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Date: Fri, 9 Jul 2004 13:29:54 -0700 (PDT)

From: David Sprague <dsprague@cs.ubc.ca>

To: grads@cs.ub.ca

Subject: I only have eyes for beer.

Hello all. Well it's about time. No one made this particular suggestion but I thought this week I would concentrate on the

most important aspect of education: beer. Now some of you may not drink (and thus I may not know you at all) but for those of

you that are interested, I have found a web site that....well it does top ten lists and incessantly talks about beer. It is

essentially my weekly email but done with HTML, and some professionalism. It is also about micro-breweries (which I printed off

all the ones they listed for Vancouver) so you can become as snobby about beer as me. Sure you don't need to ACTUALLY

appreciate it, but you sound like you do when you use the word Reinheitsgebot in a sentence.

www.realbeer.com

As you might be able to tell, I am not presenting anything extremely topical this week. Partly because I have nothing topical

to discuss (note to self: Bill Aiello list for next week....and make sure it's nice just in case he gets a hold of it).

However, since there is no real department emergencies or 4 day weekends, there should be no reason why we can't have a strong

turn out this week. People are starting to think we are not longer obnoxious due to the last couple of weeks, and we can't have

that. So please meet me in front of CICSR at 5pm today and we can walk on down to our home away from home*. This week's list

continues the beer theme and my grand tradition of self deprecating humor. It also continues to demonstrate my paranoia and

persecution complex. A warning to some of you: break out the dictionary. The thesaurus was alive and well with for this one.

* Home for most of us is the lab, followed by Koerner's then that place you put a bed.

TOP TEN (nineteen) NICKNAMES GIVEN TO THE BEER CZAR

(potentially behind his back)

10. SpraGUI

9. Dipsoman

8. Dipso Stu

7. He who should not be driving

6. Light weight

5. Stumbly Joe

4. The guy who doesn't rock climb

3. The Drinking Despot

2. Pol Potomaniac

1. Jerk

0. Captain James T. Jerk

-1. General Disarray

(Thank you South Park)

-2. Sir. Osis of Liver

(Thank you Bugs Bunny)

-3. Babblicious

-4. Beery Po

-5. Banger Boy

-6. Anything that doesn't sound as dirty as "Banger Boy"

-7. el Senior Alcohlico

-8. Liquor Licker

-9. The Beer Goggler

See you at 5

David "Pol Pot is funny because he didn't kill ME" Sprague

"Koerner's: Come joing the IntoxiNation"