, it's usually BYO - bring your own
drinks, food, chair, girl, music. More seriously, in my state, at
least, we still have BYO restaurants - bring your own wine or beer; no
corkage charge, and the restaurant supplies the glasses and opens your
bottles for you.
There's a tea-room in dry Aswan that does that, with a terrace garden |
above the cataracts and Elephantine (possibly visible on the right in
the photo captioned "looking towards elephantine" at
http://www.egyptologyonline.com/aswan1.htm). The drill is to go to the
official offie for foreigners on one's wife's umptieth birthday, buy a
case of Egyptian red, and take it up to the hotel whose tea-room it is
for the party. The waiters are equipped with corkscrews and
wineglasses. Ordering teas all round is expected, but they need not be
consumed. The exercise scores remarkably high in Brownie points for a
birthday treat.
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Paul
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Robert Bannister
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| Posted: Sat Nov 05, 2005 7:58 am
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Robin Bignall wrote:
| Quote: | On Fri, 04 Nov 2005 09:06:35 +0800, Robert Bannister
robban@it.net.au> wrote:
In fact, these days in Australia, it's usually BYO - bring your own
drinks, food, chair, girl, music. More seriously, in my state, at least,
we still have BYO restaurants - bring your own wine or beer; no corkage
charge, and the restaurant supplies the glasses and opens your bottles
for you.
You can still find these in England. One which gained some publicity
in the late 1980s is the Bedlington Cafe in Chiswick. This was a
typical greasy spoon during the daytime, serving breakfasts and
lunches, but during the evenings a go-ahead Thai family took it over
and served excellent Thai food at ridiculously low prices. In those
days it had a BYO policy for wine, just as you describe.
http://www.london-eating.co.uk/archives/2002/1/246.asp
I believe that this was one of the first such "dual use"
establishments, and the idea caught on in other transport cafés. I'm
glad it's still going strong.
I am surprised. I thought the reason one didn't find BYOs in England was |
because of the licensing laws. Our licensing laws are just as
complicated, but do allow for BYO. I won't even talk about "wine bars".
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Rob Bannister |
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