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Batchewitt. Jeremy Zackerson, New South Wales. Last week, Jeremy introduced me to an Australian

phenomenon. It's called the Beersnake. At first it threw me. I thought beers like snakes, snakes like

beers. Okay, fine. I'll believe that. Everything, everybody is exotic in Australia and they will

try to kill you. So a drunken snake, that made sense to me. Turns out a beer snake is completely

not a snake, but it is a beer snake. Jeremy, what is a beer snake? And

where does it, where does it, where does it appear? Well, John, the beer snake is a very rare

creature indeed. In fact, it only appears that Australian test cricket matches. And what a

bear snake is, is effectively a snake made up completely

of empty plastic cups that once had beer in them. And why this is a phenomenon at Australian

test matches is because when you go to watch cricket in Australia, inevitably, you're going to

drink beer. But at all of Australia's cricket grounds, you're not allowed to bring your own

beer in,

which means you have to purchase that on-site, which means you get beer in a plastic cup.

And you know, by the end of, say, a 10-hour session when you've been watching a long day of

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