So I have this mug with 'Andy Stephenson' written on it

[WilliamPitt]

I spend a good deal of time at a local Boston bar that runs a marvelous pyramid scheme. Drink all the 130 beers they have in bottle, on tap, and buried underneath the dumpster out back, and do so in six months, and you get a big 25 ounce mug.

Sure, it costs about $900 plus tip to drink all these beers, but there are two up-sides:

1) Everything out of the tap goes into the 25oz mug for the regular pint price, so it's a two-for-one deal (I drank PBR for eight months for $3.14 a mug after getting my mug to even the price score);

2) The scam is called the Dead Author's Club, as the bar is named after a dead author. Ergo, you get to have the name of your favorite dead author inscripted on your mug.

When I first got my mug two years ago, the name on it was H.L. Mencken. But then two things happened this summer: The bartenders accidentally broke my mug, and Andy died. I asked them - and this was two months ago - to have the name 'Andy Stephenson' replace Mencken as the dead author on my mug.

I waited, and waited, and waited for my new mug to show up. Things move glacially at this joint. August, September, into October...

I showed up tonight, however, and there it was. My mug, which I drink out of at least three times a week, has Andy's name on it. My friends, who know the significance, toasted him tonight.

My mug reads 'Andy Stephenson.'

[Whoa_Nelly]

1. Priceless

[MrScorpio]

2. Bravo, my man

Bravo

[hfojvt]

3. I will drink to that

:toast:

But I must point out that 25 ounces at a 16 ounce price isn't really two for one. It's more like 3 for 2.

[VelmaD]

4. I don't know what to say

I'm crying. :)

He would be so honored.

:hug:

[GOPisEvil]

5. Damn, I need to get up to that bar.

:toast:

[WilliamPitt]

12. They have Cindy Sheehan's picture on the wall

from when I brought her there for a few drinks.

[GOPisEvil]

56. Sweet!

I love that place already.

[LynneSin]

6. There is never any excuse whatsoever to drink PBR except...

...a nuclear war has occurred and the only beer you were able to find the fallout shelter where you will live the next couple of decades is cases upon cases of PBR. Then, MAYBE you have a good reason

[Beetwasher]

9. I Agree!

PBR??? Will, I think I've somehow just lost all respect for you.

[WilliamPitt]

11. ...to make up a $900 beer-cash deficit.

I am not ashamed.

[LynneSin]

13. Sorry, not good enough of an excuse

It's PBR!! Geez, if I have a $30 bottle of wine does that mean I have to drink 10 bottles of Mad Dog 20/20 to make up for the 'deficit'? SOrry, considering the loss money from advil I would need to purchase to deal with the massive hangover I get from cheap beer (along with possible lost wages from being incapacitated from said cheap beer), personally I think you're getting a bargain

I'll quote the famous VelmaD (who repeated this to me about 20 times at the Friday night party in DC when folks kept buying the $5 pitchers of Miller Lite and I kept drinking from them) "Life is too short to drink cheap beer"

[StopTheMorans]

16. i'm pretty sure that i've heard "Life is too short to drink cheap beer"

a few thousand times in my life. just an FYI...

[VelmaD]

18. I never claimed I coined the phrase...

I just figured Lynne (and several other DUers) needed to hear it that night. Bunch of cheap-ass, alcoholic reprobates. :)

[Zuni]

22. man, you all are crazy

PBR and cheap beer in general is better tasting to me than the fancy, elitist snob beers

[StopTheMorans]

29. SNAP!

i thought that DU was a place for the common man :shrug:

[VelmaD]

30. Well there's inexpensive beer...

and then there's CHEAP beer. If it smells like it needs to be poured back in the horse...I'm not drinking it. :)

[Zuni]

36. That ain't PBR

I think you are thinking of some fancy Pumpkin Ale

[VelmaD]

41. Actually more than Pabst...

I was thinking of Coors and Bud Light. *shudder* Had uncles who drank that crap when I was growing up and it always just looked and smelled like horse-piss as far as I was concerned. It took me years to be able to stand the smell of beer...even really good beer.

[crispini]

59. ROFL!

I am SO stealing that.

[VelmaD]

61. Hee...

I'll expect regular royalty checks in the mail. *snort*

[Richardo]

32. I see a cabinet post in your future...

Secretary of......something. :think:

Cheap beer? I'll be undersecretary of Coors Light.

[StopTheMorans]

34. Secretary for the better understanding and appreciation of cheers?

:toast: :toast: :toast: :toast: :toast: :toast: :toast: :toast: :toast: :toast: :toast: :toast: :toast: :toast: :toast: :toast: :toast: :toast: :toast:

[Zuni]

sounds good to me

:cheers:

[StopTheMorans]

42. awesome!

:toast: :cheers: :norm:

[Zuni]

40. Secretary of .....

I can't think of anything

[XemaSab]

33. "Heineken?!?!? F*** that s***!"

:)
















:hi: zuni!

[Zuni]

35. hey hey

:hi: XemaSab

[VelmaD]

14. So what was your excuse for drinking it...

at short bus's bonfire two years ago then? Hmmmm. Enquiring minds want to know. :)

[WilliamPitt]

15. I was in the North Carolina woods with giant spiders staring at me

and that's all there was to drink.

[VelmaD]

17. Ya know, I've been out there myself...

and I'm thinking maybe the "giant spiders" were a PBR induced hallucination. That stuff makes brain cells commit suicide. :P

[WilliamPitt]

23. Nope

They were perched next to the lights above the two back doors.

Goddam softballs with legs...and eyes.

[LynneSin]

24. You know, maybe the spiders thought you were scary & creepy

just saying!

[VelmaD]

27. Oh the horrible horrible eyes!!!!

*snort*

I probably just didn't notice the spiders 'cause I was too busy looking out for "Hook Hand".

[LynneSin]

20. Not quite a nuclear holocaust but I could almost live with that excuse

:D

[VelmaD]

21. Not quite but close

I've been out to bus's house and let me tell ya...when we do decide to blow up the planet he lives far enough out in the boonies that he and the giant spiders may well be the only survivors to repopulate the planet.

[Zuni]

31. taking a stand against the beer-nazis of PBR?

making fun of PBR is certain to win you friends and influence people.

you make cheap beer lovers like myself cry. :cry:

[LynneSin]

38. Yes but there are good cheap beers and then

there's the crap that tastes like someone pissed in a PBR can and then handed it out to others as 'beer'

[Zuni]

44. bad cheap beer ---- skunked Mickeys

good cheap beer ---- natural light, PBR, Milwaukee's Best Light

[LynneSin]

46. Piss water: natural light, PBR, Milwaukee's Best Light;

good cheap beer - Rolling Rock or Yuengling!

[Zuni]

49. Rolling Rock, Yuengling cheap?

Damn what are you a brain surgeon, a stockbroker or something? damn! That is good, but pricey

Cheap for me is a $1.40 40 oz. of King Cobra Malt Liquor

[JVS]

52. St. Ides 8.2% baby!

[Zuni]

53. That used to be my jam

[JVS]

54. What happened?

Did you OD on St. Ide's and puke black bile the next day? That always sucks

[Zuni]

57. that was more of my "Mad Dog 20/20" experience

:hangover:

[LynneSin]

55. I lived in Pennsylvania and now neighboring Delaware

Hell I've bought the beer fresh from Pottstown.

Plus from the roadtrips to Penn State, the Rathskeller would sell Rolling Rock by the case and it was pretty cheap too

[JVS]

58. Was this by any chance a long time ago?

Rolling Rock has tried to go upmarket. I think a case of bottles would be about $20 now

[LynneSin]

60. It was like $12.99 just the other week

I almost bought a case to take down to DC

[Richardo]

47. Are you implying that there's such a thing as *un*skunked Mickeys?

'Cause every bottle of that crap I ever opened (2) smells like the inside of an asparagus-eating skunk's bladder. x(

[LynneSin]

48. And just how many asparagus-eating skunk's bladder have you smelled

just saying!

[Richardo]

50. Two - see the post above.

:)

[Zuni]

51. don't underestimate Richardo

if he says he smells the innards of an asparagus eating skunk, then he sniffs the innards of an aspargus eating skunk :D

[Richardo]

62. Did I ever tell you what I saw on the railroad bridge in Laredo?

:bounce:

[hunter]

67. I saw that too, I think.

But not in Laredo.

[Zuni]

71. the south end of a formerly northbound animal?

[Richardo]

73. Well *part* of it was still northbound...

...at about 40 mph.

[Midlodemocrat]

7. That's a great story.

[Beetwasher]

8. Cool, But You Obviously Drink Way Too Much

But then again, who the hell am I to talk. You lush. :evilgrin: :toast:

[redqueen]

10. Awwww... that's lovely, Will.

Cheers, man.

:toast:

[Ellipsis]

19. To Andy!

:toast:

[DS1]

25. I hate that goddamn policy

die hard fucking liberals :D

[greatauntoftriplets]

26. I have a Hanukah card with Andy's name on it.

He sent it to me last winter...after Hanukah...and neither of us is Jewish. Ah, that Andy....

[VelmaD]

28. That is just Andy all over

:) Thanks for the laugh.

[greatauntoftriplets]

37. Isn't it, though?

Damn, I miss him.

[VelmaD]

43. I know...me too

:hug:

[meganmonkey]

39. Wow, thanks for sharing that Will

:cry: a little bit

:)

[hunter]

45. Wow.... but what else do they have on tap there?

A long, long time ago, in a galaxy far away, a young woman invited me out and she ordered a Coors Light. This was a very bad omen. My wife, on our first date, asked for something much better.

PBR :scared:

But I'd do it for an Andy Stephenson mug.

[redsoxliberal]

63. Andy died?

that's really very sad... when did it happen?

[VelmaD]

64. Back in July...

if you need more details feel free to pm me.

[In_The_Wind]

65. I would drink a few beers there anytime!

To Andy

[woofless]

66. BRILLIANT!

:toast: :hi: :beer:

[arwalden]

68. Are You Drunk Right Now?

[WilliamPitt]

69. I am drunk

on the joy of speaking to you.

[arwalden]

70. Oh Brother!

You're going to have a helluva hangover.

[WilliamPitt]

72. *hic*

Tell me about it.

[benburch]

74. TOTALLY AWESOME, Will!

:toast:

[Left Is Write]

75. Awesome, Will.

[Pacifist Patriot]

76. Please raise a toast for me.

I miss Andy.

[eridani]

77. So, is anyone still up for going after the Andy scammers?

I know a retired member of the King County sheriff's department, if so.