Alcohol
Devolution Through Beer
Posted By: Paul - Thu Jan 19, 2017 -
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Category: Body Modifications, History, Advertising, Anthropology, Dinosaurs and Other Antediluvian Creatures, Fish, Alcohol
Follies of the Madmen #298
Explanation here.
Posted By: Paul - Wed Dec 07, 2016 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Products, Crowds, Groups, Mobs and Other Mass Movements, 1960s, Alcohol, Moral Panics and Public Hysteria
Follies of the Madmen #297
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Maybe some Canadian WU-vie can explain the subtext of this ad. Three men hold up photos of hockey players while looking benignly but perhaps jealously at the fourth fellow who is smart enough to have a beer in his hand instead, with his own hockey photo (program book?) resting on a tabletop.
Huh?
Original ad here.
Posted By: Paul - Mon Nov 28, 2016 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Products, Regionalism, Sports, 1960s, North America, Alcohol
Lush Head Woman
"Get a lush head woman and lose your health!"
Posted By: Paul - Fri Nov 25, 2016 -
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Category: Domestic, Music, 1940s, Alcohol
Marlboro Beer
In the early 1970s, there was briefly such a thing as Marlboro Beer (trademark registration). Philip Morris (having just acquired Miller Brewing) figured that many people like to smoke as they drink beer, so surely a beer that shared the same brand name as their best-selling cigarette would be a success. But apparently test marketing indicated otherwise. So that was the end of Marlboro Beer.The few bottles of it that were sold now fetch a high price (as much as $1000) as collector's items.
via Box Vox 1
Posted By: Alex - Mon Nov 21, 2016 -
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Category: Smoking and Tobacco, 1970s, Alcohol
The Frozen Woman
Original article here.
Alas, two years after the coverage above, she was gone.
Original article here.
Posted By: Paul - Thu Nov 17, 2016 -
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Category: Body, Human Marvels, Medicine, Nature, 1950s, Alcohol
So Long, Pal
Disco-era DUI.
Posted By: Paul - Tue Jul 12, 2016 -
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Category: Motor Vehicles, PSA’s, 1970s, Alcohol
The Alkoholomat
Don't drive drunk on the holiday--or any day! The penalty could be worse even than ending up as an item in NOTW!
Posted By: Paul - Mon Jul 04, 2016 -
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Category: Humor, Inventions, 1960s, Europe, Alcohol, Cars
The Heidelberg Tun
Full story here.
Posted By: Paul - Wed Jun 22, 2016 -
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Category: Excess, Overkill, Hyperbole and Too Much Is Not Enough, Europe, Eighteenth Century, Alcohol
A Nip For The Kitty
Now you can turn your cat into a wino and never drink alone again with kitty wine! The ingredients do not include actual alcohol, just catnip, water and beet juice. But considering the company is based in Colorado who knows what kind of weed is in there.
Posted By: Alex - Sun Jun 19, 2016 -
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Category: Animals, Cats, Alcohol
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