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 Cisco is no joke. I'm an urban professional with a college degree. In my college days, I remember trying this stuff. I guzzled down two bottles before I went into a nightclub with a friend. As soon as I got into the club, I felt like I had been sucker-punched hard in the stomach. I went to bathroom and threw up twice. I told my friend that I went to the club with that I want to sleep in his car. I slept in his car from about 11:30pm to 1:30am when the club closed. I faintly remember him helping me up the stairs to his apartment and waking up at 2pm the next day. I had nasty hangover. My head felt like Rosanne Barr and her fat ass sat on my head! I had a 20 miles drive home and it sucked. I pretty much gave up partying after that. I graduated from college that semester. To this day about 15 years later, I rarely have a drink and usually it's a glass of expensive wine in an upscale restaurant. For those of you who have never experience Cisco, do yourselves a favor and leave it alone. It will reduce you to a fetal position no matter how big you are.
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I always thought the MD in MD 20/20 stood for "Mad Dog".
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Ruthless Toothless Sarah |
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I have been a bum, and yes, all of these are bum wines. I stumbled upon this site and I now show it to all my bum and exbum friends.
You all need to try a "Snoopy Special". Berry Cisco and a 40 of King Cobra or OE. It is a devine beverage!!! Also, the "Bling Bling" MD20-20 is now favorite.
Drink On!
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07.25.2005 |
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Thunderbird and Vodka - now there is a mix... 
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13:24
07.25.2005 |
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Lynn |
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How come Boon's Farm did not make the cut or even a mention? Sad, very sad.
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05:44
07.25.2005 |
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Monica |
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That's the unfortunate thing about living in England, very few drunkard bums :( All our bums are super insane-o heroin addicts. Oh, how I long for the US of A...
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23:47
07.24.2005 |
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Chris |
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I had some Cisco lately and wow...just wow.
What pisses me off is I wanna try some Nighttrain and I have no clue if they sell it anywhere in Southern Ontario. I only got Cisco off a buddy of mine who is too drunk to even remember where he got Cisco from lol. Still, I need to experience the Nighttrain. 
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22:29
07.24.2005 |
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 I've tried most all of these vile concoctions and I believe the Night Train comes out on top. M/D 20/20 is too sweet, as is Irish Rose, and T-Bird conjures up a nasty foul taste if the beverage isn't consumed before it becomes semi-warm.
Night Train retains it's original taste all the way through, and packs a wallop! On some days I don't feel like going through numerous beers, so I hop on the Train to get me there sooner. It's ok, I wake up refreshed and ready for work the next morning without problem (make sure you have at least 7-8 hours of sleep available before trying this lol).
I'm a Homeowner and hold a 40k yearly job, but like (most) anyone reading this site, I'm an alcoholic. The wine beverages mentioned on this site get trashed in reviews, but I never see any bums drinking them in the large metropolitan Southern Cali city I live in (take your pick of L.A. or San Diego) Doesn't mean they don't drink them, but I also am an avid recycler and never find any cheap wine bottles, anywhere. They sure do drink a lot of King Cobra though lol...
Hey, give the cheap wines a break, they serve a purpose hehehe..
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17:56
07.24.2005 |
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alot ta talk about people drinkin these bum wines and the hijinxs they get into in a neat bum book called 'All The Loney People'1980.
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18:28
07.23.2005 |
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I went on a small bum wine tour over the past few weeks. I found that Night Train left me with a foggy morning and wet socks from stepping in the unine in the hallway. Thunderbird is nasty, but it did not make me feel as bad as NT. Wild Irish Rose actually tasted the best of the three I toured with.
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11:41
07.22.2005 |
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Such a beautiful composium of ultra fine beverages ! My personal fave is the Kiwi-Lime MD 20/20...here is a trick. Drink a quart of water the next day to re-constitite the buzz...works great...2 for the price of one!
The Korean equivelent ...Soju....low rent rice wine 40 proof El Diablo in a bottle. More than capable of taking a 50 yr old grey haired librarian and turning them into Raging Psychotic 
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19:58
07.20.2005 |
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Fine Old Brown Sherry here in South Africa is the drink of choice of the discerning bum, if you're satisfied with the 18% range. But for sheer pit-bull effect, Cane Spirit 44% can't be beaten. It's a lobotomy in a bottle, with the side attribute of increased religious fervour:
you pray with clenched shaking hands for a rapid death to ease the agony, and that's after a couple of shots the night before.
Drink the 75cl bottle, your prayers will probably be answered.
Then for the terminally suicidal there's Stroh Rum 80% from Austria.....simply vile.
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19:44
07.20.2005 |
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Anyone else have experience with Catawba? Down South, this is an important wine. In my memory it was worse tasting and more powerful than all the rest.
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16:32
07.20.2005 |
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What happened to Gallo White Port? A favorite of the rural bums in Northern Cali.
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14:32
07.20.2005 |
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The great Oz wine is Stones Green Ginger Wine at 18% it has wiped out more bikers than the queen has corgi's. The bottles are deemed the best for campfire bombs.
Penfolds Royal Reserve is another favourite The taste is best described as Metho mees Ribena.
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14:06
07.20.2005 |
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I used Wild Irish Rose to clean my bike chain once after finding a bottle in the trash. It was much better than most chain cleaners and left the chain free of dirt and grime. They may have missed out on whole new market....
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12:31
07.20.2005 |
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My own double-blind studies over the past 40 years are in agreement with your findings. Now, with a fatty liver and taste-resistant tastebuds, I find the stronger wines here more palatable.
Just wondering how you could overlook the more sophisticated wines -- such as Ripple and Red Mountain Pink Chablis. Many a wino cut their teeth (and often lips and gums too) on this liquid ambrosia, while smoking bag after bag of reefer, sitting around cross legged in a circle, listening to acid rock back in the 60's. I find that a strict diet of wine with a daily bag of fritos will really help you keep the weight off.
PS - if you smoke and chew heavily, you wont notice the T-bird lip and finger discoloration so much.
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10:57
07.20.2005 |
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Brilliant and helpful guide. Might do some independent research and report on my findings. Keep up the good work!
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09:42
07.19.2005 |
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last week on the morning commute to work (8:00ish), as i approached the subway station, I saw a bum reach into a trash can, remove a 40 with about 1/3 left in it, and chug the entire thing
breakfast of champions
love the site
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11:59
07.18.2005 |
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Anyone willing to buy, pack and ship a case of night train express to me here in norway? you will be greatly rewarded $$$! Contact me at geel@elitefitness.com.
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22:38
07.17.2005 |
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Troy |
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Me thinks you all be idiots Wild Irish Rose OWNS its cheap & quite tasty for 3.50 a Liter get ur facts straight
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16:02
07.17.2005 |
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I think one should be able to vote multiple times.
Baltimore City liquor stores (all of them) likely carry the wines you are unable to locate in the Md suburbs ("the county"???). Take the Light Rail to Cultural Center (while construction continues on the North Ave leg of the rail- otherwise you could just get off there and head west). Walk up MLK to North Avenue, take a left. Try New York Fried Chicken a few blocks down- you can get booze, porn and chicken there of varying levels of quality. Better stock/ambiance than the one on the block, but not as good as the one near Pimlico.
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12:18
07.15.2005 |
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A few years ago I went to a bachelor party in West Texas. We bought the poor sap a couple of bottles of grape MadDog 20/20. Before he could finish them he had strip down to his underwear and was simulating sex with a sheep. Lucky for him, he remembers none of it.
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09:24
07.15.2005 |
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I caught a flashback of my cisco days in the late 90s and did a search and came upon this site I can recall the days of 97 and 98 with 6 of my peoples in new york parks getting ripped from this shit. My peoples would always fight each other high off that shit. Girls especially CAN NOT HANDLE THIS. Many a time has my cock been sucked by some unsuspecting femme thanks to cisco! I retired from it in 1999 though.
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08:50
07.15.2005 |
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I was just telling some of my coworkers about the power of Cisco. I havent drank this wine since I was in the Navy back in the early 90's. At that time Cisco was popular among the brothas and I tried it just to see what it was all about. It tastes like coolaide when chilled and will drop you on your ass.
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08:26
07.15.2005 |
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Even these fruit flavored Kerosenes can't keep a good bum down: very apt descriptions of riding the ripple. This site reminds me of some famous panty removers from my lost youth: Great swills like Ripple, Bali Hai, and Boggie Down. I loved them all when I was too sick from Colt .45 to choke down anymore malt. What I can't understand is how The Rose is still available. That crap tastes like paint remover. I took one swig after achieving a nice beer buzz and heaved my guts. Even the lowest bum deserves better. Hell, at my favorite store, Total Wines (aka total wino) you can get a drinkable red wine for under $5. So bums of the world I say "lift yourselfs up and find self respect". Drink cheap wines that actually came from some sort of grape!
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Friday
11:31
07.08.2005 |
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The guy down below is right about mixing MD and Wild I. Split a 50oz jug of WIR with my best friend at his old apartment, and decided to toss some MD on top. I think the biggest problem was that I put a couple ozs of whiskey and vodka on top of it. Needless to say, I was blacked out most of the day. The resulting hangover was worse than a tequila hangover...
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23:43
07.07.2005 |
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Jeffro Bodine |
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Ive had them all, and Im thinking about getting some WIR tonight. Its been a long time.
Heres an interesting knick knack, if you drink a bottle of Thunderbird on an empty stomach, and puke on some stairs, the resulting hazard is 200% more slippery than ice, and watching people smell their hand, and investigate what they had slipped in is 400% funnier than all Robin Williams movies combined.
Oh yea, and watching the puker wake up with pissy pants, and stumble home is also classic.
Thank You
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10:07
06.16.2005 |
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In the mid-1980s, I was doing some pioneering video work in the adult entertainment business. On one production, "Theme Park Vixens Meet the Churro Queens," my cast, largely unemployed phone workers from a fortunately failed financial collections agency (talk about revenge, hunh?) were having trouble finding their motivations, among other things. A couple of cases of Cisco and "Mad Dog" had things moving along nicely, although focus was something of an issue for both the cast and the cinematographer.
Bottoms up!
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Thursday
05:05
04.21.2005 |
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What's the word?
Thunderbird.
How's it sold?
Nice and cold.
What's the jive?
Bird's alive.
What's the reason?
Liver treason.
How's it taste?
You need a chase.
How's it laced?
With glass and mace.
What's the price?
Sacrifice.
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07:22
04.19.2005 |
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I just clicked this page on collegehumor.com, and immediately recognized it...last year (Feb. '04) we were inspired by this page to have our own cheap wine night. Everybody involved exceeded the 750mL limit, and by the end of the night I was too intoxicated to take anymore pictures. I think I fell about 7 times walking up the hill. I put them on a website (see URL).
Since it's a cheap ass Geocities website, it will probably give you a bandwidth exceeded limit, but I can assure you from experience that the effects listed on this page are very accurate.
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05:43
04.10.2005 |
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I worked at a liquor store in downtown rochester NY in the 70's. This place tolerated the bum's and we were THE source for these type of wines. Sometimes I opened on saturdays and there would be a line of maybe 10 to 20 guys. All with the shakes. Nasty. Well the favorite at the time was wild irish rose. All of bum's only bought pints. MAybe two at a time sometimes.
They asked for their wild irish rose like this. "gimme a pint of rosie with a skirt".
a skirt was a paper bag, which we had tons of just the right size for a pint. WE kept a small cooler right behind the cash register so it was real fast to serve them. Some didnt want it cold either. man i got more stories i would rather forget.
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08:10
03.07.2005 |
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One time in high school after already consuming a twelve pack I decided to move on to Cisco. After slamming the bottle I started to lose all control, or at least that's what I was told the next day. The best part was the next morning when I woke up with the worst hangover of my life. My mom came in the room and told me to get my ass up and meet the tow truck driver down the street. I had missed our driveway and driven into the pond next door and didn't even remember it.
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00:45
02.04.2005 |
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I must say that your website has furnished me with hours of entertainment. After discovering your website, I and my illustrious cousin Arden DeLoach--from Valdosta, GA--decided to experiment with each of the five great bum wines whenever we would visit each other. The first and most memorable experience was during the winter of 2003. While playing billiards in Arden's unheated garage, we began consuming Cisco. While his wife and a mutual friend were wearing multiple layers of winter clothes, we were stripped down to khaki shorts, with no shirts. I am still amazed at Cisco's "liquid insulation" effect. Now I know why bums can sleep on a park bench in winter.
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19:24
01.15.2005 |
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Holy shit drank a bottle of Thunderbird last night and ended up head butting my buddies girlfriend in the face. That shit makes you crazy. I was watching a guy drink it today, he wouldnt stop howling and shooting his pistol at the ceiling. In retrospect, I'm not sure if was getting drunk off the stuff, or just getting severe brain damage. Sort of like huffing spray paint.
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03:53
01.03.2005 |
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Dr. Bob Zotti |
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As a ER physician and former paramedic I found your web site very educational and informative. I often encounter the results of these "fine beverages" on a regular basis and always wanted to know how they compare. My hat's off to the culinary expertise of this web site!
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10:39
12.29.2004 |
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I heard about this site on a local morning radio show, and they read off the comparisons, so I had to check the actual site out. This is ingenius. You guys should compare beers/crappy beers, too.
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07:50
12.14.2004 |
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Cisco is great, because it's about as toxic and mind altering as if you broke open and chugged a lava lamp then smoked some PCP. There's no other booze that will make you run naked 2 miles down to Taco Bell on a -30 degree night. And for all you pussies, BOONES ISN'T A BUM WINE!
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15:53
12.06.2004 |
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Im from New Zealand and we have a few Bum wines of our own.
One is Just a 3/4 gallon bladder of wine with no label for 9 NZ $ ( 4 $ US )...Another is Mississippi Blue - made in NZ and has a picture of a river boat on it. There are NO river boats in NZ.
When I was a young man ? Far away from parents, teachers, well-meaning friends with good advice or any other civilizing influences, I had gone wild, living with a friend in a burnt out caravan in the back of the orchid where we worked picking apples? when we could be bothered? which wasn?t often.
Life was a haze of dope smoke and huge mouthfuls of ?Mississippi blue? a general purpose alcoholic beverage which was a thick and syrupy dark yellow mixture that tasted like it was from a cough medicine bottle that someone had filled with metholated spirits and put high on a shelf in a shed somewhere hoping that the kids wouldn?t touch it. At 40 %, and 10 dollars a liter ( US 5$ ) it was only the numbers that mattered to us ? and then after we had drained the filthy brew, (often wincing and letting out a rebel yell followed by the words ?Nature, she?s a savage beast!?) nothing mattered.
I later became homeless and was living under a bridge- I once found a wallet with 50 $ in it and I bought a nine-dollar, nine percent alcohol, three-litre bag of wine (no box needed, just the bag please). Stopping outside K.F.C to wee 700 mls of it into my mouth, with the vile biter fluid burning in my guts I strode into K.F.C like a king and ordered the $7.95 super special, got bucks, big man now, goin all the way,
Meal deal.
The rest of the night gets a bit hazy but I do remember wandering about Napier with the diminishing bag clutched in dirty fist and kneeling on the grass in the park purging my body of all poisons and raising my fist in a devils salute to passing cheering teenagers and saying ? Its OK, I?m a professional.?
Awaking to the sound of children playing I scurried away from the reeking piles of greasy vomit that surrounded me and cured myself of my blindness and pain by stripping off to the waist and immersing my upper body for extended periods of time in the freezing duck pond.
Im taking the Bum wines back To NZ when I go.
Thankyou.
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15:41
12.03.2004 |
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Back again with some disturbing news, fellow gutter-wine lovers. I regret to inform everyone within the Baltimore suburbs that the 18% abv Red Grape Wine MD 20/20 is becomingly increasingly difficult to procure. That's right, they weenie-fied it to 13%. I had originally noticed this with the Orange Jubilee flavor, which I've noted earlier, but they've defiled my beloved Red Grape as well. If I wanted weak-ass 13% I'd drink Banana Red or Lemon Ice, why oh why change a good thing? I'm so upset I can barely stand (or maybe that's the hooch). I mean, what's next? Increase the price? Hell, $3.35 with tax is too much already. This stuff probably costs a whopping $0.25 per half-gallon to make in the first place. I'm pretty sure I could whip some up in my bathtub if I wanted. Anyways, I am now wondering if the 18% is still available in Maryland at all, maybe in the city? Lemme know, if you know.
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09:52
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My friends and I where sitting enjoying a lovely thanksgiving dinner , when my friend Liz?s mother asked us to go get a bottle of wine and something for our selves. As we walked through the liquor store what did we see, I ask you? But a bottle of the famed Cisco from your site. The three of us looked at each other and grabbed a bottle.
We poured it into our glasses there where four of us willing to try it, and the bottle said for servings, Liz was unable to finish hers she became the designated driver, Cathy refused to drink hers after smelling it, so Gesseal and I drank our portions, coughing and gagging after each sip, this stuff was foul. A while later, I was stating that my teeth hurt and felt furry and that my face was on fire, all this while laughing, Gesseal was trying to do head stands, then demanded that I give her an airplane ride, so I tried and fell on my ass. With the statement as I took another sip of Cisco ?It tastes like liquid ass fire.? We ended up washing it down with Boons Farm to make the burning stop. After a short time we had to give up on the game of Monopaly we where trying to play because Gesseal and I could not concentrate and where crawling around on the floor laughing.
The three of us being seasoned drinkers have never been this wasted in our 23 years on this planet, this Cisco drink will mess you up. The way we where messed up was beyond alcohol there must be something more in this syrupy concoction. Be warned this drink smells foul and will turn you teeth pink.
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03:34
11.24.2004 |
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Ah, Thunderbird. In the mid 90's, a buddy of mine and I were in college and looking for anything to do to neglect our studies, so what better thing to do than buy a bunch of cheap wine and venture out to the circus. We each bought 2 bottles of T-Bird. The plan was to drink one bottle and smuggle in the other. We began drinking the first, when we quickly discovered its amazingly offensive taste. We happened to have a bunch of packets of cool aid and immediately dumped 2 in each bottle. This helped the taste immensely. We got the first bottle down and proceeded to ride our bikes to the circus. That in and of itself was dangerously interesting. We managed to get into the circus with our bottles and continued drinking our concoction. I blacked out after a while, but I do remember cursing loudly A LOT and spilling quite a bit of it on a few young kids - sometimes on purpose. We eventually got kicked out and managed to get home. The next day, coupled with the atrocious hangover, I had a lot of scrapes and bruises that I could not account for. We probably got our asses kicked by a clown or something very cool like that. I just wish I could remember.
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02:57
11.11.2004 |
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I was bitten by the Mad Dog over a year ago. It was a cool fall day in late september. I was sitting on my porch watching some football, it was a very relaxing laid back afternoon. Little did I know what the rest of the day had in store for me as old college buddy pulled into the drive. As he pulled in, he ran over my basketball and parked half way in my yard. He fell out of the door with a somewhat glazed, yet confused look on his face. He proceeded to his trunk, unlcocked it, grabbed to very distinct looking bottles of wine. It was the night train X 2. He mumbled a few incoherent utterances and basically through a bottle of the train in my face. I of course opened it, while laughing, and asking if he was serious. I beleive his quote was, "you have'nt got the balls". I immediatley took this as a challenge, and proceeded to chug about half the bottle in one go. A strange feeling of warmth and laughter came over me, as college buddy nodded in agreement. It was unspoken what we felt from the train. After drinking the entire bottle and half of the other, we began swinging golf clubs in the front yard, we then began hitting golf balls at moving targets and residential dwellings. We then began to run up and down the street smashing out windows in harmless vehicles, oh the horror and rage! We made it back to my house, where I began violentley vommiting, and loosing all control of bodily functions! I woke up on my porch the next morning, only to find college buddy was M.I.A. with his car half way in my yard and the car stereo blaring. As I gathered my senses I noticed a car wheeling around the curb, heading in my direction. The car comes to a screeching halt as one of my neighbors jumps out of the car, shouting, "Does this peice of shit belong to you?" She opens the back door, and there is college buddy, shirtless, battered, and maybe some type of depication smeard on him. She had found him passed out in her car that morning, and she informed me that he had pissed and thrown up all over the interior! The cops came a few hours later, asking about vandalism to vehicles in the neighborhood? Luckily my car was not vandized!
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I had a friend who actually used to mix Everclear with Cisco for the extra power! He'd drink down to about 1/4 inch from the label and then top it off with 'clear (or vodka.) He was a big man and would always have sweat stains on his shirt by his gut. He'd drink two of these at a sitting. I knew another guy who'd mix Cisco with ice in a big 40oz Bill Miller BBQ plastic, insulated cup. He'd drink it in class.
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I, myself, have not partaken of the Wild Irish in many lonesome months. Yet there is still a hankering, for a tainted sip when I wake up in the bushes next to the church on 20th Street, that I miss so very much. priceless*T
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this site is awesome. very very funny and informative. I've only tried one of these noxious brews: cisco. me and my old college roomate split four one night. I woke up in jail. i don't know what happened in between except for a hazy memory of my roomate drop-kicking an off-duty sheriff's reserve and getting a gun pulled on me.
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Ahh, what a great site. This distinctly reminds me of a 'jungle juice' party my friend threw in high school. Every one who attended the party was required to bring 1/5 or greater of alcohol, which was collected at the door. Cisco and MD were favorites among our age group, due to the 'creativity' and fruity 'flavors' available. So it was no big surprise that 90% of those who attended brought 1/5 of Cisco or MD. The other 10% brought various other liquors, and even a couple brought 151 proof, which not not help matters. My friend, as host of the party, did not contribute any liquor but did purchase various citrus fruits which he sliced and added to the concoction. Needless to say, the jungle juice did change as it what consumed and more was added by new arrivals, but it didn't change by much. As I recall, there were very few survivors. The party started around 8pm, and by about 11pm the house was full of passed out 17 year olds. The last thing I remember was around 11 and the tv spinning before me while everyone else lie motionless. Lo and behold, I awake around 1am and am scrambling to get up. I am in a basement full of people passed out everywhere and I am covering my mouth and running up the stairs to the back door as fast as possible. I made it, but not by much. As I opened the screen door and charged outside, a majestic deep purple fountain emerged from me which quickly created a puddle on the back porch over 3 feet in diameter. I continued for about 15 minutes, face down, and once the dry heaves subsided I finally looked up. All that time I failed to notice the backyard was littered with casualties. It was like a scene from a vietnam war movie, people everywhere clutching their stomachs and moaning in pain, on the brink of death. I located one of my best friends who I was now feeling good enough to laugh at, and he had removed his socks and shoes and laid on his side puking in his own pile of puke. In the meantime matters became much worse in the house. I started to go inside to look for more of the dog that bit me, when I looked down the basement stairs and saw the first of those who didn't make it outside. A poor sole was collapsed on the stairs, puking on the stairs in front of them, and the vomit would then slowly cascade back down the wooden steps in a waterfall effect that left him completely drenched. After things calmed down I cautiously forged my way around this mess, only to find another. I rounded the end of the staircase only to witness 4 more casualties, all puking in the laundry tub simultaneously. This in turn made me need to puke again and I was forced to join them momentarily. My next discovery was even more disturbing. As I made way from the basement back into the backyard to check on fallen comrades, I discovered the family dog licking up peoples piles of jungle juice vomit. Poor fella. It was just a matter of minutes and he was the sickest one of the bunch.
Known ingredients in the jungle juice: Cisco, MD, and a small proportion of Wild Irise Rose. I have never seen Night Train nor Thunderbird in any of the worst ghetto party stores in Detroit. I am 26 now, and I have had plenty of near death experiences, so I am not seeking to find Thunderbird anytime soon. However, Night Train does have a certain appeal...
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The year was 2001. I was already a member of my fraternity. We lived for the thrill , but things were getting old. We decided to become conductors on the Night Train.
Half a bottle later 5 of us were running around the house. Choo-chooing. Some of our mouths were blue. Not that we really noticed in our blind ass haze. Around 3:30am we started dropping like so much elephant shit.
The point here is that this site is as accurate as anyone could hope for. The truth is terrifying, but real. Had this site been around or myself been aware of it I might have been saved.
Boys listen. You'll go insane, don't mess with the train.
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Here's an interesting story about Thunderbird.
My dad told me this story about his old Army days in the 1950s. One day, after inspection, he and a couple of his buddies decided to celebrate/wind down by having a bottle of thunderbird that my dad had sitting in his car for a couple weeks. This was a quality vintage, so they went off base and bought five more bottles and shared 'em there in the parking lot 'til they were good and toasted.
My father, realizing he was too drunk to drive, gave his keys to his (far more inebriated) friend who backed his car over a post. Trying to free the vehicle, he ripped off the back bumper. My dad and his friends tore the remaining bits off the car and threw the bumper in the trunk and drove back to the base.
My dad woke up the next morning in the latrine, soiled and shamed. He cleaned himself up and walked out to his car which had been baking all morning in the summer sun. Opening the door and receiving the smell, he made himself sick again.
Without any other solution, he went to the PX and bought a box of Tide laundry detergent. He pulled off the top and threw the whole thing in the car, and then rinsed it out with a garden hose.
To this day, my dad's old story has prevented me from sampling the Thunderbird. It is truly a wineof desperation.
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One time I poured some Cisco Red into an empty Starbucks cup and took it to work. People somehow failed to notice the smell, they just assumed I was drinking coffee because that's what I usually have at my desk. Needless to say, I got so f---ed up that I had to leave the office at lunchtime and take a nap in my car. When I woke up I started puking on my steering wheel, but fortunately I caught most of the puke in the empty Starbucks cup. I only got a little puke on the brand new pants I bought at Nordstrom's, which was okay because they needed to go to the dry cleaners anyway. I always laughed when my ex-husband told me I was an alcoholic because of all the empty wine bottles in our recycling bin. But that's not what makes me an alcoholic, it's puking on an absolutely darling pair of $75 pants. I will never drink Cisco again. I'm sticking to margaritas, chips and salsa.
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I love this site! Although I really only have one bottle of Night Train to my credit, this site brings back memories of my wasted youth and the wonderful aroma of chunky Colt 45 or Hamms on my shoes. Because of you site I am now confident that I can become a wine bum if I put my mind to it.
-Wen
p.s. did you know that it is possible to talk and puke at the same time?
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The Night Train Express has been a staple in my adolescent lifestyle. (I've drank 2 bottles, excuse my spelling) Other than tonight, to which I woke up naked in someone's pool, the last time my friends and I drank the train, I woke up on the street with my knuckles entirely bloody, and my head throbing. My friend woke up with glass in his forhead from shoving his face thru his apartment window. Regardless, the night train remains my group of friends favorite drink. So much so that we drive to west verginia to buy it by the case every weekend. HERES TO E&J for producing daemon piss in consumable form! all hail the mutha fuk'n TRAIN
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i once up and downed 2 bottles of mad dog on a 5 minute walk to a party then passed out in the tub only to wake up to a huge guy kicking the snot out of me. i had a concussion and found myself waking up on the shoulder of a 4 lane highway. then went to see my parents for parents day where i spent the entire next day in the hospital. i will try cisco next!
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I chugged a 750ML bottle of Cisco Red about 12 years ago. I fell down my basement stairs and got my legs tangled in the banister rails on the way down and it took me quite a while to get back up. I'm no lightweight when it comes to booze. I also believe that there is something "more" than just standard alcohol in Cisco; maybe a derivative. This shit is dangerous.
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Your website freakin rules! As a recent college grad, I've been on a few MD and Cisco-induced war-hell rides. I must tell you about a challenge called the "Three Dog Night." It's where you try to down 3 full-sized Mad Dogs in one night without vomitting. I heard about it through my brother who went to Lehigh- he had tales of pink vomit and someone who tried (unsuccessfully) to down it all in 6 funnellings. We tried it at UConn on a snowy December night- the result was our 300 lb. friend barfing all over my bathroom and garbage can and nobody drank even 2 without pulling the trigger. As far as I know, nobody's ever completed a Three Dog Night- I suppose with proper planning and pacing it's possible, but there might be some chemical mix that prevents you from making it through #3- which is probably a good thing. If you want, you can add that to your MD 20/20 page. Anywho, keep on rocking.
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Wild Irish Rose and Sprite with crushed ice is a smooth beverage. Thanks for the drinking tips.
windysan, editor
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Myself and a bunch of my friends at Tulane University have taken to a weekly ritual called Hobo Wine Night. Last time we did it, we bought 50 bucks worth of hobo wine. Possibly the worst hangover i have ever had resulted in myself chugging two bottles of MD 20/20. Also, in the words of my friend Derek, Thunderbird "tastes like pain"
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02:50
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Love the site!! Whilst being a poor student, Thunderbird was a key part of getting pissed beyond belief. We used to neck a bottle of it each, then go out to the pub for quite a few pints - ended up once jumping around a house party naked, but not remembering a single thing. Great booze, but definately for a time and place.
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Hilarious stuff. I'd tell you aboot my experiences, but I can't remember them.
Anyways this is too funny, at Cisco's web site you can check to see what awards each variety has won. EVERY SINGLE ONE SAYS: "Sorry, no awards exist for this product at this time." They also call it a desert wine! LOL!
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The craziest thing about Cisco is that if you water it down the color does not dillute at all. Even when mixed 3 parts water to one part cisco. There has to be something extra in T Bird. I am thinking PCP.
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Rather than heed the advice found on this site, three colleagues and I sought to recreate the challenge sans the dawg. We procurred bottles of the Wild I, T-Bird, Night Train, and Cisco along with 2 cases of PBR for good measure and palate cleansing. Total cost $25.05.
In a measure of further foolishness, we added a time challenge where the first person finished was the "winner."
In some rare cases, the winner is actually the loser. Our Wild I challenger finished his bottle of grape/sand flavored libations in record time. He was shortly thereafter found sending obscene messages via email to the cwine (makers of Wild i) website. Eventually he was the first to pass out and claim his prize (a pair of cheezeit sunglasses). Later he served as a chips-n-salsa bar.
The T-bird contestant became wildly out of control, suffering from delusions that he had become a giant pair of breasts. He proceed to slap everyone in sight until passing out. He now eats but can not get full, believing the bird ate a whole in his stomach.
The night train contestant also suffered from a mild case of paranoia and delusions. He was convinced we had robbed him of his poker earnings when in fact he was merely sitting on them.
I had the distinct pleasure of tussling with liquid crack AKA cisco. The makers of this product may be evil, but at least they are honest. I can personally concur, that it is most definitely "NOT A WINE COOLER." I finished last and suffered the punishment of shotgunning a PBR. As far as punishments go, that is the equivalent of giving someone a "time-out" after being beat with a sock full of quarters for 2 and a half hours.
I'd like to say that we all learn from our mistakes, but am inclined to believe that as soon as my friend regrows his stomach, we will be back for the 2nd annual BWC.
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Ah the memories!, 20/20 is about the limit of my exploration into the world of street wines, mainly because it was the easiest thing to steal from 7-11 back in the day. I can still remember the foul flavor, the tingling, all the comments from my friends about how red my face had become, the vomiting, and of course the vice clamping down on the skull like hangover the next day. Kudos to you and your research staff! this is one of the best pieces of investigative reporting I have ever had the pleasure of reading and it is a wonderful hommage to the great vintners of our time. Bravo Gents!
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I have a rare aged bottle of Thunderbird from 1987. Yes! Absolutely true. My friends gave it to me and my ex for a wedding gift. They gave us a collection of nice liquors and included a note on the Thunderbird that is was for the discriminating pallet. We wrapped it up and gave it back to them the first chance we got. They wrapped it in some towels and gave it to us for Christmas. Then things got nasty. They would pat us down before we could go in their house, to make sure we were not bringing it back. The next invite to their house, I left it outside their front door and brought it in the house when no one was looking. Each time someone received it they had to initial it and include the date.
Then my marriage went bad and the Thunderbird got packed away during one move or another. Then their marriage went bad; To afford a down payment for a house, she was answering ?chat? lines (you know the kind, no sex, just friends, Uh-huh) while looking for a job as a new MBA. She fell in love with a male friend who could not return her love, and then became a born again Christian, due to the chat lines (not a nice tour of the human mind) or the unrequited love, I don?t know. The born again Christina thing sort of cast a pall on our friendship and I lost track of her and her ex years ago. But I recently discovered the Thunderbird in a box. I considered leaving it in the appropriate part of town (like were I used to have an apartment), but I am afraid it might kill someone.
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03:41
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Try these street cocktails:
THE STREETINI
Chilled Martini Glass
1 oz. Thunderbird
3 oz. Cossack Vodka
Shake with Ice
Strain Into Glass
Garnish with Banana Peel
Strain Into Glass
Garnish with Apple Core
THE BOWERY MANHATTAN
Chilled Martini Glass
1 oz. Night Train Express
3 oz. Old Thompson Bourbon
Dash of Bitters (Generic Preferred)
Shake with Ice THE STREETNI
PERFECT BOWERY MANHATTAN
Chilled Martini Glass
1/2 oz. Night Train Express
1/2 oz. Thunderbird
3 oz. Old Thompson Bourbon
Dash of Bitters (Generic Preferred)
Shake with Ice
Strain Into Glass
Garnish with Peach Pit
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Yes it's true am I a bum wine addict. I I am the definition of a bum wine abuser, loser with no life and a sorrowful meaningless pit.
I love the taste of cocained mixed wine.
I love my boose with a heavy twist, I love the burn the it gives. I am a full-frontal exposure of what meaningless drug addict defines. I am uneducated un-selfcontroled and definetly not a possitive role model for anyone. I love cisco wine cause it is my weekend destruction medicine. I have got fined many times on the street for getting caught with my pants down with a bottle of cisco wine or night train in my hand, I gave a cop the finger one night and he gave me a bat across the back. I love little debbie cakes as well. Smell my testicals and keep drinkin' bad wine.
Jeff Stacker is the one and only fat nasty fat nasty bum wine abusin, waste product. the disease of clean air is affected by my horroble breathe, and funk of bad body stinks and smells. Thissss! Lol "cisco wine rocks...." 2/6/2004
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Truly heinous! Bodaciously backsliding!
When I was a youngster, I saw an eye-catching display on the Night Train shelf at the liquor store in Cut and Shoot, Texas, with a clever banner reading, "It don't whistle, but it's a hell of a ride!" Even though I was faking my way as one old enough to buy alcohol, I had a little more self-respect. Now that I'm living in my van again, I'm wondering why I ever thought myself so superior to the street-wine sort...will you ship me a bottle on credit?
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This is the funniest site I've seen in my life. Bravo! Boston, my hometown, is one of the wino capitals of the US due to the massive number of naive college students who gladly hand out spare change and even bills to these "gentlemen of leisure". Broken bottles representing all five of these brands, as well as Boone's Farm and Manischewitz, adorn our streets and parking lots to the point where a local band once wrote a song about the phenom called "Land of The Glass Pinecones". Most of the liquor stores in nearby Cambridge (Berkeley Ca to Boston's Frisco, if you will. Home of Harvard)have stopped selling street wine altogether due to pressure from their neighbors!
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i saw your website on tech tvs unscrewed i loved it but i want to know if there are more bum wines and if the are sites about the hardest drink there is to make i am not an alcoholic but i like to look at the differnt stuff about like whiskey,gin,vodka,wines,beer s,sherry's,any and every kind of alcoholic drink there is?
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Well I'v managed to finally find every wine mentioned on your website and tried them all, It took me a while to find Nighttrain but I managed to locate it today in some ghetto gas station in the city up from mine, as far as I'm concerned the most potent shit is Cisco, With one glass I was on my ass and soaring through the air in a drunken fuckin stupor, takes you by surpise is indeed correct.
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Great Site! As a Neurology resident at old St. Louis City Hospital I used to deal with the aftermath of these various vintages. Of all of them, and they were legion, the most memorable was the young man brought in by the squad naked except for pantyhose with a message scrawled on his ass in indelible marker. Upon returning to the land of the living the next day he remarked that the last thing he remembered was driving around with his "friends".Must have been Cisco.
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I'm wondering if you could let me know which of these wines should be put up in the cellar for a few years, and which are ready to drink today. Perhaps the tannic nature of the MD2020 would be served by some cellar time.
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I was living in San Diego back in 1993. I was unaware that cisco was actually devil juice. I drank 1 and half bottles. Last thing I can remember was climbing then falling out of a tree. Afterwards we drove to L.A. and visited several nightclubs/bars. I remebered none of it. cisco is pure evil!!!!!
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I urge you to investigate the favourite bum or as we call them jakies drink in my country. These drinks are peepee in comparrison believe me. You must try and get Buckfast tonic wine.
Buckfast is legendary made by monks and drank by arseholes. You have not had a fight untill you have had a buckfast induced fight.
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sir,
would like to offer my assistance in any upcoming field test regarding long-term effects of the wines in your study. i am a retired research executive and am willing to donate all time necessary to any study you may have planned.
please address all correspondence to:
theotis williams
grape street shelter
harlem, ny 02187
resume available upon request.
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I was watching The Shawshank Redemption the other day. Toward the end of the movie, when Morgan Freeman's character is working in the grocery store, he asks the manager for permission to use the men's room. The boss calls him over to tell him he doesn't have to ask. I could swear I saw Wild Irish Rose on the top shelf behind him. Top shelf and Wild Irish Rose have proably never been used in the same sentence before this time.
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04:27
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Ahhh, I wish I had some of this information prior to the night of drinking md 20/20 followed by the redocoration of the bathroom...
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My homey Stoney from Inver Grove Heights Minnesota is Mr. Night Train, a true ripple head, and loved your site. He recommends following up a bottle of NIght Train with a 40 of 211 Steel reserve. In the morning, about 8am, it is time for a bottle of Wild Irish Rose Wild Fruit with Ginseng. Seriously, I have pictures of him trying these wines and the results. He also was known for drinking Night Train in his 1982 Cutlass home in Denver.
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very nice! it would be "excellent" if you went so far as to review all the brands' different flavors!
check out my site, it lists every 40oz ever made (i have the world's largest 40oz collection).
here's my analogy for ya, relating our sites to one another:
"Olde English 40oz is to beer, as MD 20/20 is to wine"
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Burnham Uphill Morrell III |
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I strongly disagree with your opinion regarding Mad Dog. Firstly, it's made by the Mogen David Wine Co. (hence the "M/D") Secondly, I happily drank a pint of this foul brew, passed out in a chair that was left out for the garbageman to pick up, and had a full 3 day hangover. Thunderbird comes in a low octane version (a white label, blue lettering) that only makes one want to go to sleep, much like NightTrain. Mad Dog is truly the sputum of the beast. And Cisco? Migraine headache in a bottle. Wild I? I had 2 swigs, and dumped out the rest. It was that bad! Needless to say, I don't touch ANY of them any more.
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Friday
07:40
06.06.2003 |
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Madam O |
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I tried MD 20/20 Orange Jubilee once on a whim (and a nearly empty wallet). NEVER AGAIN. I could have gotten the same taste and effect from drinking a jug of Tang that had been kept in the garage under a pile of oily rags for six months. And I have to agree that Boone's is NOT a bum wine. Boone's is the wine cooler of wines. It simply doesn't have a high enough alcohol content to be considered as a bum wine. Maybe if you were a bum-in-training you could try starting with Boone's, though. BTW, excellent site.
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Monday
17:53
05.19.2003 |
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Willie the Wino |
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What's the word?
Thunderbird!
What's the jive?
Bird's alive!
How's it sold?
Good and cold!
What's the price?
40 twice!
Where's it made?
In the shade!
How's it shipped?
In a zip!
What's the reason?
Bird's in season!
How's it taste?
Human waste!
What's the action?
Satisfaction!
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Friday
13:21
05.16.2003 |
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wino woman |
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I almost puked just reading about it. Nice Job!!!
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05:26
05.13.2003 |
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johnny d |
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Have tried Mad dog when it was released over here it was alright but you got to try this http://www.buckfast.org.uk/T ONIC.HTM
this stuff is made by monks, and causes all sorts of wierd side effects, although billed as "tonic" wine the small print on the label says "the word tonic in no way implies health giving properties" and man that is the truth! if you are the only one in the group not drinking it you will notice that your companions begin to speak in tongues that you cannot understand, thing is they can understand each other!!!!!
http://www.bawbag.com/buckfa st.php
good luck!
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Friday
13:48
05.09.2003 |
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Engineer Don |
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I've been at the helm of the Night Train Express for nearly 20 years. We helped hundreds experience the "NTE" at this years Kentucky Derby Infield.
Enjoy,
Don S.
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Monday
15:17
05.05.2003 |
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America M |
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Boone's Farm may not be a bum wine, but it's the official wine of underage girls aspiring to be bums! "If there's a cork in it, you paid too much." And even better: Cairn O' Mohr wines of Scotland are the Boone's Farm of the Highlands - comes in oak leaf *and* bramble flavor!
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19:38
04.29.2003 |
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BethSteel CHAINMAN = Barabas |
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Where's the WHITE TIGER WINE = 21%? I used to drink a gallon by myself, it was cheaper in that size. My Bro said I looked like the Tiger on the label with the red eyes. You don't drink bummers for flavor. You drink for effect, which was somewhere between wonderful and nuts. I used to enjoy puking and would try to see how many times I could puke on 1 drunk. 5 was the most Xs I puked on one drunk, my stomach was too strong. The best way to get rid off puke mouth is CHEWING TOBACCO. I could write a book on crazy Biker drunks I done. I used to snort shots of Tullemore Dew Irish Whiskey up my nose. I stopped drinking now. I say,"SAVE YOURSELF = GET OUT while you can in one PEACE."
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Tuesday
06:13
04.29.2003 |
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Bill Mossberg |
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I used to work for the E & J Gallo Winery. I sold thousands of cases of T-Bird and Night Train (Buy 100 get 1 Free - Mix/Match) in New Orleans until my best customer DIED! Thats right kids, died! I often had his back, fighting with rival hoods in the street with chains, sticks and the like. When we were finished I would buy the gentlemen a cold 5th of T-Bird and I would hit the street to my next account. Those were the days.
What's the word? Thunderbird.
What's the price? 50 Twice.
What's reason? Cause it's pleasin. How's it sold? Good and Cold.
What's the Jive? The bird's alive.
Who drinks the most? Us colored folks.
RIP - Willie Sanders 1956 - 2000
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Monday
11:04
04.28.2003 |
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Wachismo |
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Great webpage. However, I disagree about Thunderbird's 2 warmth ranking. There have been many cold, frozen, tundra winter nights in Richmond, Indiana where I did not make it home and caught a little shut eye in some bushes with T-Bird flowing through my veins. Without it, I would have frozen for sure.
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Monday
02:36
04.28.2003 |
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Skip |
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Though it may not be "bum" caliber, "Boone's Farm Apple Wine" certainly deserves an honorable mention. This semi-toxic, carcinogenic spew was noteworthy for causing instant dry heaves. And I'm sure the so-called "apple" flavor came from some lab engineered, long chain molecule never intended by nature. I remember fondly chugging quarts of it back in the woods with my buddies at the tender age of 16...and then having to explain the foul odor and fuscia colored puke stains on my AC/DC tee shirt to my mom.
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Thursday
03:47
04.24.2003 |
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ratboy |
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my very first drunk came at the gentle embrace of 1/2 gallon of t-bird,chugged by 3-12 yr. olds. The night included projectile vomiting, black-outs and the police. Thanks for the memories!
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Wednesday
05:41
04.23.2003 |
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john |
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you guys have earned a seat in heaven thanks to your site. a public service indeed. to make the clear wild irish go down better we used to add a packet of grape kool-aid mighty tastee indeed.try adding some train to some mountain dew for a taste sensation you'll not soon forget(bout 50-50). please note when doing the kool-aid trick if you puke and have a light colored carpets they are pretty much well fucked, hours of sober scrubbing wont even save it. trust me on this one!!! anyways cheers!
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Wednesday
02:43
04.23.2003 |
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Jen |
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Hey there,
I don't know about everywhere else, but here in florida, we have class. Sure we are ocassionally caught with some md, SOMETIMES cisco, but like i said before, we like the finer things in life, like St. Ides. How can you go wrong with special brew?!?!?! Sure, we love our High Life (miller), but when you need to get away from the gritty streets, St. Ides is the only way to do it! Cheers!
BTW (if you can't detect my sarcasm when refering to how "high class" i am, you need to lay of the booze! lol)
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Wednesday
13:18
04.09.2003 |
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BIG BERNIE LAW |
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When I drink my 20/20 my vision goes blind so I tried The Rose and got pricked by the thorns . So I Cisco and got in trouble so I had to hop on the fastest TRAIN and get out of town.
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Monday
17:37
04.07.2003 |
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Mark Treon |
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MD 20/20 is a very inexpensive wine & is now available in various flavors. I've enjoyed many good times gained from consuming "mad dog" , in the past. One "dog" day afternoon that lasted till night, a buddy and I had drank 2 quarts & 2 pints each and had a nice buzz. We somehow got into an argument with some glue sniffers in a nearby park and I ended up going to the hospital to get stiches on a gash in my head I had received from steel shovel. I never felt any pain whatsoever, however I never drank MD 20/20 again. This was about 20 years ago. I found your site by accident but I like it !! Thanks for taking me down memory lane. I think I need some Advil now.
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Monday
00:15
04.07.2003 |
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JIM W. |
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I found this site under Fine Wines.
How true.
I have had the delightful expirence of each fruit of the gods vine, They must all be french wines because when I came too there was a puddle of Yellow all around me,Then I got the runs from them.
My mistake I must have over done a good thing
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Sunday
19:31
04.06.2003 |
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Micheal N |
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I found Cisco an interesting experance. It went down like Kool-aid then had me going through things reminisance of the things I went through in the mid 60's during my drug experament times. Although i ws a heavy drinker and a 'bum' i found a bottle of Cisco was a garentied black out.
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Friday
10:53
04.04.2003 |
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J P |
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My local liquor store doesn't carry Night Train so I ordered a case from them. Cost me $33.00. When it came in the manager called to tell me "The train has arrived!" When I showed up he made me open the case and show him a bottle. I always take a bottle to dinner parties for laughs. One couple, unaware that Night Train is a bum wine, decided to sample a bottle several days after the party. The wife later called my wife to complain that the wine I had brought them tasted terrible.
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Tuesday
12:45
04.01.2003 |
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Professor Hanson |
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Great research! I'm glad there is a website for people to get true-to-life information on bum wines...
I'm 17 now....When i was 16, I rode the Night Train Express....i'll never forget it..........first just one sip.....then....somehow....i wound up belly-up on the basement floor gazing at the half-empty bottle.......struggling(unsu ccessfully) to rise from the cold cement................then a blur..............still have the taste in the back of my throat.........I'm sure it'll be there 'til i die..........
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10:17
03.28.2003 |
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cisco kid |
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i came across this site on backwash.com the other day, which is wildly appropriate because after my first sip of cisco red i spit it straight back into the glass. however, my friend and i managed to down a 750 between us and by the end of the night i was dancing around the living room sporting a pair of purple panties over my jeans and singing the -the lady is a tramp- at the top of my lungs. the upstairs neighbors apparently did not appreciate such a disturbance @ 2 am because they promptly came downstairs and bitched us out. needless to say i was late for work the next day. i think it goes without saying that when it comes to cisco red, sip with caution.
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16:46
03.24.2003 |
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Alferd Tonamo Jackson |
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you is all crazy. you talking bout the bes shit on dis erf like it some kina sheet. man, i ben dranking that sheet since i was five year ol and i stil aint never had no problem wif it. you all must be a bunch of silly crakas wif you teff all clean and shit an you never had no hard shit befo. sheet.
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