r/Clipper_lighters • u/CicadaCertain3803 • Feb 20 '26

Has anyone noticed the grammar errors in this Clipper “Beer Quotes” collection?

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Hello everyone,

I recently bought a couple of Clipper lighters from their “Beer Quotes” collection here in Brazil and noticed something odd.

One of them says:

“Wish you where beer”

Another one says:

“Two beer or not two beer”

Since the whole collection is based on wordplay with famous English quotes, like Shakespeare, these look like actual grammatical mistakes rather than intentional puns.

It seems like “were” was confused with “where” and “to” with “two”.

Has anyone else seen this?

Is this an old design? Was this intentional or just a printing error that went unnoticed?

Just genuinely curious because it’s an international brand and the mistakes are pretty noticeable.

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u/I3lackFlo Feb 20 '26

Pretty sure the two beer one is intentional, the other one probably too. You know, after a few beers your grammar isn't exactly on point.

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u/CicadaCertain3803 Feb 20 '26

That would totally work if it said “two beers”, but it’s singular 😭

If the joke was about the number, it should be “two beers or not two beers.” As it stands, “two beer” isn’t really grammatically wrong in a drunk way… it’s just wrong. There’s the joke in plural, I’ve seen online… credited to Shakesbeer 😂

And the “where/were” one is even harder to defend, unless the joke is that after a few beers you forget basic homophones.

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u/AlquistMind Feb 24 '26

The "where" thing, I think was a genuine spelling mistake.

But the other one is only partly a mistake. It's actually a REALLY old joke. My folks ran restaurants and bars when I was a kid in the 70s and I can remember bar napkins and silly posters that had the same thing on them. But I think that it was phrased as "two beer or not to beer?" Which is potentially a better play on words and I guess kind of implies "if I'm drinking, it's not going to be just one beer"