Brew and Chew

Ian Phillips 0428 858 272

Following the last Probus meeting featuring AI, the Treasurer remarked that when using AI it was sensible to have a fair idea of the answer before beginning – rather like using a slide rule. The discussion then morphed into reminisces about slide rules, adding machines with handles and comptometrists, a lost breed like typists. All from the days when men drank beer and women Pimms No1 (with no risk of adulteration!).

Brew and Chew owes its name from the idea of exchanging recipes for home brew and offal – an idea that that did not survive beyond the first meeting, discussion then moving to carburettors and enlarged prostates. Unfortunately, wars, economics and social division seem topics that rather dominate today at Brew + Chew, unfortunate really, as laughs seem to come less readily in those discussions. But football is a reliable standby on which all have an opinion, particularly how unfair it is that teams that were never in the VFL now enjoy 10 game winning streaks, how uniforms were once sacrosanct and recognisable, and the survival of players after 400+ games.

Join the conversation at Camberwell Library on May 27 and June 24 at 10.00.

Ian Phillips – irp@alphalink.com.au

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