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Post by ravanwin » Tue Mar 11, 2008 7:07 pm

Pop Quiz Kids:

Stacy from a nameless beer company wants to sponsor an event at the Forest sometime next month. She wants to donate many cases of bottled lager and give them to our punters for FREE. She says they will pay corkage for all the bottles and will advertise the event.

What do we do? What do we do?

I have her email.
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Post by swithun » Tue Mar 11, 2008 10:00 pm

Go for it. It will be nice to take some corkage without having to beg or threaten.

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Post by billy_liar » Tue Mar 11, 2008 10:27 pm

What is this magical event?


Surely this will could encourage the fuckers to fight......




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Post by billy_liar » Tue Mar 11, 2008 10:28 pm

Will or could or would.


Yargh.


Free beer.




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Post by Shannon » Tue Mar 11, 2008 10:43 pm

Fuck that.

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Post by Jane » Tue Mar 11, 2008 11:10 pm

What's the deal with them sponsoring it? Does she want to poster and tag things and write their name on it or just give out product?
What do you mean by nameless beer? Are you not naming it, or is she not, or is it independent?
Is it for a specific event or just a general offer?

I am so all about the free booze, obviously, but kind of against the sponsor notion I guess. But how about if we made it a volunteer party type night, if there is free pre-paid booze we could close the kitchen, get some bands on and dance motherffff dance. This would be nice to all of us. I love giving free drinks to people. I love drinking them too. It's so nice.
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Post by martinmckenna » Tue Mar 11, 2008 11:34 pm

sounds like carnage to me

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Post by dan » Wed Mar 12, 2008 11:02 am

i think you need to name and shame the company...
i.e. we put up Fraoch posters before and that was kinda ok, but we wouldn't put up budweiser ones i think...
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Post by Shannon » Wed Mar 12, 2008 1:48 pm

It would be fine if it was Fraoch, I think. Otherwise, I'm really not into it. We've had this conversation many times before and each time said no. If there are any strings attached, I still say no.

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Post by swithun » Thu Mar 13, 2008 3:23 pm

Will we have more details in time for the FWG meeting tonight?

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Post by Shannon » Thu Mar 13, 2008 3:37 pm

Not unless you can track Ryan down mid-Atlantic.

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Post by ravanwin » Sun Mar 16, 2008 10:10 pm

there were no more details. the beer company wouldn't say who they were. they were not froach.

now, in my opinion, and based on past discussion the correct answer to the quiz is: NO.

However, i brought it up as because i wanted to make sure that we were all on the same page. obviously, it is a long standing rule that some of us have had a chance to decide upon. however, with new people coming in, i thought maybe it would be a good time to talk about any long standing policies and to remind ourselves that nothing is written in stone.

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Post by Jane » Mon Mar 17, 2008 2:17 am

well how secretive. I had this beautiful vision of some beer company who were launching, who liked us and wanted to become cool by getting us free drinks. Probably not the case. Do you think cash and carry champagne would ever want to give us sponsorship? Oh the dream.
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Post by dan » Mon Mar 17, 2008 11:03 am

did you make this beer company up as a test?
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Post by ravanwin » Mon Mar 17, 2008 9:37 pm

no. it was real. they wouldn't tell me much but i thought it was a good idea to reasses what we think about these things.
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