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Beer Is Good For You ♫

his strange map was produced by Floating Sheep, a website dedicated to “mapping and analyzing user generated Google Map placemarks”. In this instance, the ovine analysts of cybergeography were so startled by this remarkably differentiated result that they wanted to check it against information a bit more official than the data provided by Google Maps (1) . According to the 2007 Census, there are on average 1.52 bars (2) for every 10,000 people in the US. Those numbers are a lot higher in the ‘red’ states: Wyoming (3.40), Nebraska (3.68), Iowa (3.73), South Dakota (4.73), Wisconsin (5.88), Montana (6.34) and North Dakota, which, with an average of 6.54 bars per 10,000 inhabitants apparently is the top “party state” in the Union. Next time you want to take your lawnmower to a party, you know in which direction to head.

Denmark is said to be build from a mixture of mud, mountains of LEGO bricks, beer and bacon by brave but insane Roman vikings at the beginning of Insomnian times. The delicious smell of bacon attracted reindeer from Finland, who inbreed with the Roman vikings creating a race of superhuman cold-blooded vikings - called Valhallans. After conquering what they thought was the world at least twice most vikings became bored and thus moved to Iceland to seek new challenges e.g. writing the source code for the ultimate operating system (UOS).

But Guinness, in the best Irish tradition, does things differently. The bubbles in a freshly poured pint appear to be cascading down the side of the glass - yet the creamy top which is the drink's trademark remains.