“Philip Boyes and Mr. Vaughan came back to town together on the evening of the 19th, and there would seem to be no doubt at all that Boyes was then in the best of health. Boyes spent the night with Mr. Vaughan, and they breakfasted together in the usual way upon bacon and eggs, toast, marmalade and coffee. At 11 o'clock Boyes had a Guinness, observing that, according to the advertisements it was ‘Good for you.’”
–Judge Crossley in Dorothy L. Sayers, Strong Poison, Chapter I, 1930.
“That’s different,” said Carter the First. “Nerves is nerves, and a thing like a goat might ‘appen to anybody, but wot I says is–”
“What’s yours, sir?” inquired the landlord.
“Oh, I think I’ll have a Guinness,” said Hector. “Guinness is good for you–particularly on a chilly morning.”
–Hector Puncheon et al. in Dorothy L. Sayers, Murder Must Advertise, Chapter XII. “Surprising Acquisition of a Junior Reporter,” 1933.
Dorothy L. Sayers created the Guinness toucan (with artist John Gilroy) and wrote the catchy bit of verse above while at S. H. Benson’s advertising company, where she worked from 1922 to 1931.
I’m so overjoyed that, on this app, when you think it’s just you who’s geeking out over a date in the year, there’s really a fuck ton of other weirdos who are just as obsessed
