Comments on: 5 Drinking Stories That Put Yours To Shame

By: Jim

Jim — Tue, 18 Jan 2011 20:06:53 +0000

That story about Paul Revere is great. He was a great man and a great drinker. Where did you find that information?

By: Cookie

Cookie — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 08:21:19 +0000

“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.”
posted by Bob on 11-20-2008 at 3:46 pm

Bob, it wasn’t on board a ship. It was in his garden (hence the water fountain) and there were thousands of people there – see Difford’s Guide. Admirals are allowed on ‘dry’ land once in a blue moon.

By: AP

AP — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 17:11:57 +0000

Regarding #1 – 1400 pounds of sugar seems like a lot compared to the 395 gallons of liquid. At any rate, here’s what I came up when I scaled it down:

1 bottle brandy (750 mL), 1/2 bottle wine, 1 pound sugar, 2 lemons, 2 oz lime juce, 1 tsp nutmeg

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

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