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Corona – You need the Lime

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I kind of laugh when I see people go for a case of Corona and pick up a bunch of limes.  These people usually don’t know why they put the lime in the beer, they just do it.  Welcome to Corona 101:

So why do you put the Lime in Corona? Well there’s a bunch of theories but we’ll discuss the most accepted one.

Corona is traditionally drunk with  either a lemon or lime because before the the advent of refrigerated trucks the beer would get skunky and rancid on the trip from Mexico to the U.S.  Putting a little citric acid (lime/lemon juice) in the beer not only masked the taste of this skunked beer it also killed some of the bacteria that had grown in the bottle.

The clear bottle only compounds this problem because sunlight or light from fluorescent bulbs such as those used in refrigerated display cases significantly damages the taste of beer.  The essential hop oils spoil from exposure to UV light.  Brown bottles mitigate sun damage to beer.

So think about that when you go to have your next Corona and Lime.  You may just be drinking a skunky beer.

I’ll shift my attention to the new Bud Lite Lime.  In the commercial it states that it is enhanced with 100% Natural Lime Flavor.  If it was 100% natural why wouldn’t they just say 100% natural lime juice and not flavor? Budweiser is intentionally trying to mislead the beer drinking public with this statement.  Obviously there is some sort of processing involved there. In this case natural does not mean organic.  High Fructose Corn Syrup is considered natural though you wouldn’t really think of it as natural as real sugar.  Just like 100% natural lime flavor is not 100% natural lime juice.

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The Jewish Nationality

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I was chatting up a young lady Thursday night and things are going pretty well.  We’re doing the regular introductory questions, “Where are you from?”, “Where do you live?”, “What college did you go to?”.  Then things get a litttle interesting. I noticed she kind of had an olive colored skin and asked what was her heritage was.  She replied, “Jewish”.

First of all if someone asked me where my ancestors originally hail from I’m going to say I’m Irish/Welsh.  How I’m not going to answer the question is “Oh I’m Catholic” because that’s my religion (or at least that’s how I was raised).   I was running out of witty things to talk about and decided to settle on this topic for awhile, respectfully of course.

I tried explaining to her why i thought Jewish was not a nationality.  You can’t be from Jew because it doesn’t exist.  If I’m wrong please point it out to me on a map.  I would have accepted German Jew, Italian Jew,  Indian Jew, Spanish Jew, Egyptian Jew, African Jew or maybe Isreali.  Why do you have to bring the religion into it though?  I asked her if she knew which part of the world her Jewish family came from but she didn’t know, she just knew she was Jewish.

Not that it’s terribly important to me to know where this girls family originated because it’s not, if I were her though it’s just something I would want to know for my own edification.  I’m just bringing this stuff up with her because I have nothing better to talk to her about.  To me a blow job is a blow job and it does not have a nationality, and that’s the real goal here.  Though from what I’ve heard from some former co-workers I was barking up the wrong tree hoping to get a BJ from a Jewish girl.  They tell me you’d be hard pressed to find a Jewish girl that will put non-kosher cock in her mouth.  In this instance, they were right.

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Who will be the Sixers Color Commentator in 2009-2010?

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In case you didn’t know Bob Salmi is out as the color commentator fo rhe 76ers after only one season.  I’ve got nothing against Bob Salmi, he’s great on Sixers Post Game Live but just didn’t mesh as well as the Sixers management had hoped.  Previous to the 2008-2009 season Steve Mix’s contract was not renewed and he was subsequently replaced by Salmi.

I’m here making an impassioned plee to please get Steve Mix back in front of a microphone and teaming with Zumoff.  Zumoff is at his best when paired with Mix.  There was a noticable lack of cohesion this year and bringing back Mix would solve that problem immediately.  They really effortlessly play off of each other and you can genuinely tell they like and respect each other.

I know Mix can be somewhat critical of the Sixers and officiating sometimes but you must take the good wiht the bad.  I’m fine with him bashing the Sixer s a little, I do it all the time when I’m watching them.  If they are playing sloppy or a player is continuing to make dumb plays mix calls them out on it.  Maybe not what the Sixers want but I like to hear an honest voice in the broadcast booth.

It would be as dumb as signing Sam Dalembert to a contract extension if they did not regain Mix as their voice of reason in the booth.

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McDonald’s Commercials

By: Billy BeerSlugger

What’s up with McDonald’s commercials getting geared increasingly and increasingly more toward the minorities over the last 10 years or so.  When I was i kid you had Ronald McDonald trying to keep the Hamburgalar (Rabble Rabble) from stealing all the food or Jordan and Bird throwing up unmakable shots or it was all about what the new toy was  in the Happy Meal.  McDonald’s was marketed towards kids who in turn bugged their parents to buy them McDonalds.

Now, i guess in a major swing of target audiences, McDonald’s it seems is seeking to lure in the African American community especially (which in turn brings the white kids as well since they want to be black).  Even their current slogan, “I’m lovin’ it” leaves off the g in loving to evoke a more ethnic tone.

Some of the commercials are just taking on very stereotypical racist themes like the one with the R&B singer, his girlfriend and the 10 piece fired chicken nuggets she won’t share, “Girl ya got a 10 piece please don’t be stingy”.  It’s got all the elements there, black people, fried chicken and R&B.  Though McDonald’s must run these ad’s through dozens of focus groups to make sure it’s too funny and disarming for you to realize.

Then you have the little kid doing the Cha Cha Slide at the dinner table.  Parents are dressed well, like the Huxtibles and the kid comes in wearing 80’s rap fashions and dancing etc.  Eventually his gets his dad into it.  If I came to the dinner table with a boom box my dad would have slapped me so hard in the back of the head even my little brother would have felt sorry for me. And what’s up with those apple bites? Any apple I’ve ever seen that gets sliced eventually the flesh turns brown even if you put them in a bag. Another ecological marvel engineered by those kooky scientists at Hamburger University.  Is Ronald McDonald shitting out Magic Apples that don’t go bad?

Seriously though, I would have liked to been in the room when McDonald’s executives decided, “Yea were going to target the African American community with our ad’s now and leave the kids alone.  Demographics show we can increase profits in urban areas by……”  I would also like to see some data in terms of Race consumption of McDonald’s from when they shifted the advertising until now.  I bet there’s huge increases year by year.

Then last year during the Olympics i see a commercial for the Southern Style Chicken Biscuit.  The commercial has a bunch of athletic people of many races (if you notice some have British accents so you know the product must be good).  Basically McDonald’s is telling you if you eat a fried chicken biscuit in the morning you can be an Olympic athlete too.  That’s what Olympians eat.

All in all if I were an African American I’d be pissed in so many ways because in essence what the shift in focus of McDonald’s advertising is telling me is that they think black people are more gullible than children. Why would they have changed their advertising strategy?  Does McDonald’s make more money off of minorities than it ever could have off of children and on top of that not have to bribe them with a happy meal toy?

That’s just how I see it…..

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Drunk game of the week – Dizzy Bat

By: F.X. Galvin

What is Dizzy Bat? First, you cut out the bottom of a wiffle ball bat. (the handle portion, not the head portion.) That along with a wiffle ball and beer are the only props you need to play this game. Once your equipment is modified you essentially only need two people to play dizzy bat even though the more people who play the better. The person who wants to do the actual dizzy bat gets the wiffle ball bat and dumps one beer into the bat. Next, he puts the head of the bat on the ground and puts his forehead on the other end of the bat. Then, he spins two times in a circle, then proceeds to chug the beer from the bat. After chugging is complete, he again spins two more times in the abovementioned fashion. Finally, the batter attempts to regain balance and the other participant pitches a wiffle ball to the batter in which he attempts to hit. As you can imagine it is very rare for the batter ever to hit the ball.

Where does this game take place? Dizzy Bat is popular for tailgating sporting events and also at barbeques. It is obviously an outdoor game, so it can only be played at limited locations in optimal weather conditions. If high winds are in the forecast you essentially will never hit the ball. Really though, the point is not really to hit the ball, it is to chug a beer out of a wiffle ball bat and to spin without killing yourself.

A major downfall to this game is that you are basically chugging a ton of head from a light beer out of a dirty ass wiffle ball bat. After spinning twice with the beer in the bat a great deal of beer will turn into head which makes it much more difficult to chug. I have seen Dizzy Bat without the initial spins and it begin with the chugging but what fun is that. You might as well do it right if you are going to do it at all. I once had a coach who constantly bitched during conditioning when we would try to cut corners, “Don’t cheat, you’re only cheating yourself.” I agree with that message in this instance. If you are going to do a Dizzy Bat, do not cheat, you might as well go all the way and do all the spins.

Anyway, of course I have a quick story to go with this post. Last Tuesday I went to the Phillies game. The game happened to be a dollar dog night. For those who do not know, dollar dog nights are a mecca for underage college students and high school kids. Well anyway, I arrived at the game around 5:30pm right after work. The people I was meeting for the game had a greater distance to come and did not get to the game until after 6:00pm. While I was waiting, I met up with my little sister, Wine-in-a-boxslugger. My sister is 20 and she had just gotten home from college. She met up with approximately 25 of her underage friends from high school around 3:00pm, who also had recently gotten home from college. To my surprise, she gave me a bud light. I was surprised because I expected some form of Beast or at best, Nattie Light. As I cracked the beer, I noticed some of the college kids were playing Dizzy Bat.

At this point a girl who was approximately 5′ and about 105 lbs was starting to do a dizzy bat. She chugged the beer like a champ, then things went all downhill. She attempted to spin two times after chugging, but during the second rotation, the bat was about 16 inches off the ground. After she attempted the second spin she never regained balance. The young dizzy batter in a three point stance proceeded to run head first into a newer, red mustang. Hilarious, she laid a hit on that mustang about as hard as Sheldon Brown hit Reggie Bush in the 2007 NFC Divisional Playoff. Stupid bitch speared a car but hit it head on. Amazingly, she popped right back up like nothing was wrong and grabbed another beer amid some laughter. Even funnier, no one really ridiculed her for taking a face plant into a mustang which I find even more amazing. So this Dizzy Bat attempt gets and F for effort but an A for making me laugh. Over a week later I’m still thinking of this girl taking on a mustang one-on-one and laughing out loud. Her Dad would be proud.

P.S. – I could swear that this girl is Wine-in-the-boxslugger’s best friend. She says she doesn’t even know her and that she was a grade younger than her. How dare I assume they could possibly be friends. Come on admit it, you know you are hanging with her tonight.

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The 5 Worst College Social Scenes in the Philadelphia area: #2

By: F.X. Galvin

Swarthmore College – Where the Freaks Come Out at Night

Sorry for the delay in writing this article. I had an insanely busy week and a half and just did not have the time. The free time I had last week, I got bombed. Sometimes, writing for beerslugger.com has to take a back seat to actually slugging beers.

Well anyway the #2 worst school to party at in the Philadelphia area is Swarthmore College. This place is an absolute freak show. In my introductory article, I made a point to rip on the French painter look that so many Drexel males sport. Swarthmore has a whole school of these wacks. Guys dress like they have not showered in six days, have ridiculous beards, and wear disgusting clothes. They want to show the world who they are, that they are the societal norm, and want to tell you all about it. Girls at Swarthmore are weird as shit, who, majority of the time, dress like hippies with massive khaki pants to match their greasy hair. My theory is that they are already ugly and by rocking this look they can give the excuse “they are who they are and this is how they like to look.” Ok whatever, there are hot hippies. . . remember Jenny from “Forrest Gump?”. . . Smoking hot.

Alright, I get it. It is another one of those trendy Liberal Arts colleges like Haverford that boast about how intellectually superior it is compared to the rest of the minions that reside in the United States. This campus reminds me of the movie “PCU,” minus the protests. A bunch of over-opinionated circus freaks who want to put their stamp on life while looking like a homeless person who sleeps under the overpass on 6th and Callowhill Streets.

Swarthmore College usually will make national headlines for some academic reason but it did make news in the late 1990s for an athletic story. The school lost a record, 28 straight football games. The Swarthmore Garnet Tide is actually ranked as the 6th worst football team in United States history by ESPN. In 1999, Swarthmore broke the three year streak against Oberlin College, who is ranked as the 5th worst college by ESPN. This game was dubbed “The game someone had to win.” Classic, what losers…Well anyway, after 122 years, Swarthmore’s football team was disbanded in 2000, the year after its historic win, as the school cited lowering admission standards to let in football players as the reason. Really, this school could use 50 or so football players to whip the French painters asses until they shaved their beards. Honestly, the football team of 50 or so people would only make up a little more than 3% of its student body of approximately 1,500. Every other school in America lowers it standards for athletes, (especially football players) why should Swarthmore act out? Because the school is above you or so it thinks. What a bunch of assholes. Also, the team sucked, how much lower was it dropping the admission standards? Something smells if you ask me. . . I think there is a conspiracy afoot.What does this have to do about Swarthmore’s social scene? Not that much really, I am just trying to make a point.  When a school disbands the catalyst to parties, a football team, it obviously is on a different planet.

Ok, to get to the partying. . . Well, its on-campus parties are lame unless you want to sip scotch whisky, smoke a bone, and read poetry of your favorite literary genre. It is pointless to name authors because every one of the opinionated freaks has his own favorite author and genre and will give you a hundred reasons why. I know I am not giving a fair shake to all the students at Swarthmore. I know some students with some sense of reality do attempt to throw small parties in their dorms and apartments. For those students I give them credit for making the best of a terrible situation. Find the few people you like, get wasted, and screw among the group. In the end, you will eventually leave the place with an excellent education and you can go on to a cool grad or professional school and live like a real college student.

What distinguishes this school from Haverford, Penn, Drexel, and the Universities of Arts and Sciences is the lack of off-campus places to hang out. Swarthmore itself is dry. Yes, you heard me, the whole town is dry. There is nowhere to go to drink or even buy a case of beer. Also, Swarthmore is located in Delaware County, not within 20 minutes of any real social hub. The Main Line, which has a nightlife I have already ripped, is more than 20 minutes away. Center City Philadelphia is about 30 minutes away. Conshohocken and King of Prussia are also about 25 minutes from Swarthmore. I guess the Swarthmore students could frequent the same establishments as Widener students but I just cannot see it. I cannot picture a Swarthmore hippie rocking Dewar’s on the rocks at a Mac Dade Boulevard bar in Delaware County jamming to top 40 music or classic rock. I cannot picture a French Painter grinding up his girl who is in desperate need of shampoo and makeup at Bootleggers, listening to “Lima Bean Riot” cover “Fall Out Boy.” Sorry, if I am wrong, by all means comment. (The Haverford girls did but failed to get the point. I will explain further in a follow up article.)

Really, you could argue that no one actually goes to Swarthmore to party, students go there to be a hippie intellect. Well, even though I gave Penn a pass for essentially the same reason, it is an Ivy League institution, is located in Philadelphia, and is a cab ride away to any hot spot in the city. Swarthmore is just a freak show with no outs. No on-campus parties, no off-campus bashes, and not a decent bar within twenty minutes. After reading this, you are probably wondering what school could be worse than this place.

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The Cost of Getting Drunk

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There is apparently a Bill floating around in congress that will increase taxes on Beer, Wine and Liquor.  Supposedly the tax will increase 48 cents a six-pack, 49 cents per bottle of wine and hard liquor would see an increase of 40 cents per fifth.

This is all being proposed to pay for expaning health coverage for 50 million uninsured Americans.  The cost of this would be in the neighborhood of 1.5 trillion dollars over the next 10 years, all of which could never be paid with just an increase in beer and liquor tax.

The proposed tax increases are on lifestyle choices that contribute to rising medical costs and has been seen elsewhere in cigarette tax increases.  The “Sin Tax” as my grandmother called it.  There may also be new taxes levyed on Soda and other sugary drinks as they are linked to obesity. Though no new taxes are proposed for diet drinks because Aspartame and other Artificial Sweeteners never caused cancer in lab rats or anything, right?

I get it that you want to tax unhealthy behaviors.  Tobacco and Alcohol can cause health problems and thus can cause insurance rates to rise etc. There are other factors that Alcohol brings to the table like Drinking & Driving Accidents/Deaths.  One study I read cited that an increase in the alcohol tax would curb college binge drinking and trips to the emergency room for Alcohol poisoning and alcohol related injuries.  The main reason being higher alcohol prices and the same budget would mean less alcohol to go around.  I get that a little bit as well.

What I don’t get is why they have to tax Alcohol to pay for the uninsured.  Why not tax alcohol and put it towards lowering premiums for the insured who are already paying a portion of their health care premium to care for the uninsured.

On top of the Alcohol and Soda tax, lawmakers are also proposing a tax on healthcare which is provided by employers. Currently about 164 million people get their insurance through work and the money spent on insurance premiums is deducted from their taxable income.

So not only is a portion of my insurance premium already going to pay for the uninsured, they are also going to tax the money I pay for the insurance premium and increase taxes on the beer I drink to forget about how high my fucking taxes are, to pay for the uninsured.

Not to get into the politics of the Health Care, but yes I want certain groups in America to have access to health care.  At the very least I believe every child until the day they graduate high school should have free health care provided they don’t drop out.  And yes people with disabilities absolutely should have their health care covered, within reason.

However, the cost of getting these 50 some million uninsured Americans falls on the people who have done things right.   The situation is akin to having your dog shit on the carpet and then telling him “Good Boy” and giving him a treat.  For whatever reason, these 50 million people don’t have health insurance, I bet a good portion of them have the money coming in to pay for insurance but  choose to spend it on other things like booze, cigarettes and lottery tickets to name a few.

There are obviously family’s that are trying to do the right thing but just can’t make ends meet.  I feel for them, I really do and I’m sure there’s ways we can help them.  I just don’t think that giving everyone healthcare at the expense of the already overburdened middle class is the way to do it and certainly not by increasing the cost of a case of beer by $2.

I could be wrong though….

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Social Networking / Dating Profile Pictures – That’s not you?

By: Billy BeerSlugger

While I had to retire from social networking a while back, one thing that I did notice is that people put the absolute best ever pictures on their profiles.  Like they went to Glamor Shots and then had them retouched.  Most people’s profile pictures will be from some vacation when they have a really good tan, the wind is blowing through their hair, the lighting is just right.  Possibly a night at a bar when they looked especially good, makeup, hair and outfit were all working in unison.   Neck crooked in such a way to stretch out their second chin.  Maybe just a headshot if they don’t want to reveal the shape of the rest of their body.  Possibly a head and chest shot if that’s what’s working. Maybe they had the photo taken in or converted to black and white, hiding even more imperfections.

You’ve went on some of your girl friend’s profiles and been like, “Damn she looks good”.  Well fellas it’s a little but of camera trickery.  They don’t really look that good, but for a split second in time, when the planets aligned correctly, they took some really good pictures.  And it’s not to say they’re not pretty, it’s just that they’re not as pretty as their best picture suggests.

I understand if you are using one of these social networks/dating sites to lure in men or women, I get that.  You’re trying to market yourself to someone else and putting your best stuff up there will maximize your hits or comments or messages or friends.  Makes sense, I guess when I used the social networks I kinda did the same things.

The weirder thing is when non-single women (and men but I really have never perused men’s profiles) continue to put their best pictures on the site for purposes of their own ego, even after they have found their “special someone”.  Crying out for attention, “Hey look at me, I’m pretty“.  Receiving comments, friend requests and messages from random deushe bags telling her so, “Hey girl you look fiyne!  Thanks for the add!“.  Letting her know she’s still got it.  All the while in the back of her head she reasons she can still go out and find another guy if need be and be confident enough to use that pseudo-fact in an arguement with the significant other.

I could be wrong, it could be for a photo competition with their friends.  Her best photo against all her friends best photos, leave each other messages like, “You’re so pretty” and then talk about the person behind their back.  Don’t think this kind of stuff doesn’t happen.

I’ll never get women.  I’m pretty sure if they didn’t have vagina’s I wouldn’t even talk to them.  Maybe to get their opinion on paint colors for a room but that’s about it.  Meanwhile I’m relegated to a life of dealing with them.

On that note I’m getting drunk tonight….

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Michael Vick – The UnderDog

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Slurpers are now Haters and some Haters are now Pulling for Him

By: Billy BeerSlugger

You know when everyone and their Mom was slurping Michael Vick when he came into the league in 2001 I was hating on this guy.  Ask anyone who knows me, I’ve never been a Michael Vick fan.  Great Athlete Yes, Great Quarterback No.  I don’t think that you were going to get a legit Super Bowl run out of this guy even if the dude wasn’t incarcerated for a couple years.

So as you probably know Vick was indited on Federal Charges of running a dog fighting ring.  Regardless of whether that’s part of the culture in the South or whatever, it’s just wrong.  Getting dogs to fight each other and wagering on this dog and that dog is ludicrous (notice correct spelling and not the spelling of rapper Ludacris who also hails from Atlanta).  He should have been jailed etc and it was handled appropriately by the authorities but was a media circus.

So now Vick is supposed to get out of jail soon.  Reports claim that he will resume football workouts as soon as he gets out.  If he gets reinstated into the league, would you want him on your team?  Not just the Eagles but any team in the NFL?  The majority of people will say no, he killed dogs they shouldn’t let the guy play anymore and those people are entitled to their opinion.

I’ll just point out some other things that have happened:

1) In 2000, Ray Lewis and two companions were indicted on Aggravated Assault and Murder charges which were eventually dropped for lack of evidence.   Though the murderers were never found, it was Lewis and his entourage that got into a fight with the people that were later murdered outside on the street.  Coincidence? Maybe, but as anyone who watches the Soprano’s knows, money can buy you a lot in the justice system.  Witnesses, good attorneys etc.

What I do know is that after a year or so of public scrutiny, Ray Lewis is one of the more admired and respected players in the NFL right now.

2) In 2005, Cornerback Fred Smoot was charged with organizing a boat party in which prostitutes were hired for sexual favors upon the boats which also had a good portion of the Minnesota Vikings team on them.  Sounds like good old clean American fun to me but shit hit the fan when several of the Minnesota Vikings were accused of urinating on a womans yard.  Then the cleaning crew for the boat company found empty KY-Jelly packets, sex toy wrappers and used condoms.

Yes there was some backlash about this, some fines were handed out and I think Smoot was the only one even suspended for a game.  All in all though I guess it’s less harm than killing dog’s but worth mentioning.

3) Former Eagle Donte’ Stallworth was recently arrested of DUI manslaughter for hitting someone in the early morning while driving in Miami.  As I can attest shit does go into all hours of the night in Miami.  He has yet to be tried I beleive but if he was convicted and probably given a light sentence similar to Vick’s, would he be allowed to play in the NFL again?

4) Don’t even get me started on Pacman Jones.  He was suspended for the entire 2007 season for his role in a mele that left s strip club owner paralyzed.  There’s too much other stuff to list for this dude but allegedly he tried to hire people to kill a witness in an on going investigation.  True or not?  I don’t know but this dude got several second chances.

I guess in Vicks case he repeatedly and knowingly defied the law but I don’t see a hell of a lot of difference in his misdeeds than the list NFL players above.

I still don’t like Vick personally or think he will come back into the NFL and make a great impact on a team, but now that all the people who were slurping him in the early part of the 2000’s are now on the opposite side of the fence, I think I’m kinda rooting for Michael Vick now.  He’s an underdog (pun intended).  Everyone loves an underdog and America loves to build someone up just to tear them down and them build them back up again.

As I said I don’t like the dude, I’m a dog lover, but I am rooting for Michael Vick.

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Latisse – More Bullshit for Women to Buy

By: Billy BeerSlugger

So there’s this new drug out there that makes your eyelashes grow.  I wasn’t even aware this was a disease but apparently hypotrichosis is when you have short eyelashes.  Man that must suck.  I mean of all the things to be afflicted with, I wouldn’t wish short eyelashes on anyone.

But seriously, some people may need this.  In the 90 some seconds of research I’ve done for this article I’ve seen some pretty alien looking women with little to no visible eyelashes.  The sad fact is that thousands if not hundreds of thousands of women will now ask their doctor for this drug that do not actually need it.  Cougars will probably blow a pharmacist to get this stuff.

Latisse is a once-daily prescription treatment applied to the base of the upper eyelashes which supposedly increases eyelash prominence, length, thickness and darkness.  Side effects include possible itching and redness, permanent darkening of the eyelid skin, possible brown pigmentation to the colored part of the eye, hair growth if Latisse is applied to the area outside the eyelashes and variation in eyelash growth direction.  But hey it’s approved by the FDA and they are never wrong, ever.

What’s the next vanity drug to come out? If a drug that helps you get longer eylashes is any indication of what  companies are going to market to women to look marginally better then the sky’s the limit.  I mean come on if  Women are injecting the Botulism Virus into their faces then they’ll pretty much do anything to look subjectively prettier.

A funny sidenote to Botox is that a little while ago their slogan on commecials was, “Express yourself”.  It’s hilarious when you think that Botox is injected to paralyze muscles in the face.  Typically facial expression is more or less limited after Botox, thus the Zinger.