re: RIP Schlitz beer

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Your models and stories are both great and haunting.

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Thanks. Growing up, I was raised by my maternal grandmother (both parents died in a car accident two weeks after my first birthday), so Old Sam was probably the closest thing to a father figure (along with my Uncle Emory) that I had. Emory was also a WWII vet, combat engineer, who shaped me into who I am today. They don’t make men like that any longer sadly, though I’ve done my best to pass down what I learned from them to my own son. I’m just grateful I had both of those men in my life when it counted.

My father did three tours in Vietnam in the infantry, I was on the first ship into Kuwait harbor. There is a Million Dollar Hole in Ft Lost in the woods I think you might know.

I graduated high school in 1975 and Schlitz beer was what most of us drank. Budweiser was considered crap beer. Rice beer. One of Our Group that drank it always caught hell, but he was a brainiac and he had memorized the Budweiser pledge on the front of the can so he would rattle that off whenever we got on his arse about his budweiser.

IKCSB

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What made Milwaukee famous has made a fool out of me.

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You know about Eddy Lawrence?

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This is the most unoriginal, mindless, moronic, brain dead adjective applied to domestic lagers. Think for yourself once in awhile.

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The bigger concern is how do these people know what piss water tastes like? Are golden showers FAR more commonplace than one might think?

Have quite a few pics of my dad when I was you get with a Schultz although he moved to miller light in his older years.

My first summer out of high school I worked on a tree trimming crew in Minneapolis taking down Elms with Dutch Elm disease and a work order came in with the name Carl Eller on it. We show up mid-morning and it's a mansion on the Mississippi River. Around noon as we were doing a final clean-up a woman emerges from the castle and gets into a sports car - gone! Then out comes the man, the Carl Eller, dressed in a robe and sandals like Hugh Hefner and handing out Schlitz to everyone.

My first brush with celebrity and it was more than I could have ever hoped for!

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RIP Schlitz beer

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If they ever DC Milwaukee's Best Light (The Beast), part of me reminiscing about my early 20's will be sad. When I was poor, I drank the shite out of that stuff. I remember buying a case later on in life after I wasn't such a poor fricker and had a decent job. I had a hard time choking that stuff down and wondered how I drank that stuff when I was younger.

Then again, I did a lot of stuff when I was younger that makes me wonder how in the shite I'm still here

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RIP Schlitz beer

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go woke , go broke