Posted on 01/10/2020 4:30:23 AM PST by sodpoodle
"Sometimes, when I reflect on all the beer I drink, I feel ashamed. Then I look into the glass and think about the workers in the brewery and all of their hopes and dreams. If I did not drink this beer, they might be out of work and their dreams would be shattered. I think, it is better to drink this beer & let dreams come true, than be selfish & worry about my liver.”
Babe Ruth
"When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading.”
Paul Horning
"24 hours in a day and 24 beers in a case. Coincidence? I think not!”
H. L. Mencken
"When we drink, we get drunk When we get drunk, we fall asleep. When we fall asleep, we commit no sin. When we commit no sin, we go to heaven. So, let's all get drunk and go to heaven.”
George Bernard Shaw
"Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.”
Benjamin Franklin
"Without question, the greatest invention in the history of mankind is beer. Oh, I grant you that the wheel was also a fine invention, But the wheel does not go nearly as well with pizza.”
Dave Barry
“Beer: Helping ugly people have sex since 3000 B.C.”
W. C. Fields
“Remember ‘I’ before ‘E,’ except in Budweiser.”
Professor Irwin Corey
“To some it is a six-pack To me, it is a Support Group. Salvation in a can.”
Leo Durocher
The human brain can only operate as fast as the slowest brain cells. Excessive intake of alcohol, as we know, kills brain cells. But, naturally, it attacks the slowest and weakest brain cells first. In this way, regular consumption of beer eliminates the weaker brain cells, making the brain a faster and more efficient machine. That's why you always feel smarter after a few beers.
This could turn into a Jack Daniels for breakfast thread real quick.
Funny;)
I just need a break from the MSM (p.s. I don’t drink) FR is my drug of choice!!!!!!
“ This has got to stop! Nobody minds if a man has a morning eye-opener. It’s OK to have a brace about 10 A.M. and even a couple of drinks before lunch. It’s permissable to have a few beers on a hot summer afternoon to make him healthy or at least happy. And, of course, everybody drinks an afternoon cocktail or two, and a person can’t be criticized for an appetizing Martini and wine with dinner, followed by a liqueur and a highball or two to wind up the evening. But this business of sip-sip-sip all day long has got to stop!”
Attributed to W.C. Fields
Except for Benjamin Franklin, those were real quotes. Why did they have to mess up Franklin’s quotes?
Not as long as they’re still makin’ that golden nectar, Genesee Cream Ale.
One of my co-workers does home brew. Last night, I had a rather good amber he made. I still have a couple of IPA’s he gave me, but I’m not fond of IPA’s in general.
George Bernard Shaw plagiarized Martin Luther,
“Whoever drinks beer, he is quick to sleep; whoever sleeps long, does not sin; whoever does not sin, enters Heaven! Thus, let us drink beer!”
Ping for later
LOL! Thanks. Great humor for the am. I am thinking about diving to Indiana to get a few cases of Zombie Dust on Monday.
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You must be from Rochester. I went to RIT and I swear that school kept Genny in business. Been a very long time since I heard someone mention Genesee of any kind. My favorite was Genesee Bock … the dregs of the kegs.
Beer has saved uncounted millions of lives over the centuries. And small beer saved the children.
Because it is boiled. Pasteurized, we say now.
And now, Yuengling distributing is heading westward! Yay!
Actually, I lived in Western New York State all of my early life until 1973, and thereafter from 1979 until 1984, from thence to Delaware ever since.
After my college degree, I worked as an engineer for the Pfaudler Company at the far end of West Avenue, and was also a member of the Gates-Chili Volunteer Fire Company in the early '70s.
One of the fellow firemen was a truck driver for Genesee, and we spent many happy weekend hours playing cards at the firehouse, waiting for a call. But having drunk more than one 6-oz split, you simply were did NOT to ride the truck, or work a hose.
If you did read the above article, you see that Babe Ruth ignorantly imagined that his lack of drinking a few beers would result in unemployment of brewery workers. Whilst earning my degree in the Southern Tier, I too used to imagine that persistence in sitting after hours bellied up to Mahogany Ridge with a few other fellows would keep the brewers working overtime.
However, working for Pfaudler disabused me of that idea. You see, Pfaudler made the glass-lined steel tanks that were used to store the malt-based beverage end product prior to bottling. Just one of those tanks held 43,500 gallons of the finished fluid.
So one evening, while watching my son compete in swimming at his school, I idly mentally calculated the size of that pool, which turned out to be almost exactly the size of one of those tanks for which we fired on the glass inner coating in our kilns. Then, I reminded myself of reading the most recent order from Anheuser-Busch to replace their current storage for just one of their sites, which was for a hundred of those swimming-pool-sized tanks. That was the end of my imaginative excuses for staying away from my family for an evening at the bar. Rochester's Genesee Company was just a minor customer relative to that.
To sum it up, my long-time flirt with the malt-based industry--whether of beer or of Justerini and Brooks' product--ended in 1985, and I've not had a drink since. Recreational ethanolicity is the errand of a self-destroying fool, not fit for a reasonable human, IMHO. I have diligently tried it, and it. don't. work. Anheuser-Busch knows that, but regardless dips into the billfolds of beer-idiots as a regular toll on the convivial pathway to the Hell of interminable headaches, the place that has no beer, nor even cool, cool water, at the end.
The two times I’ve been falling-down, what-in-the-hell-was-I-thinking drunk was with Ouzo. The next days’ hangovers were epic as well.
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