There is a local brewery (Sweetwater) that makes some great beers and they’re also known for their attention-getting names. The flagship beer is Sweetwater 420 and while they claim there is no drug connotation, I don’t believe it for one second. More amusing are the horny names they’ve given some of the other beers. When Georgia finally passed into law several years ago the ability for consumers to buy beer with up to 14% alcohol in it (up from 6%), they created a strong imperial stout (at 9% alcohol) called Happy Ending.
Their next creation was a Belgian dubbel which was promptly dubbed Dubbel D’s. Next, they created a very refreshing witbier named Summer Hummer. Can you sense a theme here? Now comes word that they will be offering a barleywine style beer with the glamorous name of Donkey Punch! For those of you not well-versed in the porn world, this supposed sex act is when you’re sodomizing someone from behind and you punch them in the back of the head or neck or sides, thus constricting the chocolate starfish since the punchee is not expecting a sudden blow to the body. Hopefully they'll resist naming a beer after a Cleveland Steamer or Dirty Sanchez.
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I’m testing functionality of my company’s web site with Amazon.co.uk (England) and Amazon.de (Germany). While testing the UK Amazon site, I noticed that they have an entire section devoted to Harry Potter. If I’m J.K. Rowling, that’s when you know you’ve made it. The fictional character you created in your head is now considered an entire section unto itself, along with items like “Education” and “Garden Tools”.
Speaking of Harry Potter, if you get HBO, watch this week’s rerun of Extras. Daniel Radcliff, who plays Harry Potter, is spoofing himself in this episode as a horny teen trying to get laid in every possible way.
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In between the 2nd and 3rd periods of Hockey Night In Canada they have a segment called Satellite Hotstove which is a video call between sportswriters/announcers from different cities who discuss the current week’s hot issues in the NHL. They were having connection issues last Saturday and the sportswriter from Calgary said “I can’t her Jim Hughson at all”. Jim, based in Vancouver, could hear the other guy though and he ad-libbed a great deadpan right before they switched to commercial to fix the technical issue. As he heard the Calgary guy’s comments, he said with a straight face “And I was brilliant, too.”