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FREE BEER!
I bet you will stand still for this!
Posted By: Alex - Wed Oct 02, 2013 -
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Category: Alcohol
Sourtoe Cocktail Club Update
There have been several posts (here and here) on WU about the Sourtoe Cocktail Club. You join the club by going to the Downtown Hotel in Dawson City, Yukon, and consuming any drink that has floating in it a severed human toe. Your lips must touch the toe. Finish the drink, and you're a member of the club.However, the rules clearly state that you CANNOT chew, swallow, or otherwise damage the toe. If you do, you must pay a fine of $500.
Joshua Clark of New Orleans recently decided that he was willing to pay $500 to be known as the guy that swallowed the toe. So now the Downtown Hotel is looking for a new toe. And they've upped the fine to $2500 to deter any copycats. [Daily Mail]
Posted By: Alex - Thu Sep 19, 2013 -
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Category: Alcohol
Beer Gut
Auto-Brewery Syndrome was the diagnosis for a 61 year old man who kept turning up drunk without drinking any alcohol. Doctors actually isolated him in the hospital with only food and non-alcoholic beverages they supplied and still his blood alcohol content became elevated. The answer they came up with was that the man's intestinal tract contained so much brewers yeast that it acted as an internal brewery. He was becoming drunk from the inside when he consumed carbs. He was looking for a cure for a disease many people would be trying to catch!
Posted By: Alex - Tue Sep 17, 2013 -
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Category: Alcohol
Just add water beer
Six packs and kegs are heavy and difficult to carry everywhere. So for those hard to reach party destinations try powdered beer, just add water and drink,drink, drink!
Posted By: Alex - Tue Sep 03, 2013 -
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Category: Alcohol
A Motorhome Drives Into A Bar
Now stop me if you've heard this one. Perhaps the name of the town is explanation enough.
Posted By: Alex - Sun Aug 25, 2013 -
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Category: Alcohol
No water for 25 years
On July 4, 1935, Dr. Walter G. Kendall, 81, drank a glass of water. It was the first glass of water he had drunk in 25 years. He reportedly "suffered no ill effects," and followed it by several cocktails.In addition to being famous for abstaining from water, Kendall was also a well-known dentist, bicyclist, and horticulturalist. That's him in the pictures below. [image source: here and here]
Posted By: Alex - Thu Apr 25, 2013 -
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Category: Eccentrics, Soda, Pop, Soft Drinks and other Non-Alcoholic Beverages, 1930s, Alcohol
Suntory Whisky
Nine shots and he can still walk! That must be some weak booze....
Posted By: Paul - Thu Apr 18, 2013 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, 1960s, Asia, Alcohol
Mothers need beer!
This ad for Blatz beer has been circulating around the internet for some time. Often people who post these vintage ads never provide a source for them, so it's hard to know if they're real or fake. But in the case of this Blatz ad, I know it's real because I found the following discussion of it in the Church School Journal, 1917. Apparently it was controversial even in the early 20th century:
The whiskey men well know the value of childhood for the formation of permanent habits. Dr. C.T. Wilson says that the advertising of the liquor people has these aims: to secure the use of liquor in homes; to encourage drinking by women; to promote drinking by children; and to put the appetite for drink into unborn children by inducing expectant mothers to drink beer. He showed to a congressional committee an advertisement which read: "How mother and baby picked up: A case of good beer in your home means much to the young mother, and obviously baby partakes in the benefits"; also an advertisement recommending whiskey for delicate undeveloped children; also the picture of a nursing bottle filled with whiskey and taken from a small boy; also a picture of sixteen different hollow toys taken from school children. These hollow toys were all filled with sweet wine or whiskey, and had been given out by drink dealers.
Posted By: Alex - Thu Mar 07, 2013 -
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Category: Advertising, Alcohol
Tsongsul, or Feces Wine
According to rocketnews24.com, there's a Korean drink called Tsongsul, which translates as "feces wine." It's made by mixing oven-baked feces (chicken, dog, or human) with distilled grain alcohol. Some medicinal herbs and cat bones are thrown in as well. Then the whole evil concoction is left to ferment for 3 to 4 months.
People drink this in the hope that it'll cure whatever illness they might have, not for fun. However, I can't find any sources that independently confirm there really is such a drink, but Korean sources are hard to check. So I'm going to take their word for it.
This wine might pair nicely with urine bread!
rocketnews also has a photo series of a bunch of women actually drinking this stuff.
Posted By: Alex - Fri Jan 04, 2013 -
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Category: Food, Excrement, Alcohol
Follies of the Madmen #196
This is a particularly egregious cut and paste job, even for the pre-Photoshop era. Never mind the far-fetched association of lady astronauts and booze.
Posted By: Paul - Wed Dec 26, 2012 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Products, Spaceflight, Astronautics, and Astronomy, Stereotypes and Cliches, 1960s, Alcohol
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