# Couldn't of/couldn't have **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [August 15, 2020, 5:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/couldnt-of-couldnt-have/918156 "2020-08-15T05:34:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 11
**Author:** ![Sam\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Sam\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sam_Stone)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2020, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/couldnt-of-couldnt-have/918156/202 "2020-08-19T18:44:40Z")
> [@pulykamell](#): > > ETA: Anyhow, how in the heck did we get from grammar peeves to Canadian beer? I started a joke, which started the whole thread crying. ---
**Author:** ![Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/malleus_incus_stapes/32/3293_2.png) [@Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malleus_Incus_Stapes)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2020, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/couldnt-of-couldnt-have/918156/203 "2020-08-19T19:35:30Z")
[quote=“wolfpup, post:199, topic:918156, full:true”] > [@Ynnad](#): > > > [@LSLGuy](#): > > > > > … One thing the internet has done in spades is give every monkey a typewriter. One with enormous reach to the other monkeys. … > > > [/quote] > > > > > > From Wikipedia: " **Actual Monkeys** … Not only did the monkeys produce nothing but five total pages largely consisting of the letter ‘S’, the lead male began bashing the keyboard with a stone, and the monkeys followed by soiling it. …" > > Apparently, “actual monkeys” and “Trump supporters” are pretty much synonymous. No, the latter produces five pages of nothing but the letter K. ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2020, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/couldnt-of-couldnt-have/918156/204 "2020-08-19T19:47:59Z")
> [@Sam\_Stone](#): > > What has happened to my country??? A couple hundred klicks east of YK, the muskeg thawed and built up a lot of methane. A solitary Inuit hunter stopped in the area to have a cigarette. The explosion was unthinkably enormous. Canada was totally effaced. The isn’t anything left. Noneofit. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2020, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/couldnt-of-couldnt-have/918156/205 "2020-08-19T19:48:28Z")
> [@pulykamell](#): > > ETA: Anyhow, how in the heck did we get from grammar peeves to Canadian beer? 🙂 Go to Saskatoon then turn left. That usually works to derail almost any thread. ---
**Author:** ![BippityBoppityBoo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bippityboppityboo/32/5745_2.png) [@BippityBoppityBoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BippityBoppityBoo)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2020, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/couldnt-of-couldnt-have/918156/206 "2020-08-19T19:50:08Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > Go to Saskatoon then turn left Is this going to Saskatoon from the north or the south? ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2020, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/couldnt-of-couldnt-have/918156/207 "2020-08-19T20:07:11Z")
Have you ever been to Saskatchewan? Which way you turn does not matter. There is nothing in any direction, anywhere. There is a reason Bugs Bunny went to Albuquerque to fuck up his directions. At least there is something there. ---
**Author:** ![BippityBoppityBoo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bippityboppityboo/32/5745_2.png) [@BippityBoppityBoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BippityBoppityBoo)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2020, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/couldnt-of-couldnt-have/918156/208 "2020-08-19T20:12:25Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > Have you ever been to Saskatchewan? Which way you turn does not matter. There is nothing in any direction, anywhere. Eh? As long as you don’t say this about Nebraska we’re good. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2020, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/couldnt-of-couldnt-have/918156/209 "2020-08-19T21:26:26Z")
As @eschereal says, from Saskatoon it doesn’t matter. One of our long-time posters is/was from Saskatoon. IIRC it was @Gorsnak although I see he hasn’t filled in the location in his Discourse user page. Funny business always involves Saskatoon somehow. ---
**Author:** ![74westy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/74westy/32/3950_2.png) [@74westy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/74westy)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2020, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/couldnt-of-couldnt-have/918156/210 "2020-08-19T23:22:48Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > Funny business always involves Saskatoon somehow. As someone from Regina, truer words were never spoken. ---
**Author:** ![Gorsnak](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gorsnak/32/7587_2.png) [@Gorsnak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gorsnak)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2020, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/couldnt-of-couldnt-have/918156/211 "2020-08-19T23:26:26Z")
There’s a location field in Discourse? I hadn’t noticed. However, it absolutely does matter which way you turn. You’ll only get to chastise @Sam_Stone for derailing the thread if you’re going North when you turn left at Saskatoon. ---
**Author:** ![excavating\_for\_a\_mind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e8c25b/32.png) [@excavating\_for\_a\_mind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/excavating_for_a_mind)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2020, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/couldnt-of-couldnt-have/918156/212 "2020-08-20T01:32:02Z")
> [@pulykamell](#): > > If you’re contradicting me, I wasn’t arguing that Budweiser wasn’t manufactured in Canada for the Canadian market. My point was that I doubt it was a “totally different animal.” > [@wolfpup](#): > > I can’t authoritatively say since I’ve never done a direct comparison, but I do recall from my days of beer-drinking and also a great deal of business travel that I found most American mass-produced beer quite watery and bland. TBH, it wasn’t actually “bad” so much as bland. What sticks in my memory is Canadian beer being closer to the typical European style, like English and German beers. If you think for one minute that Budweiser would allow a different recipe to be brewed in Canada than any of their other breweries, you probably don’t understand much about beer. Budweiser spends a whole lot of money to make sure the Bud (or Bud Light, or Michelob or even Natural Ice) that you buy in Canada, St. Louis, Houston, Italy, or even Russia all taste EXACTLY the same, as much as modern science can insure. To suggest that local facilities have the autonomy to modify the recipe of a worldwide brand to suit local preferences throws millions of dollars invested in branding out the window. Maybe in a small brewery. By InBev? Not a chance. In my experience, the USA’s craft beer market is more vibrant than anywhere else I’ve been. I’ll admit, lately it seems to be an IPA market, but that is not accurate. Yeah, most local breweries will have 5 types of IPAs, but most anywhere in the US you can find a local (regional) brewery that offers their own version of a Stout, Pale Ale, IPA, Wheat Beer, lager, as well as seasonal offerings. Most (if not all) of the Canadian, European, Asian, or South American cities I’ve been to, while they all have their own local beers, they don’t have the variety you find in even small-town USA. As for Canadian beer goes, explain Alexander Keith’s India Pale Ale. ---
**Author:** ![Sam\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Sam\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sam_Stone)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2020, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/couldnt-of-couldnt-have/918156/213 "2020-08-20T02:04:00Z")
> [@BippityBoppityBoo](#): > > Eh? As long as you don’t say this about Nebraska we’re good. Having driven across both… Nebraska is definitely more interesting. But that’s kind of like saying corn is more interesting than wheat. It may be on some level, but it’s a really low bar to clear. ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2020, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/couldnt-of-couldnt-have/918156/214 "2020-08-20T02:09:44Z")
I am reminded of the cartoon of the lad whose head is barely higher than a barstool pleading for daddy to come home, captioned “he stood by his father’s beer and wept” ---
**Author:** ![BippityBoppityBoo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bippityboppityboo/32/5745_2.png) [@BippityBoppityBoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BippityBoppityBoo)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2020, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/couldnt-of-couldnt-have/918156/215 "2020-08-20T03:12:49Z")
> [@Sam\_Stone](#): > > Having driven across both… Nebraska is definitely more interesting. > [@Sam\_Stone](#): > > It may be on some level, but it’s a really low bar to clear. This is true. Nebraska’s landscape beauty is subtle and an acquired taste. We try to keep this quiet so we can have it to ourselves, none of those big city nabobs blocking our view. Let us know when you’re coming by and we’ll throw a steak on the grill for you, frosty microbrew from down the street served along side. If you’re going to want tomato juice in yours, bring your own. Waste of a perfectly good beer. ---
**Author:** ![duffer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/duffer/32/1026_2.png) [@duffer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/duffer)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2020, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/couldnt-of-couldnt-have/918156/216 "2020-08-20T03:52:08Z")
That’s so subtle it’s beautiful. Thanks for the laugh. ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2020, 5:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/couldnt-of-couldnt-have/918156/217 "2020-08-20T05:48:41Z")
> [@BippityBoppityBoo](#): > > Nebraska’s landscape beauty is subtle and an acquired taste. I remember one time we took the road from Junction City to Lincoln, and crossing the border was almost jarring. I mean, Kansas looked so nicely groomed, almost like some kind of park. Nebraska, by contrast, looked like people lived there. ---
**Author:** ![BippityBoppityBoo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bippityboppityboo/32/5745_2.png) [@BippityBoppityBoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BippityBoppityBoo)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2020, 6:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/couldnt-of-couldnt-have/918156/218 "2020-08-20T06:50:27Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > I remember one time we took the road from Junction City to Lincoln, You came through Lincoln and didn’t say ‘hi’? You should be ashamed of yourself. No steak and beer for you next time. P.S. I would have gotten the hell out of Kansas too. ---
**Author:** ![RivkahChaya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rivkahchaya/32/8919_2.png) [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2020, 7:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/couldnt-of-couldnt-have/918156/219 "2020-08-20T07:04:29Z")
> [@bump](#): > > “intensive purposes” > > ??? > > It’s “intents and purposes”. Pretty sure you got whooshed. ---
**Author:** ![RivkahChaya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rivkahchaya/32/8919_2.png) [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2020, 7:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/couldnt-of-couldnt-have/918156/220 "2020-08-20T07:09:06Z")
> [@BippityBoppityBoo](#): > > I would have gotten the hell out of Kansas too. When I was at Indiana University, I had a friend who had a dog named Kansas. I told her she ought to take him for a drive out to [Toto, Indiana](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toto,_Indiana), so that when they left, she could say “Gosh Kansas, I’ve a feeling we’re not in Toto anymore.” . . . . She didn’t laugh either. ---
**Author:** ![RivkahChaya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rivkahchaya/32/8919_2.png) [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2020, 9:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/couldnt-of-couldnt-have/918156/221 "2020-08-20T09:10:15Z")
> [@wolfpup](#): > > “Loose the nut!” is grammatically correct (if somewhat archaic) as a sort of battle cry in the defense of home and castle, akin to “release the hounds!”, if instead of hounds you keep a homicidal maniac in the dungeon for deployment in emergencies. Yeah…only if the nuts have independent agency. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/couldnt-of-couldnt-have/918156.md?page=10) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/couldnt-of-couldnt-have/918156.md?page=12)