A lot of periodicals land on my desk, and I just don't have the time to read them. I will, however, occasionally thumb through the table of contents, scanning for any articles of particular interest. One of the best of the lot is
Emergency Management magazine. In the current issue, the cover story was "When 911 Fails." Having been through a few of these episodes in the past 38 years, this one caught my eye as I scanned the pile on Friday morning. On my way to page 16, however, my eye was drawn to this blurb on page 14:
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| Emergency Management, Nov. / Dec. 2012 |
That looked like a candidate for the best news of the week. I circled it, ripped the page out, and handed it to our Health Department director, Judy Halstead. She read it to the last sentence, noting "...but the flavor was altered." "What numbskull do you suppose they got to taste it?", she asked.
10 comments:
People tried Zima, didn't they?
Steve,
Excellent point. Given the choice, I'd opt for the 54 year old nuclear beer.
Me, too.
It's interesting to realize beer was safer to drink than water a few hundred years ago, and should we have a nuclear catastrophy, it could again be the choice for safe hydration. Let's hope if that happens we also go back to horse and buggy transportation; we already have enough drunk drivers out there.
I'm not sure where I read this over the weekend but some large city police department, could be Columbus, Ohio, is putting its "wanted" posters up on Pinterest in connection with its local newspaper's Pinterest boards. Interesting use of social media because an entirely different audience uses Pinterest (in US, it skews toward women, in Europe, toward men).
Most of the beer I buy is for making beer batter for fresh fish. I never did acquire a taste for the bitter brew. However as a student of World History you have to appreciate the positive contribution the brewing arts have made to civilization. The History Channel had a series about just that topic recently. Very interesting.
Gun Nut
Oh, but I LOVED Zima!! If I'd have know they were going to quit making it, I'd have stocked up for when the world goes zombie!!
Anon @ 10:31
It would be just my luck to go scavenging for sustenance, fighting my way through hordes of zombies (or whatever is left after some world-wide catastrophic event), and to stumble upon your stash of Zima and Twinkies.
What the heck did the world have against Zima? I thought it was great!
Anon @ 3:13
If Letterman makes fun of it, you best avoid it. He's the king since Johnny left us. I thought Zima tasted a lot like I would imagine urinal cakes would taste (based on the smell, not actual tasting).
I think I've tasted that beer.
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