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2003-11-19 -Short Attention Span Theater-

Russian dies after winning vodka-drinking contest

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Posted by Fred Pruitt 2003-11-19 14:39|| || Front Page|| [3 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 A true Phyrric victory.

Not a Darwin Award candidate because there's nothing particularly innovative about the method. I've been doing the same thing for a half-century - only the timeframe is different, the results are the same.

Posted by Mercutio 2003-11-19 3:01:27 PM|| 2003-11-19 3:01:27 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 Not a Darwin Award candidate

Now if his sweat had ignited.....

Posted by Shipman 2003-11-19 3:04:03 PM|| 2003-11-19 3:04:03 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 The last bottle must have been bad somehow...

Posted by True German Ally 2003-11-19 3:22:31 PM|| 2003-11-19 3:22:31 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 Note that this was a southern Russian town. In Siberia, it takes three liters a week just to keep the blood from freezing.

Posted by Old Patriot 2003-11-19 3:57:40 PM|| [http://users.codenet.net/mweather/default.htm] 2003-11-19 3:57:40 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 Maybe a free funeral should have been offered as the grand prize.

Posted by Bomb-a-rama 2003-11-19 4:02:09 PM|| 2003-11-19 4:02:09 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 a free funeral pyre - could heat the town for a couple weeks

Posted by Frank G 2003-11-19 6:25:04 PM|| 2003-11-19 6:25:04 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 Throw the other contestants on the pyre and you'll blow the town up.

Posted by Charles 2003-11-19 6:33:34 PM|| 2003-11-19 6:33:34 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 Aren't there warning lables on the bottles? Does his family have representation?

Posted by Super Hose 2003-11-19 6:34:41 PM|| 2003-11-19 6:34:41 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 Now I think I grasp why Russia is headed toward a long-term demographic catastrophe - natural selection is probably hard at work here.

Saluut!
LR

Posted by Lone Ranger 2003-11-19 8:16:27 PM|| 2003-11-19 8:16:27 PM|| Front Page Top

#10 I blame bad ice cubes...

Posted by tu3031 2003-11-19 10:47:39 PM|| 2003-11-19 10:47:39 PM|| Front Page Top

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