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Whisky’s not as popular as cream liqueurs in…Scotland?

The cream liqueur category in Scotland is almost double the size of the single malt whisky category with case sales reaching two million a year. According to research company Mintel, the UK sector is expected to reach a value of £655m this year. But it predicts that the next five years will see a drop in sales of 7% in real terms and that by 2011, the market will be worth £692m.

Next thing you know newpapers will be reporting that Bill Clinton doesn’t really care for pussy all that much.

Amen, Brother.

“NASCAR fans are the filthiest fans on the face of the earth,” said Charlie Cogger, who volunteered to clean a portion of the stands for a high school fundraising effort.

Goddam Terrorists

Leinenkugel’s Sunset Wheat is headed south, thanks in large part to the rise in craft beer sales.

The brewer launched Sunset Wheat in spring 2006, and sales have already exceeded company expectations, said president Jake Leinenkugel.

“The demand for craft beers continues to fuel the beer category’s resurgence and wheat beers have been especially instrumental in driving this growth,” Leinenkugel said in a statement. “The success of Leinenkugel’s Sunset Wheat has exceeded our expectations in terms of consumer response so we’ve decided to introduce it in new markets.”

Rising craft brewsales may in fact be a sign of….aging.

Some marketing gurus view discouraging beer sales of the past 18 months as the inevitable result of an aging population leaving behind the “unsophisticated” tastes of its youth. According to Brewers’ Association Director Paul Gatza, that’s only part of the reason.
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Gatza acknowledged that older consumers move toward buying products they perceive as more sophisticated. He pointed out that when beer consumers—especially women—hit 30, they tend to move away from domestic beers and toward wine. But double-digit increases in imports and craft beer sales clearly demonstrate that many beer drinkers are switching from premium to specialty beers, not switching their beverage of choice.

Gatza added that “pop the cap” laws lifting beer alcohol limits in several Southern states during the past few years were largely fueled by specialty beer lovers—and lifting the alcohol limits allows c-stores to offer more intoxicating options and increases the variety of specialty beers they can sell.

It’s not where you think it might be, believe me.

Heated car seats make your boys swim funny.

Heated seats in cars may be more to blame for declining male fertility than tight trousers, a urologist warned Tuesday, two days before a German conference on men’s illnesses. Herbert Sperling, who is to chair the meeting in Dusseldorf, said electrically heated seat covers, which are popular in wintry places, could reduce the growth of sperm.

Slow and mis-shapen sperm were also more common in drivers who spent long periods on hot seats.

Some after-effects of Ernesto. Mostly Flooding and overturned campers, but the Hatteras campground is now closed for the season.

Whale beachings from Corolla to Cape Point over the weekend.

“There were definitely five of the whales, and possibly six,” said Laura Engleby, fisheries biologist with of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) National Marine Fisheries Service office in St. Petersburg, Fla. “The reason the number is unclear, is because the public pushed one of the whales back out into the water and then one washed in, so there is no way of knowing if the one that washed in was the same one put back into the water or yet a different whale.”

Stranded whales of all kinds rarely survive after being returned to the water. Their heavy weight causes physical damage when stranded since their bodies are not designed for the underside to support the weight.

You gotta hand it to them. Muslims do love their rape.

A push to bring Pakistan’s rape laws into the 20th Century isn’t going over very well with some members of the Religion of Peace. Sixty-eight members of Pakistan’s National Assembly have threatened to vacate their seats in parliament if the law is replaced. The current law is a joke.

Under the current law, approved by a former military dictator in 1979, prosecuting a rape case requires testimony from four witnesses, making punishment almost impossible because such attacks are rarely public.

A woman who claims she was raped but fails to prove her case can be convicted of adultery, punishable by death.

Maulana Fazalur Rahman, a leader of the Islamic coalition, was near tears. “What are we to do? We have asked for more beheadings in our Xbox games, but Microsoft does not listen. Now they are taking our rape? It is intolerable.”

In fairness, it should be pointed out that there are 344 members in the Assembly. I can’t help but see it as progress that only 20% of Pakistan’s lawmakers are willing to go to the wall for their right to rape.