Re: Renege was Re: "Half-gallon"

On Fri, 28 Mar 2008 03:57:58 GMT, groo <afcagroo@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

>Opus the Penguin <opusthepenguin+usenet@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
>> Justin Hiltscher (justin@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
) wrote:
>> 
>>> On 2008-03-27, Greg Goss <gossg@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>>> Bill Turlock <"Bill Turlock "@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>Cancel the panic. It looks like the quantity decrease is only on
>>>>>the fancy-schmancy flavors, such as "Chocolate Crackle". Etc.
>>>>>As you were.
>>>>
>>>> Up here, the drift from "2 litres" to "1.89 litres" (2 US quarts)
>>>> started in the fancy flavours, and is working its way into more
>>>> of the regular ones.
>>> 
>>> First, they came for the fancy flavors, but I said nothing,
>>> because I liked plain chocolate...
>> 
>> Then they came for the Jews. Ha ha! You never saw THAT one coming, 
>> didja?
>
>Who would want Jews when they could have ice cream? 
>   
Are you suggesting that much of the nastiness that happened in Europe
in the 1930s and 40s might have been avoided if they had had more ice
cream in Linz in the 1890s?

-- 
Bill in Vancouver