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Wednesday, May 18, 2011
This year is the first time that all 50 states and the District of Columbia recognize this week as National Beer Week. Enlightened barflies here in our nation's capital have been celebrating this week for some time now, even carrying the celebration over to all the months of the year. For those of you new to the party, we say welcome, and don't be shy about picking up the next round. Here are twelve songs to honor the ancient intoxicant, with some wisdom from the legendary beer drinker Homer J Simpson scattered throughout. And, as usual, we close with some Muppets. Cheers:
a twelve pack of songs for national beer week
This year is the first time that all 50 states and the District of Columbia recognize this week as National Beer Week. Enlightened barflies here in our nation's capital have been celebrating this week for some time now, even carrying the celebration over to all the months of the year. For those of you new to the party, we say welcome, and don't be shy about picking up the next round. Here are twelve songs to honor the ancient intoxicant, with some wisdom from the legendary beer drinker Homer J Simpson scattered throughout. And, as usual, we close with some Muppets. Cheers:
1. What's Made Milwaukee Famous - Jerry Lee Lewis 2. Beer - Reel Big Fish 3. Drinkin' Beer (Have A Ball) - Jimmy Witherspoon 4. Pretty Good at Drinkin' Beer - Billy Currington 5. Who Spilt My Beer? - The Adicts 6. Beer Bottle Boogie - Koko Taylor 7. I Like Beer - Tom T. Hall 8. Beer For Breakfast - The Get Up Kids 9. Lager Delirium - Bad Manners 10. Beer Beer Beer - Flogging Molly 11. The Beer - Kimya Dawson 12. Warm Beer Cold Women - Tom Waits (and Rolf)
"He was a wise man who invented beer." - Plato
"Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy." - Benjamin Franklin
"I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts, and beer." - Abraham Lincoln
"All right, brain, I don't like you and you don't like me - so let's just do this and I'll get back to killing you with beer." - Homer Simpson
"If God had intended us to drink beer, He would have given us stomachs." - David Daye
"Not all chemicals are bad. Without chemicals such as hydrogen and oxygen, for example, there would be no way to make water, a vital ingredient in beer." - Dave Barry
"When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading." - Henny Youngman
"If you ever reach total enlightenment while drinking beer, I bet it makes beer shoot out your nose." - Jack Handy
"You can't be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline - it helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a beer." - Frank Zappa
"24 hours in a day, 24 beers in a case. Coincidence?" - Stephen Wright
"Beer that is not drunk had missed its vocation." - Meyer Breslau
"Prohibition makes you want to cry into your beer and denies you the beer to cry into." - Don Marquis