28 February 2002

Just smile

At the Oktoberfest (where else?) visitors were seen sporting T-Shirts saying: "If you want to make love to me, don’t talk. Just smile." A mass or two of beer later it probably did not really matter who made the first move and whether a word was spoken. If a serious hanky-panky is your objective - don’t bother about retracing the course of events. Interpretations will vary greatly.
Sometimes business seems to imitate life. See the unconfirmed speculations about SAB being involved in mergers with other brewers. While in South Africa SAB claims that it has an unwanted suitor in the shape of Miller, people familiar with the situation in London claim that SAB is weighing up a possible merger with U.S. brewer Miller to create the world’s number two beer maker. Let’s wait ...

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