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33 Things

March 22, 2007 By Jay Brooks

The magazine Men’s Health has an interesting list of 32 Things You Can Do With Beer.

Here’s the list, but you’ll need to read the article to get their explanation for each.

  1. Bathe in it
  2. Put out a fire
  3. Marinate Meat
  4. Polish pots
  5. Make a beer barbecue sauce
  6. shampoo hair
  7. Loosen rusty bolts
  8. Clear up brown spots on your lawn
  9. Steam clams or mussels
  10. Pass a kidney stone
  11. Boil shrimp
  12. Kill Slugs
  13. Find due north
  14. Sooth tired feet
  15. Make a beer slide
  16. Lower your blood pressure
  17. Trick a cheap landlord
  18. Bake beer bread
  19. Catch mice
  20. Tie a fly
  21. Cure insomnia
  22. Massage yourself
  23. Calm an upset stomach
  24. Build your next home
  25. Cook rice
  26. Stop snoring
  27. Build a plane
  28. Roast chicken
  29. Ice a hamstring
  30. Build delightful patio furniture
  31. Tame a wild hair
  32. Scale fish

Notice the list has only 32 on it, the 33rd thing, of course, is using it as intended. There are some interesting non-intuitive ideas here, such as “loosening rusty bolts” or “clearing up brown spots on your lawn.” I’m going to give that one a try this morning. But several of them seem the same, in a way, like the seven cooking with beer suggestions. Isn’t that just one suggestions in seven different guises? And stopping snoring by tying a beer bottle to your back so you won’t sleep on it seems just plain silly, especially since it’s not really the beer but the package you’re using. You could use almost anything for that. That’s true of a few others, too, where it’s the bottle cap that you’re using rather than the beer itself. And frankly, I’m not sure beer suffers from not being versatile enough that we necessarily need to find more uses for it. Even if it’s only purpose was to drink it, wouldn’t that be enough for most of us?

Filed Under: Just For Fun, News Tagged With: Health & Beer, National, Strange But True



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