Comments on: 5 Drinking Stories That Put Yours To Shame

By: Leah

Leah — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 17:13:54 +0000

The last words of poet Dylan Thomas: “I’ve had 18 straight whiskies… I think that’s the record.”

He then slipped into a coma and died.

By: vinay kumar

vinay kumar — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 14:30:00 +0000

Elephants in India are known to attach illicit manufacturers of liquor. The liquor is distilled in remote locations to avoid detection.
The elephants raid these hooch joints, chase away the men and drink from the barrels of hooch.

They have a ball, you bet.

By: Duh

Duh — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 02:49:00 +0000

Bob, you say no one can handle that…apparently you’ve never been to russia during the holiday season.

By: Dann

Dann — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 16:57:00 +0000

Fortunately for the good admiral, his cocktail still holds as no one with any sense has ever cared what Jimmy Buffet does…

By: Bob

Bob — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 20:46:00 +0000

I’m not so sure about the statistics on the alcohol consumed on the constitution. If you don’t include the portugese wine, it comes out to roughly 1.88 gallons of spirits (rum and scotch) per person per day.

Here’s something to think about, unless the rum was not as strong proofwise as it was today. these gentlemen would probably never be able to see what foot they were putting infront of the other. Not to mention drinking that much liquor with very little water on board would dehydrate you unbelievably. I call BS on these statistics. Even if you were to reduce the numbers by a factor of 10 and include the portugese wine. That would be the same as drinking a fith of spirits (750ml) a day. A little more believeable then drinking an avg. of 10 (750ml) bottles per sailor today. I just don’t buy it. Most common people cant handle 10 beers in a sitting. I doubt constantly blottoed/drunk/incredibly inebriated saliors also couldn’t have functioned and taken down the entire list of ships that they did as well.

The capt. probably poured the rum over the side in an atempt to curtail the madness that was going on.

The only way i’d believe this story is if it was reduced alcohol content. I can see 2 gallons of beer a day. but not 2 gallons of the hard stuff. that would kill a man.

By: Paul Mack

Paul Mack — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 17:32:00 +0000

What of the exploits of the late British actor Oliver Reed? In Malta he outdrank the creww of the MHC Dorchester and promptly died, thus stiffing the sailors with the bill.

By: meg

meg — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 02:17:00 +0000

hi, this is unrelated to this post, sorry, the powers-that-be can delete this but im just too lazy to look for the correct place to report this. i was trying to send this article to a friend, and the response that came back after filling in the email info on your send this article link was “Your message is deemed to be an attempt to hijack the originating email form, and has been rejected.” uh yea. so letting you know you have a technical issue.

By: Jon

Jon — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 00:54:00 +0000

No Andrew Jackson? When he was around 18 him and some friends were at a bar and had an amazing time drinking together. In fact, they had SUCH a good time that they decided no one should ever drink from the glasses again, to commemorate them. So they smashed them to pieces. And surely no one should sit in the chairs they had been in, as they would not be able to live up to that night’s good times, so they threw them in the fire. In fact, the whole bar could never host such a good time for some friends, so they did the only logical thing and torched it to the ground.

That’s right, Andrew Jackson, America’s 7th president, committed arson because he had such a good time.

Plus his inauguration ceremony is the stuff of legends.

By: Dean

Dean — Wed, 07 May 2008 20:28:04 +0000

My apologies for the following ethnic humor: Three sailors go into a pub: an Englishman, an Irishman and a Scotsman. Each orders a pint of ale, but as it is a hot day with flies buzzing about, a fly lands in each of their glasses. The Englishman pushes his glass away in disdain. The Irishman plucks the fly out, tosses it away and proceeds to drink his ale. The Scotsman grabs the fly, starts pushing it on its back, shouting “Spit it out ye wee bugger, spit it out!”

By: Redundant

Redundant — Tue, 06 May 2008 18:24:02 +0000

The British have a long and illustrious history of drinking…according to the TV show “the thirsty traveler” (fine living channel for those of you who have cable)back in the late 1700s, there were over 2000 gin distilleries (known as the bathtub distilleries)making up to 2 MILLION liters of gin per WEEK.