JW and Lou,
If you gentlemen were among those who camped at King George V on those layovers in Santa Monica (the OLD, beat-to-hell-but-wonderful King George V Pub on Santa Monica Blvd, not the newer (what? 10 or 12 years now?), sterile one off the Promenade, and NOT the King's Head...), perhaps you can enlighten me… Whenever I was in there for my Guinness, three or four or five times a week, the Brit pilots were always drinking Budweiser. What the heck is the deal with that? Yeah, I know… some people like it. But it seemed more institutionalized than that. I half-expected to see a Mr. Smoke-Too-Much, Eric Idle “Tourist” sketch predicated on Budweiser instead of Watney’s spontaneously break out. Thoughts?
Dave
PS Which one of you were sitting next to me at that very bar on the afternoon of the day the Challenger was lost (28 Jan 1986)?