Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 (Tek) 9/28/84 based on 9/17/84; site zeus.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!bellcore!decvax!tektronix!teklds!zeus!bobr From: bobr@zeus.UUCP (Robert Reed) Newsgroups: net.jokes Subject: Producing an image Message-ID: <482@zeus.UUCP> Date: Wed, 6-Mar-85 19:09:19 EST Article-I.D.: zeus.482 Posted: Wed Mar 6 19:09:19 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 9-Mar-85 10:45:21 EST Organization: Tektronix, Beaverton OR Lines: 28 [From Jonathan Nicholas' column in the Portland Oregonian] Henry Weinhard's Private Reserve is kind of a funny name for a beer, don't you think? Sounds more like a place to hunt partridge. Or a discreet bordello. A Republican lunch club. Or a remote ranch where rich Texans go to get their tummies tucked. But it drinks, and sells, just fine. So nobody at Blitz-Weinhard complained as company president Fred Wessinger mused at some length, so to speak, over the christening of his newest product. "Blitz-Weinhard Blue Boar Brand Ireland Style Premium Light Ale" is quite a mouthful in more ways that one. Following discreet, and successful, test marketing in California, Henry's Irish made its hometown debut Tuesday evening as a crew of River City quaffers gathered to "pore" over the brew. The ale will be launched next week with a series of the kind of splendid TV ads we've come to expect from the brewery. Shot in Waterford, Ireland, the ads feature a cadre of Irish codgers supping in the local pub. The good ole boys certainly look the part, but I couldn't help asking Wessinger why there were no young folks in the ads. "We wanted some," he said. "But we went all the way to Waterford for an authentic Irish look only to find that all the youngsters there have blue and pink spiked hair." -- Robert Reed, Logic Design Systems Division, tektronix!teklds!bobr