When people don't research their brand name.

Reverend

http://www.scottishrealales.com/vmchk/scottish-ales-and-beers/1488-whisky-ale-tsa/flypage.tpl.html
I couldn't believe it when I saw this.

Moe_Zambeek

I'm not seeing the issue...can you explain?

Handsome_Chris

I can believe it.

Reverend

Moe. 1488. For people that think the edl are too left wing.

Moe_Zambeek

I had to google it just now. I had no idea and I imagine 99.9% of the population would be the same...

littlegreenman

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=1488

Reverend

14 is fourteen words. 88 is heil hitler.

Deijavoo

Went over my head too.

Moe_Zambeek

Seems this has Tullibardine whiskey in it. Distillery established in 1488.

Personay I'd say if you have to google it to get the obscure reference via urban dictionary, I wouldn't be worrying too much from a branding perspective.

ThorpyFX

to be fair its a balanced brew 1488 = white power but the ale is called the black wolf so........ 

Phil_aka_Pip

Moe_Zambeek said:

Seems this has Tullibardine whiskey in it. Distillery established in 1488.

Personay I'd say if you have to google it to get the obscure reference via urban dictionary, I wouldn't be worrying too much from a branding perspective.

wis. way too obscure to be bothered with.

BTW ICL 1900 programs used to end the the halt code HH which a lot of people interpreted as Happy Harry, meaning a successful run. However one bloke I worked with said that in ICL 6bit 1900 character code, 'H' was 50 in octal. So, 50/50 - the chance that it actually worked

ICBM

Moe_Zambeek said:

I had to google it just now. I had no idea and I imagine 99.9% of the population would be the same…

Same here - no idea at all. I suspect you'd already have to be interested in that sort of thing.

You can probably find similar numerology bullshit for plenty of other dates if you look hard enough or already know what they're supposed to "mean".

thorpy6 said:

to be fair its a balanced brew 1488 = white power but the ale is called the black wolf so...

I thought it was going to be something about the 'black' as well, but couldn't work it out.

markblack

clutching at straws... Google anything enough and there'll be another 'meaning'

harpo

Phil_aka_Pip said:

Moe_Zambeek said:

Seems this has Tullibardine whiskey in it. Distillery established in 1488.

Personay I'd say if you have to google it to get the obscure reference via urban dictionary, I wouldn't be worrying too much from a branding perspective.

wis. way too obscure to be bothered with.

BTW ICL 1900 programs used to end the the halt code HH which a lot of people interpreted as Happy Harry, meaning a successful run. However one bloke I worked with said that in ICL 6bit 1900 character code, 'H' was 50 in octal. So, 50/50 - the chance that it actually worked

Back in the day I operated and ICL 1900 then the duper duper 2900, the HH = 50/50 chance rumour persisted in British Leyland :-)

Reverend

I should point out that I noticed it as someone in fb had commented on a picture of a neo nazi drinking one. It is a fairly well known thing, especially in the us. Anyone with the discovery channels is bound to have seen a couple of documentaries on wp prison gangs.
Presumably people here know what c18 means?

EricTheWeary

88 and 1488 I know as common references on TV shows mentioning white supremacists, usually as tattoos ( quite a few on Google images). Not sure it would be the first thing that came to mind seeing that ale though.

Bellycaster

I'm never drinking Kronenbourg again now I know their Brewery is next door to Satan's House.

1 = "Them" (Number One)

664 = The Neighbour of the Beast.

CabbageCat

Reverend said:

Presumably people here know what c18 means?

Presumably some people do - presumably others don't.

I'm the latter. Unless you mean "G81" which is a person who tries to make themselves look comparatively clever by acting like really obscure information should be known by anyone to make everyone else feel stupid.

Cacofonix

Of course I know what 1488 is.  Duh. 

It's the year when Ch'oe Pu (1454–1504), the Korean Commissioner of Registers for the island of Cheju, was shipwrecked on the southeast coast of China in Taizhou, Zhejiang, during the Ming Dynasty, following which he and his crew were hosted by Chinese military courier officers to travel along the Grand Canal of China, all the way to Beijing, and then finally back across the Yalu River into Korea.

Everyone knows that his written commentary on Chinese customs, foreign and domestic trade, and transport in places such as Hangzhou and Suzhou are valuable records of Ming era culture and commerce.

chillidoggy

I can only conclude that I must have been living under a rock for many years, as it meant nothing to me. 

Conspiracy theorists, sign here......

VimFuego

think I've also been living under a rock (though clearly a much better class of to chilli) as I've never heard of that and would never have got it in a million years and I'm pretty happy in that ignorance.