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Drinking Buddies, Dancing Chickens: Morning Report 9/27/13

By Published On 09/27/2013 By Published On 09/27/2013
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    "Some people wanted champagne and caviar when they should have had beer and hot dogs." - Dwight D. EisenhowerNot only is it 5 o'clock somewhere, but it's still Oktoberfest everywhere. Prost!Relevant and less-than-relevant goings-on from around the interwebs:
    • Drinking buddies or not, here are five friends all men should have. [Art of Manliness]
    • That being said, being chums with an F1 corner marshall — or being one yourself — wouldn't be all that bad. [Gizmag]
    • And then on the flipside, good friend or not, if you went to one of these 10 schools, you definitely had plenty of drinking buddies. [Playboy]
    • All this beer and booze doing you in? Need to detox? Here are the 10 healthiest fruits and vegetables to do so with. [Men's Journal]
    • Grooming products haven't always been the skin-sensitive, botanical goodies that they are today. In fact, these 5 historical "tips" left the man much worse off than before. [Maxim]
    • A sneak peek at Gran Turismo 6, the 15-year anniversary installment to the groundbreaking racing game. [Jalopnik]
    • Mercedes has decidedly taken a, er, interesting track in their latest ad campaign. [Digital Synopsis]
    • In a rather different key, Dewar's White Label commercial set to Charles Bukowski's "So you want to be a writer?" It's Friday, be inspired. Live True. [&Rosàs]

    Also, did you know... The first beer advertisment came out over 4,000 years ago in Mesopotamia, and it wasn't much different from ones today. A stone tablet featured a headless woman with huge breasts, arms full of goblets. It read: "Drink Elba, the beer with the heart of a lion." [NYT]