For his last meal he ate two pints of mint chocolate-chip ice cream.

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In some cases two pints would put you over the recommended limit.

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Smith's former Two Pints co-star Natalie Casey won the best supporting actress in a play for the Menier Chocolate Factory revival of Mike Leigh's Abigail's Party, which also won Best Play Revival.

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Tesco is not revealing the nature and extent of the content it will be offering, but titles listed on the promotional webpage include Superman Brainiac Attacks, Care Bears, and Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps.

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It left me suspended in a bad joke in which a living man inexplicably becomes two pints of dust and everyone acts as if this were not a joke at all but, rather, the most reasonable thing in the world.

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Comedies Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps, Goodness Gracious Me and Alistair McGowan's Big Impression join dramas Carrie's War and Blackpool and children's classics Stig of the Dump and The Secret Garden on the free service, which can be accessed online at www.clubcardtv.com.

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The inquest was told that Able Seaman Ryan Donovan had drunk more than 20 pints of cider and lager over two days before the attack, in which he also shot and injured another officer while the submarine was docked in Southampton.

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During the two-day trial, the jury heard that the couple had between them drunk two bottles of rose wine and later had four or five pints of lager each.

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It is no small thing to serve 80, 000 half-pints of Pimms and 27, 000 kilos of best Kent strawberries at best London prices within two weeks.

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