Bottle Cap Currency A beer promotion in the nation of Cameroon has resulted in huge sales that has left the country flooded by bottle caps. The caps are now being used for currency by many citizens. Competing beer companies offered prizes under every $1 bottle of beer and almost every cap was a winner. Prizes ranged from another bottle of beer to mobile phones and even cars. Nearly 20 million bottle caps are now in circulation throughout the nation. Since virtually every consumer of beer has a chance of winning something it has become common practice for even non-drinkers to buy beer daily. Because of the abundance of caps and the chance that they will bring big prizes the caps are being accepted as money at many local stores. Even taxi cabs are now taking the caps. Experts estimated that five caps would cover someone's taxi expenses for an entire day in any city in Cameroon. |
You don't say..... Leonard Carlo likes a particular word, and it's reflected in the decor of his Colorado Springs, Colo., bar. "F---ing Women" says the sign on the ladies room; "F---ing Men" it says on the opposite door. Another sign notes, "No f---ing tap or draw beer". A state liquor enforcement agent, noting a state regulation prohibiting profanity in bars, confiscated 29 signs. After Carlo filed a law suit charging the government violated his right of free speech, the state dropped all charges against him and has returned his signs in return for his dropping the lawsuit. While the "no profanity in bars" rule is still on the books, a spokeswoman for the Colorado Department of Revenue, which oversees liquor enforcement, says that liquor agents will not enforce it. ------------------------ Keith Osborne, 47, the president of the “Labologist Society,” collectors of rare and antique beer bottle labels, was convicted by a British court for beefing up his $77,000 collection by stealing some of them from the British Archives. He was sentenced to 18 months in prison. He had to give them back, but that’s OK: he still has his Picasso collection. |
Ya gotta love these guys John Ciardi- "Fermentation and civilization are inseparable." Saint Columbanus - “It is my design to die in the brew-house; let ale be placed to my mouth when I am expiring, that when the choirs of angels come, they may say, Be God propitious to this drinker.” Karen Sand- "No poems can live long or please that are written by water-drinkers." |
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Beer Pong Illegal The borough of Belmar, NJ has banned all outdoor games involving alcohol. Nicknamed the "beer-pong law", the ordinance prohibits alcohol related contests on porches, decks, lawns, front and side yards, and anwhere that it can be viewed by the public and neighbors. This new law compliments an earlier one that prohibited alcohol consumption while playing wiffle ball. Belmar is located about halfway between Manhattan and Atlantic City. It has an offseason population of 6,000 that can reach 70,000 on a summer weekend. |