Oh No!

Yesterday’s teaser for one of our local tabloids sent a chill, particularly on a bright and sunny day–

WM-Durst

Bier wird knapp!

Which is to say

World Cup Thirst

Beer shortages coming!

Let’s hope not…

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1. Snowbird Says:
   June 30th, 2006 at 1:58 pm

   Now who writes headlines like that?
   

2. Joerg - Atlantic Review Says:
   July 1st, 2006 at 10:07 pm

   This is sad news and could be a mega crisis. However, it might be resolved now, because England lost and the English fans might not stick around much longer, which is sad indeed. They have been great!

   Daily Mirror:
   Germans fear weii going to drink them dry
   By Jeremy Armstrong
   ENGLAND’s massive army of World Cup fans is drinking Germany dry, it emerged yesterday.
   Breweries warned beer could run out before the final because of huge demand from our supporters.
   In Nuremberg, organisers revealed 70,000 England fans who flooded the city drank 1.2MILLION pints of beer - an average of 17 pints each.”
   http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/tm_objectid=17302491&method=full&siteid=94762&headline=beer-we-go–name_page.html

3. Joerg - Atlantic Review Says:
   July 1st, 2006 at 10:13 pm

   Seriously, I think the fans from everywhere have been great so far.

   And I appreciate that they drank so much beer.

   Our American friends were sooo concerned that football fans would increase prostitution in Germany,
   http://atlanticreview.org/archives/311-guide.html

   but now it turns out, that the fans are celebrating and drinking beer instead. Isn’t that great? Our American friends don’t need to worry anymore.

   Wash Post: “The hordes of beer-swilling men who have descended on Germany for the World Cup are proving a disappointment for the host nation’s sex workers, preferring to party in public rather than spend time with prostitutes.”
   http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06/23/AR2006062300861.html