Weird Al’s ‘White and Nerdy’ Quite Possibly his Funniest Video Yet
Calling all Weird Al fanatics, and those who may have never fancied this odd cat in the past: his newest video—‘White and Nerdy’—is amongst his best to-date, and is complimented by a larger production budget, great editing and some really funny and catchy lyrics that will most certainly make you laugh out loud more than once. Spawned by his newer album, “Straight Outta Lynwood,” which hit store shelves about a year and a half ago, where Al takes on a new satire: making fun of rap songs and rapping. Yes, I know, he already did something similar to this in his funny music video hit, parodying the Coolio Song, entitled “Amish Paradise”; (A satire from Coolio’s ‘Gansta Paradise.)
But this time it’s a fast rapping, hard hitting, total dork that is Al, trying to be a cool gangster rapper, but entirely failing in all of his sordid attempts. And if you had thought that you had seen everything that Al could ever make that was funny, think again! Because ‘White and Nerdy’ truly takes the cake people!
What Other Celebrities Can you Spot?
There are some other celebrity friends of Weird Al that make some short cameo appearances in this hit funny music video. If you look closely at the guy who is dancing with Al during the choruses (see the music video below) you will notice that the dude in the back is actually Donnie Osmond; who thought that he and Al were friends. Another celebrity that makes a brief appearance is Seth Green, during the middle of the video he is shown with a bunch of collectible comic book action figures.
Is this Al’s Best Music Video Yet?
In my opinion, and being a huge fan if Weird Al over the years, this is indeed his best venture yet! The video shows Al dressed up like a quintessential Star Trek (Trekkie) dweeb who will do anything to get his hands on a vintage cartoon copy of the Original Star Wars. He also notes near the middle of the video that he is both fluent in java script as well as Klingon. The entire video is complimented by offhanded satire that is both whimsical and hilarious.
And for Al, who is more noted for his love of food and the incorporation of it into many of his hit songs, this video centers entirely on the latter: social inadequacies, being a dorky loser, and being obsessed with computers and information technology. All played off perfectly by a guy who you may not even think is Weird Al, because he is dressed so coyly.
Indeed, ‘White and Nerdy’ is most certainly Al’s best video and song to date, and one of the most popular. Having already well surpassed a million views on the popular video file sharing website, Youtube.com—it’s safe to say that ‘White and Nerdy’ is currently Al’s most popular video amongst web lovers and those who are rampant fans of his satirical endeavors.
Check out the hit music video by Weird Al Yankovich, ‘White and Nerdy’ below:
Holiday Shoppers Rejoice at the Amazing Deals Offered by Online Merchants
This holiday season, the best online deals ever to be announced will be available all the way through the holiday season and well beyond that into the new year.
This is because the online merchants, websites and stores are all feeling the retail pinch that is currently squeezing the United States economy, and in order to effectively do battle with this unusual retail slump, many are offering some never before heard of deals that scream amazing prices to all! So before you head out to the local store or department store, or shopping mall to do your holiday shopping, make sure that you read up on the different major online stores, because no matter how great the holiday deals that you may find locally will be, they are far surpassed by the numerous online deals that you can easily find during this time of the year!
Why is it Called Cyber Monday? Ah yes, the infamous Cyber Monday that you have all been hearing about. No, this is not some mythical electronic dubbing or coining of a day that does not really exist, one that is adorned with hard to find online deals. Rather, it is the ‘Black Friday’ of the online holiday shopping season, only held on the Monday following Turkey Day, as opposed to the Friday following Thanksgiving. Cyber Monday is where all of the online merchants officially announce their online deals for the holidays. The internet service providers gear up for what is the most used day of the year for the internet, and sometimes this overwhelming population of online users can slow down websites to a crawl. But do not worry—the largest websites out there will double up on service space and bandwidths to meet the demands of the consumers, who shop frenzy this time of year online.
Why Cyber Monday is Such a Big Deal During the earlier days of the internet, where most consumers did not have high speed internet connections, and had to rely upon the computers at work to find the right deals, as the computers at home would take an hour to load their email inbox webpage, they would all flock online at work the Monday following Thanksgiving. This trend became so popular that the day was eventually tagged as Cyber Monday. And still to today, only about one third of Americans have high speed internet access, which means that Cyber Monday is nearly as popular today as it was in the early 1990s. The online merchants realize this fad and race to place their biggest online deals of the year up just in time for this important online retail Monday.
What Kinds of Online Deals are Out There? You would not believe what kinds of online shopping deals that can be found on Cyber Monday. Major retail websites like Overstock.com announced that they would be discounting all items on their website significantly this Cyber Monday, and that they would be offering site wide free shipping, which if you are buying a fridge or something heavy, that’s an amazing deal. Other places, like Wal-Mart, offer signature deals online only, during this special online shopping day. And nearly every internet website out there has similar offerings for Cyber Monday.
The Pros and Cons to the Auto Bailout
If you are wondering yourself what many other Americans are wondering, as it relates the big three auto maker and whether or not any of them will be in business come this time next year, there are some pros and some cons to ponder. Firstly, what happens if the bailout is successful, and what does that mean for you and me? Secondly, what if the bailout fails, who foots the billions of dollars in loans? And finally, is this bailout worthwhile, or should the auto makers be forced into bankruptcy? And one more thing to consider here: what effect has the auto maker unions had on the failure of the big three auto makers?
The Pros
The auto makers get a second chance. The auto maker unions get a taste of their own medicine and realize that they can no longer hold the industry hostage to their greedy and ridiculously pricey demands. The industry will undergo much needed reform. The ending results will be higher quality cars that cost far less and are much more reliable. If the auto makers succeed that is.
The Cons
If we don’t bailout the big three auto maker’s, nearly a million people in the United States and in Canada will lose their jobs. Unemployment rates will soar. Crime will follow. People will become desperate and irrational. The economy will be hit hard with one of our largest industries sinking under. America will no longer make cars, which is quite embarrassing as we made the first of them. And millions of consumers will be left owning half valued or greatly devalued cars that have no warranty and cannot be sold.
Are Unions the Main Problem?
Many people may disagree with me here—namely those who enjoy numerous expensive benefits that are afforded to them by the auto workers unions—but the reality here is twofold. There is no place in modern day society for socialism to the extent and control, and manipulative financial power that any job union holds. It is certainly not the Industrial Revolution anymore, where unions were once necessary to keep away greedy corporate moguls from using labor forces unethically.
Rather, the tables have quite turned, and now it’s the unions that have the companies by the necks, when there is not place for them in today’s society. Companies do practice fare hiring acts. They do not discriminate, or are held liable, and people don’t need to be suckered out of money for a union when they can easily utilize a number of avenues to resolve complaints against an employer.
Unions drain working capital and hold big companies hostage, costing them billions of dollars a year in lost revenue; they are a major culprit in the auto makers going under. Toyota, for example, is union free, and a worker costs about fifty bucks per hour to employee there, as opposed to around seventy three dollars per hour at a big three union plant. The difference: billions of dollars per year; billions that could see the big three auto makers bailing themselves out instead of us having to foot the bill!
Kelly nails the defensive issue - with SD's
Kelly, who is perhaps our favorite commentator when it comes to the 'hard' experimental design challenges, puts his finger on the issue I'd been so spectacularly inarticulate on:
I really have a problem with defensive statistics. Player perfomance does not have a normal distribution. Take Adrian Beltre and UZR. In the last three years he’s been 16.1 runs, -3.9 runs, and 18 runs different from average per 150 games. So given these three ’samples’, we can say with 95% confidence that Beltre is worth 10.1 runs +/- 19.4 runs.++ Kelly, I think that is the best way I've ever heard it put. +/- 19.4 runs. That's exactly it! :golfclap: . === Reductio ad Absurdum === Even a guy like Adam Dunn -- who nobody, especially me, wants to get stuck defending as to his glovework -- last year scored a strong 100+ as to his work in LF via PMR. Or, via Baseball Prospectus' RATE stat, he's 97 last year and 86 the year before. (Granted, he's low in the previous 4 years on RATE also.) Fans look at the 92 average down at the bottom of the chart -- but it's one thing to average 92 with a series that goes 92-92-92-92, and a different thing to average 92 with a series that includes a 103 and a 97. . === From High SD's to Appropriate Caution === So what are the SD's on these guys' D-stats? They're super huge. And here's where a feel for experimental design comes in, because when a trained research scientist like Kelly sees "10.1 +/- 19.4 runs," he immediately reacts to that number by saying "I don't know what the deuce is going on, at all." If we haven't been trained in experimental design, we might think, "well, that means Beltre is worth somewhere between -9 runs and +29 runs, so we're OK to call it +10 runs. No, we are not. 10 +/- 19 does not mean 10. It means there is a number in the model's suitcase, and that number might be -7, or it might be anything. . === Other Quick Examples === This is not atypical of defensive stats. Raul Ibanez' RATE average, in LF, averages a respectable 96 -- but the last two years, it's 101 and 86. What's the 95% capture range on that number? And the problem only gets worse when you start combining measuring systems, because 3 of them will have Raul at 92, but the other one might have him at 103. A baseball commentator will say, "The 103 doesn't count. There is NO evidence to believe Raul's defense is anything other than terrible." A statistician sees 6 systems that measure Raul, and they go 92 - 91 - 97 - 82 - 105 - 94, and he goes, "hold on a minute, here. We don't know what the reality is. The SD's on this set of numbers is too high." The non-statistician just tosses out the "flier" and proceeds with 100% certainty that he has measured the phenomenon of Raul's defense ... :- ( .............. Kelly continues to explain why he, as a man comfortable with coefficients of confidence, is hesitant to buy into the measurements that we saberdogs toss around:
It’s not just Beltre. Chipper Jones was 31st out of 32 (-16) qualified in ‘06 and 12th out of 34 (+7) in ‘08... But I think that misses the problem. Why are the defensive stats so random in the first place. These are not random fluctuations by my eye. Whether it is Beltre or Chipper Jones or Derek Jeter, the scatter on many individual performance from a 3 year ’sample often covers roughly 2/3 of the sample scatter of all players in a given year.Dr. Detecto's heartburn arrives every night on schedule :- ) because when it comes time to choose between Franklin Gutierrez and (say) Adam Dunn, the city of Seattle shows exactly no hesitation about buying into F-Gut's 2 defensive wins, or Dunn's 2 defensive losses. It weighs the clear and demonstrated offensive differences NO more heavily than the (highly suspect) defensive differences. How does Dr. D handle it? My rule of thumb is to take whatever people say about a given player's defense, and cut that in half, and then go ahead and treat that with appropriate respect. If people claim that F-Gut moves the W column from 85 to 87 merely with his glove, I'll go ahead and give him credit for 85 to 86. And that's plenty huge enough. Kelly continues,
So if you look closely, and keep the error in mind, almost everyone is within a win of average (which is what Dave Cameron says, for what it is worth). ... When I look at the numbers, Raul is not demonstrably a two loss player with the glove, he could be but you’d never know. I seems probable that he is a one loss player. It means he misses a flyball a fortnight..Defense is important. Absolutely. Let's just not go overboard here. An 80-OPS slick-glove center fielder is not going to change your team the way Adam Dunn or J.J. Putz are going to. ........... Returning to cool-headed investigative territory, Kelly finishes:
I think a substantial part of the year to year variation is real, but the cause is unaccounted for in the modeling. I can think of three potential sources: (1) year-to-year variation in the data quality (Raul’s argument, at least in part), (2) injuries, and (or) (3) variable concentration. I happen to think the dominant reason is injuries. When Derek Jeter goes from worst in the league to league average in back to back years, something must be. Right!?!Right, Dr D
$17.4 Billion Auto Bailout Approved by Bush
If you have not seen it all over the news today, President Bush, in an effort to preserve some sort of a legacy, approved a $17.4 billion auto bailout for GM and Chrysler, whose executives during congressional hearings over the past few months have voiced that their companies did not have enough cash to sustain operations into the new year. But the bailout is just a temporary fix to a big time problem, one that staves off an orderly bankruptcy, according to Bush, and allows the major auto makers to regroup and restructure into viable and profitable entities by an end of March deadline in 2009. Of course, what hopes are there of this being successfully, and when coupled with the fact that the bailout is actually a loan from the treasury, and not a handout, the auto makers are responsible for paying it back in payments, to begin in April of 2009, or face bankruptcy.
Why Did Bush Approve the Money?
Bush approved the loans because he thought that around a million jobs would be lost and the auto industry and the American economy would be so affected by a failure of these companies that it was worth taking the risk. But what if they do not become viable and profitable, and then what happens to the billions of dollars we ‘loaned’ them? And, how can they ever manage to pay it back when they are struggling to just stay in business. A big argument against the auto makers filing for bankruptcy is that nobody would buy a car if they knew that the company was in bankruptcy protection. Rubbish! A recent AP poll showed that seven out of ten American consumers would still purchase a car from an American car maker in bankruptcy protection, so why the bailout, and what happens to Ford?
How Come Ford is Being Left in the Dust?
Ford has repeatedly stated that they do not require the funds right now and have enough operation capitol to sustain operations well into the fiscal year of 2009. However, they have requested a line of credit to fall back on just in case, and they have also warned congress that a failure of competitors GM or Chrysler would mean inherent doom for Ford as well. So the bailout fund, which was originally a few billion, has suddenly gone soaring up to nearly twenty billion, and that’s for two auto makers, not the original three—how in the heck does that happen? And where is Ford if a major player does go belly up? Is this certain doom for the auto industry?
You and Me and Society Foots the Bill
If the auto makers do fail, who pays back the billions that they borrowed but are unable to repay? Well first their assets are liquidated, and the government will recoup as much as it can. But at the end of the day there will still be billions of dollars to roll over, dollars that come out of your paychecks. You would think with that kind of money in check that the American people would deserve to hold a national vote on the issue to decide the fate of the big three auto makers. But then again, that’s in a perfect world!
Anime Friday: Spirited Away
My friend Andy is a lover of all things Japanese, especially anime. Me? I never quite understood it. It’s not that I actively dislike anime, it’s just that the appeal of it just doesn’t quite register with me. Maybe I’ve seen the wrong films or have been subjected to particularly bad dubbing. At Andy’s request, I’ve decided to give anime another shot in a feature called Anime Friday. Every week, I will be watching one feature-length anime film or a respectable portion of an anime TV series and recording my reactions here on Foreign Entertainment. I won’t be selecting films at random, either. I will strictly follow a list provided to me by a concurring panel of conversant anime fans. Also at their insistence, I will be watching everything with subtitles unless specifically encouraged to experience a well-acted dub.
Without further ado, let’s jump in with Hayao Miyazaki’s Spirited Away. This particular film was recommended to me as an introduction to the genre because it’s apparently specific enough to Japanese culture to be genuine, but not enough to confuse a neophyte gaijin like myself. In Andy’s words, “It’s like anime Disney.”
Spirited Away concerns the convoluted quest of a little girl named Chihiro to escape the spa-like castle of a witch named Yubaba. Along the way, Chihiro gets some help from a dragon named Haku and a series of odd creatures, like little black things I’ve been told are dust spirits. By far the most interesting and confounding character in the entire movie (which is saying a lot) is a spirit everyone calls No Face, on account of his being an amorphous black clot that wears a mask.
Right off the bat I can say that I enjoyed the surreal qualities of Spirited Away, like when Chihiro discovers that her parents have been transformed into pigs. I also liked how No Face spent most of the movie lurking around without any clear motives. It’s nice to see an anime that doesn’t have such a transparent good guy/bad guy dynamic.
Still, frustration set in for me when the clunky, nonsensical storytelling elements took center stage. When the movie started spouting bits about true names, river spirits and twin sisters, my mind shut down. I’m willing to go along for the ride of what basically plays like just another magical coming of age story, but when the oh-so-typical nature vs. civilization malarkey starts to poke its way in, it’s really more distracting than morally conscious. The Wizard of Oz this most certainly ain’t.
In the end, I think that’s going to be the running dialogue throughout this Anime Friday endeavor. Why is it that anime never really cliqued with me where so many other modes of storytelling beyond my own culture have so easily appealed to me? Watching Spirited Away, I’m inclined to say that the medium’s tendency to diverge from otherwise engaging, focused storytelling turns me off.
Final Assessment
Comprehension: 8/10- There were a few moments of confusion, but all in all I understood what was going on.
Enjoyment: 7/10- Miyazaki created a vivid world distinct from many lazy conventions of anime, but the third act really dragged and there were a lot of superfluous bits I could have done without.
Improvement of Understanding: 6/10- Spirited Away definitely gave me a better idea of anime as a genre, especially since it involved something more serious than giant robots. Still, I’ve got a long way to go before it’s easy to internalize a few thousand years of foreign folklore.
Next Week: Howl’s Moving Castle
Shabbat Torah Study: Parasha Vayeishev
The Torah portion for this week is Vayeishev, Genesis 37:1-40:23. This portion, or parasha, tells three stories, but today we will be concentrating on the trials of Joseph.
There are two major themes running through this parasha: Justice and Brotherhood. Tied to these two concepts is the matter of faith. In circumstances where brothers don’t act very brotherly and the judgments of others are not just, the characters must choose to either despair for the trouble in their lives or to have faith that everything will come to good in time.
It is important to remember that no story in the Torah exists in isolation. Every story can and often does make reference to an earlier story. Sometimes there is foreshadowing of stories yet to come. When we read Vayeishev, it is easy to see the parallels in the conflict between Joseph and his brothers, and the conflict between Cane and Abel, the first and therefore quintessential brothers.
When Cane kills Abel, God asks Cane where Abel has gone. Cane responds, “Am I my brother’s keeper?” By the punishments that result, we can only conclude that the answer is yes. So, when Joseph’s brothers conspire to harm him, they are failing in their duty to love, protect and teach him. They hate him for his arrogance, for telling them that his dreams foretell his dominion over the entire family. But when we look at several clues placed throughout the parasha, it is obvious that Joseph begins this story as a very young person. He doesn’t take the family flock to pasture like his brothers and he is later described as having grown into a man after several years as a slave in Egypt. Joseph, compared to his brothers, is a child. It was not the duty of his brothers to compete with him, but to teach him.
All the same, Joseph already had a path set out before him. Like many of his ancestors, he would have to come into his own by way of struggle and conflict. In the beginning of his story, Joseph has only dreams with which to approach life, no real experience. When his brothers remove him from this ease and comfort by selling him into slavery, he grows wiser and holier. When he is stripped of his freedom and dignity a second time by being falsely accused of pursuing his master’s wife, Joseph grows wiser and humbler still.
Throughout Joseph’s story, it is reiterated that God is with him. This is not just a phrase to reassure readers that he will be safe. It is an indication that Joseph will continue to grow and learn. This is a frequent setup in the Torah. To “be with God” means just as much that conflict is on its way than it means victory is assured.
Joseph’s story really begins when he stops to ask for directions to his brothers and their flock. He asks someone merely referred to as Ish, meaning simply “a man”. Joseph’s father, Jacob, also had an experience with someone merely referred to as Ish. This was the individual with whom Jacob wrestled the day before he received the name Israel, signaling his growth into the man he was meant to be. Many sages and scholars over the years have discussed the occasional appearance of Ish in the Torah. Much of the study surrounding these strange moments suggest that this simple man who meets many of our biblical figures is, in fact, God pointing the way to destiny.
Why Beer Bottles are Brown or Colored
Have you ever wondered why beer bottles are always colored with dark colors or are most often colored a dark brown? Me too! And there are good reasons for this coloring of the bottles. Think of beer bottles that are colored as tinted for reason: to block the flavor damaging rays of the sun from destroying the sediment in the beer and altering the taste, not to mention causing the yeast to ferment further and changing the entire structure of the beer. In fact, if beer bottles were not colored, the beer that you did buy from the store would taste terrible, would have more alcohol content in it, and in some cases would be so nasty that most people would not want to drink it.
In the Old Days Beers Were Always Stored in Barrels
Originally beers and ales were always stored in barrels, like oak and birch barrels for a few good reasons. One they were stored in barrels so they could age properly. Two they were stored in barrels so that the flavors of the wood would seep into the beer. And three, they were stored in barrels so that the beer’s sediment could form, and not be disturbed. Sediment in beer are small flavor particles that can float on the bottom of the barrel, which is why, like wine, beer barrels are stored on their sides as to not disturb the sediment. Finally, beer barrels would protect the beer from the sun, preserving its fine taste and texture until it could be drank by happy pub goers.
That’s why you pour fine beers slowly. Take for example Guinness, one of the most popular sediment dark ales on the planet Earth. Have you ever noticed how their bottles are dark black and are coated with a black coating, to offer added protection to the much sought after contents contained within those bottles. Of course, nobody minds those nifty CO2 cartridges that burst flavor and bubbles into the bottles when they are popped. But the main reason that this beer is stored in black bottles is to preserve the taste and the thick texture of the beer, and of course, to protect the flavor creating sediment from being disturbed.
Some of the more Pricey Beers are Only Served in Cans
Another good point on these issues is some of the finest beers available today. For example, take Dale’s Pale Ale—an amazingly pale and fine, bittersweet ale that is only bottled in cans. I was talking to the brew master during a Dale’s event at a local Whole Food’s flagship store, and he confirmed my suspicions. Dale’s will only ever be served in cans to preserve the taste and the texture of the beer. The brew master also informed me that the very best beers always come in cans, because beer actually tastes better in cans, as opposed to in bottles. So contrary to popular belief—that belief being that bottled beer is better—bottled beer is not better. The best beers come in cans. And no, Budweiser and Miller, or Coors do not count!
Intellectual Tonguing: Coley and Moore Goto Town
In the pages of Arthur Magazine, every issue is a column that can’t have it’s worth nearly estimated. The column is immense, dense, disjointed and hugely informational.
Thurston Moore (who some of you may know from Sonic Youth – maybe) and his cohort Byron Coley, compile a massive listing of new (-ish) music, books and magazines that they find useful and interesting enough to pass along to readers called in “Bull Tongue.”
The real Bull Tongue – it’s a plant - grows in shallow water and gets to be rather high from the surface. Only the later can be levied against our two scribes here.
There won’t always be something in the column that you end up loving, but there will be countless items that will be at the very least intriguing. That’s in direct contrast to the rest of the magazine, where you’ll find commentary on music, art and life in general that really is indispensable – well that pot cultivation article wasn’t too useful now that I think of it.
But in this latest installment of Bull Tongue, Coley and Moore round up some literature and recall the glory of Punk Magazine. They praise Rusted Shut, Formerly Fat Harry, RSO, Nothing People, the tape label Excitebike and too much more to even consider right now. Unless you have yourself a good half an hour to try and digest all of this, don’t try. It can be hard to get through and from item to item there’s no real broad connection or general stream of thought. In some ways it’s similar to the Skyscraper column “Goin’ to Heaven in a Split Pea Shell,” but both are indispensable to voracious music dorks the world over.
The Black & Tan: A Tasteful Combination of Beers
If you don’t know what a black and tan beer combination is, you are about to find out my dear readers. And for those of you who already appreciate this popular concoction, read on to learn more about its origination. A black and tan beer is amongst one of the most commonly order beer mixers in American bars, and for good reasons too—it tastes fantastic, it goes with nearly every kind of food, and it mixes two delightful beers into a taste bud explosion of one! Yes indeed, the black and tan mixture has been around for a few hundred years, but it was not coined as such until the early 1920s, as you will find out below. See you at the pub!
What’s in a Black and Tan: The American Version
There are quite a few versions of the black and tan beer, but I will save you the reading and only talk about the extremely popular American version. A black and tan always uses Guinness Stout beer as the topper. Most often a light lager, usually Bass Ale, or Samuel Adams light, is poured into a pint glass to the halfway marker. Then the glass is topped off with Guinness. The Guinness beer is heavier than the light lager and the sediment slowly but surely drags it down to the bottom of the glass, creating a unique swirling pattern as the beers mix. But that aside, it’s all about the taste: the perfect balance of beers that goes down smooth and has a great aftertaste.
Foods That go Great with a Black and Tan
There are ample amounts of foods that go great with a black and tan beer. Many people fancy drinking a black and tan over a steak or other red meat, it also goes great with sliders and hamburgers or cheese burgers. A black and tan easily compliments the taste of grilled chicken and also goes great with grilled fishes like trout, salmon and tuna. Of course all other sorts of fried and popular bar foods, like French fries, onion rings, chips, and fried fish also go great with a black and tan. Due to its unique light and dark taste, the beer mixture almost goes perfectly with just about any kind of food, save for sweets or cereals.
Who Coined the Name Black and Tan?
The name Black and Tan emanates from the days of World War One, when the Royal Irish Constabulary Reserve Force was deployed into Ireland by the British Secretary of State for War, Winston Churchill, and they later coined this now infamous concoction as the Black and Tan. Read More on the History of the Black and Tan Beer – Post war the popularity of the drink waned in Ireland, but took great interest by American beer drinkers and would later become a classical favorite at bars for drinkers. The original concoction is believed, but not known for sure, to have come from late 1800s English Pubs, where drinkers would frequently sport mixtures of different beers and lagers, most often dark beers mixed with light lagers, because they fancied the taste.