Beer saves man's life

Good thing skiers know how to party :-)

[skibum]

Thanks to the aid of sixty half liter bottles of beer, man escapes avalanche [realbeer.com].

Just have to figure out how to carry that much when skiing out of bounds from now on. ;)

[geekay]

Still circulating? Unfortunately it's an Urban Legend:

[snopes.com...]

What a pity.

[edited by: pmac at 4:14 pm (utc) on Feb. 20, 2005]
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[Essex_boy]

Oddly enough this was debunked by this weeks private Eye magazine - having been printed as a front page story in teh Daily Telegraph recently.

The Telegraph is a serious newspaper and wouldnt print this unless it made a grave error.

[encyclo]

The Telegraph is a serious newspaper and wouldnt print this unless it made a grave error.

That's the funniest joke I've heard all week!

(Nothing against the Telegraph particularly, but just that fact-checking and newspaper journalism haven't rhymed for a very long time.)