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My understanding is that the newspaper schtick is Brish and that the Irish in Dublin use brown paper bags.
QUOTE(Jacques Gastreaux @ Aug 24 2006, 10:37 AM) 
My understanding is that the newspaper schtick is Brish and that the Irish in Dublin use brown paper bags.
That is my experience.
Interestingly, the Scottish use a bull's scrotum.
25% Scot,
Al
QUOTE(Al Dente @ Aug 24 2006, 11:18 AM)
25% Scot,
Al
So, we can assume that you have a lot of scotch in your blood?
Al
QUOTE(Jacques Gastreaux @ Aug 24 2006, 10:37 AM)
My understanding is that the newspaper schtick is Brish and that the Irish in Dublin use brown paper bags.
They don't use newspaper in Australia, either, but rather something akin to butcher paper. This is probably just a conscious attempt to differentiate themselves from the poms. 
QUOTE(TSE @ Aug 24 2006, 01:16 PM)
They don't use newspaper in Australia, either, but rather something akin to butcher paper. This is probably just a conscious attempt to differentiate themselves from the poms.
Not to mention the Kiwis, as they use newspaper.
QUOTE(mdt @ Aug 24 2006, 01:32 PM)
Not to mention the Kiwis, as they use newspaper.
Bah! The smaller and less self-confident Anglo-Saxon nations do tend to slavishly adhere to the more daft traditions of Mother England, don't they? 
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