BS: Beer anecdotes-any length

Subject: RE: BS: Beer anecdotes-any length
From: GUEST,Raggytash
Date: 29 Aug 15 - 06:08 AM

Ah! ............... the historians were all retraining as builders, carpenters, brickies, roofers etc so they could build proper bookshops.

Subject: RE: BS: Beer anecdotes-any length
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 29 Aug 15 - 09:30 AM

Makes a damn site more sense that some of the bollocks spouted on here, Raggy :-)

Subject: RE: BS: Beer anecdotes-any length
From: Joe_F
Date: 29 Aug 15 - 06:34 PM

When I was at Caltech in the '50s, where was a sport called crew racing. It was a beer-drinking relay race: when you had drained your mug, you brought it down on the shoulder of the next man in line, who then drained his.

It was discovered that you could do better than merely pouring it down your throat with swallowing, if in addition you used your belly muscles to expand your stomach & thus used a pressure difference to accelerate the beer. IIRC, some people could empty a 20-oz mug in 1.2 seconds.

Subject: RE: BS: Beer anecdotes-any length
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 29 Aug 15 - 06:51 PM

We only worked in whole seconds in my day, Joe. I'm not jealous!