# Can a fich survive in beer?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [October 31, 2002, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-a-fich-survive-in-beer/134700 "2002-10-31T14:04:52Z")\
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**Author:** ![Khan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3ab097/32.png) [@Khan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khan)\
**Post date:** [October 31, 2002, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-a-fich-survive-in-beer/134700/21 "2002-10-31T23:44:05Z")

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> \*Originally posted by Barbarian \*  
> \*\*Not only can they live in beer, you can get the official [merchandise.](http://www.cafeshops.com/cp/store.aspx?s=goats_all.5471) \*\*

HAHA! Nice. I have their “Litany of Beer” stein.

Anyway, if you turned the ocean to beer, imagine how bad that would be once it went bad. I mean, Jesus.

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**Author:** ![dougie\_monty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@dougie\_monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougie_monty)\
**Post date:** [November 1, 2002, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-a-fich-survive-in-beer/134700/22 "2002-11-01T01:21:55Z")

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In–or rather, on–an issue of _Mad_ in the late 50s, was a back-cover satire apparently painted by Kelly Freas, showing a whole family “enjoying” beer. The title was “Beer Belongs.”  
All family members with a glass of beer, including the children; the young woman and her mother-in-law giving beer to a baby in a crib. (Now that is _sick!)_  
A parrot, on a tall perch, with a glass of beer anchored to the perch.  
A dog lapping up beer from a pet’s drinking bowl.  
Two fish in a fishbowl full of beer.  
I saw this issue of _Mad_ when I was about nine years old. Even then I recognized that fish in a fishbowl full of beer weren’t going to live very long–and I would imagine the days were numbered for the rest of the family, too.

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**Author:** ![Urban\_Ranger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/e9c0ed/32.png) [@Urban\_Ranger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Urban_Ranger)\
**Post date:** [November 1, 2002, 12:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-a-fich-survive-in-beer/134700/23 "2002-11-01T12:25:10Z")

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There’s no oxygen in beer, considering that it has been all if not mostly used up during the fermentation process.

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