"...OK, y'all! Let's show these Aussies how it's done.
We Texans could write the instruction manual on beer consumption...."
I wouldn't count on it. My Texan cousin never tires of telling a story about taking an Australian friend of his to a keg party in College Station. The Australian fellow outdrank the Texans about 2-to-1, and most of the Texans ended up passed out on the floor. The Aussie looked at my cousin and said..."You chaps don't drink much, do you?"
Yes, we heard about that incident. Those people have had their Texas citizenship papers revoked.
You don't see any articles saying "Beer Consumption Down" about Texas, do you?
;-)
I was at a night club (OK, a dive) some time ago in Corpus Christi, and a young Aussie fellow was there, having a good time. The girls all thought he was cute, and were delighted with his jokes and accent, etc., so as one might expect, some jealous and drunk country bumpkin tried to pick a fight with him.
I took him to one side for a moment and advised him that down under, those guys do "fisticuffs" for fun, so he just might be biting off more than he could chew.
"Aww, I can handle him," he said, and they stepped outside. Sure enough, the Aussie punched his ticket in fairly short order, then bought him a beer. They wound up getting along OK before the night was over.