[HoosierDaddy]

Slumgullion Spitteler, on May 16 2009, 06:01 PM, said:

Illuyankas, on May 16 2009, 05:54 PM, said:

@Slum: Some of the figures are so precise they pretty much scream 'taken directly from the tab paid by the sober manager'. It's not outside the realms of possiblity, and the medical thing is pretty awesome. So why so harsh?

I just find this article very hard to believe. He drank a case of wine on a bus trip that lasted an hour or two? Give me a break.

Hey, if it is true, awesome! Well done, Andre. I just find the amount of alcohol consumption stated in the article a little tough to swallow.

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I see what you did there.

This post has been edited by HoosierDaddy: 16 May 2009 - 10:03 PM

[Thelomen Toblerone]

Slumgullion Spitteler, on May 16 2009, 11:01 PM, said:

I just find the amount of alcohol consumption stated in the article a little tough to swallow.

What ho, a hidden pun!

[Slum]

HoosierDaddy, on May 16 2009, 06:02 PM, said:

Slumgullion Spitteler, on May 16 2009, 06:01 PM, said:

Illuyankas, on May 16 2009, 05:54 PM, said:

@Slum: Some of the figures are so precise they pretty much scream 'taken directly from the tab paid by the sober manager'. It's not outside the realms of possiblity, and the medical thing is pretty awesome. So why so harsh?

I just find this article very hard to believe. He drank a case of wine on a bus trip that lasted an hour or two? Give me a break.

Hey, if it is true, awesome! Well done, Andre. I just find the amount of alcohol consumption stated in the article a little tough to swallow.

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Number of downloads: 6

I see what you did there.

Thelomen Toblerone, on May 16 2009, 06:03 PM, said:

Slumgullion Spitteler, on May 16 2009, 11:01 PM, said:

I just find the amount of alcohol consumption stated in the article a little tough to swallow.

What ho, a hidden pun!

I do try. I very seldom succeed, but I try.

[Aptorian]

I've just spent 20 minutes trying to find any kind of article on people drinking extreme amounts of beer, but I must be using the wrong key words or something.

[HoosierDaddy]

Try "drank to death".

[Ain't_It_Just_]

This guy was awesome...when he came to Oz decades ago he went to visit a football club, and spent nine hours at the bar. His words?

"More grog, boss."

We salute thee, Man of the Great Trees. ( )

[amphibian]

Slumgullion Spitteler, on May 16 2009, 06:01 PM, said:

I just find this article very hard to believe. He drank a case of wine on a bus trip that lasted an hour or two? Give me a break.

Hey, if it is true, awesome! Well done, Andre. I just find the amount of alcohol consumption stated in the article a little tough to swallow.

Wade Boggs used to drink like 60-70 beers each flight from NY to California.

I've seen some people who are definitely alcoholics and possess unreal tolerance when they drink. Andre's supposed feats are not that absurd. Legendary for sure, but not absurd. Someone that big who did as much physical activity as he did? Not absurd at all.

[Slum]

amphibian, on May 17 2009, 02:45 AM, said:

Slumgullion Spitteler, on May 16 2009, 06:01 PM, said:

I just find this article very hard to believe. He drank a case of wine on a bus trip that lasted an hour or two? Give me a break.

Hey, if it is true, awesome! Well done, Andre. I just find the amount of alcohol consumption stated in the article a little tough to swallow.

Wade Boggs used to drink like 60-70 beers each flight from NY to California.

I've seen some people who are definitely alcoholics and possess unreal tolerance when they drink. Andre's supposed feats are not that absurd. Legendary for sure, but not absurd. Someone that big who did as much physical activity as he did? Not absurd at all.

Sorry, I'm just not buying it. The supposed feats are too absurd to be real.

Edit: And let's be serious here, what was his real level of physical activity? A 20 minute bout of fake wrestling everyday? It's not like the dude was carved from granite. When you drink as much as he supposedly drank, well, there's not much time for anything else.

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[Aptorian]

Slumgullion Spitteler, on May 17 2009, 10:07 AM, said:

Edit: And let's be serious here, what was his real level of physical activity? A 20 minute bout of fake wrestling everyday? It's not like the dude was carved from granite. When you drink as much as he supposedly drank, well, there's not much time for anything else.

Yes, because Show Wrestling is in no way a physically taxing sport at all is it? How hard can it be to throw around 300 pound guys while constantly taking care to not actually inflict real damage...

Outside the ring Wrestlers spend their time working out and practising the routine of the nights match. You think choreographing those stunts is easy? You think their training regiment and diet is fun?

But admittedly, I wouldn't call the Andre the Giant of the late 80s early 90s much of an athlete. His health had deteriorated too much for that, his heavy drinking can't possibly have helped either.

[Thelomen Toblerone]

An old colleague of my dad's used to drink 8 pints every lunchtime before going back to work. That's 8 pints in one hour (so about 15 bottles), and then return to work sober as a nun. Apparently he was so used to drinking it didnt affect him (beyond the probable warm inside bit), certainly not noticeably. So Im incline to believe more superhuman levels of drinking are possible.

[Aptorian]

Yeah, I know similar stories.

One of MY fathers old buddies was a wine salesman. Back in the old days he would go from client to client, shops, factories, etc. tasting wine and certainly not spitting it out, my father accompanied him one time and while he was completely slushed by the end of the day, the friend had no problem driving them back home. At home the friend proceeded to kill a case of beer and finish off a bottle of brandy. The next day he did it all over again.

Some people are just scary drinkers.

[MTS]

I once knew a girl who downed a slab of beer (24 cans), did 3 beer bongs and had about 10 jelly shots, and she drove 3 of us home, who were all gone. She was straight as an arrow. Scary stuff.

[Shinrei]

I don't know what my "record" is for a night of drinking, but it's not anywhere close to these stories. I know for a fact I did 3 bottles of wine in 2 hours once, but can't think of any night offhand that was more than that. There were a couple of martini and beer outings with friends where I probably consumed more alcohol, but I couldn't say how much that was in any measurable sense.

[Sinisdar Toste]

i gotta say, after seeing my friend at the age of 17 and a weight of perhaps 180 lbs finish off a bottle of rum, a six pack and shotgunned three king cans (about a liter of beer) in four hours and still keep his feet under him... i can believe these stories

[RodeoRanch]

Big man had big appetites. Impressive.