CURIOUS INDEX, 8/1/2008

Hey O,
Not complaining, just wondering…what’s up with the comments section? Having to fill out name and email every time, and after a post it links back to the homepage. Just wondering if it’s me or changes to the site.

Rodriguez, such a tool. “When I was there, he never stirred up anything”…

any opportunity he gets, makes a stab at WVU…

I hope UM goes 2-10 this year, one less win than ND had last year would make me a happy football fan.

Cats are great pets—until the day they drag you across the stage by your face.

Meyer was so disappointed in Pouncey’s piss-beer-poor Cup showing, he brought out the heavy artillery. Tat tat!

Footnote: When my fraternity’s garbage cans stopped being used to ice down Fratty Light, and started being used to ice down Busch Light, it was like the start of a bold new era.

let me be the first to say that i strongly disagree with your characterization of my beloved natty light

though the spartan days of my college career are long gone and i now do such adult things as work and pay a mortgage, i still remain loyal to natty, or as i like to call it, god’s balls sweat

it sure beats buds light, miller light, and that horse urine called coors light

harumph!

In the category of “beers best used for drinking games,” I’ll take Natty any day, especially over Beast. Beast is dog-piss bad. Natty is devoid of any taste, which makes it perfect for chugging/slamming/halfzies.

Natty Light, sex in a canoe… yadda yadda…

Now let us praise the WWL? OK. Now that Rece is anchoring College Football Live it’s watchable. Is it mere coincidence that Rece’s take over happened just as “Rapid Fire” disappeared? I can’t say, but I did get a quality “Ian Johnson’s been at Boise State longer than Tommy Hodson was at LSU.” Rece also made a mockery of the “Helmet Playoff.”

Here, here, Rece.

White apologized for the “distractions”, not the comment.
Weak sauce.

You haven’t truly lived until you’ve been on a Natty Ice bender. Waking up in your 60 year old neighbor’s front yard in nothing but your boxers still with a firm grip on a Natty Ice can is a life changing experience.

I am hurt by your mischaracterization of natural light. If you’re going to drink a shitty American lager, you should drink the shittiest American lager. The real losers in this game are the folks who pay 20% more to drink Bud/Miller/Coors Light.

..“Corso is like a hungry bear with vertigo let loose in a kindergarten full of slow-footed children.”

That would describe me at a dive bar in college hitting on somewhat hot women, and the word “hot” depending on how many Natty Lites I’ve consumed, and by hot I mean fat. Natty Lite is the proverbial gateway beer of the Anheiser-Busch food chain….it takes awhile to get the bank to step up to the Michelob’s of the world. Now since they sold to InBev and my next goal is Beck’s or Stella’s.

Natty Light was definitely the best beer for shotgunning. Especially when required to take down twelve in the 2 hours from ND to Wrigley Field.

Why the hate on Coors? It’s the only beer I can be certain that it’s cold.

A glimpse into the future — the 2008 NCAA Football Rankings — Preseason (Aug. 17) are up. 1. UGA, 2. USC, 3. Ohio St., 4. Okla, 5. Fla, 6. LSU. http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/rankingsindex

Wow, 13 responses and not one either in praise of or ridicule towards sa6an.

That’s gotta be a record (much like an actual 3 game suspension, assume this one actually holds).

Could be worse…

MOULTON — A north Alabama man has been accused of stabbing a friend for returning from a store with the wrong brand of beer.

The Lawrence County Sheriff’s Department charged 64-year-old Grady “Skip” Wilburn Dollar with first-degree assault for allegedly stabbing Mickey Joe Hill.

Lawrence County Sheriff Gene Mitchell said the 37-year-old Hill was in good condition at Huntsville Hospital after being stabbed at Dollar’s rural Lawrence County home.

The sheriff said Thursday that Dollar had given Hill money to buy the beer, but Hill got the wrong kind.

Dollar was released from jail on $5,000 bail.

I’m a Beast man myself, although I can safely say that Milwaukee’s Best Ice is the worst “beer” I’ve ever tasted in my life. It tastes like kerosene.

1. Re: Wilson

“Wilson completed an anger management class and community service.”

And now he is all better…Are they kidding? I would think shooting off an AK47 would end your career at a university.

also, for those familiar with Notre Dame, i’m the reason why the linebacker started carrying natty light – it was my greatest accomplishment during my time there

^true story^

+100 cocktails to you, Mucho Sax (which you can trade in for 10,000 Coors Lights).

To justify my current obsession with red Powerade, I’ve started referring to it as “the reddest-tasting sports drink in the world.”

I really got hooked on bottles of highlife as my shitty cheap beer. Yea most def, natty for when you want to have a party and need to go cheapest, but highlife cuz its as cheap as I’ve seen in frosty cold bottles.

Thankfully, I play golf during gameday. I have watched it before and feel that Kirk and Corso have scripted their ‘opinions’, as have May & Holtz. I think Rece is the best that ESPN has in a shallow talent pool. Kirk makes the most idiotic statements that only get challenged when he is so stupid, even Fowler and Corso have to step in. An example would be after the tOSU-LSU game saying the Big Ten and tOSU is on par with the MAC. Their constant yammering about SC being the best, no matter that they lost to fucking Stanford! As far as I’m concerned, he has no credibility. I’ll grant that Gameday is the best show ESPN has, but that is not hard to do when they employ Screamin A Smith, Skip Bayless, et al. as “talent”.

Nick Saban doesn’t have time for Natty.

natty lite > the beast
the beast = liquid arse piss the next morning
roy @ #3 = pure genius

thus concludes your math lesson for today

okie, there’s no reason to take pride in anything relating to the ’backer. except for the 2-for-1 long island iced teas. those I liked.

Best cheap beer on the planet?

Shaefer’s.

A six pack would set you back about $1.89 in 1986. I haven’t seen it in several years.

Amen #21. Nothing beats easing through a case of 8oz pony bottles of High Life on a hot day. Undrinkable at room temperature but like the nectar of the gods when ice cold.

Say what you will about ESPN – but I still love their commercials. As for GameDay, how can you not love it when Lee Corso opens the garbage bag and puts on the mascot head of the team he believes will win – while the crowd behind either cheers in approval or roars in anger. The fact that Chris Fowler can actually “herd the cats” (Corso and Kirk) is an amazing feat. Best of all is Rece.

I just bought 60 (two 30 packs) CLights from Costco for $36.36. In college, $36.36 would have bought 8 cases of Beast Light, 4 packs of Marlboro Lights, 6 condoms and one Barely Legal. Times they are a changin’.

Natty Light is no Meisterbrau.

Southpaw, bitches

Natty Light is like manna from the gods compared to High Life. That is the only beer that has ever made me puke because of its awful taste, not amount drunk.

You should all know by now that the greatest cheap American beer known to man is Schlitz. It’s the beer that made Milwaukee famous, for fuck’s sake.

Why drink crap beer when you can have America’s Best in 1893 – PBR?

The Beast Ice was my beer of choice as a first semester frosh as it offered the highest alcohol to cost ratio.

on a scale of 1 to 10…where would you put milwaukee’s level of fame??

natty light is the best of the cheap/“shitty” beers in my humble, yet often drunken opinion.

Southpaw is an erection in a bottle. Tater Salad is dead on.

As far as slum beers go, Schaefer beer is pure unadulterated frog piss. And its the only beer which you can afford if your going broke or homeless, or going to college…..but for a cheap drunk “Schaefer is the one beer to have when you’re having more than one.” But for now my new found addiction is ice cold Bud Lime, I literally “shower in that shit”…

c’mon pelican pants…the lime beer craze?? you want a side of zima with that??

Once funnelled Zima before high school graduation practice as I was told that it didn’t smell like alcohol on your breath. Didn’t need the smell when I waltzed into the gym with a bathrobe and no shirt.

Larry Eustachy agrees that Natty Light is da bomb.

Nothing like comparisons of cheap beer to generate 38 comments in 90 minutes. I miss the Lone Star Light 20 pack. (sniffle)

Red Dog, Southpaw’s ugly sister.

“Maurkice”???

Someone smack his momma.

All I can say about this current thread of conversation is wow.
 
Friends are always concerned about what their boyfriend/significant other/husband, etc. is thinking. I am amazed that this discussion takes up so much time for women. My current thoughts are who gives a damn what they are thinking, it isn’t about you. But I console my friends with this:

Men only think about three things:
1. What time is the game on.
2. When will I eat again.
3. When will I have sex again.

I need to add a fourth item:
4. Do I have enough (add beer name here) in the refrigerator.

Call me sexist. I know it is coming. But you guys know everything I said is true.

Blon57 is right. Maybe we should start thinking more about shoes.

Don’t disparage the Natty, beer elitist. It’s a very underrated brew. And don’t spill Stella Artois on your ascot.

blon57,

I currently have 16 cold Yuenglings in the fridge and 18 warm in the pantry. The 16 should allow sufficient time to cool some of the warm ones, as I will be replacing the ones I take out of the fridge. In other words, I’m good for tonight while I watch a replay of either the UF/tOSU or the OU/BSU bowl games.

The cat has nothing on that dog in Joe Dirt, who stopped to knock off some cooter while on his rescue mission.

1. - I won a bet once in college and the guy paid me with a case of Shlitz. I ALMOST wish I had lost….but not quite.

My old man used to drink Old Milwaukee. That was some awful shit too. Esp when he wanted to share with me and I didn’t want him to know I was hung over from the night before.

Do they still brew Stroh’s? Used to love the 15 packs, perfect for a day at the lake.

@Vol—

Our ascot was fine until your commetn forced some of it in a quite rude fashion to effervesce from our mouth and onto the aforementioned neckwear. Damn you, sir.

you mean “fire-brewed” strohs? like that was supposed to make it better.

the funny thing about Stella Artois is that in the UK if is considered a “wfiebeater” beer. Okay, maybe not funny, but not as high brow as it is perceived here (or how the company wants it to be perceived).

Hey, Stroh’s was rated a “Best Buy” by Consumer Reports. And last time I was home, I saw a Natty Light billboard (that actually referred to itself as “Natty Light”). You’d think $9 a case beer would sell itself.

Worst beer EVER was a mexican knock-off I saw one time in LA called “Tres Equis”. It had a foul metallic taste that made it near undrinkable.

In my high school & undergrad days the cheap beer of choice was Lucky Lagers, 12 for $2.99 and you got the little puzzles on the inside of the caps as a bonus. Choice B was Mickey Bigmouths.

In grad school the bar our department hung out at used to serve Stoh’s for 75 cents or Genny Cream pounders for a buck, and during happy hour they would thow in 3 chicken wings. That was friday night dinner right there.

Blon51 @ 42: It is rare to find a woman who understands the male mind so well.

Those of us Louisiana know Dixie beer pretty well. In the 70’s, fumes from a floor cleaning chemical distorted the beer’s flavor. My experience was that they never did fix it.

Mitch, I remember when I was 16 I ate a bologna sandwich and washed it down with a Stroh’s.

Worst combination ever!

i have to disagree dragon. given my age, i never had dixie before the late 90’s, but i’ve always kinda dug it. then again i’ve been defending natty light all morning.

Dixie beer is now brewed in Wisconsin until the brewery in Nawlins can recover from Katrina and looting.

My apologies, Orson. As for Dixie, I used to live in New Orleans and therefore sometimes drink it on pure principle. But in all honesty it tastes like a Milwaukee’s Best which has been left in car trunk for an entire Louisiana summer. Abita Amber is my current top beer choice. I sometimes put it on my cereal in the morning.

Mmmm Natty lite, the old college standby. It is the beer with the taste for food don’t you know.

Also, the absolute worst shit ever was Cooks Beer Flavored Beverage, cheapest thing by far at Macs, right across the street from the Cheetah, not that I ever made it to either of those establishments while in school, nope not me.. Not sure what that makes Cooks but, monkey piss in a can, will probably suffice.

Has anyone ever had Billy Beer? Was it good? I just saw the Simpson’s episode where Homer finds a beer in his concert jacket. Makes one think.

I guess I’m weird. I’ve been out of college for 10 years and I swear to god I drank Natty Light last night.

MeatyBob, I’ve never had a Billy Beer but my dad has an empty can he kept. He said it tasted like Billy’s ass.

vol,

any list i make of “favorite beers” starts with abita amber.

“i wish it were winter so we could freeze it into ice blocks and skate on it and melt it in the spring time and drink it!”

#58, Vol

My brother married a girl from Covington a couple of years ago. Abita all freaking weekend. Goddang, they make awesome beer.

PBR… Mmmmmmmmmm

Am I the only one here who has had a black ribbon?

PBR and Guinness? Good stuff. Harps can’t hold up it’s end of the black and tan like PBR can.

Swindle, you’re dead on about College Gameday. I’m so sick of hearing SEC fans bitch about ESPN. It’s always “ESPN is so biased and hates (fill in their team)” I think Gameday is not only the best sports show on television, it is one of the best shows on television period. Corso, Herbsteit, Holtz – they all love college football, and it shows.

Also, I would add my vote for Abita amber.

I don’t know if they do it anymore, but in college we would go to the Abita brewery and if you took the little brewery tour, they’d put you in this tiny room at the end of it with taps coming out of the wall, and you could drink all of their beers for free as long as you wanted to stay. I could have guided the tour by the time I graduated.

We had reservations to dine at the Abita brewery on that wedding weekend, but there was some kind of festival going on around there and the timing/logistics didn’t work out for us to make it. Dang.

Vol – I believe the Sweetwater Brewery here in Atlanta offers similar tours. Their 420 and IPA are solid.

Turbodog is the best thing to come out of Abita.

Blatz has to be the worst God-awful crap ever conceived by brewing man. Yet, my grandfather and his Hungarian/Slovenian fishing buddies used to drink the shit out of that stuff.

“Man… I haven’t had a Schlitz beer since elementary school…” – Robert Earl Keen.

Worst beer ever? Pearl Light. Those of you in Texas know what I’m sayin’.

PBR is the choice cheap beer in Athens, GA. At least for me. I’d much prefer for my beer to taste like something (even cardboard) than like water (Bud, BL, Coors Light, etc.) PBR also provides a bit of an alcohol effect which Natty Lt won’t.

blon57: In my fridge right now I can tell you I have two Red Stripes, 1 Dos Equis, an old Sam Adams from my Christmas pack, 2 Shiner Bocks, and 5 Coors (Banquet Beer – NOT LIGHT).

Nice call, #37. +5 cocktails to you sir for the “side of Zima with that” call.

Also, I was going to hand out a couple of cocktails to #39 for the Larry Eustache call, but then I saw “Red Raider” which means 39 is likely in Lubbock and I’m pretty sure that was the last event of note which happened there. Still, +2.

Now, if you’ll excuse me I’ve got to go shotgun 10 Natty Lights, get on my scooter, and ride it the wrong way down one way streets to distract the ACC cops from preying on our top ranked football team. narf

1. - on another note…..given the new BS comment format, it must really suck to have to type in “The Song of Hiawatha Francisco” every time you post.

Ahh I had no idea the Snake was a stout fan. Of course the Snake would drink a bottle of listerine if it was his only option.

Best cheap beer when you just want a beer: High Life
Best cheap beer when you just want to get drunk: PBR
Best cheap beer when you just want to get REALLY FUCKING DRUNK AND SPEND THE NEXT DAY APOLOGIZING TO EVERYONE YOU KNOW: Ice House

Good call on Sweetwater 420.

For my money, though, nothing beats a cold Newcastle draft. Nothing.

Also, Sam Adams’ Oktoberfest and Winter Brew are both very good.

Another underrated one…High Life Light. As an aside, Natty Lite in a can and Natty Lite in a bottle are essentially two different beers. The longnecks are my personal preference.

Since when do they put Natty Lite in bottles? I’ve never seen such a thing. I’ve also never seen my favorite cheap beer, Schlitz, in a bottle either.

All this talk of the crappiest beer ever and no one has brought up Keystone Light? I think I would rather walk up to the Oklahoma castrator and tell him the Longhorns are going to skull fuck the Sooners than to ever drink a Keystone Light again.

@ #16….

4 cans of Natty Light for ten bucks, I might start stabbing too….

#78. Had a Natty Light bottle at the Stagecoach in Jackson Hole, WY. Can’t stand the beer but drank a few on principal because of the novelty. Much like when I find the coveted Busch Light Draft in a bottle.

@79 — What the hell are you talking about? Keystone and Keystone Light have a specially-lined can!

/obvious sarcasm; that stuff is yak piss.

The Malt variety of Schlitz comes in a rather large bottle, 40oz I believe or perhaps it was 22oz.

I can get Natural Lite longnecks at most gas stations. Of course, I live in Alabama, so go figure. The Natural Lite longneck has actually been dubbed the official beer of my law firm.

Another vote for Turbo Dog, definitely Abita’s best beer, although the amber is quite good.

Do they still make Little Kings? I think it was brewed in Cincy.

and Hudephol? ITS HAPPY HUDIE TIME~!

PBR. That is all.

Natty Light was our cheap beer of choice in college. I splurged and spent the extra buck or so to get it in bottles, and it was more tolerable. Haven’t touched it since, especially since I started brewing my own. Always have two different homebrews on tap in my house, with two others fermenting.

Indy@86

I feel you on the Little Kings.

I’ve had thousands, most in about three swallows each.

UPDATED: I knew Natty Light would be involved somehow….

MOULTON — Authorities say a dispute over cheap beer left one man in the hospital with stab wounds and another man charged with assault.

Lawrence County sheriff’s officials said Friday that 64-year-old Grady “Skip” Wilburn Dollar of Trinity is accused of stabbing 37-year-old Mickey Joe Hill during a dispute early Thursday.

Sheriff’s Sgt. Mark Richard said the two men had been drinking together when Dollar gave Hill $10 and told him to go to the store for more.

Richard said Hill brought back only four cans of Natural Light, a low-cost brand, and Dollar got mad because he didn’t get more for the money.

The victim then asked for one of the four beers, leading to the stabbing.

Hill remains hospitalized but is expected to recover. Dollar is free on $5,000 bond.

@gerry
Dude, I am telling you, that Bud Lime stuff you can drink by the gallon. Its goes down so smooth, on a hot day, a 12 pack is gone before 30mins if ya dont watch it. Zima, couldnt tell ya bout that. My wife’s slowly warped me into drinking lime since ’95 in all the beer, not just Corona.

Pelican Pants – you probably drink Cosmos too right? “Happy wife, happy life”

oh i’ve tried it, b/c as you mention, the girlfriend drinks it, but i can’t get on board. many a man has gotten hazed right off the boat this summer for bringing that shit around. as for putting a lime in corona, people do that b/c it taste like the inside of a dumpster.

HE WAS DRINKING NATTY LITE!! That deserves a few points in and of itself!!

This has really turned into an Alabama Brew-Haha….

where is that animated rimshot gif?

I draw the line at Lime. It must just be me, but the Bud Lime is like Gatorade to me for some reason(no slow down when drinking it) if Im on the boat between swimming/floating around getting my buzz on, I can just obliterate it…. I refuse to get on board with Peach Ultra or any other flavored beer. Whats next, putting watermelon in your beer?
Cosmos? Those are for hookers, or was that a Rob Roy? much like Roger from American Dad…after drinking 6 Rob Roy’s things happen that he cannot be responsible for.

GameDay good? I must quit reading now. I’m depressed.