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Clemson Sports Icon [56348]
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Baseball and Beer
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Mar 3, 2024, 5:10 PM
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Had a cold beer or more during the game today as we again kicked the coots.
Made me think back on my first beer.
Had my "first ever" cold beer not long after high school graduation.
I had been lucky and had obtained a job in the Eureka Mill card room as it paid more than my drug store job.
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After taking my girl back home to Great Falls on Friday night got back to the Grill around midnight to hang some with the guys. That was a local Chester tradition.
Cato was was home from Clemson, and we were all in awe of that.
He ordered us a beer, and I drank it. After a couple more he suggested we drive to Ocean Drive, so we did - in my VW. Back then kids went to OD, parents went to Myrtle.
It was a fun weekend as we drank more beer and attempted to meet girls.
That was back when girl groups (of course with chaperones) would hang sheets with their town name off the balcony.
Folks were friendly in those days.
The pad was there even then (this is not my VW). Maybe we could not actually "Shag", but the cold beer made us believe were holding our own.
Monday was back in the mill, but with new memories made.
When was your first beer?
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Heisman Winner [80785]
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LOL, my uncle, my dad's younger brother by ten years, contributed to juvenile
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Mar 3, 2024, 5:37 PM
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delinquency by giving me my first beer when I was 14. I was spending a week with his family one summer, since he had three sons about my same age. He had a refrigerator full of...Pabst Blue Ribbons, and, when he went to the fridge to get himself one, he asked if I wanted one. After getting over the initial shock, and him shooting down my aunt, who was against it, I said, uh, Yes?
Now, beer is certainly an "acquired" taste, but that first one, given the circumstances, was very, very good, right out of the gate. I had nothing else to compare it to, of course. But, it were great.
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Rival Killer [2962]
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I forgot all about hanging the sheets with your hometown on them. Oh the
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Mar 3, 2024, 5:42 PM
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memories and I wish I had gotten half as “lucky” as I insinuated to my buddies.
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Orange Blooded [2132]
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Re: Baseball and Beer
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Mar 3, 2024, 5:55 PM
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My first beer was in the parking lot at Carowins.
I had gone with a group of people that I worked with at Community Cash grocery store. One of the older guys that worked there had a cooler full of Miller beer. He threw me one and said he knew That I had drank a beer before (I had not). It was a Miller pony sized and I took me a big ole swig and proclaimed it had been too dang long since I had me a cold beer! I don't know what I was expecting, but that was not it! I nursed that beer for awhile. one of the guys that was my age asked me how was it? I told him I was a Budweiser man myself, but that Miller beer wasn't half bad! I told him that Miller beer was the champagne of Beer and thus it would be uncouth of me to chug it like I was used to. Beer is an acquired taste and it took me years and budgetary reasons before I could drink one.
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Rival Killer [2962]
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Who remembers Put You Hand Round a Country Club Can?
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Mar 3, 2024, 6:06 PM
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I agree. You had to acquire a taste for beer.
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Orange Beast [6528]
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Re: Who remembers Put You Hand Round a Country Club Can?
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Mar 3, 2024, 9:37 PM
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Me, 1963 after graduating high school. My first was a Country Club 8 oz. Pony!
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TigerNet HOFer [127742]
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1970 in OD
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Mar 3, 2024, 6:39 PM
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10th grader at Beach Week
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Orange Blooded [2333]
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Mar 3, 2024, 6:53 PM
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It was the last day of fall semester freshman year of college before we all went home for Christmas break. I was already high from a joint we'd passed around earlier. I asked one of my friends for a beer, and he gave me a cold Coors light in a can. I tried it and hated the taste so much I didn't even finish the can. I drank a lot more the next year, though.
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Mar 3, 2024, 6:53 PM
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Good to see you in the cheap seats Tug.
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Head Coach [998]
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Mar 3, 2024, 7:35 PM
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May '67 senior year hs. About 5 of us dudes at one's dad's house at Lake Murray. We took a case of Schlitz and didn't even finish the case over maybe 3 days. Schlitz was tough for beginners I reckon.
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Clemson Sports Icon [58028]
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Re: Baseball and Beer
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Mar 3, 2024, 7:40 PM
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Great story. Thanks for sharing Tug.
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Athletic Dir [1142]
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Mar 3, 2024, 8:02 PM
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My first beer was when I was 15. Getting off work from a Piggly Wiggly on Saturday evening. Older coworkers looked 18 so they’d get the beers for us. Sometimes we’d go to a drive in, sometimes we’d go to a pizza place a few miles away, sometimes Blaney Drag Strip as we knew a few of the locals running. Ain’t quit beer yet. I’ve tipped quite a few around the Clemson campus, tho never a student!
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Mar 3, 2024, 8:07 PM
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My first beer was at the lake with friends. One of the guys had an older brother who was 21.
This was 1991 & I was 16. The brand was MGD
Good Times!
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I am sure I posted this before when relating stories about
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Mar 3, 2024, 10:05 PM
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Walter Reed Hospital. I couldn't stand the smell of beer - I guess from being around an addicted uncle in my early years. Didn't even get tempted while a student at Clemson. Was in traction in the hospital and a VA administrator brought a group in to boost morale and had pizza and beer for the wounded. His teenaged daughter stopped to talk to me ( I was one of the few on the ward with both arms and legs so I guess the girls found me easier to talk to) and she actually asked her dad if she could drink a beer with me and he agreed. I couldn't make myself look like a wimp so I forced it down. Somehow they go down a lot easier these days.
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That's a great story.
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Mar 3, 2024, 10:33 PM
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I have some tales to tell, but mostly mine weren't noteworthy. The first beer I had I'll keep for me. The first time I had a beer socially was in Junior year in high school. Home from school with homies. Driving around, listening to music and indulging in the occasional brew. What a beautiful time to be alive.
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