Fat, Drunk, and Stupid is no way to go through life, son.
TOGA!
Posted on 03/01/2007 2:53:28 PM PST by Eric Blair 2084
WASHINGTON—Anheuser-Busch should drop its sponsorship of a Washington, D.C. charity event called the "Idiotarod," organized by a local group that goes by the acronym "SMASHED," according to the nonprofit Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI). The March 3 event, in which young people are urged to acquire shopping carts and drink beer in one bar after another, is in clear violation of the Beer Institute's Advertising and Marketing Code, which prohibits marketing which encourages rapid or excessive beer drinking or drinking games, according to the group.
"Prepare your liver," the SMASHED organizers say on their web site. "We know there's going to be a lot of drinking and in some places we might even encourage it." As for the shopping carts the participants are urged to acquire, the organizers "don’t want to know how or from where" they come. The event, which is cosponsored by Anheuser-Busch's Bud Light brand, starts at a bar called the Front Page in Washington's Dupont Circle neighborhood on Saturday.
CSPI called on Anheuser-Busch to immediately withdraw its sponsorship of the event, which organizers say “is about testing your own willingness to make an ass of yourself."
"Here's Anheuser-Busch putting Bud Light's seal of approval on this sophomoric and potentially dangerous event, where who knows how many intoxicated people will take to the streets of Washington pushing stolen shopping carts," said George A. Hacker, director of alcohol policies at CSPI. "This makes a mockery of Anheuser-Busch’s professions of concern about heavy drinking."
Anheuser-Busch has come under fire before for promoting excessive drinking and drinking games. The company was widely ridiculed for claiming that a drinking game called Bud Pong should be played by drinking water instead of the beer the game is named for.
That really is a good one. Better get it trade marked:')
Hence the term Idiotarod lol.
That's pretty funny. I guess they are making local commercials now because I had never heard that one. Hell, I'm not even from Texas, and I'm proud of Texas. I'm a Dallas Cowboy fan so I get down there 2 times per year. My kind of state. Love it there.
I just know the national commercials...Mr. Supermarket deli meat slicer...Mr. Hot Dog Eating contest contestant...
Come see this one:')
Hey, I take offense to that. Some of my best friends are fat, drunk and stupid. It's not where you start, it's where you finish that counts.
D-Day: War's over, man. Wormer dropped the big one.
Bluto: What? Over? Did you say "over"? Nothing is over until we decide it is! Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor? Hell no!
Otter: Germans?
Boon: Forget it, he's rolling.
Bluto: And it ain't over now. 'Cause when the going gets tough . . . the tough get going. Who's with me? Let's Go! Come on! AAAAEEEEEGGGHHHH!! [Bluto runs out of the room alone; then returns] What the f%ck happened to the Delta I used to know? Where's the spirit? Where's the guts, huh? "Ooh, we're afraid to go with you Bluto, we might get in trouble." Well just kiss my ass from now on! Not me! I'm not gonna take this. Wormer, he's a dead man! Marmalard, dead! Niedermeyer...
Otter: Dead! Bluto's right. Psychotic, but absolutely right. We gotta take these bastards. Now we could do it with conventional weapons. But that could take years and cost millions of lives. No, I think we have to go all out. I think that this situation absolutely requires a really futile and stupid gesture be done on somebody's part.
Bluto: We're just the guys to do it.
D-Day: Let's do it.
Bluto: LET'S DO IT!
Sounds like they don't know the history of this race.
Who is "they"?
Thanks for the ping!
Yeah, too bad Senator Blutarsky basicaly drowned in his own urine.
Some of us who idolized him when we were in H.S. and he was on SNL (before reruns) really had to stop and think when he died.
Sure, he could have given us many more years of laughs - but Nooooooo!
yeah, I know what you mean. Him and Sam Kinison. I would love to hear what Sam would have to say about the war and Saddam.
Good night, we'll continue this tomorrow hopefully.
What's wrong with this picture?
Not a teetotaler, BTW.
You feel sorry for kids who have never had the opportunity to steal shopping carts for, uh... 'sport?'
hey Eric, OT, but can AB advertise Bud Light?
Shouldn't they take the 'Light' advertising off their products since alcohol is alcohol? s/
I agree, oh, and I was going to respond last night but my "40 Hands" were not yet empty and I couldn't type.
Party On
Good morning. You tell me. Are "Conservatives" the only ones who can now recognize something outrageous and then laugh about it. It's humor, satire, mocking...whatever you want to call it. Why the attack? Is it because of my tag line? If so, I would expect better from freepers that disagree with my politics. Sad.
That's impressive. Been tested lately?
Ha ha ha exactly what I was thinking.
I had never seen that. Now I know where "Mr. Way Too Libberal For Texas Guy" came from.
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