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Published on July 16, 2004 By dharmagrl In Misc

It's Friday night and my husband and his friends are having a get together.

Are they going to the club to party, I hear you ask?  Partying all night, drinking themelves into a stupor?  Playing poker, perhaps?  Watching movies?

None of the above.  Thay're having a milk drinking challenge.

Some bright spark decided that they should (a la 'Jackass') see who can not only drink a gallon of milk in the shortest time but who can keep said milk down for the longest.  They're putting food coloring into the milk so that when the inevitable spewing occurs it'll make for a technicolor effect. 

A gallon might not seem like a lot, but bear in mind that it weighs 8 lbs.  That's a lot to be asking of the human stomach all at once.

Dave's not participatng, but he is spectating.  I questioned his ability to not puke himself - he's the worst sympathetic puker I've ever known.  When the kids were babies them spitting up even a small amount of formula would make him gag and hand the offending infant to me to clean it (and the spit-up) up.  He said he's going to stand well clear of the action, and have a trashcan handy just in case.

*sigh* and these are supposedly grown men.

Pictures will follow, I'm sure.


Comments
on Jul 16, 2004
Pictures will follow, I'm sure.


Please. No!
on Jul 16, 2004
lol . . .that sounds interesting

Ashlee
on Jul 16, 2004
Hmm.. why is it I'm interested in seeing purple milk puke....... *shudders*
on Jul 16, 2004
Better than eating pee-pee sno-cones...

-- B
on Jul 16, 2004
Pictures will follow, I'm sure.


Spare us that, please!!
on Jul 16, 2004
is this bovine milk or caribou milk?
on Jul 16, 2004

Better than eating pee-pee sno-cones...

Yes, it is. 

is this bovine milk or caribou milk?

As far as I know it's full fat cow's milk.

yuchh...i think id stay home

The thing is, there's not much else to do up there.  It's still snowing, it's daylight 24x7 and unless you stay drink (which Dave does, occasionally but he doesn't care for the club) there's really not much to do.  There is no 'off base'....so they come up with new and interesting ways to keep themselves occupied.  The last one was a kind of 'fight club' where they all greco-roman wrestled each other.  Dave showed me the rug burns and bruises he sustained from those get togethers...not pretty. 

I'll censor the pictures before I post them, trust me.

 

on Jul 16, 2004

Well, I'm back.  Without pictures, you'll be relieved to hear.

There were no winners, everybody puked.  Apparently it took right around 55 mins before someone upchecked, then it was a chain reaction.  Even some of the spectators joined in the vomit fest.  Dave said the dude next door to him puked in their communal bathroom and when he walked in there to take a leak the smell was so bad he had to walk out and pace around his room, willing himself not to throw up....then go pee in the dude across the hallway's potty.  I'm very proud of him; I was sure he'd be among the first to puke once one person started.

No word on what the next Thule challenge will be yet.  Hopefully it will be after Dave leaves.

 

on Jul 17, 2004
Men can be so intellegent, and complete idiots......
on Jul 18, 2004
I was fairly certain the challenge was usually "drink a gallon in an hour." I was also fairly certain that was the challenge for the reason that no one (a very small percentage of people, maybe) could do it within an hour and hold it in.

At least he had the brains not to try (although the flip-side would say he had no balls).
on Jul 18, 2004

At least he had the brains not to try (although the flip-side would say he had no balls).

I'm going with the brains part.

You're correct, it was the 'gallon in an hour and hold it' challenge.  Apparently this is quite a common fraternity and service-wide tradition.

He said that they sent everyone ouside to puke so that they wouldn't stink up the dayroom...and that the trashcans they yakked in got raided by 'archies' (Arctic Foxes) who had quite a feast on the third-hand milk.

Yuk.

on Jul 18, 2004
I wonder why they can keep that much beer down, yet puke the milk?


Because the beer is on an almost immediate route to our bladders.

-- B