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At my age...DEPENDS.

However, I am never late for 'happy hour' so I should be there by half-five.

3:00-5:00 I want to get there before Steve drinks all my beer.
Joe

And the rest of the story is:

Joe and I drink the same beer.

Mine!

Steve

Which is how I began drinking PBR. They either quit drinking your beer or they get tougher, one or the other.

Dats what I'm talking about, I'll trade ya an ice cold Bud Black Crown for a PBR soon as I make a produce drop in Dan and Bob's kitchen.

Gunner

I hate beer! Yuck and bloating too!
Vodka is where it's at!

Bob likes Zima

Vodka make crazy, like ruskie.

Gunner

What da flook is zima?

Zima is a clear, lightly carbonated, alcoholic beverage, that is made and distributed by the Coors Brewing Company, ultimately MillerCoors. Introduced in 1993, it was marketed not as a beer, but as an alternative to beer, an early example of what is now often referred to as alcopop. Its domestic production ceased in October 2008, but it is still marketed in Japan.[1]
History[edit]

Zima means "winter" in Slavic languages. TV writer Jane Espenson came up with the name.[2] It was launched nationally in the United States as Zima Clearmalt in 1993 after being test-marketed two years earlier in the cities of Nashville, Sacramento, and Syracuse. The lemon-lime drink was part of the "clear craze" of the 1990s that produced products such as Crystal Pepsi and Tab Clear.[3] The slogans used in early advertisements for Zima were "a truly unique alcohol beverage" and "Zomething different".
Zima offered an alternative to the then-successful wine cooler category, and it became very popular. Coors spent $50 million marketing Zima in its first year, persuading nearly half of American alcohol drinkers to try it. Brandweek magazine reported that at Zima's peak in 1994, 1.2 million barrels of the beverage were sold. Originally popular among young women, Coors made its first attempt at attracting young men to the brand in 1995 by marketing Zima Gold, an amber-colored beverage that promised a "taste of bourbon"; the drink was unpopular and disappeared from store shelves within the year.[3]
Zima was associated with rumors claiming that the beverage did not contain alcohol or that its alcohol content would not register on alcohol-breath-test equipment;[3] the myths were alleged to have improved the beverage's popularity among teenagers.[4]
In describing "The Long, Slow, Torturous Death of Zima", writer Brendan Koerner cited Zima's perceived reputation as a "girly-man" beverage and its persistent parodization by late-night TV host David Letterman.[3] The Chicago Tribune quoted distributors ordered to stock "caffeinated alcoholic beverage Sparks on retail store shelves to make up for Zima�s absence".

There are a million ways to slight a rival's manhood, but to suggest that he enjoys Zima is one of the worst. Zima was the original "malternative"�a family of alcoholic beverages that eventually came to include such abominations as Smirnoff Ice and Bacardi Silver�and it has long been considered the very opposite of macho: a drink that fragile coeds swill while giving each other pedicures.

YUK sounds horrible.

Gunner

Miller has one out now called Fortune, I think. It is 6.9% alcohol.

Either way, I'll be indulging as soon as I drop off the goods at the big house. Be proud to pass you one too.

Thanks Brudda, followed closely by putting fire to a ceegar.

Gunner

PBR has made more babies in the back seat of a car than any other beer in the south. Good stuff

Well gents, I just took a job with IBM today.

To celebrate, we're going to come up and visit with you lads for a few hours.

I can vouch for this.

VERY glad to hear the news! Congratulations on your new gig. Here's hoping that it is a good fit for you and your family!

It's not the best fit but it beats unemployment. That crap is for the birds.

It'll do until I can find better.

A Big Congrats to ya HAJ, God Bless.

Gunner

Except, of course, when I have to drag one of your bucks out of the friggn swamp after dark! But I think that's a perfectly good excuse, right?

I'm partial to good vodka.

Congrats HAJ!