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Machine makes it easy to inhale hard liquor
Boston Globe ^ | 1.25.06 | Kathleen Burge

Posted on 01/25/2006 2:16:08 PM PST by el_chupacabra

The drink arrives, not in a glass, but in a puff of alcohol-laden vapor. Imbibers sit beside each other on bar stools, breathing deeply from plastic devices that resemble giant asthma inhalers.

Even though the futuristic Alcohol Without Liquid machines have apparently not arrived in Massachusetts, some legislators and law enforcement officials are so fearful of their potency that the House will hear testimony today on a bill banning the machines, which are popular in Europe.

Promoters say the devices deliver low-calorie, low-carb, hangover-free doses of booze.

(Excerpt) Read more at boston.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: alcohol; awol; booze; donutwatch; inhale; massachusetts; wodlist
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To: humblegunner

If I remember right, we used Boon’s Farm Wild Mountain Wine


41 posted on 01/25/2006 2:48:27 PM PST by R. Scott (Humanity i love you because when you're hard up you pawn your Intelligence to buy a drink.)
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To: el_chupacabra
Two questions:

1. Whatever happened to "Live Free or Die"! Are we so in love with the Nanny State that an inventor can't create an innovation for getting drunk? Man's been boozing it up for tens of thousands of years.

2. Without any liquid, I wonder if this lets you get snookered with less strain on the liver. Or will the liver have to do just as much work? (Basically I view this in engineering term as looking for the maximum buzz for the minimal amount of liver work)

It may seem silly to some, but since I now have to take a lot of meds, my docs tell me I need to limit drinking to keep the liver free for processing the meds back out of my system. While I'm not a drunkard, it would be really nice to get good and snookered once or twice a year!

42 posted on 01/25/2006 2:50:27 PM PST by Yossarian (The media is now simply running a 24/7 soap opera with Dubya cast as the arch villain.)
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To: el_chupacabra
Users pour a half-shot of their choice of alcohol into the machine's vaporizer, which mixes the liquid with pure oxygen. The process creates vapors, which users inhale in a 20-minute stint.

Sounds like it will slow drinking down, not speed it up.

43 posted on 01/25/2006 2:50:39 PM PST by operation clinton cleanup
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To: humblegunner
LOL, I tried beer for bong water but the carbonation made me cough. I couldn't hold it in and I whooping coughed it all out. It was the worst party foul I have ever committed. My atonement continues to this day.
44 posted on 01/25/2006 2:50:48 PM PST by Anvilhead
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To: Proud_USA_Republican
I want one installed at my work desk so when my boss annouces another one of his meetings, I can take a few hits.

Click the pic:


45 posted on 01/25/2006 2:50:50 PM PST by Ichneumon
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To: Xenalyte
I was at the liquor warehouse in downtown Houston yesterday (I was buying cheese, my hand to God)

Is that a great deli/specialty food shop, or what? I go to Specs more often for food items than booze.

46 posted on 01/25/2006 2:52:55 PM PST by Ichneumon
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To: Xenalyte
I was at the liquor warehouse in downtown Houston yesterday (I was buying cheese, my hand to God)

A cosmopolitan city like Houston does not have a cheese warehouse?

47 posted on 01/25/2006 2:56:04 PM PST by operation clinton cleanup
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To: el_chupacabra
Finally, I've been recognized!
48 posted on 01/25/2006 2:56:57 PM PST by Bender2 (Even dirty old robots need love!)
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To: Anvilhead; R. Scott; Xenalyte; Bacon Man
We made "ice-bongs" too but you had to be careful.
If using a tall bong and lots of ice, the ice would eventually
melt and the bong water would come draining out of the carb hole.

You either paid attention or learned a lot about carpet cleaning.

49 posted on 01/25/2006 2:57:17 PM PST by humblegunner (If you're gonna die, die with your boots on.)
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To: el_chupacabra
"I can see these replacing the keg parties," he said. ''I think it's a bad idea."

Won't replace kegs for two reasons:

1) It looks really stupid.

2) How exactly are you supposed to smoke and drink when you've got some alcohol appartus on your face?
50 posted on 01/25/2006 3:00:45 PM PST by July 4th (A vacant lot cancelled out my vote for Bush.)
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To: muir_redwoods

There is no way this is great for lung tissue.

I wonder if anyone done any medical research on this.


51 posted on 01/25/2006 3:00:54 PM PST by Right Wing Assault ("..this administration is planning a 'Right Wing Assault' on values and ideals.." - John Kerry)
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To: Bacon Man
Anybody ever use Jack Daniel's instead of bong water?

The question is, did anybody ever drink the bong water? (I had one classmate that did on a $10 bet.... it was worth every penny to watch!)

52 posted on 01/25/2006 3:01:48 PM PST by operation clinton cleanup
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To: Xenalyte

My dad likes 'em that way, too, but I prefer 'em just dry, large, and with the olives whole (stuffed with Bleue cheese if available).


53 posted on 01/25/2006 3:13:37 PM PST by DTogo (I haven't left the GOP, the GOP left me.)
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To: humblegunner
If using a tall bong and lots of ice, the ice would eventually melt and the bong water would come draining out of the carb hole.

And I hear tell the smell wasn’t all the great.
54 posted on 01/25/2006 3:24:46 PM PST by R. Scott (Humanity i love you because when you're hard up you pawn your Intelligence to buy a drink.)
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To: el_chupacabra
I've told this story here before, but this seems like the right place to repeat it. Of course it's hearsay, but still (somehow) believable.

Right after the death of Michael Kennedy in a ski accident, Howard Stern was interviewing some reporter who's beat was the Kennedy family and their shenanigans. I think he worked for a Boston paper.

This reporter was describing all the logistical considerations that went into organizing the typical Kennedy ski weekend. He was going down a list of essential elements, like this: "you've got your lift helicopters, your warm-up tent, your catered food tent, your vodka sauna tent..."

When Howard Stern heard him say "vodka sauna tent," he said "Whoa, whoa, whoa... back up, back up. What was that last one? Did you say vodka sauna tent?"

The reporter replied that that was, indeed, what he had said. Howard Stern asked him to explain.

The reporter explained that a "vodka sauna tent" was an essential feature of every Kennedy ski outing. Elements of the Kennedy advance team operation were responsible for causing to be erected, near the top of whatever mountain the Family was reserving for its exclusive use that day, a tent in which several sauna-type heaters were placed. One or more of these were set up for conventional operation, to generate copious amounts of heat so that those who occupied the tent would not feel uncomfortably cold in various stages of undress. One or two of the sauna machines, however, would not be supplied with water to pour over the hot rocks. Instead, these machines would be so configured as to cause pure vodka, or scotch, or some other distilled spirits, to be introduced onto the pile of hot rocks, and by such introduction be vaporized and thereby gassified, causing them to assume a physical state that would be readily absorbed through the nasal (and other) tissues of those Kennedies (and their friends) who chose to venture into the tent before enjoying their downhill adventure.

The reporter opined that the vodka sauna tent may have had something to do with the demise of Michael Kennedy, although it he had been observed at the time to have been participating in a rather boisterous game of ski football, in which a soda bottle is tossed back and forth between skiers as they wend their way downhill.

(steely)

55 posted on 01/25/2006 3:32:48 PM PST by Steely Tom
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To: humblegunner
Wow, are you sure you're not my long lost brother or something?
I've had the exact same experience with the iced bong.

We solved the problem by using crushed ice and a constant cycle of pour and refill.

At least 'till I figured out a way to covert tupperware bowls to bongs. Then it was nuthin' but gravy.
56 posted on 01/25/2006 3:38:16 PM PST by Anvilhead
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To: Steely Tom

A friend of mine happened to stand in line for a lift at a ski resort once in front of a Kennedy. Said Kennedy asked him how he managed to stay warm dressed so 'commonly'.


57 posted on 01/25/2006 3:41:25 PM PST by tje
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To: Steely Tom

bump for later


58 posted on 01/25/2006 3:51:40 PM PST by Centurion2000 (Governments want to copy all the data on you in existence, but will prosecute you for an mp3 copied.)
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To: el_chupacabra
Seeing as how this is Massachusetts we're talking about, there must be an organized crime angle behind this legislative initiative.

I'm not sure which scheme is in the running, but it has to be one of the following: Either the criminals who control the booze trade are worried about this machine's effect on their profits, or else it is part of an extortion plan to get the company to pay up lest they ban the sale of the machine, or else they are scheming about some way to force the sale of the devices underground, so that they can control its distribution in the black market and ensure their profits that way.

59 posted on 01/25/2006 3:53:31 PM PST by Zeppo
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To: July 4th

Let's see... flammable vapors... open flame ... WHOOOOSH!!!!

Plus, I don't even want to ask what this does to your Breathalyzer score.


60 posted on 01/25/2006 4:15:22 PM PST by Norman Conquest (My old man taught me two things: Mind own business, and always cut cards.)
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