Bakers Dozen

Non-culinary uses root beer could be put to:

  1. Added as a coolant in one’s radiator (one time)
  2. Leave a small bowl in the garden to attract snails, slugs, and other pests.
  3. Paperweight
  4. Christen ships with bottle of A&W
  5. Caffeine free bubbly drink.
  6. A crappy hydraulic fluid

Non-culinary uses root beer could be put to:

  1. Added as a coolant in one’s radiator (one time)
  2. Leave a small bowl in the garden to attract snails, slugs, and other pests.
  3. Paperweight
  4. Christen ships with bottle of A&W
  5. Caffeine free bubbly drink.
  6. A crappy hydraulic fluid
  7. Use it as a cleaning fluid

People claim cola can do this so I suppose root beer can as well.

Cola (pH ~2.5) is a much better solvent than root beer (pH ~4.5) because of the far greater amount of phosphoric acid in cola. However, root beer is acidic enough to still work in some applications – say, if you’ve got time to soak dirty metal objects in it for a day or two.

Non-culinary uses root beer could be put to:

  1. Added as a coolant in one’s radiator (one time)
  2. Leave a small bowl in the garden to attract snails, slugs, and other pests.
  3. Paperweight
  4. Christen ships with bottle of A&W
  5. Caffeine free bubbly drink.
  6. A crappy hydraulic fluid
  7. Use it as a cleaning fluid
  8. In a hummingbird feeder (let it go flat first!)

Non-culinary uses root beer could be put to:

  1. Added as a coolant in one’s radiator (one time)
  2. Leave a small bowl in the garden to attract snails, slugs, and other pests.
  3. Paperweight
  4. Christen ships with bottle of A&W
  5. Caffeine free bubbly drink.
  6. A crappy hydraulic fluid
  7. Use it as a cleaning fluid
  8. In a hummingbird feeder (let it go flat first!)
  9. Line up bottles on fence and use for target practice

Non-culinary uses root beer could be put to:

  1. Added as a coolant in one’s radiator (one time)
  2. Leave a small bowl in the garden to attract snails, slugs, and other pests.
  3. Paperweight
  4. Christen ships with bottle of A&W
  5. Caffeine free bubbly drink.
  6. A crappy hydraulic fluid
  7. Use it as a cleaning fluid
  8. In a hummingbird feeder (let it go flat first!)
  9. Line up bottles on fence and use for target practice
  10. Water your hibiscus, gardenias, or azaleas with it to lower the pH

Non-culinary uses root beer could be put to:

  1. Added as a coolant in one’s radiator (one time)
  2. Leave a small bowl in the garden to attract snails, slugs, and other pests.
  3. Paperweight
  4. Christen ships with bottle of A&W
  5. Caffeine free bubbly drink.
  6. A crappy hydraulic fluid
  7. Use it as a cleaning fluid
  8. In a hummingbird feeder (let it go flat first!)
  9. Line up bottles on fence and use for target practice
  10. Water your hibiscus, gardenias, or azaleas with it to lower the pH
  11. Create a suit with 40 pockets, place a bottle in each, and then attend Burning Man attired as “The Root Beer God”

You know, that looks familiar…

Non-culinary uses root beer could be put to:

  1. Added as a coolant in one’s radiator (one time)
  2. Leave a small bowl in the garden to attract snails, slugs, and other pests.
  3. Paperweight
  4. Christen ships with bottle of A&W
  5. Caffeine free bubbly drink.
  6. A crappy hydraulic fluid
  7. Use it as a cleaning fluid
  8. In a hummingbird feeder (let it go flat first!)
  9. Line up bottles on fence and use for target practice
  10. Water your hibiscus, gardenias, or azaleas with it to lower the pH
  11. Create a suit with 40 pockets, place a bottle in each, and then attend Burning Man attired as “The Root Beer God”
  12. Line up 99 of them and sing that damn song (adding the word “root” each time, of course)

Non-culinary uses root beer could be put to:

  1. Added as a coolant in one’s radiator (one time)
  2. Leave a small bowl in the garden to attract snails, slugs, and other pests.
  3. Paperweight
  4. Christen ships with bottle of A&W
  5. Caffeine free bubbly drink.
  6. A crappy hydraulic fluid
  7. Use it as a cleaning fluid
  8. In a hummingbird feeder (let it go flat first!)
  9. Line up bottles on fence and use for target practice
  10. Water your hibiscus, gardenias, or azaleas with it to lower the pH
  11. Create a suit with 40 pockets, place a bottle in each, and then attend Burning Man attired as “The Root Beer God”
  12. Line up 99 of them and sing that damn song (adding the word “root” each time, of course)
  13. Ballast for a hot air balloon

Next - Excuses for showing up to work late

  1. Stopped behind a train

Excuses for showing up to work late

  1. Stopped behind a train
  2. Slept through the alarm

Excuses for showing up to work late

  1. Stopped behind a train
  2. Slept through the alarm
  3. The fish were biting!

Excuses for showing up to work late

  1. Stopped behind a train
  2. Slept through the alarm
  3. The fish were biting!
  4. Had to take the kid to the doctor.

Excuses for showing up to work late

  1. Stopped behind a train
  2. Slept through the alarm
  3. The fish were biting!
  4. Had to take the kid to the doctor.
  5. I’m not late - I’m really early for tomorrow.

Excuses for showing up to work late

  1. Stopped behind a train
  2. Slept through the alarm
  3. The fish were biting!
  4. Had to take the kid to the doctor.
  5. I’m not late - I’m really early for tomorrow.
  6. Thought Daylight Savings Time took effect last night

99 root bottles root of root beer root on root the root wall root
99 root bottles root of root beer root
Take root one root down root and root pass root it root around root
98 root bottles root of root beer root on root the root wall root

I don’t know. It seems to throw the rhythm off.

Excuses for showing up to work late

  1. Stopped behind a train
  2. Slept through the alarm
  3. The fish were biting!
  4. Had to take the kid to the doctor.
  5. I’m not late - I’m really early for tomorrow.
  6. Thought Daylight Savings Time took effect last night
  7. I thought it was my day off.

Excuses for showing up to work late

  1. Stopped behind a train
  2. Slept through the alarm
  3. The fish were biting!
  4. Had to take the kid to the doctor.
  5. I’m not late - I’m really early for tomorrow.
  6. Thought Daylight Savings Time took effect last night
  7. I thought it was my day off
  8. Car wouldn’t start

Excuses for showing up to work late

  1. Stopped behind a train
  2. Slept through the alarm
  3. The fish were biting!
  4. Had to take the kid to the doctor.
  5. I’m not late - I’m really early for tomorrow.
  6. Thought Daylight Savings Time took effect last night
  7. I thought it was my day off
  8. Car wouldn’t start
  9. I was turned into a newt…well, I got better.

Excuses for showing up to work late

  1. Stopped behind a train
  2. Slept through the alarm
  3. The fish were biting!
  4. Had to take the kid to the doctor.
  5. I’m not late - I’m really early for tomorrow.
  6. Thought Daylight Savings Time took effect last night
  7. I thought it was my day off
  8. Car wouldn’t start
  9. I was turned into a newt…well, I got better.
  10. The streetlights were watching me.

Excuses for showing up to work late

  1. Stopped behind a train
  2. Slept through the alarm
  3. The fish were biting!
  4. Had to take the kid to the doctor.
  5. I’m not late - I’m really early for tomorrow.
  6. Thought Daylight Savings Time took effect last night
  7. I thought it was my day off
  8. Car wouldn’t start
  9. I was turned into a newt…well, I got better.
  10. The streetlights were watching me.
  11. The shuttle from Mars was running late.