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No old people? Is no one else bombarded with those awful Most Interesting Man In the World commercials? "Stay thirsty, my friend." Gah. I have yet to see him say or do anything interesting.
LOL! How could I forget those commercials! And no, I haven't seen him do anything interesting either. I guess the answer can be found by drinking lots of Dos Equis.
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Thanks for your kind words, Jim. Of course, I cribbed my new moniker from -- seize the moment! -- one of the posts above. Funny thing, today an old college friend dropped by for the first time in a year, and he suggested a new knickname for me: Sixtoes Jones.
Ya think?
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Dos Equis is good, but Man, I love my Corona! "La Cerveza mas finas"
And remember, you can't Buy beer, you can only RENT it.
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Aug 8, 2009 - 11:38 PM
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Josh
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I merely used it as an example of drinking in our commercials, I agree it sucks. But we have many prominent beers (Hoegaarden, Cristal, Grimbergen, Jupiler, Leffe) and the world's biggest brewery, Inbev, is Belgian from origin
I must admit I was surprised at seeing ads in the States for our beers when I was visiting last year, and even more surprised at the high prices (I guess understandable for imports).
I looove Hoegaarden and Leffe, however. Those are two of my favorites. You honestly can't go wrong with a good Belgium beer.
Oh yes, Hoegaarden is great. My favorite brand of Belgian beer (actually, my favorite beer, period) is Chimay. All varieties of Chimay Trappist beers are delicious, but the Grande Reserve (blue label) is THE NECTAR OF THE GODS!
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THIS is why they don't drink beer in commercials. Everyone would be stinking drunk. 
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Oct 31, 2009 - 11:12 AM
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manderley
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I never drink beer. Gin and tonic is usually the cameraman's drink.
But, as apparently the only one here who has actually spent time SHOOTING TV commercials (for more than a decade during one period of my career), I can say that beer commercials were mostly more fun to do than almost any others.
In these commercials you usually can't just drink the beer in your living room, you must be on a yacht in Hawaii, on a hotel terrace in Acapulco, overlooking a ski run in Banff, or sitting by the sea in Cannes. And the camera and crew must be there, too! What a dull life it was to shoot these!
The worst part, however, was doing the gorgeous "product shots" at the end of the commercial.
"OK, now," says the Director. "That was a pretty good take, but the head on the beer wasn't foamy enough. Put your air syringe into the beer and spritz it up a bit and get the bubbles to come up from the bottom of the glass. That's better. Oops! Now the foam is running down the side of the glass and we can't read the beer logo on the side. You can't wipe that off properly. Get a new glass. OK, let's try it again. The head looks good now. We'll roll another take, but what I want you to do is use the eyedropper just above the glass and dribble a drop of beer down the outside of the glass so it looks fresh and appealing and cool. That's good. Now let's roll. Oh, oh. That wasn't a good take. The dribble didn't roll fast enough down the glass and got stopped by the moisure half-way down. We need to do another take. OK. Ready? Let's roll again. OK, that was a pretty good take but the beer drop ran down the side of the glass and covered the "E" in "beer". Could you make it so the drop goes BETWEEN the "E" and the "R" in "beer"? Let's try it again. How many perfect and clean glasses do we have left? Forty-two? That's good. We might need most of those. OK. We're set again. Let's roll. Much better on the drop. It didn't go between the "E" and the "R", but it went between the "B" and the "E", so that's OK, too. Let's try for one more good one so we have a choice. Roll camera. That was not bad.....but the head on the beer isn't foamy enough again. Let's puff up the head on the beer and do another take........"
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Feb 12, 2012 - 8:57 AM
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Jim Phelps
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Here in Texas, you can buy it 8am-12am M-F, 8am-1am Saturday, and Noon to midnight Sundays.
It doesn't matter, I learned how to plan ahead and beat those self rightious, hypocritical bureaucratic bastards YEARS ago.
This morning, my wife and I went to the farmers market and bought a bottle of red wine for dinner this evening. It was in our city as opposed to the grocery store, which is located in a "dry" area of town.
Turns out the "dry" rule varies from town to town. My town is a "wet" town. 
Oh, the sense of grown-up liberation! To actually purchase alcohol on a Sunday before noon without the nanny state wagging its gnarled, arthritic finger at us!
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No old people? Is no one else bombarded with those awful Most Interesting Man In the World commercials? "Stay thirsty, my friend." Gah. I have yet to see him say or do anything interesting.
How can you say that? After all, sharks have a week named after HIM!
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American has so many odd goofy rules when it comes to alcohol. I live in Indiana most of the year and the sheer number of you can't do this, you can't do that, you do this but only if you do this and this before etc. etc. it's ridiculous. You used to not be able to be open past 12:30AM on Sunday night if you served alcohol. They just recently changed that. You still can't buy it on Sunday because that's the day of worship....BUT you can go to Applebees get loaded and tanked and drive the family home. To me that makes a lot more sense...insert sarcasm here.
They have not started carding every single person no matter if you are full of gray hair and can barely walk, you HAVE to have an ID or you don't get alcohol. I'm not a fan of that law. When you get older, much older there just isn't a lot to look forward to not like when you turn 18, 21, 25-cheaper car rentals on vacation and I think insurance is lowered. When your in your 40's and 50's and so on, it's all down hill from there and to make old people who are well over 21, probably well over 50 show their ID is just plain stupid. They say they are trying to help underage drinking. Kids who want alcohol who are underage are still going to get it bottom line. Most kids growing up knew someone who could get them alcohol.
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I'm actually surprised they continue to make beer commercials after all these years. I highly doubt anyone really buys beer based on the commercials. People who like that stuff will drink it because that is what their friends have when they go hang out, not so much because it is what they saw on TV. I am an IPA man myself so I'm not going to be buying this stuff.
I think the main reason the massive beer companies advertise endlessly is the same reason Coca-Cola advertises endlessly. It is less about educating the unaware about their product, and more about putting a bug in the ear of those who already enjoy that product to go out and buy more of that product. I am an IPA man as well, and it doesn't matter how many Budweiser or Bud Light commercials I see, there is no way I am going to pick up their product. But for those who do enjoy those products, I suspect seeing it advertised regularly does subconsciously impact the amount they purchase.
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