h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

**picks up phone**
"Hello, is that AA? I've a new customer for you!"

**pause**

"Erm, no, It's not for a new driver!"
**hangs up**

KA - I'll get back to you when I find the right phone number

I've developed a unique skill for telling how much beer exactly* is left in teh glass just by the weight Well, sort of

By drinking what's left?

Oh, you use that method too then

I did most of a physics degree, the scientific method works fine for me

Well, I did say a *serious* day's drinking, rather than just an average one...

Back to the original question, GR probably stands for George Regis, which indeed refers to King George.

The last King George I presume, active beer glasses don't tend to survive for centuries, y'know

More official news about the glass. The NWML people were really kind enough to take my question seriously (as it is). G.R. indeed stands for King George, and it could be any of the two, considering the fact that the legislation demanding the stamps dates from 1927. Furthermore the number 323 refers to Gateshead (as Seamus also found out ). They have forwarded the question to the Gateshead authorities to see if they can do anything with the remaining letters.

In the Dutch edition of Michael Jackson's World Of Beer, there's a picture of three ancient geezers in a Dorset pub, shot in 1937 (the picture, that is ). They all have a similar glass in front of them. So it could be ome 70 years old.

*picks up a brand new glass brimming with 568 milliliters of deep brown 7% ABV Bokbier*

The Trading Standards officers finally managed to trace the history of the stamp on the glass. The number (323) was issued in 1946 and King George died in 1952, so the glass must be produced sometime between those two years .

*picks up the old pint glass, currently filled with Adnams SSB, beaming at it in an admiring way*

Terry

Wow! That's impressive - helpful civil servants

But please stop reminding me about beer...

Remember, some of us are stuck in a country where they consider Kronenberg a decent beer



(This is the second thread today in which I've complained about lack of beer... I think its time I came home for a while to top up the alkofrol levels )

Well, a few days heavy drinking left in Cambridge then I'm off Saturday to Silly Suffolk, to several gallons of adnams broadside a evening, and some rather fine and cheap Woodfords in a pub that often kicks us out at 4 AM Thats one rather old pint glass BTW; look after it I wonder how many pints have been drunk from it in its life?

A fair number of gallons have been drunk from it by me alone. I have no idea how many pints pass through a common or garden pint glass in an average UK pub each day.
I think 10 pints a day would be a reasonable average. I think it does not matter whether it stays with the same person on a single night or is used to serve several consecutive customers.
So, 10 pints a day equals over 3500 pints a year. The only thing we don't know is how long it has been in service. I've had it for about 15 years now and I bought it at a jumble sale from an OAP's residence (no idea how much they drink in a day )
The model is rather old-fashioned, so I reckon it would have been used until around 1975, let's say from 1950.
Thus: 25 years of 10 pints a day equals over 11.000 gallons.

*ponders*
Perhaps I shouldn't use it anymore, it must be dead tired...

Thats, well, thats more beer than an average person drinks in an day, but I guess its over a whole lifetime I don't appear to be. much, sense, perhaps, no, oh, yes I no, indeed a such in it is for I say would probably I think