Oh the SHAME!

[LibraryLady]

At this time every year the Museum parking lot is the scene of a four-day music festival. As is standard at these events, a screen behind the stage displays banners of the sponsors. These are local radio stations and newspapers, health organizations and other usual suspects.

Also, at this time of year, the Museum receives a complaint or two concerning the event from visitors. Usually these concern the noise, the smoke from food vendors' stalls and/or the lack of parking. This year brought a new complaint I thought the good folks here might enjoy.

The Lady was totally incensed, nay livid, that a Museum would consent to host an event sponsored by a beer company

Oh the SHAME! Oh the DEGRADATION! What a terrible example we were setting for the youth of our fair city!

[auntiem]

Would she have approved if it was sponsored by a high falutin' winery instead of lowly working class beer?
As my boss likes to say "Some people will bitch about Christmas".

[PepperElf]

... i guess they could agree with her and promise to change the sponsor...
"Music festival! Brought to you by Trojan condoms!"

[One-Fang]

Do not introduce her to the Speights Coast to Coast. My goodness, I mean it's a FITNESS EVENT that's sponsored by a BEER company. Oh hell. Oh woe. Oh dear.

[Nephy]

I would have told her that it was a choice between selling the advertising space to the beer company, or the National Association of Puppy Kickers.

[smileyeagle1021]

I'm so sorry that we let this lady out of state... in the future we will try to keep her home where she belongs (she sounds just like one of my classmates when I was at USU... who came back from a Aggie/Wolf Pack game, shocked that there was beer served at the game...

[depechemodefan]

Maybe you should point out that James McNeill Whistler and Grandma Moses drank beer. Ok, I don't really know that they drank beer, but I'm sure if beer is good enough for artists, it's good enough for a museum that has their stuff.

[deafcat24]

I bet this person will complain about Coors Field, home of the Colorado Rockies, or Molsen Centre (now Bell Centre) home of the Montreal Canadiens.

There are probably more but I'm to lazy to look.

But both are home of two Major League teams, one MLB one NHL, both stadiums main sponsers are the local beer company.

[Gabrielle Proctor]

I would have told her that it was a choice between selling the advertising space to the beer company, or the National Association of Puppy Kickers.

I just horked up some of my hot pocket from laughing so hard.

[PepperElf]

Maybe you should point out that James McNeill Whistler and Grandma Moses drank beer. Ok, I don't really know that they drank beer, but I'm sure if beer is good enough for artists, it's good enough for a museum that has their stuff.

... then again some famous artists drank stuff much stronger than beer. But I doubt you can get away with a music even sponsored say by Absinthe... (reportedly used by Charles Baudelaire, Paul Verlaine, Arthur Rimbaud, Vincent van Gogh, Oscar Wilde, and Aleister Crowley - at least that's what Wikipedia says).

Though... it would be funny to see the look on the woman's face.
"Oh, you're quite right! We're switching to Absinthe sponsorship for next year!"