DancingBear
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Sat Mar-20-04 03:07 PM
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Low cal beers seem to be the rage now, but they've been around. Back in the late 60's there were two companies that tried to find that market niche - and both bombed.
1) Name the two brands.
2) One of them had a joke attached to it that almost every beer-drinking person in America knew. Recite the joke.
The winner takes his place amongst the others on this board (myself included) who long for Madras pants and wide belts. :)
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Sat Mar-20-04 03:19 PM
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1. You have me on this and I could have had beer in the 60's |
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I bet it will ring a bell when you tell me.
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Sat Mar-20-04 03:38 PM
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2. "If you drink this, you'll lose weight." Gablinger |
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Sat Mar-20-04 03:39 PM
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The first low calorie or "light" beer was Gablinger’s in 1967. The Rheingold Brewery of New York City brewed it; Dr. Joseph Owades developed it. The brewery owners were afraid that their reputation might be damaged if the beer was a failure. As a precaution, they chose the name Forrest Brewing Co., after Forrest Street, on which Rheingold brewery was located, to label this beer.
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Sat Mar-20-04 03:47 PM
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4. Good job, team - so far |
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Gablingers was the better known of the two - 1967 was the year for the both of them, however. And Gablingers had the joke.
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Sat Mar-20-04 03:54 PM
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DancingBear
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Sat Mar-20-04 04:03 PM
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Now, what's the Gablingers joke?
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Sat Mar-20-04 04:15 PM
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I thought their TV ads "If you drink this, you'll lose weight" was the joke.
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Sat Mar-20-04 04:26 PM
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8. We'll see if anyone else remembers it |
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If not, I'll fess up later on.
BTW, of course it was not part of their advertising, but it made the rounds of all us hormonal 14 year-olds back then, which meant of course it had bad words in it. :)
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Sat Mar-20-04 04:38 PM
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"Drink Gablinger's and f*ck t*ts, c*nts and hot ass like a motherf*cker!"
Is that it?
--bkl
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Sat Mar-20-04 04:55 PM
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but that was, without question, one of the finest f#$%*ng guesses I have ever seen.
And you had a word or two right, as well. :)
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Sat Mar-20-04 06:59 PM
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12. What sort of gross name is that?! |
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I can think of two words, both of which start with "M", merged together, that creates "Meisterbrau".
And, no, I won't repeat them! :scared:
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Sat Mar-20-04 06:55 PM
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Sun Mar-21-04 11:10 AM
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14. Oops - I forgot about the joke |
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From the bowels of '67 - here it is:
What do Gablingers and making love on a beach have in common?
They're both fucking near water.
<ba-da-bing>
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