You Ain't Seen Nuthin' Yet

By Boston Dan
Blogger for www.drunkenbleachers.com

I am traveling to Ireland at the end of February with my rugby team to take on Limerick and Gary Owen. I have been really excited about this for quite some time, but one of the veterans on our team (a native of Ireland) just sent this email to me… which makes me VERY nervous. Please read it with a thick Irish Brogue:

“Whatever binges you have been on in your nascent lives--collegiate, Cape weekends, skiing, cruise ships, periods of beer consoled unemployment---believe me when I tell you you ain't seen nuthin' yet. You are going to a beautiful land where there is little of the pseudo-moral ambivalence about alcohol that we have here--In Ireland it is accepted, they function very well with it, and their beer is a lot better and stronger than yer Bud/Coors enhanced water that we drink here. Bottom line: you will be drinking with professional drinkers, and rugby professionals at that, all of whom are dedicated to showing you the time of your lives, bless 'em. No worries, no problems, except for one thing--after being there for a little while and partaking, sampling, imbibing and partying, it gets hard to play rugby, particularly after ten minutes or so when the dehydration and the 3am curryburgers with extra onions kick in...y'know, I was writing this with the intention of offering sage advice about all this but screw it-- I'm having some happy memories, like how the prop from Dolphin, with whom I had gone out the night before, and I threw up on each other during the first scrum… have a great time, boys--Up North Shore!”