[Sca-cooks] bombing

[Sue Clemenger]

Hey, I remember those commercials! They *were* great, although I didn't
drink the beer either.
--maire

"Laura C. Minnick" wrote:
>
> At 10:50 PM 12/18/02 -0800, you wrote:
> >try a beer trap.
> >smarty:>)
>
> Why would I want to trap a beer?
>
> *Ancient History Time*
>
> Does anyone else remember teh old Rainier Beer commercials, with people in
> giant bottle costumes, herding around like elk, with 'sportsmen' hunting
> them. There was one where they'd driven them down into an old riverbed
> (dry?) and were trying to gather them up with nets- much chaos, teh camera
> got knocked over, and someone yelled "Pop its' cap! Pop its' cap!" and
> later "aww... it got away..."
>
> This was roughly teh same time as teh whole 'Artesians' thing that Olympia
> Beer had going. Neither one of teh beers were worth drinking, but the
> marketing was stupendous!
>
> (The motorbike version of 'RRRRRR-aaaaaiiiii-neeee-rrrr-Beeeeeeeer' was
> filmed on a classmate's dairy farm. As is she wasn't already insufferable.)
>
> What ever happened to my 'Vitamin R' t-shirt?