# Pride vs Beer **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [July 17, 2008, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pride-vs-beer/456781 "2008-07-17T01:40:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2008, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pride-vs-beer/456781/41 "2008-07-18T16:42:01Z")
[QUOTE=Projammer] Sung to ‘The Sound of Music’ Dough, the stuff that buys me beer. Ray, the guy who brings me beer. Me, the guy who drinks the beer. Far, a long way to get beer. So, I’ll have another beer. La, la la la la la beer. Tea, no thanks I’m having beer. That will bring us back to - (reaching the crescendo of his toast, Homer looks into his beer mug, which is empty) - DOH!!! [/QUOTE] Pfft. I can improve on that. Pride, the stuff that… um… Beer. ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2008, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pride-vs-beer/456781/42 "2008-07-18T17:24:51Z")
God put it there because He loves you, and wants you to be happy. Who are we to question His will? Regards, Shodan PS - > [@Homer Simpson](#): > > Beer! The cause - and cure - of all our problems. ---
**Author:** ![Great\_Dave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/46a35a/32.png) [@Great\_Dave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Great_Dave)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2008, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pride-vs-beer/456781/43 "2008-07-18T18:50:28Z")
Shodan- close but not quite “To alcohol, the cause of, and solution to, all of life’s problems.” ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2008, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pride-vs-beer/456781/44 "2008-07-18T18:58:24Z")
Damn, my first Simpson quote and I mess it up. (I don’t actually watch the show.) Regards, Shodan ---
**Author:** ![Boozahol\_Squid\_P.I](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/d9b06d/32.png) [@Boozahol\_Squid\_P.I](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boozahol_Squid_P.I)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2008, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pride-vs-beer/456781/45 "2008-07-18T22:41:36Z")
[QUOTE=Shodan] God put it there because He loves you, and wants you to be happy. Who are we to question His will? Regards, Shodan [/QUOTE] Or for the secular drunkard: Man, being reasonable, must get drunk. The best of life is but intoxication. -Byron ---
**Author:** ![gravitycrash](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/977dab/32.png) [@gravitycrash](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gravitycrash)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2008, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pride-vs-beer/456781/46 "2008-07-18T22:52:47Z")
Pride? In my younger days me and my buds would splurge on a case of Blatz beer, at the time I think it costs about 6.99. What a deal! ---
**Author:** ![hekk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/50afbb/32.png) [@hekk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hekk)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2008, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pride-vs-beer/456781/47 "2008-07-19T02:11:19Z")
[QUOTE=gravitycrash] Pride? In my younger days me and my buds would splurge on a case of Blatz beer, at the time I think it costs about 6.99. What a deal! [/QUOTE] I can get a 12 pack of can Blatz for $3.99 around here, and a case of returnable(!) bottles for $5.99. Progress… ---
**Author:** ![gravitycrash](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/977dab/32.png) [@gravitycrash](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gravitycrash)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2008, 4:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pride-vs-beer/456781/48 "2008-07-19T04:37:14Z")
I see we run around the same class of friends \*\* hekk \*\* . ---
**Author:** ![Autolycus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/22d042/32.png) [@Autolycus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Autolycus)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2008, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pride-vs-beer/456781/49 "2008-07-19T23:02:24Z")
_hic_, yeah, and I’d eat the pizza slice on the top of the clean pizza box in the garbage. Cooo–stanza! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pride-vs-beer/456781.md?page=2)