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Originally Posted by maleficent
Hawke a former union leader famous for his down-to-earth approach and for holding a beer drinking record while studying at Oxford University, said the term had been useful to him at official functions.
"It gets you out of all sorts of embarrassing situations," he said.
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Holy moley, I can only imagine what kind of stories must be behind this little snippet.
I kinda wish we had a President who had won a beer drinking record here in the States. Of course Bush could probably qualify for a word-mangling record and Clinton would have had a shot at a Big-Mac-eating record....