Monday, December 16, 2019
11 comments:
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Skoonj said...
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Maybe it means Baseball and Ballantine. Used to, anyway.
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12/16/19, 9:07 AM
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Unknown said...
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Toad:
As reported elsewhere, a lot of "perfumed princes" got into command positions during the Clinton and Obama years. I hope with the Election of Trump a lot of them are going to be in charge of new positions in Alaska. I understand some of the uninhabited Aleutian's can be lovely in the Winter. -
12/16/19, 11:20 AM
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Skoonj said...
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‘Outrage culture isn’t the truth’: Dan Crenshaw says ‘white power’ cadets were playing Circle Game
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/outrage-culture-isnt-the-truth-dan-crenshaw-says-white-power-cadets-were-playing-circle-game?fbclid=IwAR0qaeR10aYecOllV4kpS3-FUt4EstiL0FEp7vStSNiHw_K5QmozdwJ5-o0
Turns out it's a game. BFD -
12/16/19, 1:04 PM
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oy vey ole' said...
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The real white power game was played in 1912, Carlisle Indian School vs. Army and guess what, whitey lost that game, Carlisle 27, Army 6!
https://tinyurl.com/t2x9mpv
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12/16/19, 4:05 PM
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JLW III said...
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The idiot announcers didn't even know the difference between West Point Cadets and Annapolis Midshipmen. Called them all Cadets. The one video I saw showed a Midshipman doing the circle game bit. Didn't see the mid, only the end of his sleeve and his hand making the circle gesture. Yes, it was a male hand.
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12/16/19, 4:49 PM
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Rodger the Real King of France said...
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!!! JL
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12/17/19, 12:00 PM
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Stu Tarlowe said...
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Skoonj is correct. Besides being the "OK" gesture (and an unmistakable gesture of approval), it was "The 3-ring sign for Ballantine"; the three rings stood for "Purity, Body, Flavor." You could walk into a tavern and flash that sign, without a word, and the bartender would draw you a Ballantine beer. Similarly, you could simply say "Mabel!" and be served a Carling Black Label, and there were other hip, shorthand ways of calling for your favorite brew.
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12/18/19, 1:01 PM
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Skoonj said...
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It's really amazing how old commercials stick with you. Ballantine and the three ring sign, Schaefer is the one beer to have when you're having more than one, and then Rheingold. I was sitting in the officers club at Bolling AFB in Washington, DC. Walking among us were The Strolling Strings, a small violin group playing very nice music. Suddenly they began to play Band of Students Waltz. I didn't know the name of the tune, but I was very familiar with it. I began to sing:
My beer is Rheingold, the dry beer.
Think of Rheingold whenever you buy beer.
It's not bitter, not sweet; it's the dry flavored treat.
Won't you try extra dry Rheingold beer?
One of the violinists was a New Yorker, and he came by when they were done and we had a laugh over the Rheingold lyrics.
Amazing what will stay with you. And no, I never drank any of those beers when I saw the original commercials. I was much too young.
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12/18/19, 1:40 PM
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Stu Tarlowe said...
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Skoonj, I remember that Rheingold (why wasn't it "Rhinegold"?) jingle as well as you do. Wasn't there also a "Miss Rheingold" beauty contest? And, like you, I was too young to drink the beer, but all those beer commercials still made an impression.
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12/18/19, 4:10 PM
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Skoonj said...
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Yes Stu, there was a Miss Rheingold contest beginning in the 1940s. I never got too interested in that.
It's really something how we remember the commercials for beer and cigarettes, but I for one, never smoked. And by the time I was of age to drink, I was away from the beer companies that had the commercials. -
12/18/19, 6:05 PM
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Rodger the Real King of France said...
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Pass the popcorn
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12/19/19, 11:36 AM
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