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Five Fact Friday #16

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Five random facts for Friday on Saturday this week:

Zythology. The study of beer, from the Ancient Greek zûthos. (Hat tip to my Mom for sharing that one). – Wiktionary

More than 6 million people enrolled in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, commonly referred to as food stamps, in the first three months of the pandemic, from February to May. It was the fastest-ever expansion of the program. The Week

A 1-year-old dog is the equivalent of a 31-year-old human, a 5-year-old is like a 57-year-old, and a 10-year-old like a 68-year-old. – The Week

The total number of hours of video watched on YouTube each month – 3.25 billion. – MerchDope

Nationwide, in December 2017, the golf courses and country clubs industry employed 307,000 in 11,100 establishments.  – Bureau of Labor Statistics

Meet the Ultimate Beer Bureaucrat

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Who knew? If you want to sell beer in the US you have to get the label approved by one guy:

Any brewery that wants to market its wares in this country needs to get it through Kent “Battle” Martin, giving the federal official extraordinary power. With only vague regulations outlining what is and isn’t permissible, he approves beer bottles and labels for the Tax and Trade Bureau, or TTB, a section of the Treasury Department…

This year, Battle has singlehandedly approved over 29,500 beer labels, the only fact his press handler would provide…

Most government departments are nebulous and anonymous. But because of the sheer volume of his interactions with brewers, Battle has become a symbol for the TTB’s nonsensical rules…

Battle has rejected a beer label for the King of Hearts, which had a playing card image on it, because the heart implied that the beer would have a health benefit.

He rejected a beer label featuring a painting called The Conversion of Paula By Saint Jerome because its name, St. Paula’s Liquid Wisdom, contained a medical claim—that the beer would grant wisdom.

He rejected a beer called Pickled Santa because Santa’s eyes were too “googly” on the label, and labels cannot advertise the physical effects of alcohol. (A less googly-eyed Santa was later approved.)

Beer Money

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When I was attending college back in the '80s I had lots of friends who – how can I put this charitably – wrote papers that made me wonder if they'd been smoking crack for six weeks solid.  I just read a robo-comment spam on another post that reminded me of reading those papers and wondering how my friends could possibly believe that a six pack of beer was adequate compensation for helping them.  Here's the comment:

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Seriously, one guy showed up at my dorm room at 10 p.m. with a four page paper devoid of paragraphs or punctuation and asked me if I could help him get it in final draft form in time for his 7:30 a.m. class the next morning.  I got a case for that one.