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The Liquor Ad That Only Gays Were Supposed To See

nela — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 21:22:06 EDT

they could have also gone with "how you doin?"

because the bottle is totally flaming. i love it though.

nela

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onebadclam — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 21:44:25 EDT

So just where am I supposed to walk my cat, then?

onebadclam

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SheWalkedWithAZombie — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 19:10:14 EDT

@AndIAmTellingYou: "Tranny hot mess all up in my stuff" would have worked as well.

SheWalkedWithAZombie

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if_i_only_had_a_heart — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 19:06:49 EDT

heh what kind of life -- the life of someone under 30, lonely, lost, and recently arrived in some bigger town from some smaller one

i'm just saying

if_i_only_had_a_heart

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MeaniePants — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 18:43:37 EDT

@AndIAmTellingYou: Hee hee! And by the way, we gays love the Basil Hayden because it accessorizes (the belt around its lovely slip dress?)

MeaniePants

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AndIAmTellingYou — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 18:20:54 EDT

They should've just gone with "Bitch, puh-leez..."

AndIAmTellingYou

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mowglicub — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 18:09:51 EDT

Whiskey in the front lick him in the rear.

mowglicub

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heroinandpeeps — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 17:59:48 EDT

It must be awfully challenging to convince the gay barels of Scotch to age.

heroinandpeeps

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bodegacat — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 17:43:28 EDT

@Mike_Jahn: You could start the gay Wikipedia with that entry.

bodegacat

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noiseyneighbor — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 17:33:13 EDT

Is that bottle wearing assless chaps?

noiseyneighbor

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mitchel_stevens — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 17:31:01 EDT

@Lonesome_George:
wait, it's bottled by John McCain's god penis?

mitchel_stevens

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dweeb — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 17:27:57 EDT

@Mike_Jahn: Congratulations on also birthing the expression, "delivering the Sunday Times."

dweeb

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traydon_barter — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 17:27:45 EDT

Got Gay...milk?

traydon_barter

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iplaudius — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 17:17:26 EDT

@Hamud: Or, in order to require a heightened sense of moment? In which case, he brings the whiskey in a flask and does a shot before he walks in?

iplaudius

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iplaudius — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 17:15:31 EDT

@Mike_Jahn: Wow. I didn’t realize that the principles of heterosexual appropriation (of gay-anointed real estate, fashion, music, etc.) extended to beverages!

iplaudius

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BeRightBack — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 17:12:21 EDT

@Mike_Jahn: That's fascinating! I'd never heard that.

I wonder if there's a similar story behind Long Island Iced Teabagging?

BeRightBack

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Hamud Ibn Hamud — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 17:11:00 EDT

I'm trying to figure out the sort of life a person would need to lead in order to experience a heightened sense of moment simply by walking into a bar.

I imagine that a person so readily in awe of the mundane would have an even tougher time walking into a bank, or a doctor's office, or any other place where a drink wasn't reliably available to steady his nerves.

Hamud Ibn Hamud

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Randall Tex Cobb — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 17:07:51 EDT

@Lonesome_George: Except the ladies.

Randall Tex Cobb

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Hez — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 17:06:43 EDT

Neal Boulton just ordered a crate. I think he thought it was Hayden Christensen bourbon.

Hez

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Mike_Jahn — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 17:04:11 EDT

May I make a contribution to oral history before it's totally forgotten? Since it doesn't turn up on Google, I may be the last repository of this knowledge. What we know as the Long Island Ice Tea began its life as the Fire Island Ice Tea. It was created at Fire Island Pines at the Blue Whale in the 1970s and served during tea dance. AFter a short period of time mainland kids discovered that it was a damned fine date rape concoction and began turning up, not exactly welcome, at the tea dance. And they began falling into the harbor and blocking the ferry, which was driven by a friend of mine at the time. I also was around in those days, idly and without compensation helping deliver the Sunday Times to Calvin Klein and Tommy Tune. Amazingly, ferry captains and their dissolute friends like the drink too. Anyway, the Pines bartenders stopped serving it, and the drink migrated across the Bay and was picked up by mainland LI bartenders, who renamed it to eliminate the gay connection. Over the past few years some gay drink mixers have been doing a variant of the Long Island Ice Tea and calling it the Fire Island Ice Tea. No, Mary, not quite. Other way around.

Just thought I'd add that. We have a responsibility to history. We're not memoirists.

Mike_Jahn

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semiserious — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 17:01:34 EDT

Snatch some whisky, not a trophy Miss Thing.

semiserious

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Cheap Shot — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 17:00:32 EDT

Can you believe there are people getting paid to tap into gay marketing research? They realized gays spend a trillion dollars and now they want in.

Cheap Shot

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kingsquiddish — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 16:56:10 EDT

It's totally a gay bourbon... look how well it accessorizes!

kingsquiddish

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miss_msry — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 16:55:12 EDT

@Reggie Cameron:
Or alcoholics. Now pass that bottle.

miss_msry

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karion — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 16:50:55 EDT

A Basil Hayden Perfect Martini is the cure for what ails you.

karion

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Lonesome_George — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 16:45:54 EDT

This bourbon makes the straights gayer and the gays straighter! Everybody wins!

Lonesome_George

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SchmatSchmaymon — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 16:45:51 EDT

@Gayyker: Foreal, they could have said "Seriously ladies, you sound like donkeys - stop braying" and they would not have offended me a bit!

SchmatSchmaymon

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dweeb — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 16:43:47 EDT

Clearly, personalized cock rings know no one orientation.

dweeb

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Clarence Rosario — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 16:43:23 EDT

Targeting the uber-niche Right Said Fred segment?

Clarence Rosario

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creamsissle — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 16:42:47 EDT

That's some fancy accessorizing for a bottle of Kentucky straight bourbon whiskey.

creamsissle

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La Cieca — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 16:42:20 EDT

"S&M" don't mean "standing and modeling," Mary!

La Cieca

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FracturedAcetabulum — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 16:41:09 EDT

Multi-function stopper/glass butt plug.

FracturedAcetabulum

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KarenUhOh — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 16:41:08 EDT

The ad for my drink of choice: "What are you bitching about? It was $6.99. Get up before you have an accident."

KarenUhOh

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if_i_only_had_a_heart — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 16:40:23 EDT

geigh -- it's what's for dinner

if_i_only_had_a_heart

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kingsquiddish — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 16:38:40 EDT

Hamilton Nolan reporting live from the urinal at the Bear pit

kingsquiddish

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Gayyker — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 16:38:27 EDT

Straights: Take it up a notch
Gheys: Tone it down a bit

Gayyker

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hypocriteoath — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 16:38:26 EDT

When you walk into a bar, play it off like nothing happened. Good Luck.

hypocriteoath

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BullfightsOnAcid — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 16:38:13 EDT

When you walk into a bar, grope your package...with class.

BullfightsOnAcid

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ThighHigh — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 16:38:05 EDT

Drink this, since you lost your six-pack over the winter.

ThighHigh

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awhatsname — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 16:37:49 EDT

Red font improves words that suggest people-watching.

awhatsname

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SixThirty — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 16:37:44 EDT

Why the reminder to the straights that they're on display, but the admonishment ot the gays to stop acting as if we're on display? Shouldn't it be the other way around? The gays are MUCH more apt to judge you with their friends in a bar than the straights...

SixThirty

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Reggie Cameron — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 16:37:14 EDT

Gays comprise such a minor segment of Bourbon drinkers it's almost undetectable. Ad dollars for Vodka are bettter spent on gays since over 70 percent of vodka drinkers happen to be either women or fey.

Reggie Cameron

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kingsquiddish — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 16:37:11 EDT

appletini anyone?

kingsquiddish

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fiveinchtaint — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 16:37:00 EDT

I think it's saying don't match your shoe buckles, belt buckles and bottle buckles. That's tacky.

fiveinchtaint

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kingsquiddish — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 16:36:47 EDT

yes it is a catwalk damnit... how many gays do you know that drink whiskey anyway?

kingsquiddish

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FormerEnglishMajor — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 16:36:33 EDT

They ain't lookin' at you, so stop posing.

FormerEnglishMajor

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BullfightsOnAcid — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 16:36:13 EDT

It's a bar, not a Crisco Oil Hump N Bump Orgy.

BullfightsOnAcid

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In Other News... — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 16:36:04 EDT

Top shelf, power bottom.

In Other News...

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In Other News... — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 16:35:28 EDT

Courage to kiss a straight dude.

In Other News...

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eXXX — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 16:35:22 EDT

So for the straights, a reminder. For the gays, an insult. Got it.

eXXX

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In Other News... — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 16:34:33 EDT

It's not TV, it's Bravo.

In Other News...

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SchmatSchmaymon — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 16:33:46 EDT

Bourbon happens to improve my posture.

SchmatSchmaymon

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Sheila — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 16:33:31 EDT

"for the best of times... Santori times."

Sheila