This blog (in Greek) shares a receipt from some Irish pub, where people had quite a party. The total amount is in Norwegian krone (NOK), which translates to about 2,555 EUR. But it’s not the total amount that is interesting here. Rather the list of drinks. In particular – 78 pints of Guiness.
What does that remind me of? The 99 bottles of beer song.
Here is an excellent advert of Carlton Draught shot in slow motion. Happy Friday!
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I officially call this week a Diggnation week. Not that I have anything to do with Diggnation except being a fan, but you’ll get what I mean in just a second. First, on Monday, while shopping at Carrefour supermarket, I came across Michelob lager bottles. Michelob is an American brewery which used to sponsor several Diggnatino episodes, and Kevin and Alex even did a tour of the brewery. Not a particularly great beer (here in Europe we are blessed with a variety of excellent beers), but not a bad one either.
Secondly, I was waiting for a fresh episode of Diggnation to come out and give me an atmospheric reason to chuck the first bottle and enjoy the second. And what did Diggnation do? They came up with probably their best live show episode ever. Episode #246 in Austin, Texas. It started off slowly, but it turned epic with Leo Laporte streaming a live TWiT show while crowd surfing (fast forward 40 minutes or so). And then it went even crazier with Robert Rodrigez himself showing up at the show and doing a brief interview about an upcoming Predators movie. In the words of Alex Albrecht: “What??!!!”
P.S.: If you watched a few episodes of Diggnation and haven’t got hooked, don’t worry. I skipped quite a bit of Diggnation history. Until I saw them with my own two eyes back in Amsterdam. The guys are awesome!
If there is one thing that my colleagues know how to do that is how to organize a party…
P.S.: Sorry for the blurred picture, but everyone was pretty drunk by that time, including the mobile phones and digital cameras…
P.P.S.: I worked really hard to finish all of them, but that was just impossible at that stage …
I don’t care that much for television. Even less I care for advertisements. And even les than that I care about advertisement on television. You can easily say that I don’t care about them at all.
But that didn’t stop me from seeing one of the funniest things that I’ve seen on TV ever – The Big Ad for Carlton Draught (It doesn’t look that as good in the tiny window as it does on a large TV screen, but at least you’ll have an idea of what I am talking about here.). That was something!
It turns out I am by far not alone. A lot of people enjoyed it. There is even a Wikipedia page for it.
(singing)It’s a big add. Expensive ad! …