Word: beer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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During dinner, McGuane sips nonalcoholic beer and talks about an upcoming cutting-horse competition in Billings. Cutting, a highly stylized ritual in which a horse and rider "work" a cow in much the same way a defensive guard tries to block a basketball, is a dear topic for the McGuanes. They also happen to be formidably good at it. Laurie is Montana's defending cutting- horse champion, Tom was No. 1 the year before, and the two are the leading contenders for the 1989 trophy. "We take turns," Laurie laughs...
However, there's still one big difference between Nebraska and Harvard. Walk into any bar in Lincoln, plop 60 cents on the table and soon you'll be sipping a glass of Bud draft. That's right, for the price of one beer at the Boathouse, you can get a pitcher of beer in Lincoln. Sports bar, how you doing? Don't even bother to tell...
When the customer hands over a ruble, the bartender gives him back 50 kopecks. Says the bartender: "We're out of beer...
...walks into a Moscow bar and orders a beer. "One ruble," says the bartender. "What?" the man protests. "Last week it cost only 50 kopecks...
...Well, 50 kopecks is for the beer, and 50 kopecks is for perestroika...