I'll start it off with two stories:

The first was sometime during or around my senior year. In fact it was the day before the finals of the last FIFA World Cup. I was at work and got a text from a buddy if mine saying beer pong at his place. I got off late so I figured I'd need to bring booze of my own. I filled a 6oz. flask with Everclear. For thise who have not been scarred by this drink, it is wood grain alcohol. I only got the 151 proof because that's all that's legal in California. Usually it's 190 proof. This stuff is brewed in Satan's asshole. You might be wondering why I thought I needed four shots of this stuff. In retrospect, so am I. I ended up drinking the whole damn thing as well as around four beers during beer pong. I got driven home by a friend... puked... woke up four hours later to go to work. Got to work. Puked in the parking lot. Dry heaved in the stock room. Had to spend my whole 8-hour shift putting out samples of smelly Asian snacks. Got home. Passed out. It was that terrible mix of hangover and still drunk. I literally did not feel entirely well until I woke up the next day.

Second story, the one that inspired this post. I'll just give you the morning and leave the night before to your imagination. I'm gonna tell this one didactitally as well, to give you the richness of the experience. You wake up unable to read your alarm clock across the room. You have a splitting headache. Your mouth feels like sandpaper. Your hands are shaking like you have Parkinson's Your stomach feels like it got into a fight with Mike Tyson. Your tongue hurts from the drunk girl that you made out with, who apparently thought biting your tongue was sexy, not vampiric. And, to cap it all off, drumroll please..... In your pants from last night are the condoms you didn't get to use because she was on her period.

Based on that experience I'm figthing off the strong conviction that God hates me.

@ Sacred - That's the spirit.

I've never had a hangover from alcohol, although I have had plenty of high sugar hangovers from too much sugary/junk foods the night before. But those just give you something akin to the worst migraine anyone has ever known until you sleep off the excess sugar for about 12 hours.

Somewhat of a tangent, LJ- when you refer to beer pong, what does that look like? Beer pong was very popular in my fraternity and the rest of the Greek system when I was in college. Visitors form other colleges all seemed to be familiar with our form of beer pong. I say "our form" because since then I've seen all of the media (Fallon, etc.) references to beer pong as, what I would call, a lame variation of what we played.

At my college, beer pong was 2v2 game where 2 cups were placed on each side- one in each corner about 4 inches from each edge. Ping Pong paddles were stripped of their padding and often decorated. The object was to win a 21 point match. In the process, ultimately, you tried to sink the ball in your opponents cup which would result in both players drink a cup of beer. Also, a running count of how many times the ball nicked a cup would be kept up and whoever lost the point (a ball could hit the cup, bounce and be returned- a "save") would have to drink that many sips. So, a skilled team would gradually get the other team trashed which would then help them towards victory. Also, balls needed to be lobbed back and forth- not returned like a regular ping pong match. Anyway, this was a blast- involved a lot of team work and a lot of skill (lots of hours of practice :)

Since then, I've see "beer pong" being played as two players taking turns lobbing a ball at an opponents cup- just doesn't seem to compare...

@ Barn3tt: The game where players lob the ball into opponent's cups is call Beirut.

Beer pong in Ontario: Teams of two on opposite ends of a table (ideally ping-pong length). Each team fills 6 cups with beer and arranges them in a pyramid on their end of the table. The goal is to throw the ball into each of the other team’s cups. If you sink it in a cup the other team must then drink that cup. You win when they have no more cups left to drink. The teams take turns where each member will throw one ping pong ball per turn.

There are a number of rules that make it more exciting.
- If you bounce your ball in it counts double. However, once the ball bounces the opposition can swat it away.
- If you and your teammate both sink your shots you get a free turn. If you both sink it in the same cup you win. Game over.
- If the ball hits a cup and comes back to you then you get a free shot. Only it has to be a trick shot (behind the back or something)
- Once you’ve got all the cups the other team gets to shoot until they miss to try and force a tie which results in a rematch.
Sorry to help Barn3tt hi-jack your thread. But I am also curious as to how beer pong is played in different places.

And to answer your hangover question, I have had a hangover where I puked two mornings after the night of drinking.

just did a quick search- seems that both versions (paddles or without paddles- there are a lot of variations in regards to minor rules and cup placement) are referred to beer pong- paddle-less beer pong is also known as Beirut.

@Tyler: God doesn't hate you. If God hated you, you would have scored, and also gotten an STD that you wouldn't discover until after you gave it to someone you like a whole lot more.

I don't claim to know exactly what God is doing, but most likely God is trying to tell you not to drink so much.

@ Barnett - We played Beirut, as trip described. We know your version but getting paddles are a pain and the games take too long. We play a version similar to Lando's but a little more involved. We play ten cups with three beers split between them. A bounce is two cups but they can be swatted after hitting the table. Geting the same cup is three cups. Rest of the rules are the same.

@ pastoralan - God probably doesn't hate me. However, the whole STD thing is avoided by condoms. Though not sure if your faith endorses them. And if God didn't want his followers drinking a lot he wouldn't have let St. Patrick convert the Irish.

But come on people. Back to the hangovers.

There is also beer baseball. Ten cups on each side in an inverted triangle, representing single, double, triple, homerun. Larger teams. Rules are like regular baseball more or less. if you miss a cup, it is one out. if you get on base, you move to midway down the table and you can try to steal by playing flip cup against the catcher. its hard to explain but its classic stuff.

Drank a liter of sljivovica (50% alcohol content), a bottle and a half of wine, and several beers (probably a half liter total) on a mostly empty stomach.

Ended up sleeping on my homestay's bathroom floor. Was sweating bullets and could barely get food down the entire day afterward.

half a liter of Rum (37.5%) is the most I ever drank. I don't believe Putin33, that more then enough to kill someone.

I have too many to list...however, has anyone experienced the DELAY hangover?

it's really strange. You wake up after getting shit faced the night before and you don't feel too bad. You take a shower and head to work. Just before lunch time it hits. Hangover hell.

Finally, if you ever want *the* cure for a hangover...it's not coffee, it's not sleep, it's not gatorade or water (though it helps to rehydrate you)...it's marijuana.

No joke. You will likely wanna puke just at the thought of it, but a couple hits...instant cure. You will feel like a million bucks.

Pretty sure it was a liter. It was an entire bottle. It was at least 750 ml since that's the standard size when you buy it here. But the bottles in Serbia were larger. It's possible it was 750 ml, though.

I'm not saying this to be macho. It was horrible.

I used to like whiskey. Once I woke up a lying in a lake of my own vomit (mix of whiskey and popcorns) from the very top of my bed to my knees. I threw up while sleeping. My class had organized a party and each person must have paid 50€ and then the drinks were free. So I drunk the more I could for my money not to be wasted. All my teachers saw me in the worst conditions ever. My friends finally managed to bring me back to my bed. One of the worst humiliation ever, but in fact I don't remember a lot of the party but the barman who was such an idiot serving me whiskeys after whiskeys...

Btw whine -> worst headache

Wait, in what type of school does this happen?

I don't drink. I never understood the motivation behind intentionally poisoning yourself.

I think I'm one of the only college students in the world that didn't celebrate his 21st birthday.

I think drinking a full bottle of 750 ml alcohol (37.5%) is doable for some people, if it was drunk over the course of a night (but not advisable). Skulling a 750 ml bottle on the other hand would be very dangerous.

@ : )

Neither did I. Mostly because I'm not a fan of excessive drinking, but losing my license also helped.

With that being said, I LOVE win and distilled wines. They are a pleasure to drink.

spelling: skulking = sculling

And by "distilled wines" I, of course, mean "fortified wines."

Haha, you weaklings. I've never had a hangover. :)

@ abgemacht : the kind of schools you can only find in France. Schools to prepare for schools. Some of us didn't have 18 xD.

I used to really like rye. I'd have it every so often and get a nice buzz out of it. But one day I was at a party and drank nothing but that and vodka. And as you know, the more alcohol you drink, the easier it gets to drink it later on in the night. So I had too much, thank god I had good friends there to help me out, woke up next morning and felt like shit so I did nothing for the rest of the day. And now I can't stand rye :P

The worst hangover of my life is the one I'm going to have tomorrow after I drown my sorrows tonight. Was in the middle of playing a rare live game full of talkative players and not a hint of a CD... I was the largest power with 10 SCs and the sort of position you dream about, and amazingly every other nation had just allied with me, with the exception of a 2 SC Italy, leaving me in a stabber's paradise...

Then bloody America Off Line decides to stop the internet for half an hour...

7 way feckin draw!!!!!!!!!!

@darwyn oh yes, delayed i've had many times. sometimes delayed until evening. by which time i've started drinking again. :(

when i was younger i didn't get hangovers. and i drank like a fish. but after seeing it ruin my life and kill a number of people around me via car accidents and liver failure, i take it easier now. mostly enjoy a nice whiskey or scotch, maybe some nice wine. but there are still times when i party (being a dj makes that inevitable) and so i get some terrible hangovers sometimes. i can think of plenty of ridiculous drunken stories (mostly told to me second hand) but not one hang over that really stands out.

that being said, i'm definitely laughing at yalls stories here.

@Barnett-- Paddle to 21 pong is something my college had, but it was the only one I had ever heard of -- Amherst by any chance? The only other northeast school with paddlepong (that I know) is Dartmouth.

And as for hangovers, my worst was seven years ago, the summer when I turned 21. I decided to drain a handle of soco with two friends and four limes. I was teaching tennis that summer, so had to stand out in the bright sun sweating soco and smelling it all day the next day. Went through 3 shirts after I bile-heaved (damn I hate the yellow stuff) on the first two.

Mr. :) I am glad I am not the only college student out there who doesn't drink. I just don't see the point.

We had gone to a Japanese resturant and a local politican was seated at the same table kept buying hot sake for everyone at the table. Lets just say a waterbed and a pissed wife pushing up and down on the mattress do not mix with a hangover.

I have had many bad hangovers, and they are getting worse as I get older.
My first was when I was fourteen. It was when I was at school and I was spending a "boarders weekend" at a friends high-rise apartment. We waited until his parents went to bed and then we hit the drinks cabinet. We started out pouring neat spirits of various kinds into a tall glass (one each - maybe two), with no mixer. We had no idea what we were doing. Then we sculled our "rocket fuel". If I were to attempt such a feat now I would probably immediately throw up, but back then it didn't even taste bad to me. Later we drank some warm lager (it should have been cold but we grabbed a couple of "tallies" from a cupboard). By this stage we were absolutely shit-faced. To finish up we drank port straight from the bottle - big swigs. I then ran straight to the balcony and commenced projectile vomiting.
I was very ill for the next two days, and then for a decade or so afterward the smell of an open wine bottle from a hundred yards made my stomach churn (especially red wine - this was because of the port). To this day I still don't like red wine.

@Putina I bought some Slivovitz! I am having it on the rocks. What can you mix it with?

Must post findings: goes extremely well with Port! The sweetness shines through.

I've never mixed it. Let me know what you find out.

By the way, has anyone ever had самогон (samogon)? They say it takes a long time to make, and no Russian restaurant ever has it. I've been meaning to try it.

Port goes well with so many things. Guiness and port used to be a favourite of mine when in the barbaric parts of England where they don't serve snakebite. Now snakebite makes for some beautiful hangovers :)

On the 21st birthday side-topic, I didn't get drunk to celebrate mine, either.

I had the flu. So I was puking for different reasons.

But in any case, I hadn't even been planning on going out drinking that night. I got my "drink to the point of excess" experiences out by the time I was 19.