found one of my old baby photos

[kermit]

found one of my old baby photos.....

[Webfly]

Damn, that explains it all!

[CDCdun]

[teter]

This is funny, and it brought up a memory. One late afternoon day around 1958, when my mother's back was turned, I picked up an open can of Budweiser that she had set down (with the holes punctured by a church key; the pop top had not yet been invented). I took a sip and just then the doorbell rang. I opened the door, with a Bud in my 6-year-old hand, and told the man at the door, "I'm druuuunk." I wasn't, of course, but had heard or seen somebody say that in a movie or on TV. Mom was mortified, of course, even though she generally was irritated by door-to-door salesmen, which is what this guy was. She was sure that he was going to send the sheriff to the door -- as if people cared that much in those days.... She never forgot it and neither did I. Many years later, we shared a few beers. Wish I could share one with her now.

[BruceHandley]

Teter,
Now that's a cool story, if I had done something like that I wouldn't have been able to sit for a month.
Bruce

[PYochim]

I attended medical school in Missouri. At the time, Coors was not shipped east of the Mississippi. Growing up in Pennsylvania, we drank Rolling Rock and that wasn't shippes very far, either. What I would do was when I would visit my parents I took a few cases of Coors to my buddies in Pa. and NY and would then take a few cases of Rolling Rock to my classmates in Mo. Now I don't drink either of them.

A little trivia for today.
1. What is the significance of the number, 33 on the Rolling Rock bottle?
2. Where did the name, Rolling Rock come from?

[flyfishingpastor]

Paul, I BELIEVE, the number 33 came from the number of words found in the slogan on the bottle. Do I win a fabulous gift?

I've no idea where the name came from. I'll bet I lost the prize didn't I?

Pat

[PYochim]

The number, 33 is for 1933, the year of the repeal of prohibition. Rolling Rock was a race horse owned by the family that started the brewery.

[Cimarron]

I remember clearly taking a big swig of my father’s scotch and soda when I was about 4, just to see what all the fuss was about. To this day I can’t stand the taste. Probably saved me a lot of money on whiskies. Now, fine mezcal is another story.

[PYochim]

I remember clearly taking a big swig of my father’s scotch and soda when I was about 4, just to see what all the fuss was about. To this day I can’t stand the taste. Probably saved me a lot of money on whiskies. Now, fine mezcal is another story.

I took a drag from my father's non filtered Pall Mall when I was about 12. Ouch!!!!

[cregb]

The number, 33 is for 1933, the year of the repeal of prohibition. Rolling Rock was a race horse owned by the family that started the brewery.

Thanks for that. I never thought about why the bottles were the way they are. That makes sense now.