> From: Invent Yourself [mailto:xod@sixgirls.org]
> Sent: Wednesday, November 21, 2001 1:48 PM
> On Wed, 21 Nov 2001, Edward Cherlin wrote:
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> > 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.