Entries from July 2005 ↓

This must be email week because I found another in my Inbox from Geoff who asked if we'd link to his site, www.drunkornot.com  The site is a take off of hotornot where you can vote on pictures of people to tell if they are drunk or not.

Check it out. There's some great pictures there and some are hard to
tell if the person is drunk, sleeping, or both. I've added it to the
Sites We Like links at the right for easy access.

Here's a teaser for you:

I just got an email from Don Lewis who makes these beautiful hardwood beer steins and tankards asking if we’d put a link up to his site. Hell, yeah!  These are very cool.  I will need to get one of these (payday can’t come soon enough). Check the site out.  There’s not just a few mugs there either. He has pages of mugs of different types and sizes.

I’ve also added a link to www.donlewisdesigns.com in the Sites We Like section at the right.

According to The Times:

Drinks companies have been ordered to hire paunchy, balding men for advertisements to meet new rules forbidding any link between women’s drinking and sex. Watchdogs have issued a list of undesirable male characteristics that advertisers must abide by in order to comply with tougher rules designed to separate alcohol from sexual success.

Lambrini, the popular sparkling drink, is the first to suffer. Its manufacturers have complained after watchdogs rejected its latest campaign because it depicted women flirting with a man who was deemed too attractive.

The offending poster featured three women “hooking” a slim, young man in a parody of a fairground game scene. Harmless fun to lead its summer campaign, Lambrini argued.

But the Committee of Advertising Practice declared: “We would advise that the man in the picture should be unattractive — overweight, middle-aged, balding etc.”

I guess I should dust off that headshot and send my portfolio to London ad agencies…

Link via: AdPulp

Get matched with the perfect beer at BeerHarmony.com The site is a spoof on eHarmony done by DuClaw Brewing Company. After putting in a fake email address (actually, I used yours—hope you don’t mind) and fake birthday (I wasn’t born in 1700…) I filled out the brief survey and was paired with DuClaw’s Bad Moon Porter. A good choice since I love porters.

According to NY Newsday:

Bernard Marti, who is assigned to Harlem's 25th Precinct, was drinking in Cordato's Deli and Bar at 94 1/2 Greenwich St. at 10:30 p.m. Friday when a man knocked over Marti's beer, police sources said.

That man voluntarily bought Marti a new beer but intentionally knocked it over again, spilling it all over Marti's clothes, the sources said.

Marti took out his gun and showed it to the man, who swatted it away. The gun discharged and one round went into the man's left thigh, police said.

The guy who got shot was either stupid, brave, drunk, of some combination of these. First, he has the cojones to taunt the guy by bringing him a beer and intentionall spilling it. Then, when confronted with a gun, he swats it away. Not that he deserves getting shot but he definitely didn’t help the situation.