Since you guys didn't like the FIRST question I asked...

[jmowreader]

Okay, we know Bush was sitting next to Angela Merkel the other day getting drunk enough that his hangover kept him from going to today's meeting. (If he really doesn't drink, a couple of German near beers would do it. 'Course, if he really doesn't drink and his actions are natural, we really are in a world of hurt.)

I asked why Bush's handlers wouldn't have kept him from drinking beer-like liquids in front of the press, and y'all thought that was the funniest question of the day.

Let's go at it from a different direction:

Why, oh why, couldn't the other seven of the eight most important leaders in the free world have done us all a great service, and challenged Fearless Leader to match beers with Angela Merkel? And then pulled out the EKU Kulminator Urtyp Hell 28?

This could have been fun. EKU is reputed to be the strongest beer in the world--if it's not, it's close. Angela Merkel has at least fifty pounds on Shrub. Plus, she grew up on DDR beer, brewed strong to make you forget you were living in a communist country for a while. No one should have any illusion about Frau Merkel's ability to drink Shrub under the table.

You know that dipshit can't read German; he can barely read English, so the inscription "starkste Bier im Welt" is gonna go right over his head. And getting Shrub completely fucked up for the benefit of the world media would be more than sufficient payback for that fucking neck rub.

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

1. Whyis the strongest beer in the world called "Light" then?

"Hell" means "Light" in German, if memory serves. Is this referring to its color, perhaps?

[JVS]

3. color.

[jmowreader]

6. Ja, Hell refers to color

There are "helles" (light) and "dunkles" (dark).

There's also "pils" which is what most of the beer is.

That which in America is sold as "light beer" would be called, in Germany, "Hundeurin mit Kohlensaure." You figure it out.

[hippiechick]

7. LMAO!

ewwwww. Hundeurin mit Kohlensaure!

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

8. That's why I don't drink beer!

oder Bier. Hundurin! :rofl:

[wakeme2008]

2. I have been meaning to comment on all the photos of Bush and Merkel

together. For awhile I believed it was a G2 summit. :rofl:

[Cleita]

4. Oh I think the beers were only heart starters.

The real drinking went on afterwards in private. Of course you should really never mix beer and spirits. It could make you sick.

[obxhead]

5. * can read english? I had no idea.

:+

[nerddem]

9. he drinks that a lot

i saw a documentary filmed by one of nancy pelosi's daughters when she was part of the bush press corps during the primaries and general. in one scene he goes on to explain that it's non alcoholic because he's an alcoholic etc. i think the title was "journeys with george" or something like that