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January 25, 2019
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Yeah, brewed with wind power. And Quaker Puffed Wheat and Puffed Rice was shot from guns.
Why does Bud hate birds so much?
#stopBud'ssilentspring
Bobby D, and Buddy Priest, they were the best of friends
When Ol Bob needed energy one day, Buddy rolled out a bunch of fans
And placed them high on drumlins, far above the crowded plains
Saying "Have a drink, Bobby boy, sit down, let's watch the game
Well, Bobby D sat right down and put his fingers to his chin
But with the cold eyes of InBev on him, his head began to spin
"Would ya please not stare at me like that" he said
It's just my foolish pride
Cause sometimes a man might like a beer
But these brands aren't fit to buy"
@D2 Nice!
Well, you look so pretty in it
Honey, can I jump on it sometime?
Yes, I just wanna see
If it’s really some kind of dud
You know it balances on your head
Just like a mattress balances
On a can of bud
Your brand new leopard-skin pill-box hat
Raptors not available for comment.
I love Dylan, but wind power is a dead-end. Unless you want to fill every empty space in all our remaining wilderness with windmills, and even then you will still need coal backup for what would still not come close to meeting our energy needs. No one who understands anything about our actual energy budget doubts this.
As for the use of the line "the answer my friend is blowing in the wind," I do not begrudge Dylan letting them use it as they have here. We all need more cash, and I suppose Bob does too. However, to me the absolute, monumental wisdom of that song was that "the answer" was NOT defined, no matter how many of Bob's supposed friends, political or otherwise, tried over the years, and it was not supposed to be defined - certainly not by a bunch of those hideous bird choppers.
The Bob Dylan ad will appear sandwiched between the ad for Boomer wealth management services and the ad for bladder control for incontinent elders. People who came of age in the 1960s will respond favorably, using the fourteen available functional brain cells left to them. How embarrassing. Baby boomers left us with $21T debt, and hundreds of trillions in unfunded liabilities. Dylan is sweet nothings for their sunset years. Make Ice Floes Great Again.
Althouse, are you f***in kidding me. I almost didn't watch it but after you posted that it was an enviro ad. So, before I watched - I did a search to see if Bud finally wised up re: the Clydesdales and if they were featured in one of their 2019 Super Bowl ads. Thank goodness I didn't rely on you "Dylan" or "energy" tags.
This isn't an enviro add - Bud brought back the Clydesdales after a two year drought. That's all that matters. It is a Clydesdale ad!! Never mind the damned birds. Or Bob Dylan. The Clydesdales are back - good for Bud.
Obligatory:
Not singing for Miller
Don't sing for Bud
I won't sing for politicians
Ain't singing for Spuds
This note's for you
If they really wanted to go with a Dylan wind song, they might have had my attention with his later (better) work:
Idiot wind
Blowing through the turbines that aren't broke
Signaling the shiny virtue of our woke
Idiot wind
Blowing through a tariff scheme on ourselves
We're idiots, babe
It's no wonder we drink this crappy beer they sell
Here again is my elegy to the Boomers, referencing Bobby Zimmerman's Nobel Prize, and the developmental delay suffered by the Boomers by JFK's assassination. Hard Rain's Gonna Fall
I'll know people are serious about global warming when they start a crash program to build fourth, fifth and sixth generation nuclear plants, and sell them to the third world.
This joins Gillette.
All protest songs become beer commercials at some point...
It’s a Boomer nostalgia Super Bowl ad for chrissakes.
They couldn’t get Monica Lewinsky?
I always get a warm feeling from the Budweiser Clydesdales. The floppy-eared dog is a great plus. But then the camera pulled back to reveal them surrounded by environmentally damaging bird-blending eyesores. Such a shame they couldn’t find a better location for the shoot.
It ain’t beer, babe.
Contrast with Beto’s anti wall ad....
The folks that think walls will damage the beauty of the southern border have no problem littering it with windmills.
Yup, build a wall of solar panels topped with windmills along the southern border, label it the Green Wall Initiative. Ought to be popular with Red Sox fans, at least.
Quick Commissioner Gordon, to the Virtue Signal!
So Bud is going to be produced at higher cost? Good to know since I don't drink it anyway.
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