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Dollar Shave Club?

by Sam Adams on March 9, 2013

I heard the ad on the radio and thought it was a joke.  But the Dollar Shave club is no joke.  For a dollar, or if you’re feeling squirrely  $6 or $9 a month you can get primo razer blades shipped to your door – and the handle for free.  Not only that shipping is [...]

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Makers Mark Makes a mistake – Viral Campaign Puts them back on track

February 23, 2013
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Last week Makers Mark announced that it would be changing its alcohol content by 3% (which really isn’t 3%) to go from 45% alcohol by volume to 42% alcohol  or 90 to 84 proof.  Their reasoning was that they anticipated shortages and wanted to stretch the liquor out to cover the shortages.  They even went so far [...]

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A New Fathers Guide to Diapers

January 3, 2013
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There are a good number of books out there on this crap(drum roll), but most people just Google this stuff, and it brings them to a website that has the information.  So here we are providing you the information based on my own personal experience in the diaper lab here at the institute.  This is  the man’s guide to [...]

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Happy New Year 2013

January 1, 2013
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Well, we’ve made it to yet another year here on the Institute’s website.  This year we’ve really accomplished jack squat.  Next year, I suspect will be similar with one exception – if I don’t get any writers who want to help, I may shift focus slightly to fatherhood since this year I became one. So [...]

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Go Vote

November 6, 2012
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Today more than any other day is key to do your minimum citizen duty which is to vote.  The is the bare minimum.  Go Vote.

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Manly Breakfast: Biscuits and Bacon Gravy

April 4, 2012
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When it comes to cooking, adding bacon to everything automatically makes things better.  It’s man law.   One of the things that you absolutely need to do as a man is to know how to cook amazing dishes for your friends, your family, and if you’re dating, to impress your woman. In this recipie we’re [...]

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Personal Responsibility and Accountability

January 9, 2012
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I think one of my biggest pet-peeves now-a-days is that people are taking less and less responsibility for their actions.   And it’s for anything. I would like to say that words mean something but giving your word apparently doesn’t mean anything today.  If you say you’re going to help a friend move, and then don’t show up, [...]

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2012 Bringing in the New Year and Remembering the Past

January 1, 2012
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While its been a slow year on this site it hasn’t been a slow year for us.  On the manly front we’ve seen good progress on all things manly.   In politics we have a good selection of mostly conservative candidates shaping up for the 2012 election. As we come to a close on this [...]

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The Science and History of Moonshine

August 24, 2011
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All of us have heard the term moonshine before, all of us know it’s illegal, but few of us really know what it is or how it’s made.  For most of us it’s just something that they do in the hill country of Arkansas and Tennessee and doesn’t really effect us.  But that’s not really [...]

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July 4th, 1776 We Remember, and Movies to Help Us

July 3, 2011
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The Founders were not grilling hamburgers and hotdogs.  They were crammed into a small room  arguing amongst themselves on whether they should declare independence from the king of England and sign their own death warrants or not.  Think about that.  By signing the Declaration of Independence, they were facing death if they were captured.  So [...]

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Fathers Day Ideas

June 16, 2011
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This year for fathers day think about giving your father the gift of libation, tobacco, or something timeless – non- electronic device/gadget.   Consider a pocket knife.   Pocket knives are timeless.  When taken care of properly they will last a lifetime.   Generally you always need a knife when you don’t have one.  To open [...]

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The previous generation was too wasteful

May 20, 2011
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That’s why we have to have green energy and recycle today because the previous generation was a very wasteful generation.   At least that’s what they are telling everyone.  When you hear someone talk about being wasteful, I want you to remember reading this story: How Wasteful the Older Generation Was In the line at the [...]

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Superman is finished with Truth, Justice, and the American Way: Renounces US Citizenship

April 28, 2011
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From here.  Although he’s traditionally seen as an American hero (remember, though, he is an alien), Superman is fed up with being connected to the USA. According to the Comics Alliance blog (and reported by BoingBoing), in Action Comics #900 Superman tells the president‘s national security adviser that he’s had enough of the Red, White, [...]

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Acts of Manliness: How to Refurbish or Recondition a BBQ Smoker

April 4, 2011
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So you want to recondition or refurbish your old smoker?  So do I. We’ve put together this walk through on how we worked on this old smoker and hopefully it will serve as a guide for any of you out there who are thinking about the same thing.  I was given BBQ smoker by a [...]

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