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The best things about grain alcohol over other formulations of alcohol....

JUST DO NOT TRY AN UNDILUTED SHOT! EVER!

When I was a senior in High School, we had a party out at a friend's lake house in East Texas - pretty sure it was the start of our "Senior Skip Day Weekend".  I drive up and go straight to a bottle and proclaim "I need a drink and I am not waiting for a glass" (or something like that).  I proceed to slam a big swig of it from the bottle and close by friends were trying to tell me "No, Stop!".  It was as you might expect, Everclear Grain Alcohol 190 Proof.  I thought I was going to die right there.  Though it did get me started on a real good buzz (or drunk) ;-)

Side Note: I also fixed the jam box after the batteries died that night and no one thought to bring a cord.  I then proceeded to cut a gal's power cord off her hairdryer, stripped the end of wires bare with a butter knife, used some alligator clips & electrical tape I happened to have in my glovebox, a waded up stick of gum from another friend (the gum was to engage the "from battery to power cord switch") and we had jam'n music again.  From then on out I was called "Crazy Drunk'n MacGyver"!  I am pretty sure it was the "stick of gum" that sent everyone over the edge that night LOL!