"Americans have different ways of saying things.
They say "elevator", we say "lift" ...
they say "President", we say "stupid psychopathic git." 

Alexai Sayle.

Abstainer: a weak person who yields to the
temptation of denying himself a pleasure. 

     --Ambrose Bierce 

"... and this is ourselves... under fresher..."
                        -- me and Martyn Symons

"I was _everyone's_ drinking partner."
                        -- Karen

"I've even seen adverts for an Australian beer called 'Castlemaine F*ck'. At
 least, I assume that's what it's called - the hoarding adverts say things like
 'Australians wouldn't give a XXXX for anything else' and so on. I wonder how
 anyone brings themselves to order such a thing. ;-)"
                        -- Jo Walton, in rec.arts.sf.written (found in
                                alt.humor.best-of-usenet)