Some days are just slow for beer news but this photo caught my eye. What dramatic perspective...and a natty choice of slippers. A classic from the school of "nutty old guy in basement" art. Whippersnapper irony? Bah! To me, he's a sort of hero - but what would the caption be? Here are my best guesses:
- "...and I call this one the big can."
- "She said carpet but I said beer cans."
- "No, it's all the result of a misguided bladder health study I was in back in '68."



Comments
Rick Sellers - May 8, 2008 4:26 am
"you kids don't know how easy you've got it, when I was your age I had to walk up hills, both ways, in the snow for a beer... and they were all this big. Nothing so easy as those sissy cans you pick up in your fancy Ess You Vees in your fancy micro beer shops. No wonder your arms are so skinny, you don't even need to work to taste your beer. You know, just last week on the television I spotted an commercial for your new cans that are vented and turn blue. We had cans that turned blue too, but that wasn't a good thing back then, oh no, that was back when we used real metal though. Metal was popular before the war, you know. And vents, I'll tell you what, if you needed to vent your can you used a rusty nail off the ground, that's what men did back then I tell ya. You don't know how easy you've got it. Say, have I ever told you about..."
The Beer Nut - May 8, 2008 5:32 am
I don't have a caption, but I'm a little perturbed by the pattern left by a liquid pooling between his feet then draining away across the room.
Knut Albert - May 8, 2008 5:45 am
"One day, my son, all this will be yours"
or
"To get through them all, I'd better stop buying and staqrt drinking"
Kevin - May 8, 2008 2:54 pm
So then she said, "How about we use wallpaper?" and I said, "Wallpaper, pshh, I'll decorate these walls with beer cans!" and then she told me, "Bob, I'll bet you anything that you can't drink enough beer to decorate every inch of the walls here"...well of course I accepted the bet and have spent all day every day down here drinking. That was 7 years ago.
Zythophile - May 8, 2008 4:34 pm
"My wife said, 'I'd like a holiday villa in Cannes,' and I said, 'OK, babe ..."
wittaker - May 8, 2008 9:17 pm
Dad?
Bill - May 8, 2008 11:55 pm
The Billy Carter Presidential Brother's Library
Gabe - May 9, 2008 2:33 pm
That is nothing short of phenomenal.
I've got a collection of about 110 cans, so this is kinda like my ultimate unachievable goal.
Keep drinking, good sir. You have my utmost respect.
Leigh - May 9, 2008 3:23 pm
Xavier and the X- Men had seen better days' or 'just a few more ring pulls and that 3-d poster is mine'
Kevin - May 9, 2008 4:02 pm
Ok on a second look, I felt like I was looking into my future.
Paul of Kingston - May 12, 2008 10:00 am
Eight thousand four hundred and twenty ? - Oh crap!