by Pretorian » Fri 31 Oct 2008, 13:26:00
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Specop_007', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('pup55', 'S')orry to screw up this thread by thinking about it.... but 119 12-ounce beers equals about 11.2 gallons. But Andre weighed 500 lbs, which is the equivalent of 2.8 175 pound people.
So, for an average "person" it's only about four gallons of beer equivalent.
In a six hour period, that's only about 2/3 of a gallon per hour. Now to be sure, you would get wasted, but I think the equivalent feat is do-able. A standard bar pitcher is a half gallon, so a little more than a pitcher per hour for one guy (or lady, I suppose, if so inclined).
There are probably plenty of college kids in the nation who, at 175 lbs, could have approached this.
The problem is body weight is not a direct correlation to ability to "hold your beer" as it were.
Theres plenty of heavy guys who can drink very little just as theres plenty of skinny guys who seem to drink all night long.
it is a direct correlation to amount of blood one has. While tolerance to alcohol might differ from one to another, math is not debunked here