Vic Smith wrote:
On Tue, 17 Jul 2007 14:12:39 -0400, HK wrote:

Schaefer...the one beer to have when you want to belch up beer breath.

Michelob did that for me. I had one once and got pulled over for
speeding a couple hours later. The cop asked me how many beers
I had and I told him "One, a couple hours ago." He said, "What!?
You smell like a f**cking brewery, and so does your car."
But he bought the truth, and I beat the speeding ticket too.
I never drank a Michelob again.

I drank Piels for a while when I drank beer because I liked Bert and
Harry Piel, aka Bob Elliot and Ray Goulding. Best commercials ever.
Among the worst beers ever.

I never saw a good beer commercial. Some of those Bud ads around
the Superbowl some years back came close.

One summer while in college my father got me a job on the loading dock
at Hulls' Export Beer in New Haven. I loaded kegs and cases of bottles
onto trucks all day long. Work rules required a cold keg on the dock at
all times to "refresh" the grunts who did the loading. I'm afraid those
days are long, long gone.

http://tinyurl.com/395jnv

Those were the days. I earned enough in the summer to just about cover
the next year's tuition, books and room and board, thanks to the
American union movement!

Heh heh. It was the UAW and Teamsters that put me through college.

--Vic


Here's a really old Piels beer commercial:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=26HtmV0DmRU

They got more sophisticated (!) as the years passed, but still kept to
the format.

I had two good summer jobs thanks to the Teamsters, and another good one
thanks to the Steamfitters and Boilermakers Unions. I knew a little bit
about welding before that summer, but by the time the summer was over, I
was working right alongside journeymen, refurbishing
steam boilers at the now defunct Bigelow Boiler factory. Now that was a
manly man's job! The place was ancient; it had built steam locomotives
earlier in its history.