Days That End in Y

General drunkenness, attempting to clear my apartment of old crap on eBay, and getting a Wii all contributed to a week of little blogging. In the meantime, though, I did compile a large collection of interesting links.

• Largest Champagne Fountain: Seriously, whoa! I don’t think I’d ever climb that ladder. The likely outcome would be my ending up in a hospital with thousands of glass shards stuck in me.
• Liquor Bottles Made of Squid Skins: Um, ew? These Ika Tokkuri are cuttlefish dried and shaped into sake bottles. I’m sure they impart a delicate flavor of the sea.
• Booze Bra Gives Woman a Wine Rack: Forget the Wonderbra! This second base will squirt a tasty non-baby-friendly liquid.
• Beer Gets Seatbelt. Child Doesn’t.: You may be an alcoholic if…
• More SMS Help from Martini Groove: Rick has a very neat SMS service that gets you drink recipes. While I’m too cheap to text, I’m sure some of you have unlimited plans.
• The Martini Workout: It’s like danging a carrot in front of a donkey, except the carrot’s a martini glass and you’re the ass.
• BeerAdvocate to Host the East Coast’s Largest American Craft Beer Fest: Yes! Yes! Yes! Even better, it’s on my birthday! It’s a dream come true.
• Tomato Beer: The Echigo Beer Company in Japan has released Tomato Bibere. I’m intrigued, but I fear it likely just tastes nasty. If I really want tomato beer, I’ll just squirt some ketchup into a Bud Light.
• The 2008 Topps Drinking Game: I never really got into collecting baseball cards as a kid, though this may have helped.
• Diageo in $900m Dutch Deal: A behemoth grows bigger with the purchase of a 50% stake in Ketel One.
• Beer Used to Thwart Robbery: The next time someone tries to rob you, just swing a six-pack of beer at his head.
• Bukowski Tavern’s Annual ‘Pint and Pen’ Contest: Win $2500! I recall last year’s entries were rather sexual in nature, so insert some raunchy stuff if you want to win.

Anyway, that’s it for this week. In the meantime, if you’re in Boston, consider heading to the Wine Expo this weekend. Tickets should still be available. Yours truly will be there tomorrow.

What do you do with the carton after drinking 30 cans of crappy beer? Well…

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I fell for yet another lolcat, though to be clear, I do realize this is not a cat! I’m not that drunk.

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Who doesn’t like a good bar trick? There are tons and tons of them at EasyBarTricks.com or at the YouTube.

Ah, Jeopardy! I wish I’d actually bothered trying out for college Jeopardy when they stopped by my alma mater, but I recall that being a ridiculously hellish day. Oh, well. I can live vicariously through the contestants now by shouting inane questions at the TV screen and showing up my girlfriend.

Friday’s episode of Jeopardy had the category “Potent Potables”. I simply didn’t know the $1600 question, and the $2000 question didn’t come to me in time. Argh!

Answers:

• $400: If 007 is coming over, better read the book “Shaken Not Stirred: A Celebration of” this cocktail.
• $800: In Cockney rhyming slang, this liquor is a “gay & frisky”.
• $1200: Searching for fine tequila? Look for a label that says it’s 100% this color agave.
• $1600: This word for a sweetened mixture of rum, beer & beaten egg can also mean a turned-up hairstyle.
• $2000: A Harvey Wallbanger just won’t have the right bang without this yellow liqueur.

Click here to see the questions

Oh, man, I definitely laughed at this picture. It completely caught me off-guard: beer holder.

This is totally not safe for work (NSFW) unless you happen to be surrounded by naked boobies all day.

With New Hampshire’s primary today and the Iowa caucuses having taken place on the 3rd, who the next president will be is in the forefront of everyone’s minds. However, perhaps we should be ignoring all these stupid primaries and polls and pay attention to the National Beer Wholesalers Assocation instead, which asks this simple question: Which of the presidential candidates would you rather have a beer with in 2008?

The current Democratic winner is Barack Obama with 27% of the vote, and the current Republican winner is Ron Paul with 14% of the vote. Sounds about right to me.

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I was just watching Family Feud WWE Special, and the question posed was: Give me another word for alcohol. Are you smarter than the WWE Superstars who could only get three out of six of the right answers? And are you smarter than the WWE Divas who couldn’t steal?

Click here to see the answers

This entry certainly made me smile.

The next time you’re playing parlor games with your friends as you imbibe cocktails. Play hangman, and use the word “schnapps”. That will almost certainly be difficult to guess due to the lone vowel and length! Ha!