Hobo Jungle

[MurphOnMillerAve]

This truly is a remarkable forum.

[The Dirt]

Jon,
Keep the pictures coming as the project progresses!

Aaron has a birthday on Friday. His top two wishes:
1) X-box game- "Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II"
2) A pistol. ("Dad, this will be the last gun I want")(Yeah, RIGHT! sez Dad )

Anybody see this story? Don't let Tramp find out, or he'll be buying some mukluks, a parka, and some x-country skis.
http://news.discovery.com/human/scotch- ... a-ice.html

[2railjon]

LOL, Pete! A trip to the Lynchburg Distillery might be easier on the old boy then heading to Antarctica with ice axe!!!
Here's a video on how sourmash is made:
http://dsc.discovery.com/videos/how-stu ... iskey.html

[AG]

A trip to the Lynchburg Distillery might be easier on the old boy then heading to Antarctica with ice axe!!!

millenarian free ice over there....
A.

[rogruth]

I don't know if this is still true but not too long ago.Lynchburg was in a dry county and you could not buy the good Jack there.

[webenda]

I don't know if this is still true but not too long ago.Lynchburg was in a dry county and you could not buy the good Jack there.

You can buy Jack Daniel's at the distillery, but, since it is located in Moore County, which has been dry since Prohibition, you can't buy it anywhere else in the county. No bars, no liquor stores. My wife made the pilgrimage to Lynchburg in 2006. She was told that a special state law allows the distillery to sell small, commemorative bottles of Jack Daniel's whiskey to tourists, but not on Sundays. It was Wednesday, so she bought two 750 ml commemorative bottles of Old No. 7. It was good.

[rogruth]

Thanks Wayne.My info was from the '70s'.

[The Dirt]

Well, they're off by a decade, but tell me this picture doesn't scream "geezer"...



And I'm pretty sure there was a Specialized Roubaix sitting around the corner.
So here's my question...
San, can you... um.. explain your whereabouts on the days in question??

[webenda]

Oops!

[Tramp]

This might amuse a few of you hobos. I sure got a laugh.


http://www.xingubeer.com

Wayne, when a friend pays for your beers because you might be tapped out, it's rude to ask where he got the scratch. Politeness counts. Finger pointing is bad manners.

[webenda]

Tramp,

Actually I rather like the image but they could have left the bottle opener tongue out of it.

I agree... you are not the only person taking me to task for that. Sorry San.

[Del Mar]

Petey,

I have no defense other than I hope the geezer didn't have a small, ankle biter dog with him.

We are doing the alpha dog training thing with Louie (crate, leash, go potty in your area, leash, crate), but once that is over, I have about 45 minutes a night playing with him and getting him to bite his toys rather than me (or Jahan, 'nother subject). It's a stress reliever; I am enjoying it. I am the one who gets up with Louie at 5:30 AM (he's regular), get's him to do his business ("go potty"), walks (just been able to do that after all his shots are done). He is learning Farsi. Sigh. Zhag-e-bad ("bad dog"). Zhag-e-houb ("good dog"). I thought I had this down, but seem to be learning a number of colorful new expressions thanks to Jahan and Louie.

We tried the train room. 20 V and no small amount of amps do not deter this beast. And he has no fear of model trains. On our initial venture, he decided the SP Cab Forward was a dog he needed to dominate and jumped from my arms to confront it. I had no intention of it turning out that way. He shorted the track, threw two Z4000s into reset (paws across three rails on two sets of tracks) and looked at me like "what is this?". He didn't fry a thing on his own small carcass (all of 4.5 pounds now). We need to wait a while before we do that again. Thank God he didn't poop on the layout (his usual method of expressing his displeasure with something.)

San

[rogruth]

Tramp,

Are those beer things your designs?

Very nice.

[Tramp]

Roger, I'm not sure what you mean by "beer things." I designed that label almost 25 years ago. Beyond that I haven't had much to do with the company except fighting to maintain my royalty. Eventually I gave in because I got tired of the bickering. What's funny to me is the history of the beer. My history account is different and a lot closer to the truth.

This from my column The Penobscot Falcon:

I've designed two labels myself, both for Brazilian beers. The first was done in the mid-80s for Xingu Black Beer (still available at the Belfast Co-op). I created a label based on what I felt were a series of dazzlingly innovative concepts that I came up with in a bar one afternoon after quite a few pints. When I presented my label artwork to the expert review panel, I was told unanimously that I had broken every rule for solid commercial design and that my label would never sell a single bottle of beer.

Well . . . the fledgling company finally agreed to use my label after I waived my fee and gambled on a per bottle percentage instead. My design ideas were these:

A diamond-shaped label for unique recognition. I wanted the shape to stand out and attract buyers as opposed to the visual boldness of the name, which was then the norm. At the time there weren't any diamond-shaped beer labels, but within a few years some showed up, Gritty's being one.

An intricate pictorial design that included a map of the Xingu river basin, a Txucahamei warrior (might be the only beer label with a naked male), snakes, crocodiles, etc., to offer a sense of place with pictures rather than words. About eight years later, Levi's had a paper pocket patch on their jeans that contained the same concepts.

Rather than compete trying to be brighter, more colorful and bolder, I decided my label would be the opposite—dingy, moody, intricate, in keeping with the heart of darkness. I figured it would be noticeable because it was different. Instead of printing it in the traditional way with only three bright colors, we used the gradated spectrum similar to the way a magazine is printed, which offered more flexibility in the appearance. Not long after, quite a few micro beers were doing the same thing.

Xingu was originally sold in big 20 ounce bottles, for which the label was designed, though now it's been reduced to the conventional 12 oz package. At the time, at least in America, very few brewers offered the larger size. This also changed in the subsequent years.

So next time anyone gives you lip for drinking away an afternoon in a bar, tell them, "Hey, I'm lubricating my brain for some innovative design ideas. Just give me a few years to prove it."

[AG]

I drank once, nothing really special but label....
interesting story as usual.
A.