Anthy
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Post by Anthy on Mar 29, 2004 18:39:42 GMT -5
Though I'm Canadian, I do have to say that I like handling bills better than coins myself. I have no idea why, but ever since I was a kid I've never liked handling small, warm metal things like coins. They make your hands smell weird if you hold them for too long... The perfect monetary system for me, then, would I guess be a compromise. I'd be quite happy if all the currency was bills, but I would very much like them to stay colour-coded. Not only is it easy to tell which bills are which, it makes for much prettier money than American money. ^_~
And as a small nod back to the original point of the thread: CAP sucks in every possible way that fundamentalists can suck. Hurrah.
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Post by druidGirl on Mar 30, 2004 10:15:30 GMT -5
attempts to drive this thread even further off course
oh, and in no way am I trying to harp on Justin.
Sam Adams did not make beer. Sam Adams was opposed to consuming alcohol. His father ran a brewery, which he despised, and it was left to him when his father died. At that point, Adams ran the business into the ground, a final spite to his father for making alcohol. Ironic now that there's a beer company named after him, with "his" picture on the front with a big stein of beer.
Ah, how American history gets farther and farther away from the truth. It can be entertaining though, especially when people say stuff like "if our forefathers would have know that people would be using such foul language they'd never written free speech into the Constitution." Yeah, except that pesky little historical fact about cursing not being a social taboo in the 1700s. That didn't become an issue until snobby Queen Victory came along and decided words were bad. Words like pregnancy.
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Post by DocD83 on Mar 30, 2004 10:40:45 GMT -5
What, the Sam Adams beer logo doesn't look like him? What did he look like?
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druidGirl
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Post by druidGirl on Mar 30, 2004 12:35:51 GMT -5
Well, I'm sure it looks like him, but it's not really a picture of him. It's not like Sam Adams posed for a portrait like that and they used it for the beer bottle. That's all I'm saying. There's no real portrait of Sam Adams that looks like that particular picture. Because, well, he hated beer.
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Post by Head Mutant on Mar 30, 2004 13:10:37 GMT -5
Does that mean Duff Man also hates beer? My world is flipping upside-down!
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Post by druidGirl on Mar 30, 2004 13:28:21 GMT -5
Duff Man. Really Hates Beer. Oh Yeah.
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Post by Vorlina on Mar 30, 2004 15:27:01 GMT -5
Adams Ale, surely?
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Post by Deleted on Mar 30, 2004 19:50:10 GMT -5
Actually, I thought the ancient Egyptians created beer?
Not that I'm trying to be a smarty-pants, but how could someone think that Sam Adams INVENTED beer? That would make beer only 200 some years old!
Anyways, if he hated beer so much, why is a brand of beer named after him? Was there some other Sam Adams that liked beer? Or did they just randomly choose a historical figure to name the beer after?
This whole thing is just out of control!
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Post by DocD83 on Mar 30, 2004 20:20:41 GMT -5
As I recall it was originally a beer produced by a struggling microbrewery, and it was more or less just the owner's fancy to change the name to Sam Adams. They didn't mention any familial connection on the show I was watching, but he definitely had his mind on the historical figure. I assume the guy didn't know Sammy didn't like the stuff (I wouldn't have).
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Post by Deleted on Mar 30, 2004 20:26:56 GMT -5
Oh, ok. So it was probably option #3.
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Post by Magill on Mar 31, 2004 9:38:09 GMT -5
Actually, I thought the ancient Egyptians created beer? Not that I'm trying to be a smarty-pants, but how could someone think that Sam Adams INVENTED beer? That would make beer only 200 some years old! I don't think anyone is saying that Sam Adams invented beer. I think some people were speculating that he liked beer, or was somehow associated with the brewery that bears his name. Both of which are false. To be even more of a smarty-pants, I think the Mesopotamians invented beer. I'd have to check on it, though. |
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Post by dajaymann on Mar 31, 2004 10:51:04 GMT -5
Don't be silly, boy! I invented beer. And mesopotamians are the devil.
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Post by druidGirl on Mar 31, 2004 13:09:19 GMT -5
Girl, actually.
Re: Sam Adams again.
The brewery his father left him was called the Adams Brewery (I pretty sure, though I could be wrong about that one), but like I said, he ran the business into the ground purposefully. So, Sam Adams was know for his brewery at the time, just not in the way most people think of Sam Adams today. heh.
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Post by Head Mutant on Mar 31, 2004 13:15:59 GMT -5
So... did you write a report on Sam Adams back in school and are excited to finally put it to use, or what?  |
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Post by druidGirl on Mar 31, 2004 17:20:56 GMT -5
Actually, no. My brother is a history FREAK! And his specialty is Pre-Revolutionary/Revolutionary War. One day we were hangin' out, he was drinking a Sam Adams, he looks at the picture on the bottle and then looks at me and goes: "Did you know that Sam Adams was a Quaker and was against alcohol consumtion..." And I got the whole history lesson.
That's how I also learned about the whole cursing thing. People back then? Cussed like sailors.
Seriously, if you want to know anything about American History my brother is your man.
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