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MADD nerds (zing!) (updated after coffee)
Filed by phoenixMagoo | July 15, 2009
i always thought madd was a solid, good intentioned, advocacy group. plus they always hand out rad pens and stress balls at any college or high school event. however, my opinion has now changed, check out this bullshit:
MADD feels that “The combination of a roadway and advertising for any kind of a beer doesn’t make any kind of sense.” [Source: Autoblog]
let’s say you are from a small town in ohio with a micro brew that names a beer after the exit number for your town. the exit number for you town is 81-A. you move to washington state, and are shopping in a whole foods. you see a label that says 81-Ale over a background image of the state of ohio. why wouldn’t you buy the beer? maybe you were beat up in high school, idk.
another example. in the metro dc area there is a micro brew named capital city. my favorite beer at capital city is “pale rider ale” and the motto for the beer is “hell on wheels.” i think that is about 10x worse than the jersey turnpike brew mentioned in the autoblog article cited earlier. AND! it’s also a mega tasty beer.
basically, if the branding and motto didn’t help sell the beer, then the name of the beer would of obviously been changed by now.
so MADD, a combination of a roadway (even driving) and advertising sell beer, and a business selling a product makes sense.
the end.
