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Kim wrote:
wrote in message oups.com... Kim wrote: wrote in message oups.com... While I wouldn't turn down a Bud, I much prefer a Yuengling Black & Tan or a Guinness Stout. Or a Genessee Cream Ale. . . . I remember the 10-Horse nearly when it was new, I was up there for a visit. It was stout, but it'd give a grin on 1/2 a one! ![]() I'm getting thirsty! Down here, back in the day when having a few was more regular for me, there was a "new" ale called Big Mouth Mickey...'least I think that's what it was. Don't remember the brewer. It was cheap, as I recall, and some pretty darned good stuff, taste-wise. We used to buy a 6-pack and have leftovers after a night at the drive-in, because the stuff was stout enough on one or two to make ya sit there during a drama movie and grin through the whole thing...LOL Never heard of that stuff but the description is one reason I like Sam Adams or Guinness Stout. One or two is plenty. As for what is fed to babies, it should be remembered that for a couple of decades in the middle of the 20th century, the "professionals" and "experts" told us that bottle-feeding was *better* for infants than the "old-fashioned way". The newfangled "formula" and all the attendant apparatus was "scientific" and "progressive", they said. Of course it took a whole pile of hardware (bottles, sterilizer pot with lid and bottle rack, nipples, nipple rings, seals, bottle tops, tongs) the formula itself, and a kitchen to do all the processing to do what "the old fashioned way" did semi- automatically. Whatever's the advertising win for the "period" is what is supposed to be *ahem* healthy. BINGO!! The "old fashioned way" didn't sell as much apparatus as the "new scientific" way. The "old-fashioned way" was put down as being vaguely third-world, Luddite, "horse and buggy" and inferior both physically and psychologically. Moms who tried to keep the old ways met with resistance, opposition and insults. After all, the "professionals" and "experts" knew best, right? As if! Heh, adverstisers. Yup. If there's no market for something, create one! Kim W5TIT 73 de Jim, N2EY When I had my babies, I knew the hospital gave a "care" package of samples of all kinds of stuff when leaving. Well, when some girlfriends had their kids, a few months before me, it was Huggies (or whatever competitor brand it was back then--can't remember now) and a baby food that was out back then made by, I think, Beechnut, or some such anyway. When I was leaving, it was Pampers and Gerber. I asked about that and they said it was whoever won the "contract" each period that determined whose "stuff" was given out. Good grief. Product placement. Inexpensive advertising that reaches the target audience directly. And it can't hurt. Same, by the way, with prescription drugs--for a pretty good majority of the time anyway. Whatever a salesperson is peddaling at the doctor's office and leaves a better impression (read: more free samples) is what the doc pushes for that malady.... Depends on the doc in my experience. But when the drugs are expensive there's surely a reason to hand out freebies if possible, particularly for those with less than perfect insurance coverage. Kim W5TIT obtw - dunno if I ever explained why I stopped editing your call out, Kim. (Forgive me if you've seen this before.) I still think your callsign is "inappropriate" for ham radio. Just my opinion. But it's not my callsign, it's yours, and FCC handed it out and some others like it, including one in 6 land that has been held by someone with the first name "Michael" as far back as 1979. Then it occurred to me that if I heard you on the air I'd certainly give you a call and hopefully have a QSO. Which would mean giving your callsign on the ham bands. Which meant that, inappropriate or not, I'd use your call on the air but not on Usenet. And that's quite illogical, I think. So I stopped editing it out. 73 de Jim, N2EY |
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