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Default 03-22-2007, 23:11

You're right, it seems.
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Originally Posted by sleepy_sarge View Post
a quick google reveals.....

There has been much confusion on alt.fan.pratchett concerning what exactly constitutes the 'ginger beer trick', and which bodily orifices are involved. Terry says:

"To save debate running wild: I've heard this attributed to the Mexican police as a cheap way of getting a suspect to talk and which, happily, does not leave a mark. The carbonated beverage of choice was Coca-Cola. Hint: expanding bubbles, and the sensitivity of the sinuses.
Although it is, in the book as such, left to the fantasy of the reader... Pratchett sometimes leaves such details open, I seem to recall. I seem to stumble upon a few questionmarkable situations in each book, and not all of them can be blamed on the language barrier...
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