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In the 1920s, Alaskan bush pilots started the tradition of the ‘short snorter’, a banknote signed by people travelling together on an aircraft, ‘snort’ being slang for a stiff drink, ‘short’ being less than a full measure. When out carousing, an airman failing to produce his short snorter had to buy his colleagues a round of drinks.
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