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Another urban legend
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Date: Fri, 11 Feb 1994 17:27:20 -0500
From: Eric Haines <erich@eye.com>
Message-Id: <9402112227.AA06705@hemlock>
To: subgenius@media-lab.media.mit.edu
Subject: Another urban legend
Well, I merrily passed on the Asaka Beer Corporation AP story, and got this.
Darn, I knew it was too good to be true...
Eric Haines
Unfortunately, this seems to be a bit of a spoof:
Newsgroups: alt.beer,rec.crafts.brewing
>From: gak@wrs.com (Richard Stueven)
Subject: Re: Hydrogen Beer: Follow-up
Organization: Wind River Systems, Inc.
Lifted from alt.folklore.urban
have fun
gak
In article 37122@dog.ee.lbl.gov, twcaps@tennyson.lbl.gov (Terry Chan) writes:
>Regarding the subject thread, I checked with John Provo
>who resides in Japan (some of you may remember him from
>a discussion about the 100th monkey business from about
>two years ago) to seek his thoughts on the AP wire report
>about the popularity of "Asaka Beer Corporation's" hydrogen
>beer as posted by Peter van der Linden.
>
>Briefly, he says it's total nonsense.
>
>In his circle of office aquaintances (including several
>karaoke enthusiasts), no one has heard of Asaka Beer, the
>shooting of blue flames, or singing in hydrogen-induced
>falsetto. ['course, he may have very boring office-mates.]
>
>The senior fellow in his office says that due to tight
>government regulations there are only four beer companies
>in Japan: Sapporo, Kirin, Asahi, and Suntory. No Asaka Beer
>Corporation.
>
>Interestingly, he suggests that there is monthly periodical
>entitled _Tokyo Journal_ with writers that he characterizes as
>"...likes to think of themselves as _Spy_ writers-in-training."
>And thus run occasional spoofs such as this one (though he wasn't
>aware of this specific one as being done in the magazine).
>
>Terry "Does whiskey count as beer?" Chan
>--
>Energy and Environment Division | Internet: TWChan@lbl.gov
>Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory | Talk is cheap and I have
>Berkeley, California USA 94720 | a big line of credit.
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