> From: Invent Yourself [mailto:xod@sixgirls.org] > Sent: Wednesday, November 21, 2001 1:48 PM > On Wed, 21 Nov 2001, Edward Cherlin wrote: > > > > I told the barman to ask the proprietor, Anne Dinken, if > they could serve a > > two cents plain, and she bellowed from the back, "Tell 'im > to go back to the > > > What's a 2 cents plain? A glass of seltzer, no flavoring, served in the 1920s.