Thursday, May 14, 2009

Guinness celebrates its 250th year

Modern Drunkard Magazine runs down the top 10 booze mascots, including Big Chief Toucan.

John Gilroy, the Audubon of stout advertising started with a pelican and wrote the rhyme:

A wonderful bird is the pelican,
Its bill can hold more than its belly can.
It can hold in its beak
Enough for a week
I simply don’t know how the hell he can
.

Dorothy L. Sayers forwent the coarse and offered a promise of Paradise:

If he can say as you can
‘Guinness is good for you’
How grand to be a Toucan!
Just think what Toucan do.

More about Guinness and the Sesqyihetchletarian or whatever 250 is.

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