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Ricky
SFN Die Hard
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Siberia
SFN Addict
Brazil
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 Posted - 10/03/2004 : 06:28:52 [Permalink]
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7.) Beer does not force itself on minors who can not think for themselves.
Ever heard of peer pressure? lol.
Beer is my new God. Yes it is. -shifty look- |
"Why are you afraid of something you're not even sure exists?"
- The Kovenant, Via Negativa
"People who don't like their beliefs being laughed at shouldn't have such funny beliefs."
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Dave W.
Info Junkie
USA
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Posted - 10/03/2004 : 11:41:53 [Permalink]
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I'm sure you meant "beer pressure," Siberia. 
Does anyone know if it's true or not that Benjamin Franklin once said, "beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy?" |
- Dave W. (Private Msg, EMail)
Evidently, I rock!
Why not question something for a change?
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ktesibios
SFN Regular
USA
505 Posts |
Posted - 10/04/2004 : 09:32:46 [Permalink]
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6.) People selling beer don't go door to door.
And this is supposed to be a good thing? |
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Ricky
SFN Die Hard
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BigPapaSmurf
SFN Die Hard
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Posted - 10/04/2004 : 11:39:09 [Permalink]
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| Id like to challenge the Beer has never started a war claim, it seems to me that alcohol is the likely #2 cause behind religion. |
"...things I have neither seen nor experienced nor heard tell of from anybody else; things, what is more, that do not in fact exist and could not ever exist at all. So my readers must not believe a word I say." -Lucian on his book True History
"...They accept such things on faith alone, without any evidence. So if a fraudulent and cunning person who knows how to take advantage of a situation comes among them, he can make himself rich in a short time." -Lucian critical of early Christians c.166 AD From his book, De Morte Peregrini |
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Siberia
SFN Addict
Brazil
2322 Posts |
Posted - 10/04/2004 : 13:45:08 [Permalink]
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| Which just reminds me, I've a computer game called The Beer Wars, hehe... |
"Why are you afraid of something you're not even sure exists?"
- The Kovenant, Via Negativa
"People who don't like their beliefs being laughed at shouldn't have such funny beliefs."
-- unknown
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beskeptigal
SFN Die Hard
USA
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Posted - 10/06/2004 : 08:15:57 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by BigPapaSmurf
Id like to challenge the Beer has never started a war claim, it seems to me that alcohol is the likely #2 cause behind religion.
Bar and domestic fights maybe, but not wars. |
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beskeptigal
SFN Die Hard
USA
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Posted - 10/06/2004 : 08:17:11 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Ricky
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Originally posted by Dave W.
I'm sure you meant "beer pressure," Siberia.
Does anyone know if it's true or not that Benjamin Franklin once said, "beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy?"
It certainly seems that way Dave. All sources I can find say he did. Unless it is some widely spreaded myth like we only use 10% of our brains...
Or Washington chopped down a cherry tree. |
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furshur
SFN Regular
USA
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Posted - 10/08/2004 : 09:34:15 [Permalink]
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4.) You don't have to wait 2000 years for another beer.
I thought this was the funniest line.... Then I got thinking - Ricky, do you know something that we don't????
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Valiant Dancer
Forum Goalie
USA
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Posted - 10/08/2004 : 10:53:15 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Ricky
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Originally posted by Dave W.
I'm sure you meant "beer pressure," Siberia.
Does anyone know if it's true or not that Benjamin Franklin once said, "beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy?"
It certainly seems that way Dave. All sources I can find say he did. Unless it is some widely spreaded myth like we only use 10% of our brains...
The places I've checked indicate publication in Poor Richard's Almanac although which year or page is not listed. |
Cthulhu/Asmodeus when you're tired of voting for the lesser of two evils
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Dude
SFN Die Hard
USA
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Posted - 10/08/2004 : 20:16:42 [Permalink]
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| ol' Ben was a bit of a lush.... You'll recall that they didn't let him go to the nearby pub and drink without escort at a certain meeting in Philly..... |
Ignorance is preferable to error; and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing, than he who believes what is wrong.
-- Thomas Jefferson
"god :: the last refuge of a man with no answers and no argument." - G. Carlin
Hope, n.
The handmaiden of desperation; the opiate of despair; the illegible signpost on the road to perdition. ~~ da filth |
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