Category Archives: Drinking

Drunk for Australia

May 31, 2012 – 6:49 pm

An Australian man mourned a dead friend by drinking himself into a stupor. His friends dropped him at his house and he staggered several feet before collapsing on the lawn. A neighbor took a photo which ended up on out Google’s StreetView website as DRUNK GUY. “I’m not too happy about it.” The drunk Aussie […]

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SICK BUFFALO FOR EVERYONE

April 18, 2012 – 11:18 am

Several years ago my future ex-wife’s brother-in-law received a phone call from his brother. Bok and his son were in the hospital. They had had a motorsai accident. My future ex-wife hung up the phone. “Neither of them are dead?” I asked in Thai “No.” This was good news. Bok and his son Beer were […]

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GOP Buzzkills

April 16, 2012 – 4:11 pm

Mitt Romney does not drink alcohol or watch TV. His GOP opponent at least drank beer to show that he was human, instead of an Alien from another planet. Most Republicans inspired by the Holy Bible favor tee-totalers, even though their Messiah transformed water into wine at the Wedding Feast of Cana. Many Bible Belt […]

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THE FIRST TEN MILES by Peter Nolan Smith 

April 12, 2012 – 12:06 pm

Early on a warm May morning my friend AK, a blonde BU co-ed, and I traveled by the trolley to Jamaica Plains, where we were picking up a 1973 Ford Torino station wagon to transport cross-country. Upon our arrival at the address, the middle-aged owner descended the tenement’s steps to the sidewalk. He tapped at […]

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Beer Bottle Fortune

March 20, 2012 – 12:33 pm

‎ The morning of St. Padraig’s Day my landlord and I noticed these stacked beer cases across the street. The sweet old lady had collected them from the trash. “I figure it’s about $150. I’m going to cash in the bottles and go play slots.” The old lady looked to be Hindu, but her son […]

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