How big is a beer?

Well, I say England's greatest prime minister was Lord Palmerston.

Atlee, I'd say.

It's a rather obscure reference. Don't feel bad for not getting it, mendax.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mXlyYSNAACM

LA to NY flight = approx 300 min of viable drinking time (30 min take off and landing, 6 hours total flight time)
300/64 = 4 min and 42 seconds per beer throughout the entire flight
I find that difficult to believe.

Pitt the Elder!

Where did he have time for the rest of his life between drinking and urinating?

Plus if he really was able to drink that much, he would have had an amazing tolerance for ethanol. The only way to build of a tolerance of that magnitude is to drink, and drink heavily, habitually. Otherwise that drinking behavior, that speed of ingestion, would be deadly. The fact that he was an elite athlete doesn't square with that level of drinking. Not to mention that if he were having sober periods, like for doubleheaders, he would have been very susceptible to ethanol withdrawal. Ethanol withdrawal is characterized by tremors, inability to concentrate, severe confusion, hallucinations, and seizure. None of these are remotely congruent with the ability to bat .328 with an OBP of .414 over an 18 yr MLB career.

Yeah, if an average can is 12 0z, 107 beets is 1284 ounces total...the equivalent of over 10 gallons per day. Not possible.

If you said 10 beers, I'd buy it. If you said he once had 20 in one day, I'd ask if he lived. After 100, I'm asking if him being so drunk that he knocks 80 of em onto the floor, spilling their contents counts as drinking them.

Beets =beers.

Why would this guy be bragging about this in the first place?

Bob Genghiskhan once drank 108 beers during a single Spring retreat phase.

Yeah, but he's Bob Genghiskhan. How many warriors does he have at his disposal to help with such a feat? Still impressive though.

If you drank that much coca cola you'd be dead.

I went back and read the legend. The story is that the drinking started in the Yankee's locker room and continued throughout the teams x-country trip to LA. The total drinking time then is likely significantly longer. Not that it matters though, since Boggs has stated that the number reported is a gross overestimation.

if I remember correctly, airborne beer can's are only about 125ml in volume, hence you should divide the quantity 107 by 4 to get to one beer (.5l) then the feat is still impressive but also manageable for a man of his size.

The Iron Duke, (Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington)

The 107 was just his record in a day, not on that flight. Since he's American, it's likely those were 12oz containers. He drank Miller Light exclusively btw. What a puss.

if it is miller light, then divide by three to obtain the one beer equivalent. the result is an average 18th birthday celebrator.

I think Miller Light is what they hold out to marathon runners as they go by to help them re-hydrate during the race.

Miller Light? Is that as bad as Coors Light?

I was in a bar in Bristol in which a girl in a tight t-shirt holding a tray was handing out free half pint glasses of the stuff. She tried hard, but it was so damned awful she couldn't give it away. The girls selling luminous tubes of green goo for a quid were doing better!

I thought 'light' beer contained less calories, not less alcohol? n'est pas? (haven't been in the US since i was 16, and was not drinking any form of alcohol, so, i could be wrong)

@Octavious, bars in Bristol are great!

Same alcohol content in light v regular.

US domestic beer is about 3.2-3.5% alcohol.

Light beer is for people who puke on their first watered down vodka shot. Go dark or go home.

Pah, they change hands too quickly. None of the places I was banned from on the waterfront exist anymore. The awesome cider house by the Portland Square hookers has gone too. The Bohemia on Whiteladies Road was the best... I almost shed a tear when that one went :(

@ssoren: ofc, 107 beer sound much different to someone, who thinks of one beer as ca. .5l and 5.9 %, than to someone, who thinks of it as .25 and 3.3%. To answer Obi's little sister: assuming Boggs had 107 beer on flight (and that a can on the plane would be approximately 125ml of volume) and Miller Light (it has 3.2, does it?) then his alcohol intake during the 6 hour flight would be 428 ml, his total liquids intake 13.4l (approx), which is a lot but feasible, esp. for a somewhat trained drinker or tall man in a good mood in a competition.

Maybe people missed it the first time...10 GALLONS. For those that believe this garbage, please explain how someone can drink 10 GALLONS of alcohol in one day and not be dead long before that point.

Where do you get the 10 Gallons from ?!? A gallon is something between 3 and 4 l, is it? 10 gallons would equal smth. between 30-40l which would require beer having between 56 and 75% to reach your 10 gallons of alcohol.

For comparison's sake, lets look at Andre the Giant:

From his Wikipedia:

"Roussimoff has been unofficially crowned "The Greatest Drunk on Earth"[74] for once consuming 119 12-US-fluid-ounce (350 ml) beers (over 41 litres) in 6 hours.[75] On an episode of WWE's Legends of Wrestling, Mike Graham said André once drank 156, 16-US-fluid-ounce (470 ml) beers in one sitting, which was confirmed by Dusty Rhodes. In her autobiography, The Fabulous Moolah writes that André drank 127 beers in a Reading, Pennsylvania, hotel bar and later passed out in the lobby. The staff could not move him and had to leave him there until the giant awoke from his slumber."

Now, obviously Wade Boggs is no Andre the Giant, but given the prodigious levels of alcoholism that some people can reach, why is 10 gallons of beer so far fetched, particularly if it is of the light variety?

On a side note, Boggs ate pancakes before every baseball game.

Boggs weighed 200 lbs, Andre the giant weighed 530 lbs. Volume of distribution.

And that time he passed out in the lobby, was that during the filming of Princess Bride? Billy Crystal told a similar story about it in the anniversary special for the film.

If Andre drank 119 beers in 6 hours (supposedly, although frankly I believe this over Boggs) and weighed over twice as much, why couldn't Boggs drink that much in twice the time?

No one drank 100 plus beers in a day, not happening.

@2WL because OB can't drink more than the watered down shot of vodka bo spoke of. And for ss 1 beer is what would otherwise be max a half beer. That is why they can't follow it.

I dropped a beer can on the ground last night and the impact resealed it.

This was not strictly relevant to the conversation, but it was amazing and I needed to share.

I saw a salt stain in the road today in the shape of Scandinavia, or a penis depending on your point of view.

Not strictly relevant to the conversation, but it was amazing and I needed to share.

I suppose if we believe the first story, the second becomes believable. But 119 beers/6 hr = about 20 beers per hour. That's a beer every three minutes for 6 hours straight. It would have to have been all he was doing. No talking, no eating, no peeing (unless he drank while he peed). For Boggs, 107/12 = 9 beers/hr = 1 beer every 6.7 min for 12 hr straight.

In fact, I think the longer the length of time, the less I believe it because who can keep up a beer pace for that long?

I watched a guy drink a 30 in two hours last night. He left campus in an ambulance.

A woman came into the Emergency Room last night stating she was impregnated by an alien and needed OB care. They called me, but she declined my services as I was not an alien.

Not strictly relevant to the conversation, but it was amazing and I needed to share.

10 gallons of water is more than enough to kill someone, let alone non-American beverages which have other things in them your body DOESN'T need to keep around in limited amounts.

My friend was in the military and while forced marching, a guy passed out. The military assumed it was dehydration but it was over - hydration and they gave him an IV. Hours later he died from water on the brain from over consumption.

When you add the possibility of alcohol poisoning when you change from water to beer, this gets even more ludicrous.

You guys don't watch always sunny?