Ode To Guinness...

**Pauro 76** · 26/07/2001, 3:37 PM

Stand as we recite the Drunken Prayer.

>>
>> We believe in one drink, Guinness the almighty
>> Makers of cans and bottles
>> Of all that is drunk and un-drunk
>> We believe in one brewer, Arthur
>> The only son of Guinness
>> Eternally begotten of the hops
>> Hops from hops, barley from barley
>> True drink from true drink
>> Begotten not made
>> Of one distillery of the Father
>> Through it all things were made
>> For us men and our salvation
>> It comes down from St. James Gate
>> By the power of the market he became incarnate
>> And was made a rich man
>> For our sake we are crucified under Pontious Prices
>> Bad pints, suffer hagovers and A.A. meetings
>> On the next day we rise again in accordance
>> With our scruples and ascend into oblivion
>> We come again to judge the living and the dead
>> We believe in one alcoholic beverage
>> Brewed and bottled under one licence
>> We acknowledge one Arthur, son of the almighty pint
>> Conceived in heaven and sold on earth
>> Blessed is the one drink through one father and many sons
>> Sold under one label and distributed throughout the world
>> We look for the resurrection of new drinks
>> And a cure for hangovers
>> Amen
>>

Gerry Desmond · 27/07/2001, 9:44 AM

...17 years' unbroken sponsorship of CCFC!

Gerry

**Macy** · 27/07/2001, 10:52 AM

Yeah and you still only drink Murphys. But I'm not bitter......

**Pauro 76** · 27/07/2001, 11:26 AM

Hmm thats a good pint, sorry point. Why do Guiness sponsor Cork City, when Murphys is the more popular drink? And why doesnt Buckfast sponsor the Town either? Answers to a tenner to me please...

**joe** · 27/07/2001, 11:39 AM

and Beamish spnsor Sligo - what's that about?

**James** · 27/07/2001, 11:48 AM

cheap second rate inferior drink sponsoring cheap inferior second rate team,

dunno seems the perfect match to me

Consistency in world gone mad

**Macy** · 27/07/2001, 1:08 PM

Eh, Pauro I'm sure we've had this conversation before. The fact that no one drinks Guinness down there is exactly why they sponsor Cork - to try and get people to drink the vastly superior Porter.
On the Buckfast, well I'm sure the Benedictine monks are most impressed that there drink is drunk in vast quantities just to get people rotten.

I'm sure that's what they had in mind. When you think about it I'm sure the bucky lads in Longford, Galway, Limerick, the north and parts of scotland are keeping that religious order going....... F*ck, I'm helping organised religion