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Re: Bender

Posted by Dhm on August 20, 2004

In Reply to: Re: Bender posted by Bruce Kahl on August 20, 2004

: : : : Why are drinking sprees called benders? Thanks!

: : : From the act of bending ones arm to down drinks?

: : From the perception that time bends and loses its linear nature after drinking for days at a time. It's life Jim, but not as we know it.

: Oxmyx: Nobody helps nobody but himself.
: Spock: Sir, you are employing a double negative.

Surely it is from the fact that I always emerge from a bender with the bends. "Pop me in the hyperbaric chamber, honey. I'll feel fine in no time."