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"All you people, can't you see, can't you see
How your love's affecting our reality
Everytime we're down
You can make it right
And that makes you larger than life"

-Backstreet Boys

WHAT A BUNCH OF WUSSES!

First thing: NO-ONE drinks beer for the taste. Unless it's Budvar or Pilsner. Or Real Ale. Or. . . never mind. You drink it to get wasted. Getting wasted is what being a student is all about. So what if it's not healthy? You can't go through life insulating yourself from anything that might be slightly unpleasant. Drinking, smoking, drugs, sex, pornography, driving fast and recklessly. . . I've done all this, maybe even at the same time (my memory's a bit hazy). Some of them I've decided I don't like (well, OK, only one of them) but at least I KNOW.

I used to drink, when I was in college and grad school. I, also, hated the taste of ber, and preferred other liquors, sich as amaretto, saki, vodka, gin, a few of the sweeter wines... I built up quite a tolerance, and was only ever sick once (when I drank two McDonalds-glasses (Super Size) screwdrivers (the second with extra vodka.) However, I learned that several members of my genetic line were alcoholics, and that I was exhibiting some of the warning signs. That, combined with some altercations and the infamous Melinda & Michelle Incident, caused me to stop drinking entirely. I still feel a craving for it sometimes, but I haven't touched it in years now.

I smoked a cigarette once. Lousy. Dead, burning weeds in your mouth. I just don't get the allure.

Drugs? Why bother? I exist in a reality all my own ANYWAY.

Porn? Yeah, I hide my collection of videotapes in my desk in my bedroom. I've seen Pam and Tommy, and I wasn't impressed.

Sex? Got a supplier for that. And I like her, too. We don't get the chance often enough, tho.

Actually my biggest vices are comic books (about a $150 a month habit,) regular SF books ($30-$150 a month,) and Hardee's Monster Burger (2000 calories a shot?.)

I wouldn't mind them all getting wasted so much if I wasn't caught in the firing line so often. My halls have thin walls you know, and the smell of vomit travels far! As for those of you getting sex on tap at the mo', I bare a foxish incisor and growl. 8P

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"FOOLS! Will I have to kill them ALL?!?!"

Okay. The Monster Burger is sorta like Burger King's Double Whopper With Cheese, except it's got bacon, and no tomato or onion. Lots of mayo. Drips, if you're not careful. Best when eaten in "combo" meal (Combo #5, around these parts,) with "Super-sized" curly fries, and large sweetened iced tea. An almost-certain artery clogger. My chest feels tight after wolfing one of these down. *WOLF!* Yum. Ow. Ahhh.

Monty: Shooters are a way of selling less drink for more money. Mix it sweet, pour into small container, and sell for a dollar a shooter, about half a shot. Believe me on this, I've done my homework. Did eleven Watermellons one night. Got pretty drunk, but then, I was drunk when I started. We kept tipping the waiter when he brought them, and of coarse, he kept bringing them.

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Outside of a dog, a book is a mans best friend. Inside of a dog, it's to dark to read. Groucho Marx

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"...when all that is driving my heart forward
is you, thoughts of you, hopes for you,
and a fading dream with a Mona Lisa smile
that whispers "are you thinking of me too?"

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Outside of a dog, a book is a mans best friend. Inside of a dog, it's to dark to read. Groucho Marx

Jump up and down, and stir it all around,
Throw your ass in the air,
throw your stomach contents on the ground.
Take one step left, and one step right,
One to the front, and one to the side;
Get some air once, get some air twice,
And if you fell like this then you're probably diced.

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"So, no room for Bender, huh? Well I'll build my own lunar lander, with blackjack, and hookers.
In fact, who needs a lander, or blackjack?
Ah, screw the whole lot o' ya!"
-- Bender, Futurama.

Monty, true, getting wasted every night seems a bit excessive. And the novelty will wear off. Along with your tongue. OTOH, university is about the only point in your life where you can get wasted often.

Personally, I find the best part of being drunk is being with a load of friends, who are all equally drunk. Getting drunk by yourself is a bit funny, but socially, it's great.
And GA, you drank Vodka and Red Bull? In a friggin' nightclub? Jeez, did EVERYONE in your family die at once, or is the nightclub that cheap?

And Lee's right, no-one drinks alcohol for the taste. Well not at first. But after having sat through 4 hours of an old blaok waffling on about adaptive threshold measurments, then sitting through a two hour seminar on the same thing, nothing quite hits the spot like a pint of Fosters in the pub.

(I still mean to organise the UK Flare pub-crawl. Maybe when some of the 18-20 US people come over, and then we can watch them have one drink, and through up. Or claim to have an 'addictive personality'. And then laugh. Laugh. Laugh at their tiny faces. BWAHAHAHAHAHA).

(Oh, and does anyone in the UK know of someone with an 'addictive personality', or is this a specific US/JMS condition?)

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You know, when Comedy Central asked us to do a Thanksgiving episode, the first thought that went through my mind was, "Boy, I'd like to have sex with Jennifer Aniston."

BTW, I'm still firmly of the opinion that in the UK, you have problems, you go to the pub, talk to your mates, and get over it. In the US, you spend several hundred dollars an hour for someone to ask you about your childhood. Anal.

I love making sweeping generalisations.

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You know, when Comedy Central asked us to do a Thanksgiving episode, the first thought that went through my mind was, "Boy, I'd like to have sex with Jennifer Aniston."

-Trey Parker, co-creator of South Park

I also am mildly resentlful of my burgeoning "reputation" here. You see everyone seems to think because of my voice that I am (eeesh!) American!

And you shouldn't rule out that Flare Pub Crawl idea yet Liam, it's feasible to haul together you, Lee, OS, Myself, and perhaps Chris G, Chris H and...er MaGiC perhaps. That sounds quite sufficiently explosive!
(Although I agree about getting an American in too )

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"FOOLS! Will I have to kill them ALL?!?!"