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December 1987

Ug W. and Dr. Og?

Somebody has to do this, so it might as well be right here in the Grapevine that you learn the truth. AA was not founded by Bill W. and Dr. Bob in 1935 in Akron, Ohio. Two neolithic drunks named Ug and Og invented AA 10,000 years before on a primitive wheat farm in the Middle East.

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