40 Replies to “Brotherhood”

  1.    …that fairy pee.
    And that’s giving it too much credit!
    Then there’s Dogfish Head.   Ahhhhh….
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  2. I don’t tweet, so I can’t enter their “name that horse” game. I would suggest “Sticky”, but I wouldn’t tell them it’s because it ends up as glue eventually.

  3. I think the horses are great big beauties, and have seen them pull a few times. Didn’t the armoured knights of old use Clydesdale as their mounts?
    Don’t know about the beer though. I prefer Great Western Light and some nice red Merlot for special occasions.

  4. My girlfriend showed me this ad last night. She said “watch this – it made me cry”. So, Kate, you’re right (as usual). 🙂

  5. Nice. Not a NDP horse ’cause it works for a living or a Liberal horse ’cause it’s not in the gay pride parade. just a normal horse.

  6. I’m in, but then again you should have seen me by the time ‘Old Yeller’ ended. I was a mess.

  7. Apparently the knights of old favourite mount was a Destrier, which is now extinct, but their blood lines live on in the shire horse and the Percheron. When I read your post I found the wikipedia post on destriers because that was what I had heard of as a knights horse. Pretty interesting, even if you aren’t to into horses.

  8. An old joke,which I will mangle;
    Why is drinking Bud like being in a canoe?
    Because you are close to water in both.
    Budwieser does have effective ads. It is the most popular beer (by far) in both cowboy and indian bars.

  9. Very good ad, but worst beer in the world bar none.
    It is ironic that a company would manage such a fine set of horses yet produce such an utterly ghastly product.
    It is probably the least expensive beer to brew in the world, and there are people dumb enough to put it into their bodies, and that equals profit.

  10. Regarding the slurs against “american” beer, tell me why Coors Light is such a big seller in Canada? It is Gawd AWFUL! Watery! Tastless! And Canadians are discerning beerdrinkers? I think not.
    Beautiful horses, those.

  11. I noticed that — Dixie Chicks song and Toby Keith truck — playing it right down the middle. Except the Budweiser hitch was performing in Chicago — so maybe not so much.

  12. Try again.
    Singer is Stevie Nicks, from Fleetwood Mac. Predates The Dixie’s , by 25+ years.

  13. I stoppewd drinking high volume commercial beer years ago,With budweiser, I think the horses play a vital role in production.Call the horse “up-stream”.

  14. Little known but important fact: Budweiser is filtered through the Clydesdales before it’s bottled and sold to the public.

  15. If you have ever bred and raised an outstanding animal..be it dog, horse or cow…you will identify with the incredible loss when the animal is sold..’tis a part of ones soul that is sold. Kate knows what I’m talking about…

  16. Ah yes, European civilization took a quantum leap with intro of gun-powder, the horse collar and the horse shoe.
    The first made heavy horse obsolete, making the mounts available for other things and the latter two made them vastly practical as beasts of burden, for both agriculture and transport.
    Ironically these developments made moving and supplying troops much easier…resulting in larger forces, maneuvering/deploying more rapidly than had been possible prior.
    Field artillery became a practical reality, moving artillery with oxen was not terribly useful.
    Then having horses employed in tillage increased food production and the start of urbanization….horse transport of goods was an early catylist to the Industrial revolution…..which in turn enhanced agricultural production.
    Although Thomas Hardy declared “war makes rattling good history”….there is more to war and history than guns and shootin’…..IMHO

  17. Ken, the destrier:
    “Original Destrier breed is now extinct.
    The original destrier breed of horse is now extinct, but recently horses have been bred from Clydesdales and Quarterhorses to reproduce a type similar to the Destrier. They are the largest breed of horse, standing from 20 to 24 hands tall, with a thicker build than Clydesdales with less fur.”

  18. Stevie Nicks wrote Landslide and it was first recorded in 1975 over 37 years ago. The Dixie Chicks covered the song in 2002.

  19. “…tell me why Coors Light is such a big seller in Canada?…”
    For the same reason that makes them (Canadians)adore utter fools like ‘bama and Trudeau’s pup: the notion of substance eludes them.

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