Friday September 8, 2006 - Small Beer

Wait a minute! What did that say? Small Beer? That's really the WORD of the Day? OK. Must be Friday or something. I fear you tube at this point. This may not be safe for work.

Small Beer \small beer\, noun:
1. Weak beer.
2. Insignificant matters; something of little importance.

adjective:
1. Unimportant; trivial.

We dined early upon stale bread and old mutton with small beer.
-- Ferdinand Mount, Jem (and Sam)

I was not born for this kind of small beer, says Joan the wife of the colonial governor, who imagines leading armies or "droves of inflamed poets."
-- Nancy Willard, "The Nameless Women of the World", New York Times, December 18, 1988

Call me a geek, but for biologists, marvels like the parasitic flatworm are on tap every day, making the reveries of Hollywood seem like small beer.
-- Jerry A. Coyne, "The Truth Is Way Out There", New York Times, October 10, 1999

Small beer is beer of only slight alcoholic strength; the other senses are derivative.

Dictionary.com Entry and Pronunciation for small beer

Alright. I'm clicking "search" ... and ... ok, mostly a few beer ads and drunk people being stupid so far.

Here's a nice parody pair. The Aussies make some great beer ads.

Original:


It's a BIG LINK

Parody:


It'a small link


What else... hmm? Ooooh I want one of these!!!



Link it right down the middle.

These guys claim to have been half in the bag when they filmed it, but it's still really good. I've done some stage fighting training and this is very good, excellent if you add in the fact that they are amateurs.



No one can be told what the link is


I posted a lot for today's because I didn't finish this yesterday and I saw how bad "tomorrow's" word is.