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2018-10-30 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

US troops sent Reykjavik's bars into ‘state of emergency’ after drinking all their beer

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Posted by Fred 2018-10-30 00:00|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 Iceland apparently lacks a G2 and a G4. Too bad. How did they support Keflavik, back in the day?

Posted by Richard Aubrey 2018-10-30 00:15|| 2018-10-30 00:15|| Front Page Top

#2 I remember the time when Pan and I drank the hotel bar out of JD.

I think it was JD.
It might have been Pan.
We were in a bar.
It might have been a hotel, or we slept on the floor.

Posted by Skidmark 2018-10-30 00:17|| 2018-10-30 00:17|| Front Page Top

#3 They weren't troops, they were sailors and marines. There's a difference. Keep up the traditions, shipmates!

Posted by AlmostAnonymous5839 2018-10-30 00:36|| 2018-10-30 00:36|| Front Page Top

#4 During World War 2 an Army medic on a Pacific island radioed " I've got a bad case of Beri-Beri. What should I do ? , " Give it to the Marines. They'll drink anything. "

Posted by Snavimble Bucket1794 2018-10-30 01:29|| 2018-10-30 01:29|| Front Page Top

#5 Logistics problem?

Posted by gorb 2018-10-30 01:35|| 2018-10-30 01:35|| Front Page Top

#6 Iceland ended their prohibition about the same time as the US -but not for beer. Beer was illegal up to the 1980s. Production remained very small - and low quality. Things began to turn around with the craft beer trend but production still lags. They actually had to relearn how to make beer.

Posted by Rex Mundi 2018-10-30 12:04|| 2018-10-30 12:04|| Front Page Top

#7 You can't be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline. It helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a beer.
-- Frank Zappa

Posted by SteveS 2018-10-30 12:30|| 2018-10-30 12:30|| Front Page Top

#8 I'm so proud!

Posted by DarthVader 2018-10-30 15:24|| 2018-10-30 15:24|| Front Page Top

#9 I tried Gull when I was in Iceland...it was meh. On par with coors. They need to import some good german brewmasters or maybe talk to Shiner if they prefer lighter beers.

I don't remember them drinking alot of beer anyway.

Posted by Silentbrick 2018-10-30 19:13|| 2018-10-30 19:13|| Front Page Top

#10 I've drank with Pan. once we ended up in Makati...

Posted by 746 2018-10-30 23:23|| 2018-10-30 23:23|| Front Page Top

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