Posted on 02/17/2014 12:34:23 PM PST by nickcarraway
Alcohol kills?
Who knew?
My ex could beat that.
Wish she’d try.
I recall an old Ripley’s Believe it Or Not cartoon about a notable British boxer (probably early nineteenth century) who drank something like 30 shots of whiskey. He followed that with a glass of ice water. When he keeled over, his death was attributed to drinking ice water on a hot day — the experts at the time considered this to be an unhealthy practice.
He wins!!
Perhaps we should bring back prohibition. Oh wait a minute, a ban doesn’t work.
Officials are fearful about the dangers of the craze”
...why? Other then drunk driving.
Drinking games and drinking challenges are like nuclear war. There are no winners. It’s only a question of how much you lose.
I’ve got to tell my tequila drinking buddies about this one!
When I was in high school, a couple of my “friends” had a little fun by breaking into one of their dad’s liquor cabinet and seeing how much I could drink. Not wanting to appear cowardly, I took this as a challenge and proceeded to down two large glasses of vodka and rum. My parents found me that night passed out in the rain.
Actually I think it as simple as stupidity kills. All hail Darwin!
Sometime back two of my neighbors drank like college students on the 4th and they began firing bottle rockets back and forth at each others homes. Middle of the night I wake up and my house is full of smoke - because a bottle rocket landed inside this guy’s house smouldered in a couch and then his house lit up. I step outside and as the fire trucks arrive he’s standing in the street in the rain (it had begun to pour) in his pajamas holding the only thing he was able to save - his golf clubs. Later that morning the other neighbor involved was found beside his house dead from a broken neck - he’d gone to the edge of second floor balcony during his bottle rocket war and pitched over the rail. Everyone else attending were too drunk to miss him. These guys were old enough to know better. I avoid big drinking days like New Years Eve and The 4th because so many amateur drinkers get involved they ruin it. Everyone I’ve known drink themselves to death took decades - except one joker who passed out straddling a picket fence - he messed up his organs so badly that he was gone in about 7 months following.
Those Brits do love their tea, don’t they?
British boxer (probably early nineteenth century) who drank something like 30 shots of whiskey. He followed that with a glass of ice water.
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You know it wasn’t an Irishman...
Irishman wouldn’t allow water in the same room as his whiskey....
“Despite warnings from friends, he said he had to go through with the challenge to show “who is boss,” “
HERE LIES “ THE BOSS”.
And now he's showing them who is moss.
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