Thanks, Doug. Trying for snappier.
Bill
On Thu, 12 Oct 2017 at 2:00 AM, Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:
> Well, I like it, too, Bill, with or without the ‘Done,’ though I don’t
> think it necessary. But, yes ‘serviced’ can kind of carry a perhaps not
> wanted implication.
>
> Doug
> > On Oct 11, 2017, at 3:15 AM, Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
> >
> > Don't like to advertise, Pat but this SA beer is a good drop, brewed in
> the
> > bottle:
> >
> > https://coopers.com.au/our-beer/ales-stout/original-pale-ale
> >
> > Yes, perhaps 'served' might have been more sensible than 'serviced'. I
> > suppose I was trying to indicate that she lightened the night for many
> > patrons, not just with her beer-pouring hands, nothing more than that
> > implied.
> >
> > Bill
> >
> > On Wed, 11 Oct 2017 at 7:59 pm, Patrick McManus <
> > [log in to unmask]> wrote:
> >
> >> Cooper's Green sounds like I have missed something -I read this at first
> >> as at breakfast and that she had been servicing customers all night!!!
> >>
> >> you can't take me anywhere :-)
> >>
> >>
> >> On 11/10/2017 05:58, Bill Wootton wrote:
> >>> End of shift at the Savoia
> >>>
> >>> Plonks onto a stool
> >>> on the other side of the bar
> >>> she has been servicing all night
> >>>
> >>> gives her long dark hair a swish
> >>> twirls the top off
> >>> a Cooper's green
> >>>
> >>> arcs her neck back
> >>> settles her legs
> >>> on an adjoining stool
> >>>
> >>> Done
> >>>
> >>> bw
> >>
>
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