Alcohol
The Order Of Yoni
Yoni is the Sanskrit word for vagina and that is where the bacteria used to make this beer comes from. NSFW
Posted By: Alex - Tue Apr 05, 2016 -
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Category: Business, Genitals, Alcohol
Canada Dry Liquors
The complicated story of how a soda company came to market its own brand of booze is entertainingly told here.
Posted By: Paul - Mon Mar 21, 2016 -
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Category: Advertising, Soda, Pop, Soft Drinks and other Non-Alcoholic Beverages, 1960s, Alcohol
Coffee vs Alcohol
Coffee consumption protects the liver from alcoholic cirrhosis. The more coffee the better the effect according to a 22 year study involving 125,000 subjects. Tea does not have the same effect, ruling out caffeine as the cause. So, hit the coffee if you drink much but not for any other form of the disease as alcoholic cirrhosis is the only form it benefits.
Posted By: Alex - Sat Feb 20, 2016 -
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Category: Health, Coffee and other Legal Stimulants, Diseases, Alcohol
Horsford’s Acid Phosphate
What was once a patent medicine for "tired brains" and "seasickness" is now a hipster cocktail ingredient.
Full story here.
Posted By: Paul - Mon Feb 08, 2016 -
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Category: Patent Medicines, Nostrums and Snake Oil, Nineteenth Century, Alcohol
Follies of the Madmen #270
Message: Colt 45 habit produces stupefied oblivion to everything but next drink.
Posted By: Paul - Tue Jan 05, 2016 -
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Category: Oceans and Maritime Pursuits, Advertising, 1960s, Alcohol, Brain Damage
Rare Hallucination
Original article here.
Posted By: Paul - Sun Dec 13, 2015 -
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Category: Dreams and Nightmares, 1950s, Alcohol, Brain Damage
What A Waste
In 2003 800,000 gallons of Jim Beam was spilled into a retention pond and ignited by a lightening strike causing a fire tornado to form. Not sure why UPI reran the story of the firenado except that it was the 12th anniversary of the event. The fire show is definitely worth a view though.
Posted By: Alex - Sat Sep 05, 2015 -
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Category: Destruction, 2000s, Alcohol, Sadness
Party At Kroger
Kroger is expanding the number of stores that offer craft beer on tap for tasting and for sale in growlers, like the ones pictured above. Now cops can start setting up DUI checkpoints up the street from the local grocery store.
Posted By: Alex - Mon Aug 31, 2015 -
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Category: Retailing, Alcohol
Sober Desperados
Robbers broke into a store in Germany and took 1200 Koenig beer caps. That's right, just the caps, the bottles of untouched beer were left in the crates. Apparently the company is running a promotion giving away prizes on certain caps. The company also says there is no way to trace where the winning caps were delivered so if the criminals are careful in how they redeem the winners they are home free.
Posted By: Alex - Tue Aug 18, 2015 -
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Category: Awards, Prizes, Competitions and Contests, Crime, Alcohol
Old Quaker Booze
Once upon a time, thanks to Schenley liquors, you could get as wasted as old Ben Franklin (note: not a Quaker, just partied with them), in the manner of this Curly-Howard-lookalike above. Then you'd be "feeling your Quaker Oats."
Original ad here.
Posted By: Paul - Sat Jul 25, 2015 -
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Category: History, Historical Figure, Corporate Mascots, Icons and Spokesbeings, 1930s, Alcohol
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