This fall, Philadelphia Daily News beer columnist Don Russell (nicknamed "
Joe Six-Pack") will celebrate the release of his second book, Christmas Beers: The Cheeriest, Tastiest and Most Unusual Holiday Brews (Universe, 2008).
What about
Joe Six-Pack? Where do New York's red-blooded meat-and-potatoes men go for an old-fashioned skin show now that Rudy's closed down all the old sex clubs?
No one is really going to go out and rent a priest, Haggett said; the Rent a Priest name is a "marketing ploy." She said she is in the business of marketing other people's work, and she knows how to reach "
Joe Six-pack."
"It's time that normal
Joe Six-pack American is finally represented in the position of vice presidency, and I think that that's kind of taken some people off guard, and they're out of sorts, and they're ticked off about it, but it's motivation ...
Birnbaum deserves special commendation for suffering through such events as a press conference of the Coalition Against Regressive Taxation, a gang of brewers, distillers, cigarette makers, and trucking companies all bravely fighting excise taxes in the name of
Joe Six-Pack.
"Don't have
Joe six-pack paying for the abusers," Romain said.
Pennsylvania, he notes, isn't home to
Joe Six-pack; it's Joe 18-Pounds who lives here.
Pat Higgins, president of the Wyoming Beer Distributors Association, said "
Joe Six-Pack," the working man, is "the guy who's going to pay for it"
"It will put more tax on the common man,
Joe Six-Pack," he said.
Yet,
Joe Six-Pack still has to pay a tax on beer," English said.
"If Congress can repeal the estate tax for billionaires, then Congress can roll back the beer tax for
Joe Six-Pack," said Kleczka, whose state is home to Miller Brewing.
It was not as if the Getty called in a dozen
Joe Six-Packs from the street; no, it listened with anguish to people who had spent their professional lives learning to tell the difference between real and fake.
Well, now's the time to write your legislators, informing 'em that we don't need any more taxes on wine or spirits; apparently, beer would not get whacked with more taxes, as it's the "
Joe Six-Packs" who'd bear the brunt of the sucker.
"There are 80 million '
Joe Six-packs' out there who drink beer, the beverage of moderation," said Heurich.