MythTickle by Justin Thompson for January 20, 2021

A hundred bottles of beer in the wall, A hundred bottles of beer.

ONE hundred bottles of beer on the wall…or else you can’t go on to sing about bottles ninty-nine-to-zero bottles of beer on the wall…

“Beer… you don’t buy it; you rent it.”

They say that’s why beer goes through you so quickly, it doesn’t have to stop and change color.

LOL again

Good thing the song wasn’t about beans.

A wee bit mythtaken, History says the Sumerians.

https://youtu.be/hUVwR0rw5fk

Beer makes you smart. After all, it made Bud wiser.

Ancient Egyptians treated cats as gods. The cats still remember that.

“The Roman historian, Tacitus, writing of the Germans, says, “To drink, the Teutons have a horrible brew fermented from barley or wheat, a brew which has only a very far removed similarity to wine” and the Emperor Julian composed a poem claiming the scent of wine was of nectar while the smell of beer was that of a goat.“

https://www.ancient.eu/article/223/beer-in-the-ancient-world/

Cue up Tom T. Hall, “I Like Beer.” (Very popular during the Kavanaugh hearings.)

Sumeria also made beer.

That song proves beetles are low on the evolutionary scale – or drunk…

And on a different note (for those who are interested): the second word of the title is actually “the” and not “ye”. One of the runic letters no longer in the English alphabet is the “thorn” which looks a bit like a “y” but is pronounced “/th”.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thurisaz

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thorn_(letter)

There are at least 5 more letters no longer in our alphabet but of interest to some.

“BAR” = Witty!

There’s an epic poem, “The Biermeisters of Lum”, to the hazards of brewing competition.

There’s always that One Guy who just Has to sing that verse.

A long time ago, way back in history,

When all there was to drink was nothin but cups of tea.

Along came a man by the name of Charlie Mops,

And he invented a wonderful drink and he made it out of hops.

(Chorus)

He must have been an admiral a sultan or a king,

And to his praises we shall always sing.

For look what he has done for us he’s filled us up with cheer!

Lord bless Charlie Mops, the man who invented beer beer beerTiddly beer beer beer.

…

— The Clancy Brothers.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S9_jqkPxYgU

Beer is really just TEA that has had a bunch of Yeast swimming around in it for a few months.

Technically, a great little ditty, Scarabs, but I kinda sorta think it isn’t going to shoot to the top of the charts…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=StPQwcTMimQ