h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

If you think the bottom has fallen out of the world, drink a Guinness.
Then you'll think the world has fallen out of your bottom.

Thats one quote to start it all up.

Guiness is good for you. That's two, then.

'Thank goodness for Guiness'

up to three now!

Guinness for strength

My goodness, my Guinness !!

I'm going to stop counting now otherwise it could get ugly down the track.

BTW, was it only in Australia that we had the 'i likes to watch' Guinness ads ?

Growth, greatness and goodness from Guiness -
If only, as well, it could lead us to thin-ness!

All right, I made that one up...!

What about the "in space, no one can hear you scream..." ad too, Linus?

okay, we can't forget the American classics:

Guinness--steak in a bottle!!!
OR
Guinness--the beer that eats like a meal!!!

well, maybe it's just a St.Louis thing

Guinness-Genius

is my favourate

"Pure Guinness - Pure Genius."
"Good things come to those who...... wait"
"It takes 1 minute 18.5 seconds to pour the perfect pint"
"The fat drummer beat the drum with all his heart"

Just to name a few more, the surfer ad, now that was pure genius.
---
Jaz

Er,
"Live Life to the Power of Guinness."
That's another one.

Guinnless is bad for you.

Apparently they got complaints about a spelling mistake in the posters when that one first went up.

"If a Guinness is good for you, just think what Toucan do"
or
"Lovely day for a Guinness"
or
"I really feel like a Guinness"
"I wish you were"

All from the Gilroy ad. campaign of the 30s and 40s - probably the most famous add campaign in the world?

Anyone else old enough to remember them.They featured all the possible animals and birds as referred to above -the ostrich with the beerglass stuck half way down it's neck was particularly good and I think functioned as a cuckoo.Gret big things with hundreds of moving parts on seaside piers.

There's a model of one in the Guinness Hopstore - though I neglected to mention it in my guide to same ...and did you know the zoo keeper in the ads was a caricature of the artist himself.

"I have always been a very jolly man" - Gilroy

"Black Magic is Mumbo Jumbo"
+
"Guinnless is bad for you!"

I saw a book in a bookstore over the weekend that had all the Guinness ads from way back until the present, including foreign language ones. I didn't buy it at the time but after revisiting this forum i might just have to go back and get it............

"...I could never figure out, how yer man stayed up on the surfboard after fourteen pints of stout..."

Not quite a guinness quote, but I reckon that christy was thinking about it when he wrote that...

Also:
"Guess who just dropped inn..."
(drop inn into the middle of the word guess and you get...you guessed it...guinness!)

'Not every thing in black and white makes sence'

"Guinness is good for you -- Gives you strength"

At least that's what my t-shirt says. And everyone knows, question the wisdom of a t-shirt only at your veriest peril.

Less calories per pint of Guinness than per pint of Orange Juice or Milk apparrently!

Guinness is no more fattening or calorofic than any other beer of similar alcoholic strength. The beer has no fat, however it does contain protein, sugar, carbohydrates, and alcohol. The alcohol accounts for 65-75% of the calorific content irrespective of the beer in question. Per pint, guinness Draught has 210 calories. As a reference, one pint of semi-skimmed milk has 260 calories and one pint of orange juice has 220 calories. Guinness Draught actually has fewer calories than most other premium beers and lagers.
(c) Guinness

Other nuggets of information like that can be found at www.guinness.ie

I forgot my all time favourite classic:

Guinness: No beer comes near.

*sigh* I miss my Guinness...