You know, sometimes I feel like, as a law student, I’m apart from the undergrad culture here at the university. I live in an apartment complex designed for college students (Jefferson Commons, they have locations across the midwest), yet I live alone and unconnected to my fellows.
So now I know what I’m missing. The guys in the building across from me who live on the uppermost story (3 above ground, one basement level) have constructed a three-story long beer bong. I just now had the privilege of observing one of them using the bong. To fill the tubing entirely with beer, it apparently took 6 beers.
They offered me a try at it. I declined, of course. I just can’t go in for those undergrad binge-drinking shenanigans anymore. After all, I’ll be way too busy the next few hours drinking myself stupid on bourbon before heading out to play fight songs at bars in return for kegs between episodes of stumbling down Cherry Street downtown. Hmmm…at least the 3-story beer bong is an inventive and daring show of drunken behaviour. My mockery has turned into admiration, it seems. I guess I’ll just give a hearty salute to my drunken rich West County St. Louis undergraduate school neighbors for drinking in style while I just drink. And I can think of one good way to salute them…down the hatch.
See, I 'm from the Sputnik generation. All we could manage was 3 beers in our bong-a-thons. It’s not like we were afeared our tubing would bust… it’s just that that’s how high the guy holding the funnel and tubing could reach.
A multi-story approach huh? Well, progress is measured in different ways.
You know what? I just realized I’ve been incorrect in my long-time assumption that a beer bong is a [marijuana] bong filled with beer. (Why anyone would ever do this, was always beyond me.)
Long story short, it’s usally a big funnel connected to about a 1 inch diameter hose. Fill with beer. 3-4 beers seems to be pretty common. Have your buddy hold the funnel combo as you recline back in a chair. Oh ya, make sure somehow the bottom of the hose is pinched shut. Stick hose in mouth, unpinch and thanks to Newton and gravity in about 2 seconds you have 4 beers in your stomach. Belch. Repeat.
Seriously, I wanna see photo’s of a three story beer bong. And the hose must have been tiny if it only held a sixer