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My little brother is what you might call rabid NASCAR fandom personified. He follows his favorite driver, ., with a zeal normally reserved for prophets and other religious figures. You can bet he’s huddled close to the TV on Sunday afternoons, catching every lap of the week’s big race in high definition.

When his birthday came around last year, I began exploring the market for novelty license plates. Even though my brother drives a five-year-old Chevrolet Monte Carlo, he keeps it in near-perfect condition and outfits it with every accessory known to man. Yet, his front bumper remained remarkably plain. To commemorate Little E’s salad days in the No. 8 Budweiser car, I gave my brother a corresponding novelty plate. Months later, he still comments that the plate was exactly what his car was missing.

Gumby is a green clay humanoid figure who was the subject of a 233-episode series of American television which spanned over a 35-year period. He was animated using stop motion clay animation.
Gumby’s principal sidekick is Pokey, a talking pony, and his nemeses are the Blockheads. Other characters are Gumby’s dog Nopey (who responds to everything with a gloomy “nope”); Prickle, a yellow dinosaur or dragon; Goo, a flying blue mermaid who spits blue goo-balls; Gumby’s mother Gumba; Gumby’s father Gumbo; his sister Minga; Denali (a mastodon); Tilly (a hen); King Ott; and Professor Kapp.

Gumby was created by Art Clokey while a student of Slavko Vorkapich at the University of Southern California. Clokey’s first animated film was a 1953 3-minute short called Gumbasia, a surreal montage of moving and expanding lumps of clay set to music in a parody of Disney’s Fantasia. Gumbasia was created in a style Vorkapich taught called Kinesthetic Film Principles. Described as “massaging of the eye cells,” this technique of camera movements and editing was responsible for much of the Gumby look and feel. In 1955 Clokey showed Gumbasia to movie producer Sam Engel, who encouraged him to develop his technique by adding figures. Clokey and his wife Ruth (née Ruth Parkander) came up with the character Gumby, and Clokey made a 15-minute pilot later titled Gumby Goes to the Moon. NBC executive Thomas Warren Sarnoff liked the idea but rejected the pilot episode. The second Gumby episode, Robot Rumpus, made a successful debut on the Howdy Doody Show in August 1956, and in 1957 Gumby was given his own NBC series.

This Gumby tin sign would make a great gift for any child to put up in their room.

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God Bless the USA” is an American patriotic song written by country musician Lee Greenwood. The first Greenwood album it appears on is 1984’s You’ve Got A Good Love Comin’. It reached number 7 on the country charts when originally released in 1984, and was played at the 1984 Republican National Convention with President Ronald Reagan and first lady Nancy Reagan in attendance, but the song was first widely heard during the Gulf War in 1990 and 1991, as a way of boosting morale.

A music video was released for this song in 1984, depicting Greenwood as a farmer who loses the family farm. The popularity of the song rose sharply since the September 11, 2001 attacks and during the 2003 invasion of Iraq, and the song was re-released as a single, re-entering the country music charts at #16. The song could often be heard on the radio after those events, and versions of the song are widely distributed online.

This song has special meaning for those of us that have lost someone, that we still can believe in what this country stands for. You can have this license plate tin sign for you or give as a gift. Just remember God Bless the U.S.A..  Have a Happy Fourth of July tomorrow.

Michelob is a brand of beers produced by the Anheuser-Busch brewery. The first beer in the range is a 5% abv pale lager developed by Adolphus Busch in 1896 as a “draught beer for connoisseurs”.

The brand is named after Michelob, a Bohemian village near Saaz, in the region famous for its hops. After 1918, these places were renamed to Měcholupy (okres Louny) and Zatec.

Michelob was invented during a brewer’s strike in the 1930s from a recipe tossed together by the untrained workers left behind to run the brewery. It was so bad local taverns tossed their delivered barrels in the gutter until the streets ran with beer. When the strike was over, the brewery didn’t want to lose all that beer, no matter how bad, so they repackaged it and sold it as Michelob.

In 1961, a method was devised by the Anheuser-Busch brewmasters to produce a pasteurized version of Michelob which did not diminish flavor beyond acceptable levels. This allowed legal shipment of the beer across state lines. Bottled beer began to be shipped soon after, and the brand was introduced in cans as well in 1966.

This Michelob beer tin sign makes a great gift for anyone who has a bar or restaurant.

David Beam (1802–1854) took his father’s responsibilities in 1820 at the age of 18, expanding distribution of the family’s bourbon during a time of industrial revolution. David M. Beam (1833–1913) in 1854 moved the distillery to Nelson County to capitalize on the growing network of railroad lines connecting states. Colonel James B. Beam (1864–1947) managed the family business before and after Prohibition, rebuilding the distillery in 1933 in Clermont, Kentucky, near his Bardstown home. From this point forward, the bourbon would be called “Jim Beam Bourbon” after the Colonel. T. Jeremiah Beam (1899–1977) started working at the Clear Springs distillery in 1913, later earning the title of Master Distiller and overseeing operations at the new Clermont facility.James B.Beam Distilling Company was founded in 1935 by Harry L. Homel, Oliver Jacobson, H. Blum and Jerimiah Beam. Jeremiah Beam eventually gained full ownership and opened a second distillery near Boston, Kentucky, in 1954. Jeremiah later teamed up with child-hood friend Jimberlain Joseph Quinn, to expand the enterprise.

Booker Noe (1929–2004)[2] was the Master Distiller Emeritus at the Jim Beam Distillery for more than 40 years, working closely with retired Master Distiller Jerry Dalton (1998–2007). In 1987 Booker introduced his own namesake bourbon, Booker’s, the world’s first uncut, straight-from-the-barrel bourbon, and the first of the Small Batch Bourbon Collection. Fred Noe (1957–Present), birth name Frederick Booker Noe III, became the seventh generation Beam family distiller in 2007 and regularly travels the world to educate consumers on America’s Native Spirit. September, 2007, was declared “National Bourbon Heritage Month” by an Act of Congress, further recognizing bourbon as the only spirit that is uniquely American.
There have been seven generations of distillers from the Beam family. Retired Master Distiller Jerry Dalton (1998–2007) was the first non-Beam to be Master Distiller at the company.

This Jim Beam tin sign makes a great gift for any one.