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Originally posted by Did you just call me Coltrane?
I can understand an addiction to Bells...
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Larry Bell is the happiest man at work I've ever seen. He graduated college with a mediocre GPA and a degree in what-not, and couldn't find a job. Lots of us can relate, let's see what his next step was.......
What next? Get a law degree, even though he had no interest? NFW.
Buy a home brew kit, stay in college apartment making and drinking cheap beer. But this industrious young man was not satisfied even by this, which many would call sucess. No, Larry worked to improve his beer. Soon he was selling it.
I went to the brewery a few years back. It looks like an old auto dealership, low rise building. You walk to the tasting room through the parking lot. As I'm walking up it's a beehive of refrig trucks being loaded with kegs. Clearly, someone was making big $$ that day.
The tasting room is actually more a bar, which gives free tastes, but sells mugs. There slinging drafts is Larry (I'd seen his pic in an article) chatting the late lunch/drunk crowd.
At the time, i thought him very very happy. Big lugs outside moving kegs to make him rich, he's inside drinking and shoting the shit.
I was going to approach him and offer to do TM registration for free, for the coolness value of being Bell's TM attorney, but decided not to. I thought the guy in suit sales call might ruin his buzz. Turns out I fucked up. A few months later he got sued for TM infringement on one of his brand names. But I bet his is still having a better day today than most of us.
