Snark it like it owes ya money!!!

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It's all that fruity beer. If he'd drink Bud he'd have the runs like the rest of us.
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Grew up in town with the Genessee brewery - Genny Cream Ale didn't come by the nickname Genny Screamers without reason. Anyone who's seen the Genessee river knows what I mean. Never a problem for me, though, cause I grew up with all that crap in my system, anyway.
 
I recommend Bud Select 55 for the more constipated among you.
 
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I grew up in Central Wisconsin in the 80's, when Point Beer was one of the last surviving family-owned/local/not-horrifyingly-corporate breweries in the entire beer-soaked state, until the "microbrew" craze came around and local stuff started getting props again (as it should, at least as a concept).

By happy accident, it was Point Beer that me and a buddy stole from my aunt's garage fridge one spring evening after my youngest cousin's First Communion party, drank it up, and got in serious trouble for shooting at streetlights and breaking a few windows with a Daisy BB gun. We were 14/15. That was also the first time I realized that BDU pants can easily carry 3 cans of beer in each leg pocket... a lesson that has served me well to this very day.

Not surprisingly, one of the local cops (who also just happened to be my Tae Kwon Do instructor) showed up at my house the next morning and had a very stern talk with me and my parents. :eek: He never vocally gave me guff about it thereafter, but he did make me do a lot of extra push-ups and I spent an inordinate amount of time the next several weeks, holding pads for other students to punch/kick. Mom and Dad didn't really say too much either, except, "You're gonna pay for this, you big dummy."

Long story short, no charges were filed. I spent that entire summer digging stumps and weeding flower beds and mowing lawns to pay for the damage we did. That kinda stuff builds character. :thumbup:

But I digress. Point being (ho ho, see what I did there?) it was cheap as water back then and the local yokels and college kids from out-of-town used to wink and joke that Point would give you the squirts real bad, until you got used to drinking way too much of it for weeks on end... then you build up a tolerance. We called it "Point Bugs", as in, "You gotta let the Point Bugs build up in your system, then you'll be able to digest it properly." My youngest uncle has lived in Vermont for 20-some years now, but when he goes back to visit WI he still loads up on Point and makes jokes about the Point Bugs in his innards coming out of hibernation.

Good times. :)
 
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will check out locals for HT...while still building an oven :D I have made like 10 knives already but none of them have been rc tested so it's a moot point right now, still working on the grinds.

I received a good piece of advice from the tv last nite and completely disregarded it till it proved right. Watching How I met your mother past 2 am, the episode's name was just that, "nothing good happens after 2 am"... since my belt sander died and I had put scales on a blank on Saturday, I was rough shaping the handle with my 16...while watching the show...past 2 am...almost sliced off my left middle finger...

Good cheap beer that people used to make fun of? Go back 20 years in Puerto Rico, freshman at college I developed a taste for our national brewski, Medalla. At home on weekends my brother and friends would open wide their eyes and laugh at me when I ordered it at the bars. Fast forward to present? EVERYBODY in PR drinks it now, it's the most fashionable beer and they do the best parties...go figure...
 
I tended bar in a biker dive in the early 90's and laughed in the face of all the non-local young trendy nitwits (and old nitwits trying to act young and trendy) ordering Foster's and Corona ("it's Australian/Mexican for 'piss' ")... I never cared one bit for Guinness, either... but the joke's on me, they all still sell like hotcakes.

There's just no limit to what saturation marketing can accomplish.
 
Corona is decent beer, I would take it over bud or miller any time... so is dos XX and Modelo, but Sol and Tecate is the best of the Mexican beers..

I was friends with 3 Australian girls while they lived here, the oldest sister told me that no one drank Foster's back home because it is so bad they can only export it to yanks with no sense of taste...

I love a good Guinness, on tap, I like to chug it while the tiny bubbles are still there.. taste like a milk shake.

The little hole in the wall convenience store by my house has like 150+ beers, if you ask them for something they will try to find it and get some.. I try to grab something I haven't had before. I asked him to get some Ka Bar beer, but I keep forgetting to ask him if he has had any luck..
 
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Corona is decent beer, I would take it over bud or miller any time... so is dos XX and Modelo, but Sol and Tecate is the best of the Mexican beers..

I was friends with 3 Australian girls while they lived here, the oldest sister told me that no one drank Foster's back home because it is so bad they can only export it to yanks with no sense of taste...

I love a good Guinness, on tap, I like to chug it while the tiny bubbles are still there.. taste like a milk shake.

The little hole in the wall convenience store by my house has like 150+ beers, if you ask them for something they will try to find it and get some.. I try to grab something I haven't had before. I asked him to get some Ka Bar beer, but I keep forgetting to ask him if he has had any luck..
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When I was in Australia everyone drank Guinness or Victoria Bitter. I like Guinness , but I became partial to VB while there. I'd love to find it here in the states.
 
I recall VB being popular when I was Down Under too.
Guinness... Hard to find a worthy competitor that's generally available.
 
There's no accounting for taste.

I've spent decades and several bushels of cash trying every beer I could get my hands on... some of the most famous/popular ones frankly make me wanna barf. I can't deal with most ales and stouts and porters. I enjoy mild, crisp German and Dutch beers like Grolsch, St. Pauli Girl and Beck's, and light (not "lite") American lagers; they just suit my palate and tummy. Lately I've been enjoying some of the Belgian wheat beers - creamy and slightly sweet, great with almost any meal. But I always come back to PBR and Hamm's for everday drankin'. I don't give a fat flyin' hoot if they're trendy or not. They just taste right to me.

I've sampled (OK, worn out) a pretty good cross section of bourbons, Irish/Scotch/Canadian whiskeys too. I always come home to bourbon, it's just what I like.

I have almost zero understanding of or palate for red wine; I have seldom met a white wine I couldn't happily wrap my face around.

That's not to say I would turn my nose up if a friend offered me something else. I am a firm believer in being a grateful and appreciative guest when someone else is pourin' ;)
 
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Stag, Schaeffers, Schlitz and Blatz. That's beer drinkin' right there. Six bucks a case hot. The good old days.
 
Used to get Sportz... was a couple bucks a six pack and guaranteed headache and hot snakes the next day..
 
So I just got my Perkins knife from the UK. It's ok I guess. Doesn't feel like the handle is drilled out or skeletonized, don't know for sure but the balance isn't great. Handle felt very nice. Very good shape and good job sanding it and smoothing everything out. It also came very polished. Looks very nice. However I noticed a small blemish or two that would have annoyed me if I had paid full price for this thing. As it was I could live with them. As I looked over the blade closer I noticed a warp/bend in the blade. Oh hell no! Had the thing for less than an hour and I've already contacted the seller for a refund. The sheath is decently constructed but it's really just a cover and not a very good one. Two pieces of leather stitched across the bottom and front and two snaps, not even a belt-loop or anything.

It sure is a cool looking knife but I can't live with the warped blade and for $100 (which normally would seem like an awesome deal) I shouldn't have to.

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Of course it's got finger prints all over it :D
 
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