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<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="http://nerve.com/CS/utility/FeedStylesheets/rss.xsl" media="screen"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"><channel><title>The Modern Materialist : bottle openers</title><link>http://nerve.com/CS/blogs/modernmaterialist/archive/tags/bottle+openers/default.aspx</link><description>Tags: bottle openers</description><dc:language>en</dc:language><generator>CommunityServer 2007.1 (Build: 20910.1126)</generator><item><title>Happy Hour: Drinkers Acting Like Animals</title><link>http://nerve.com/CS/blogs/modernmaterialist/archive/2009/05/14/happy-hour-drinkers-acting-like-animals.aspx</link><pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2009 21:05:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">bd485f5c-a45b-491f-8e52-c79e7f680fc3:204235</guid><dc:creator>Steph Auteri</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><wfw:commentRss xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/">http://nerve.com/CS/blogs/modernmaterialist/rsscomments.aspx?PostID=204235</wfw:commentRss><comments>http://nerve.com/CS/blogs/modernmaterialist/archive/2009/05/14/happy-hour-drinkers-acting-like-animals.aspx#comments</comments><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/modernmaterialist/2009/05/557070_alcoholic_dream_.jpg"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/modernmaterialist/2009/05/557070_alcoholic_dream_.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Dancing on the bar...starting fights...spending hours with head-in-toilet...drinkers are seriously acting like animals.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Then again, animals are also getting into the drinking...&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/modernmaterialist/2009/05/wooden%20bottle%20openers.jpg"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/modernmaterialist/2009/05/wooden%20bottle%20openers.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;[$20-22, &lt;a href="http://www.velocityartanddesign.com/carved-wood-bottle-opener-c-1140-p-4-pr-20995.html" target="_blank" title="velocity wooden bottle openers"&gt;Velocity&lt;/a&gt;]&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;These carved wooden bottle openers have brass details for optimal booze-opening.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;[Via &lt;a href="http://www.pointclickhome.com/blogs/deal_day/bottle_opener_objet" target="_blank" title="design dish roost wooden bottle openers"&gt;Design Dish&lt;/a&gt;]&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Related: &lt;a href="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/modernmaterialist/archive/2009/05/06/happy-hour-let-my-elephant-open-that-for-you.aspx" target="_blank" title="elephant bottle opener mm"&gt;Happy Hour: Let My Elephant Open That for You&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/modernmaterialist/archive/2008/11/18/happy-hour-carved-wood-elephant-bottle-opener.aspx" target="_blank" title="wooden elephant bottle opener"&gt;Happy Hour: Carved Wood Elephant Bottle Opener&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="http://nerve.com/CS/aggbug.aspx?PostID=204235" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description><category domain="http://nerve.com/CS/blogs/modernmaterialist/archive/tags/animals/default.aspx">animals</category><category domain="http://nerve.com/CS/blogs/modernmaterialist/archive/tags/Happy+Hour/default.aspx">Happy Hour</category><category domain="http://nerve.com/CS/blogs/modernmaterialist/archive/tags/bottle+openers/default.aspx">bottle openers</category><category domain="http://nerve.com/CS/blogs/modernmaterialist/archive/tags/wooden/default.aspx">wooden</category></item><item><title>Happy Hour: A Few Too Many</title><link>http://nerve.com/CS/blogs/modernmaterialist/archive/2009/02/27/happy-hour-beer-counter.aspx</link><pubDate>Fri, 27 Feb 2009 22:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">bd485f5c-a45b-491f-8e52-c79e7f680fc3:180575</guid><dc:creator>Laureen Mahler</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><wfw:commentRss xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/">http://nerve.com/CS/blogs/modernmaterialist/rsscomments.aspx?PostID=180575</wfw:commentRss><comments>http://nerve.com/CS/blogs/modernmaterialist/archive/2009/02/27/happy-hour-beer-counter.aspx#comments</comments><description>&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/modernmaterialist/2009/02/166291_3811.jpg"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/modernmaterialist/2009/02/166291_3811.jpg" border="0" height="254" width="389" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Somewhere along the way in my happy hour adventures, I learned this little rhyme:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;One, two, feeling cool.&lt;br /&gt;Three, four, just one more.&lt;br /&gt;Five, six, gonna be sick.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;I always thought it was a cute way to remind myself not to drink too much (and yes, five will do it; I am kind of a cheap date), but the trouble is I forget the rhyme before it&amp;#39;s actually useful. But now there&amp;#39;s a bottle opener that will do all the work for me: &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/modernmaterialist/2009/02/beercounter.jpg"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/modernmaterialist/2009/02/beercounter.jpg" border="0" height="284" width="400" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;[&lt;a href="http://www.urbantrendhk.com/product_info.php?product_code=10-127&amp;amp;category_id=2" target="_blank"&gt;Urban Trend&lt;/a&gt;] &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The beer-counting bottle opener won&amp;#39;t tell you to stop drinking, but it will gently suggest that maybe you should, with surprisingly effective numeral-based passive aggressiveness.&amp;nbsp; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Related: &lt;a href="https://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/modernmaterialist/archive/2008/03/05/bottle-openers-for-party-dudes.aspx" target="_blank"&gt;Bottle Openers for Party Dudes&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/modernmaterialist/archive/2008/10/24/happy-hour-drink-drank-drunk.aspx" target="_blank"&gt;Happy Hour: Drink, Drank, Drunk&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="http://nerve.com/CS/aggbug.aspx?PostID=180575" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description><category domain="http://nerve.com/CS/blogs/modernmaterialist/archive/tags/Happy+Hour/default.aspx">Happy Hour</category><category domain="http://nerve.com/CS/blogs/modernmaterialist/archive/tags/bottle+openers/default.aspx">bottle openers</category><category domain="http://nerve.com/CS/blogs/modernmaterialist/archive/tags/beer+counter/default.aspx">beer counter</category></item></channel></rss>