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Showbiz Friday, December 20, 2002 • read strip Viewing 93 comments:

is certs in the beer a thing?

i always wondered the same thing.

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Stouts are members of the ale family of beers, as are porters. They are produced by top-fermenting yeasts and at a much higher temperature than lagers.

In fact, the Irish name for stout, "leann dubh" translates to "black ale".

There ya go.

Oh its on.

Thing is, Guiness is only good if you drink it in Ireland, brewed in Irish casks. Anywhere else, the formula is different. english Guinness is just about passable, American tastes like cat phlegm, and Taiwanese is downright undrinkable.

A long time ago, somebody told me that the Belgians make the best Guinness. I don't know if it's true, but somebody told me that.

Taiwanese (or "Formosan") Guiness is in fact popular only because the word "Guiness" has a vague similarity to the words "Kwih N'Gnuh", meaning "Auspicious Orgasm/Conclusion". The Taiwanese ad campaign for guiness involves a series of billboards in which a man (or more rarely, a woman) experiences good luck while drinking a Guiness and acheiving orgasm. Examples include a Taiwanese mill worker in uniform being offered a document of promotion while he simultaneously drinks a pint of guiness and also graphically ejaculates all over a manilla envelope reading "Lottery Prize". With his free hand, the man give the traditional southern chinese symbol of exponentially increasing prosperity, which is known western cultures as the "hang ten" symbol.

The chemical formula of Guiness in Taiwan is functionally equivalent to one part Barq's root beer and one part Gurtjågertformulat, a German discount cough syrup removed from the market in 1989 due to its carcinogenic properties.

What?

I don't usually drink beer as I prefer my drunkenness without the taste of carbonated oatmeal.

I drink beer, because I'd rather not eat.

What about things such as vitamins and nutrition?

They should make a multivitamin beer with extra fiber.

Never eat again!

I just take some multi-vitamins with my drink.

I have only ever heard of Skittle Brau

Such a beer does not exist, sir. I think you must have dreamed it.

Oh but it does, because I have dreamed it. Or you know, the Simpsons.

"All men dream; but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dream with open eyes, to make it possible." -- T.E Lawrence

I have no doubt he was referring - with great prescience - to the advent of skittlebrau

This is the most underrated comment.

The correct response is "Fine, just give me a six pack of Duff and a bag of Skittles.

https://www.glossynews.com/artman/publish/skittlebrau.shtml

i havent put any of this dudes recipes to the test, but i read all the articles about the experiments he did and they are quite entertaining.

Once again, Ray loves Ketel One.

Beef's remark about the strip club prices is dead on. Man, those goldbrickin bastards will rob you blind just cause you wanna see some titties and hit the sauce.

Definitely. Only not much sauce can be hit at ten bucks a bottle.

He did order a Ketel One though, not a cheap liquor.

Actually, it is pretty cheap. I can pick up a good sized bottle for $20. Grey Goose goes for about $27. Vodka-tini (extra dry)? It'll cost maybe 4-4.50, IIRC. I'm a gin fan, myself.

Not at a strip club, man. A beer is going to run you 10 bucks. Not that I know. I mean I've heard.

I was in a strip club once and ordered a Jim Beam double, expecting to pay around $7-8, because that is the average price for the drink. I nearly shat myself when the bartender said "that'll be $13.50". I can buy a fifth of Jim Beam for $16, and they charged me $13.50 for two shots.

It's not very cheap as far as vodka's go, though. It generally gets ranked as higher end stuff, but not Grey Goose level.

Basically, it ain't Aristocrat.

It ain't vodka . I was in some bar or another that had a "Vodkas of the world" map. They excluded Russia.

Wait...what?

Are you talking about Aristocrat or Ketel One? Cuz I'm pretty sure Ketel One's made in the Netherlands...

Ketel One is made in the Netherlands.

Aristocrat is made in a toilet.

"... The Aristocrats!"

Vodka is made in Russia.

Are you implying that vodka is a territorial name, like champagne or bourbon?

I have never heard this before.

Basically, I still have no idea what you're talking about, 8 months onward.

I know!

It's settled, then!

I wanna die with you, Oakey, on the streets tonight in an everlasting kiss!

Aw dammit, you just died in my arms tonight (it must've been something I said.)

You should go to nudy bars instead. Then you can bring your own beer, an in fact the establishment is not allowed to sell alcohol. At least, not in Texas.

There is the downside of them being fantastically sleazy. During one lap dance with a young lady who had a "Baby Girl" cartoon bunny tramp stamp, she began mouthing the words, "You want to fuck me? Do you want to fuck me?" Well, naturally the answer was yes, because one does not go to strip clubs for the literature and ambiance. When I didn't respond, she got angry, walked over to a table and began shouting that I was gay because I didn't want to fuck her. Turns out she was totally serious.

It is a strange and confusing world.

They can't sell liquor here in California, either... which is a damn shame, considering the fact that sometimes a girl needs a little liquor in order to properly appreciate a strip club with her male friends.

And I'm sorry you got yelled at by a stripper. Chubby to make you feel better about life.

That's interesting. Texas strip clubs allow full nudity, but no alcohol. Oklahoma strip clubs can sell alcohol but there is no full nudity allowed.

Also, you should have answered "ehhh" and shook your hand from side-to-side.

I went to such an establishment in Austin during my undergrad days. The Yellow Rose I believe. I saw Earl "The Tyler Rose" Campbell receiving a dance from a comely young lass at the next table. Since it is bad form to actually touch the nekkid ladies, he made his appreciation of her talents known in a more subtle manner: We ended up naming him El Soplon which in slang-spanish roughly translates to "The Blower".

I was graced by another young lass who was not as comely as Earl's. She was rib skinny and obviously missed several required visits to the orthodontist. However she did take a shine to me since I was not hitting on her. I wasn't even tipping her, but she offered me a free lap dance. She went so far as to offer me a "pink-eye wink" as she bent over - NOT to be confused with the "brown-eye, nor brown-starfish wink".

She was unceremoniously pulled from rotation before she finished the dance.

Strange and confusing indeed.

maybe she didn't actually work there

Chubby for working in 'goldbrickin'

I like how Showbiz asks " How's mom?! " with such vehemence.

Yeah, isn't their mom in jail for shooting their dad? Or where the hell did she go, exactly?

I don't know if that better or worse than cheap Pennsylvania strip clubs who can't afford a liquor license. While they can't sell beer, there is nothing keeping them from giving it away. Usually there will just be a keg in a shady alley out back.

um where are these places my good sir?

I, too, am interested in this, and I don't even live in Pennsylvania.

Truly, this is the manner of sleaze you would commute for.

oh necessarily

Beef's experiance in Panel 4

I- I don't know what's happening

God I wish we could edit comments.

he is from circumstances and that is a lot of money

'dang fucking'

the heck is that shit

What a gosh-darned cunt.

The level of connectedness between my favorite webcomics is so beautiful...

what the x*k#c@d! are you talking about?

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what the x * k # c @ d ! are you talking about?

I see what you did there.

I didn't want to rub it in. I got people for that.

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Why has this comment only recieved two chubbies (one of them mine) in four months? It was funny, relevant, and generally awesome! Come on!

I love Ray's determination to HIT THE CAN!

Beef astutely avoids the how dry is "DRY AS THE DICKENS" problem by simply not ordering a drink that has any vermouth in it.

Beef's face in panel 4 is definitely me when I'm spending money in the city. Oh, Boston.

I just moved here I am dead broke already. It's so obnoxious

haha i went there on a trip once... you have no idea how many chowder bowls i stole

I can't help but think that Showbiz is merely sitting in there thumbing through a Rockford-Fosgate catalog.

Man, I've done that eye squint thing when finding out what the tab was so many times.

How the fuck is a martini worth 8 dollars? It's straight up gin with like almost no vermouth at all and an olive. Am I paying 8 dollars because every bartender in the world has carpal tunnel and rattling the shaker gives them great distress?

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A martini is a wanker drink?

come on, it's just a quadruple gin or quadruple vodka. The wank is in a glass rinsed with vermouth, a mixer only served in bars where a g&t costs at least six dollars.

Nothing like a proper liquor fag to really drive home how little I could give a fuck about what anyone thinks of my drink.

I love Beefs eyebrow combo in panel 4. It conveys complete skepticism which I have not yet seen since out of him.

Yes, I can imagine him giving that look to a bartender, as if to say "You could say any old dang thing and I'd have to fork it over that is asinine"

a chubby for truth.

Wait...

Roast Beef:Showbiz::Snoopy:Spike?
[IMGS OFF]
I mean, they both have hell of wispy moustaches, and they both live in the desert. (Spike lives in a saguaro cactus outside of Needles.)

Definitely. Although Spike was just some ugly white dude from L. A. He just had a little Datsun where the seat folded down.

There is a cocktail involving vodka, campari, grapefruit juice and a polo. It's no certs and beer but it gets you zinged.

did anyone else think for a moment that beef was so tired of rays crap that he was giving himself a roofie?

No but hahahahaha

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(supposed to be RB's faceial expression)

He looks so angry when he says [i]"how's mom?"[/]

With Retsyn!