apparently friday was the great guinness toast where people all over try to break the record of the number of people simultaneously drinking and toasting guinness drafts.

back in college i remember aimee & ang going to zeno's for the toast and coming back wasted. i, on the other hand, was a dedicated student who didn't have time to go gallavanting around town haphazardly spending my hard earned cash (donating plasma). plus, i was the last to turn 21 amongst the three of us. :)

i was jealous that they came back with a bunch of free stuff (who doesn't love free stuff?) like stickers and what not. so i was determined to get in on this guinness toast the next year. but i had soon forgot about it all these years until friday night.

so this past friday, when we got to irish times and saw a counter underneath the tv, we knew something was up.

about an hour until 11pm (when the toast is supposed to occur, apparently), a man in a cape started walking around the bar, drumming up business, making people chug pitchers of guinness and giving out those monstrous hats that resemble guinness pints. (incidentally, the man in the cape closely resembled mc king kong mushi from parappa.)

somehow jj was able to wrangle mc king kong mushi into giving us a t-shirt if we each did an irish car bomb. but after we finished, mushi only had ONE t-shirt to give. so while jj and leticia each scored one of the guinness hats, and cavin scored a wicked all-day hangover on saturday, i got the "i was counted in the great guinness toast" t-shirt, a white smithwick's t-shirt, and a bunch of dc 101 shit like beer cozies & lighters.

i think the best thing i got, though, was two free dvd's: national lampoon's tv the movie (which is advertised as 'a very special kind of stupid') and man about town starring ben affleck.

thank god i have monday off for prez day so i can put these oscar-contender films on repeat all day. (not.)

oh, and by the way. guinness + bailey's + irish whiskey (like jameson) = irish car bomb.

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