Favorite Bar Story from MU

[tower912]

In light of Hegarty's eventual closing, which will all but finish the Wells St Bar scene many of us remember, I think a compilation of favorite bar stories is in order.
My junior year, we had a visiting prof for one of my poli-sci classes.  (side note, Tom Copa was in this class.   Nice guy)   On the last day of class, the prof says he would like to have a study session before the Monday final, but the campus buildings are locked over the weekend.    No problem, says the class, we will meet you at Hegarty's.   The prof expresses skepticism about having a study session in a bar.   We assure him that it is legit.   He shows up, 80% of the class shows up.   It turns out the prof has a weakness for Guinness.    We ply him with Guinness, and he gives the outlines he is looking for for each of the essay questions that might appear on the bluebook final.    I nurse a beer while taking copious notes, boil the outlines down to a few key words each, cruise through the final with an A.    Ahhh, Hegarty's.

[detroitwarrior]

Freshmen year at McCormick, my roomate's sister and her roomate both worked at the Mug Rack. Every Friday was a great afternoon at the Mug Rack drinking free beer and enjoying great sandwiches waiting for the free concert.

[jaybilaswho?]

My senior year finals (May, 2007), i was in the library way too much. Everything started to feel the same. So me and a friend in my class, who i was studying with, decided to get a change of scenary for our final hours of studing before the exam. So we went to Heg's to 'study'. Over those last four hours, we decided to enjoy a few libations, which led to a couple of shots. By the time we left for the exam, we both had a pretty good buzz going on.
Since i am one who does not like to stress his bladder, I had to go to the bathroom about every 20 minutes during this final. I got up to use the restroom so many times that the teacher had to ask, "Do you have notes hidden in the bathroom?" I told him "no sir. As a break from studying in the library, me and 'Joe' went to Heggarty's to study and maybe I had too many and broke the seal too soon." The teacher, an employee of Miller, had a bit of a laugh and said, "well, I hope you were drinking Miller at least." I said of course, finished my test, and promptly returned to Heggarty's to complete my drunkeness.

I got an A on the final.

[reinko]

In 2001, my 5 roommates and I and invented call, Roommate Challenge.

Roommate Challenge was a drinking competition, where the six of us teamed up into groups of 2.  Each team had to visit 5 campus bars, and at each bar had to consume a pitcher of Miller Lite and take 2 shots.  Each bar had a pre-determined shot.

Murphys: 151
Cafferys: Jaeger
Angelos: Irish Car Bomb
Hegs: Goldschlager
The Annex: Rumpleminze

We had judges at each bar to ensure every team went to every bar and drank the appropiate amount of alcohol.

The first team back won, and the team that came home dead last had to drink a beer from a keg that we had at out house for months.  Clearly there were no real winners and losers that night, but what a blast.

My roommate and I were "victorious" that night with a winning time of just under an hour.

[drewm88]

In 2001, my 5 roommates and I and invented call, Roommate Challenge.

Roommate Challenge was a drinking competition, where the six of us teamed up into groups of 2.  Each team had to visit 5 campus bars, and at each bar had to consume a pitcher of Miller Lite and take 2 shots.  Each bar had a pre-determined shot.

Murphys: 151
Cafferys: Jaeger
Angelos: Irish Car Bomb
Hegs: Goldschlager
The Annex: Rumpleminze

We had judges at each bar to ensure every team went to every bar and drank the appropiate amount of alcohol.

The first team back won, and the team that came home dead last had to drink a beer from a keg that we had at out house for months.  Clearly there were no real winners and losers that night, but what a blast.

My roommate and I were "victorious" that night with a winning time of just under an hour.

So 5 shots and half of 5 pitchers in an hour? Damn, I'm impressed.

[Hards Alumni]

I don't believe there was a time limit...

anyway... my story is of a wonderful tuesday night... after we had all graduated.

My 3 friends and I headed to an empty Murphs on a wonderful tuesday evening, and noticed there was no one there except us, and two girls who had occupied themselves with the mini basketball court they used to have in there.  After a couple of pitchers of Icehouse (it was all we drank, and I am pretty sure at the time, we were the only people who drank it period as they got rid of it after that keg.) we decided that we were going to play NTN (the little trivia game that is on the TV screens at the bar) for pitchers of Icehouse.  NTN games start every 15 minutes, and whoever had the lowest score had to buy the next icehouse pitcher.  Eventually we got our average up high enough to become the #1 bar in the nation (GO MURPHS!!!) for average score... and then the madness (icehouse) started to kick in, and by the time 2 rolled around the four of us were out of our mind drunk.  At the time we could all hold our own in the binge drinking, but the icehouse is an evil mistress, and if you abuse her, she will ruin your night.

At 2, we all stood up, and within about 2 minutes of each other we had all thrown up... 3 outside, and 1 in the bathroom.

[jaybilaswho?]

I think that there needs to be a date included with these stories.

Hards_Alumni's story needs a date to preface it. I want to know when it was when Murph's had a mini basketball court, NTN, and Icehouse.

[Hards Alumni]

I think that there needs to be a date included with these stories.

Hards_Alumni's story needs a date to preface it. I want to know when it was when Murph's had a mini basketball court, NTN, and Icehouse.

i should have called it a pop a shot... i think that is what it was called...

date = 2004-2005 ish.

[reinko]

NTN and Pop-A-Shot at Murphs...bring back great memories

thanks Hards Alumni!

[OneMadWarrior]

Don't forget one of US doing some long Range Pissing while talking to the others from the Bathroom.

[sigep80]

Flaming shots at the Avalanche to start the walk to the Mecca for basketball games - late 70's

1st weekend on campus, a bunch of freshman from 7th floor McCormick looking for 25 cent beers, we end up at some 2nd rate strip club on State Street, ( we also found the plasma donation center on that trip).  The beer was cheap...

[MUEng92]

When the first of our group turned 21 in late December, we all stuck around campus for a few days to celebrate.  Needless to say the bars were not very crowded.  If I remember right, one of the last bars we hit was the Lanche.  By that time the birthday boy was just short of slurring his words, but he was able to shout out over the bar noise, "(MUEng92), when you turn 21 we're going to get you sooo drunk!".

I am sure I looked like a deer in headlights and everyone else at the table just sat and stared at each other.  Twenty seconds later my buddy realized what he said.  We all get a good laugh about it now.  And yeah, he did pay me back 6 months later.

[Sir Lawrence]

Flaming shots at the Avalanche to start the walk to the Mecca for basketball games - late 70's

1st weekend on campus, a bunch of freshman from 7th floor McCormick looking for 25 cent beers, we end up at some 2nd rate strip club on State Street, ( we also found the plasma donation center on that trip).  The beer was cheap...

Ricky's on State.  "2nd rate" would be an upgrade.

http://wiki.muscoop.com/doku.php/bars/ricky_s_on_state