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On Drunk Birds That Slur Songs And Stashing Whisky In Your Oxford Brogues

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by Treve Ring | Queue that DeLorean! Does the current, unforeseen bourbon boom mean a shortage is near?

Powdered alcohol is now legal in the USA. Safe? Not so much.

Thanks science, for telling us what 170 year old shipwrecked beer really tastes like (spoiler alert: bakelite, burnt rubber, over-ripe cheese, and goat).

It’s not beer goggles. Drinking wine makes you more attractive.

If that’s the case, French actor Gerard Depardieu must be the most gorgeous man in the universe. He has admitted to drinking (“absorbing”) up to 14 bottles of wine a day. Mind you, in the same interview he boasted of shooting two lions in self defense, making the 14 bottles of wine a day claim seem reasonable.

My consumption of coffee doesn’t just protect you from me; coffee (and tea) may also protect the brain against depression, Alzheimer’s disease and Parkinson’s disease.

Birds of a feather… Birds shown to slur their songs after drinking alcohol.

You can buy cans, but not class. A man ordered nearly 10,000 cans of beer at Las Vegas’ XS Nightclub so he could build a six-foot-high fortress around his table for his own VIP area for himself and friends (that’s 400 cases of beer and an $80,000 bar tab).

‘Til Bud do us part. Senior BFF shot with a shotgun in argument over which beer is better – Budweiser or Busch.

Be prepared (18 year old and up), boy scouts. Oliver Sweeney has collaborated with Johnnie Walker to design a snappy Oxford Brogue that holds a Johnnie Walker Red Label mini in the heel.

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