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To: Henry Volquardsen who wrote (10982)	8/10/1999 10:37:00 AM
From: SIer formerly known as Joe B.	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 62549

I Drink Therefore I Am ucsu.colorado.edu In England, Young and Co.'s Brewery PLC announced it would no longer serve beer at its annual shareholders meeting. Over the years, people discovered that by buying only one share, for about $8, they could attend the meeting and partake of the company's beer, as well as wine and food. The single-share holders numbered in the hundreds, and the meetings evolved into raucous parties. After years of trying to control the revelry, chairman John Young finally decreed that the meeting would be limited to company business. Iain Loe, research manager for the Campaign for Real Ale, a beer drinkers' advocacy group, called the change "disastrous." Very Special Chocolats Inc. of Azusa, Claifornia, had to recall its liquor-filled candies from North Carolina for exceeding the state limit of 0.5 percent permitted in confections. The department said the candies contained as much as 10 times that amount. British railway worker Bert Stapleton, 59, was fired in March, three days before he was due to retire after 44 years of service, because he had a pint of beer on the way home from work. Acting on an anonymous tip that Stapleton was drinking at work, a railways spokesperson said Stapleton was on official paid duty as a trade union representative while returning from a union meeting when he stopped for a meal and a beer while waiting for a connecting train. In Brazil, retired beer-taster Bernd Naveke sued the brewery he worked for, claiming it turned him into an alcoholic. Naveke, who is seeking $160,000 in compensation, said he drank the equivalent of 50,000 bottles of beer during his 20 years with the firm. A company official denied the charge, explaining that beer tasters need drink only a small amount of each sample, although they aren't prevented from drinking the whole amount.