The 168
It all started in one usual May evening. My friends, Andy Ben Josh and myself were gathered around Ben's Quinpool Towers Apt drinking our fair share of brews and watching the always delightfully drunk movie of Escanaba in the Moonlight. After placing our beers upon the table that Ben so thoughtfull kept in the living room, we begain to wonder just how many beers it would take to fill up said coffee table. Some quick calculations lead us to believe that it would be one hundred and sixty eight beers before the table was filled.
And wouldn't that be grand? A large table that was filled to the brim with beer cans. What a nice dreams.
But why let it remain a dream?
We could do it.
Thus began the first attempt.
It happened at the same place where it began, Ben's appartment at Quinpool Towers. We figured that if seven people each drank 24 beers that would do it. A lot to ask, but not impossible. Yet we would be frustrated as only Ben, Andy, Josh and myself would truly join in, with some others only observing. Though we tried our best, the result would only be about eighty beers, less then half our total. Still we gave our best, I drank 27 myself with everybody else gving all they had. Both Ben and Andy threw up for our goal, with Andy throwing up as violently as any human I had ever seen.
Months past, and though we often discussed having another one nothing would come of it until once again Ben would deside to have another one.
Unlike the previous attempt, this one would end in complete success instead of abject failure. Ben led the pack drinking thity one beers and even talking the police out of giving him a noise ticket in that time. Yet this time there would be far too many contributors, with the goal being reached far too easily. Goals are best reached through a great deal of suffering, and this was far too absent in the second attempt, despite the success of it. Ben may have carried the team, but there was far too much coasting done by others.
So now, we have a third attempt. Can we drink 168 beers to fill Ben's coffee table? And if that's too easy, can we do something better? Brad suggested that we try to fill our counter top. And if the 168 turns out to be too easy, then we might try. It would be about 350 beers, over double the 168. Can we do it? Probably not, but it will never, EVER stop us fron trying.
For All Of Us
Curtis
And wouldn't that be grand? A large table that was filled to the brim with beer cans. What a nice dreams.
But why let it remain a dream?
We could do it.
Thus began the first attempt.
It happened at the same place where it began, Ben's appartment at Quinpool Towers. We figured that if seven people each drank 24 beers that would do it. A lot to ask, but not impossible. Yet we would be frustrated as only Ben, Andy, Josh and myself would truly join in, with some others only observing. Though we tried our best, the result would only be about eighty beers, less then half our total. Still we gave our best, I drank 27 myself with everybody else gving all they had. Both Ben and Andy threw up for our goal, with Andy throwing up as violently as any human I had ever seen.
Months past, and though we often discussed having another one nothing would come of it until once again Ben would deside to have another one.
Unlike the previous attempt, this one would end in complete success instead of abject failure. Ben led the pack drinking thity one beers and even talking the police out of giving him a noise ticket in that time. Yet this time there would be far too many contributors, with the goal being reached far too easily. Goals are best reached through a great deal of suffering, and this was far too absent in the second attempt, despite the success of it. Ben may have carried the team, but there was far too much coasting done by others.
So now, we have a third attempt. Can we drink 168 beers to fill Ben's coffee table? And if that's too easy, can we do something better? Brad suggested that we try to fill our counter top. And if the 168 turns out to be too easy, then we might try. It would be about 350 beers, over double the 168. Can we do it? Probably not, but it will never, EVER stop us fron trying.
For All Of Us
Curtis
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