"Theres a 'goober' in me beer, mate!"
This all started from a Feb.99 Forbes magazine article. The harmonic threads then flow from the OAEs..
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A herd of
buffalo can only move as fast as the slowest buffalo, and when the herd is
hunted, it is the slowest and weakest ones at the back that are killed
first. This natural selection is good for the herd as a whole, because the
general speed and health of the whole is maintained or even improved by the
regular culling of the weakest members.
In much the same way, the
human brain can operate only as fast as the slowest brain cells through which
the electrical signals pass. Recent epidemiological studies have shown that
while excessive intake of alcohol kills off brain cells, it attacks the
slowest and weakest brain cells first. Thus, regular consumption of beer
helps eliminate the weaker cells , constantly making the brain a faster
and more efficient machine.
The result of this in-depth study verifies
and validates the causal link between all-weekend parties and job related
performance. It also explains why, after a few short years of leaving
university and getting married, most professionals cannot keep up with the
performance of the new graduates. Only those few that stick to the strict
regimen of voracious alcoholic consumption can maintain the intellectual
levels that they achieved during their university years.
So, this is a
call to arms. As our country is losing its technological edge we should not
shudder in our homes. Get back into the bars! Quaff that pint! Your
company and country need you to be at your peak, and you shouldn't deny
yourself the career that you could have.
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In 1992 the US Navy got out of
the "package store" business, and turned
it over to ASA. ASA in turn moved the "package store" from the
cold
storage room at the top of the hill to a room in Bld. 155 across from the
library. While ASA was cleaning up the old storage room they came
across 120 cases of REAL OLD Budweiser in cans...they still had the pull
tab openers on them, so I figure they had to be from the early late 70's
early 80's. They put the beer up for sale at $6.00 a case and none
sold. Every couple of days after that the price went down by a dollar.
Finally when the price hit $1.25 a case a few "brave souls" from the
heavy shop (sand crabs) and some of the more professional Navy drinkers
bought a few cases to see if it was still good. There was about a 75%
chance of finding "good" beer, you just never knew what was going to
come out of the can....
When word spread about the "quality" of the beer (plus the fact that
it
needed no ration card to be bought) there was a run on it the next time
the package store opened up. In 10 minutes they sold over 100 cases of
that beer. The next few days the coop cleaners hated anyone who bought
that beer!! No one got really sick off of it. I had one beer, and it
tasted like pure formaldehyde!! The other beer I opened up didn't
"pour" out of the can as much as it "slithered" out..
I never had
another can of that prehistoric Bud.
Joe Hawkins
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From: Deep Freeze Soupy
Well, I guess thats why the 6'ers specially
the earlier ones are so darn smart. Who else got medicated by Doc Hollick
with his famous Old Methusela brain rejuvinator. No pun to later members
of 6....you all know who you are out there....
Soupy
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From:
Steve Smith
I must
of got real smart at the reunion! Not to mention my 3 years
in CH-CH.
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From:
Groderbob
Same here, used the little banana sleds to transport our gray
matter additive from the warehouse on the hill to the huts...Had great
bartenders in the club in Chi-Chi, (was one myself-----pat on the back)
to keep us well oiled and fine tuned...Still doing my
part.
RD
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From: Donald Leger
Hey
Soupy:
We did our very best in my time frame eradicating the grey matter
as well. (DF71-73) We still had the steel cans of Budweiser (and you never
ever poured these into a glass!) But I gotta say the Piels Real Draft @ $3.25
per case certainly helped to diminish the brain cells. I think we held
up the traditions of you "old timers" as well as the "Puckered
Penguins"
"Once a Puckered Penguin, always a Puckered
Penguin"
DL
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From: Dutch Holland
And anyone who did accidently pour one into a cup or glass
probably never drank beer again, at least not for awhile. There was
also some serious slow gray matter burned at the Bird Dog Club in the early 60's trying to drink a pounds ($2.80) worth of booze in one
standing at a shilling ($0.28) per healthy drink. I wasn't a big beer
drinker, but I think those dark lagers went for almost the same price,
both the big bottles and the small ones. I can't remember the name of
them right now but I know some of you old OAEs have it on the tip of your
tongue (along with the memorable taste) I did have a couple????
Of them.
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From: Paul Panehal
I remember the gray matter, very well. You could get it for a $
1.00 a case in 65, we called it 'goober beer'. You could occasionally
find a number of containers that were good. But, if you had the time
tostrain it through a piece of cloth it wasn't too bad. I felt for those who
just drank their way through the goobers. Heh, RD?
But, 'raisin jack'
was tops.
Pk
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From: Dutch Holland
Formaldehyde or
what but it made for some ugly looking goobers, and didn't go down too
well the first couple of chug-a-lugs. I think that is why there was a
different method of opening them, so you could get past the goobers and
hopefully get a taste of beer.
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From: Ray Berger
You are right. that beer in a glass looked terrible. somebody told me
it contained formaldehyde as a preservative
Ray
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From: Groderbob
Goober Beer,,,,Most of
the Gutsy guys just drank the can down till the weight felt right (all the
goobers were in the bottom), then grabbed another...The real Gutsies drank
all (I wasn't in this group).....! And then there were those who strained
theirs thru hankies, socks or whatever handy....?
Anyone remember the
big sale they had on Heineken...The stuff cost 2 to 3 times of other
beer...No one bought it so they had tons on hand (how many years it sat.?)
That was the thickest beer I ever had. (that stuff I even had to
strain)...Talk about goobers, a guy was lucky to get to get 1/2 can after straining...
Just in case some of you younger listeners don't believe
these stories...Goobers were just as real as vx-6 battery additive....
Rotating my beer stock on a regular basis --- Just in case ---
RD
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From: Nick Licciardi
Why didn't ya'll say Goober Beer in the first place. Couldn't
place the gray matter. Bought many of those $1.00 cases and remember the 'rasin
jack' well at the Elect hut during the winter '65...watching Burk's
Law on the big screen. Many of the inferior bain cell were
killed.
Nick
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From: Dutch Holland
Socks maybe, I don't remember too many hankies???? being available.
Or maybe I was just low class and preferred to use a section cut out of my
waffle weaves (upper portion). You definately couldn't strain it through
bird cloth, because it didn't let anything in or out.
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From: Deep Freeze Soupy
Billy Burkett was
famous for drinking everything in the can including the MUNG and actually
walk around the hut with that disgusting bloob hangin' from his lips and nose..
He used to clear out the bar on the hill the first few months.
Soupy
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From: Larry Lister
You
HAVE to be talking about Heineken's !!!!! I remember Joe Prince
always buying that stuff when everyone else in the Helo crew would buy Bud
or Falstaff (fal-flat), and then when the rest of us ran out, he would sell
us his damned Heineken's at fifty cents a can. God, was it awful !!! That
was the days of ration cards, and you could only buy 1 case per man per week
if I remember correctly. We had Bill Leoffler, Fred Roush, Bud English,
"Rowdy Red" Robbins, Walter R. Smith, Bill Fazio, Ray McCracken,
Joe Prince, another 2nd class mech named Bob that I cannot remember his last
name, Tony Biancie (AE from the electric shop), and myself on the Helo crew
in 65 - 66. What a group!!! Joe Prince wintered that year instead of me. He
wanted to winter for his 3rd time, so I had no heartburn about going home. We
lived in J-24, (a James-way right alongside the Squadron offices, and across
from the AE/AT shop), and had some pretty good parties. That was the 1st
place I ever was that we had to put beer and soda in the refer to keep it
from freezing. We put it under our bunks and it would freeze solid
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You're right, Paul, it has been over a year since we started all this.
Been a lot of fun, and actually amazing how many of the OAE's have joined
in.
Larry Lister
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From: Robert Hyndman
The most goobery beer on the ice was Leopard.
With nothing else available, it was real good when chased with a dry
spoonful of Tang and two tetralacs.
Pigmy
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