Fashionistas you have arrived 3-25-03 - 10-3-03

[ThrashersFan]

Originally posted by Mr. Man
Consider me the expert.

Your people call it corn, we call it a beer ball. I think 1984 was my first beer ball experience. Hamms if I recall correctly.

Great, we shared the same childhood. Definitely "beer ball." Never heard of it referred to as a party ball. But I have heard of condooms called "party balloons" - but I digress.

A beer ball looks like a huge lightbulb but round. My recollection is that you rented a tap and the lid on the beer ball had two rubber-coated holes (you people are such children -- stop with the jokes already) in which to stick the tap and then pump (shut up). Do no, I repeat, do not, count on the the beer ball whose contents you have just consumed to act as a reliable flotation device - it will, however, make a neat-o change jar when you are a teenager.

[bilmore]

Originally posted by Mr. Man
I am a bigger fan of the pony keg concept. It goes by different names but I am talking about the gallon size beer can with the cooler-like spout on the bottom.

Ah, memories. They work nicely, balanced on your stomach as you float ten miles down the fast river on your inner tube on a hot sunny day.

(And the second one fits nicely into the small floating cooler tied to your tube.)

[NotFromHere]

Originally posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)
starting in london in 2006?
http://espn.go.com/oly/news/2003/0912/1614550.html

The 2003 T-MOBILE INTERNATIONAL, presented by BMC Software will bring five-time Tour de France winner, Lance Armstrong, his U.S. Postal Service team and an international field of over 120 of the world’s best professional cyclists to the streets of San Francisco for the ultimate test of man and machine. For the first time in event history, an elite field of international female cyclists will compete on the same course as the men in the T-MOBILE INTERNATIONAL, presented by BMC Software women’s pro race. The event will be the finale of the 2003 Pro Cycling Tour (PCT).
Lance

[bold_n_brazen]

Originally posted by Mr. Man
I am a bigger fan of the pony keg concept. It goes by different names but I am talking about the gallon size beer can with the cooler-like spout on the bottom. Much more convenient than the tap and a round ball of beer that needs a stand (at least the tap was included with the ball). Favored by Germans. Come to think of it, they may just think it's a normal can of beer.

Just my thought of the day.

I seem to remember owning a beer ball tap...

and didn't the beer ball come in a box, which you filled with ice, therefore negating the need for a stand, or for a seperate container to keep the beer cold?

[Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)]

Originally posted by Mr. Man
I am a bigger fan of the pony keg concept. It goes by different names but I am talking about the gallon size beer can with the cooler-like spout on the bottom. Much more convenient than the tap and a round ball of beer that needs a stand (at least the tap was included with the ball). Favored by Germans. Come to think of it, they may just think it's a normal can of beer.

Just my thought of the day.

Much to be said for those. We enjoyed many of the larger kirin cans in college (with it's own clip on handle!!!).

But I think a pony keg in the industry nomenclature is the half-keg size (7.5 gallons or so), which is really a quarter barrel of beer (and the full keg is a half-barrel). Someone from Wisconsin?

[purse junkie]

Originally posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)
starting in london in 2006?
http://espn.go.com/oly/news/2003/0912/1614550.html

Only if they can produce some decent riders by then. And for that matter, improve the food, so it's worth the trip over there.

[evenodds]

Originally posted by NotFromHere

Ah, the San Fransisco Gran Prix. Now that Frankie is no longer a director sportif, perhaps the Posties can win this year.

Even(still pissed he sent Georgie out like 40 laps early)Odds

[Fugee]

Originally posted by evenodds
Package stores in college towns.

You remind me of the first time I spent time in Atlanta, which was pretty much the first time I went anywhere Down South. I saw all these signs for Package Stores and, thinking they were like Mailboxes Etc., couldn't figure out why Atlantans needed so many places to mail things.

And then I discovered there were drive-through package stores out in redneckville, past the Big Chicken (Thrashers Fan, is it still there?).

Fu(up here we call them "liquor stores" so you know exactly what you're getting)gee

[Greedy,Greedy,Greedy]

Originally posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)
Much to be said for those. We enjoyed many of the larger kirin cans in college (with it's own clip on handle!!!).

But I think a pony keg in the industry nomenclature is the half-keg size (7.5 gallons or so), which is really a quarter barrel of beer (and the full keg is a half-barrel). Someone from Wisconsin?

Exactly. The beer ball is a single serving size, where a pony keg is beer when a couple friends are dropping by.

[notcasesensitive]

Originally posted by bold_n_brazen
I seem to remember owning a beer ball tap...

and didn't the beer ball come in a box, which you filled with ice, therefore negating the need for a stand, or for a seperate container to keep the beer cold?

Yes, ice in box = cold beer ball for hours. I may be the only one who will own up to having consumed Gennie Cream Ale out of beer boxes. Hey, Kodak and Xerox have ensured that the water in the Gennessee River is crystal clean.

[Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)]

Originally posted by Fugee
I saw all these signs for Package Stores and, thinking they were like Mailboxes Etc., couldn't figure out why Atlantans needed so many places to mail things.

There are plenty of packies in new england. well, not plenty, because the damn puritans still keep a lot of towns dry.

What always amazed me about the south were the drive-through liquor windows. Love that. Love the ones with the bottle openers dangling from the service window even more.

[dtb]

Originally posted by bold_n_brazen
I haven't seen a party ball since 1990. It was Coor's, I believe. (swill).

As I recall, I drank a lot of Stroh's in hihg school. Do they still make that? I wonder if the taste would transport me back the same way certain smells can?

I'd keep my eye out for fringey if I were you -- she's likely to go on a rampage if she catches wind of the abundant apostrophe violations in your message.

And really, who could blame her?

Don't say you haven't been warned!

[Replaced_Texan]

Originally posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)


But I think a pony keg in the industry nomenclature is the half-keg size (7.5 gallons or so), which is really a quarter barrel of beer (and the full keg is a half-barrel). Someone from Wisconsin?

We used to call the half keg things pony kegs as well. Definitely needed to rent a tap with those.

[Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)]

Originally posted by dtb
I'd keep my eye out for fringey if I were you -- she's likely to go on a rampage if she catches wind of the abundant apostrophe violations in your message.

Well, Stroh's is correct. Didn't Pete Stroh tell us all about his family once?

[Mr. Man]

Originally posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)
Much to be said for those. We enjoyed many of the larger kirin cans in college (with it's own clip on handle!!!).

But I think a pony keg in the industry nomenclature is the half-keg size (7.5 gallons or so), which is really a quarter barrel of beer (and the full keg is a half-barrel). Someone from Wisconsin?

That would be me (could see the Miller Brewery sign from my apartment...).

Definitely called quarter barrels. That's why we called the little can things pony kegs, because a keg (called a half barrel) and a quarter barrel were already named.