Boomer’s Today

| December 24, 2022


It’s time once again, Delta Whiskies and Whiskettes, for Boomer’s Sunday, where I sort through the weekly offering of ‘toons and pick the best. Toons are provided by Boomer and AW1 Scott, with many others contributing.

Disclaimer: These toons are meant to amuse, entertain and inform, pretty much in that order. While I cull what I can, they are not specifically fact-checked, so expect a certain amount of artistic license.

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Forget? Forgive isn’t looking real promising either.

 

Haggling over the price.

 

Category: Guest Link, Humor, Satire, Schadenfreude

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11B-Mailclerk

“Bread 5 standing by…”

Sapper3307

Be safe!

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DocV

They’ll never find me in the Ville… ex-Schwabbie.

Daisy Cutter

To be historically accurate – it was not only Boone’s Farm Strawberry Hill, but Mad Dog 2020, which was commonly referred to as MD2020. And who can forget Thunderbird, or its affectionate nickname, “The Bird”?

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AZRobert

Add Southern Comfort and Bacardi 151 to the list too, but’s those who imbibed them in the 70’s seemed to miss out, it says 80’s and 90’s…

Just my luck, thought my boat came in but it sank at the dock!

SFC D

“What’s the word? Thunderbird! What’s the price? Fifty twice!”

MCPO USN

What’s the reason? Grapes in season!

SFC D

Don’t leave out Ripple, TJ Swann, and any Gallo product that came in gallon jugs!

Daisy Cutter

Ripple morphed into Boone’s Farm. It was an earlier product.

All under the category of cheap ass alcohol enhanced wine. A whino’s dream.

timactual

“Ripple morphed into Boone’s Farm”

“morphed”??

Not aged in seasoned oak barrels?

Daisy Cutter

Sorry, should have said ‘replaced’ vs. ‘morphed.’

From Wikipedia on fortified wines:

  • Ripple was a fortified and carbonated wine[8] that was popular in the United States, particularly in the 1970s (and made famous by Fred G. Sanford of Sanford and Son). Possessing a low 11% ABV (lower than modern table wines), it was originally marketed to “casual” drinkers.[9] Due to its low price, it gained a negative reputation as a drink for destitute alcoholics. It was popular among young drinkers, both underage and college students, due to its low price. It was later replaced with Boone’s Farm.[10]
rgr769

It was my grandpa’s drink of choice. He consumed a bottle of it practically every day the last 20 years of his eighty-something lifespan. It made him meaner than a rattlesnake. My grandmother wouldn’t divorce him, but she left him when he was in his fifties. Fortunately, he lived in another state for most of my childhood.

SFC D

Aged on the truck.

MCPO USN

The only grapes near Boones Farm were the wild ones they drove by on the way to the store.

Milo Mindbender

Nope, aged on the truck, and then on the shelf in the finest of recycled glass bottles

poetrooper

Wild Irish Rose…

Daisy Cutter

The Rose!

Anonymous

Mad Dog– MD 20/20!
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Timothy J. McCorkle

Night Train!

Daisy Cutter

Oh yes! Brings back memories of things I have no recollection of on those those nights.

DocV

Yup. I climbed aboard the Night Train once or twice.

timactual

“What’s the price?—-$0.60 twice
What’s the reason?—-Grapes in season”.

I preferred the subtle fruitiness of Ripple, myself.

Daisy Cutter

Made famous by Fred Sanford.

DocV

And Night Train!

Laughing Wolf

Late 60s and into the 70s. Glad to graduate from that, though had a Scout patrol leader who never did tell how he got crushed ice and supplies out to a remote camp for frozen daiquiris. Bastard.

tom reynolds

I remember $2 pitchers of mad dog at the EM Club on Fort Hood. Good times

tom reynolds

mid 70s

Eggs

I must have been sophisticated back in my daze.

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Eggs

But I was more into malted beverages back then.

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KoB

OK, now that shot of Pigalousy and Z Man was just wrong on so many levels. Shoulda used that Daisy Red Ryder to put BOTH of my eyes out. God will get you for that, Kid Squid (ht2 Ol’ Poe)

Deckie

I imagine it going down more like that scene in Kingpin where Woody Harrelson sleeps with his landlord then pukes up his guts.

rgr769

Welp, he had to pay the rent somehow.

Old tanker

Times a lot today.

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Mike B

I’m arguing with myself as to which is the correct verbiage…….

Witch in a Ditch

Or

Bitch in a Ditch

poetrooper

Rich bitch witch in a ditch… 😜 

Skivvy Stacker

Boone’s Farm?
Hell no; sterno and corn squeezin’s run through a rad-ee-ater. Made me the sub-genus I am t’day.

Laughing Wolf

Great as always, and thanks to all who make it possible.

Merry Christmas to all! May your day be bright with love, joy, and laughter.