Hello Dan.,

 -=> Quoting Dan Ceppa to Peter Coggon <=-

 DC> I thought that the regular ginger ale was in green bottles as well.  

  Ginger Ale as far as I can recall ....well CANADA DRY was always
in the green bottles, but now plastic.   AAAH Bummer there goes
getting a few pennies for returning the bottles.

OH... yeah....to go on ...   the Ginger Beer, came in a brown
bottle, only I can not remember if they sold it in the large
bottles.   Used to get 6 pack...all brown bottles...and really
good GINGER BEER.

Lately at the stores I have been getting some big plastic Ginger
Beer containers, and it seems to be the old formula under a
different manufacturer.

 DC> Well, they do have rules for their fights.  

Actually Dan , there is a code of honour at the bottom of these
fights, and it is the team, and the protection of key star 
players, and of course every team has an enforcer to carry
out his duties.     Used to be pretty bad, but nowadays
they are trying to cut out this part of the game, that they
let happen.

I think all this started with the first games of something that
resembled hockey on skates as it is today ... Military units
in Canada played it and other units, and well things got
carried away and they figured they'd practice fighting hand
to hand...only on the other unit.    The citizens , seeing
this and the game, only took it as being a part.

Maybe ....???  Not sure, but Kingston Ontario was a big hot
spot for this game.
 
Also Big Pond Nova SCotia that claims to be the place of the
start of it all....

When I think of fights, I always think of the Cleghorn brothers
in the early 20th century and the reputation for bawling on ice
they left behind as an example ....  I think we have come a
long way since then...

ttfn
  
Pete




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