The *Official* Unofficial Thread (UIUC: 3/2/07)
 

Tommorow, March 2nd is Unofficial St. Patrick's Day at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

For those of you who do not know, Unofficial is the biggest campus 'holiday' of the year. The bars will be opening very early (~8am I believe) and most people will not be attending class, and instead, drinking all day.

The university is trying to crack down on drunk students interrupting classes this year.

Here is a link to the University's plans to curtail drinking

I agree that going to class drunk is VERY stupid, and should have a harsh penalty for violating other students rights. However, I do believe students have the right to miss class whenever they choose, etc. We pay tuition, therefore we should decide if we want to go to class or not.

Anyways, I am planning to go to my 9am, then skip my 1pm.

Here is my tentative itinerary:

8:15 - Wake Up
9:00 - Class
10:00 - Nap
11:00 - Head-Over to Friend's Apartment
11:30 - Start with a few games of beer pong (I'm 115-9 with one of my friends...wOOt)
1:00 - Lunch, probably mac and cheese because it's Friday and I'm Catholic = no meat, yadda yadda...
1:45 - Resume drinking
4:00 - Siesta in order to make it through the evening
6:00 - Dinner - Antonio's Pizza mmmmmmm
7:30 - Edward 40-hands...this should be interesting
9:00? and after - continue to drink, and try to make it to midnight and not pass out.

I plan on drinking a ton of water throughout the day so I stay hydrated. I'm also going to try to keep all the booze down, although we did buy an extra garbage can just for puking.

I have never really been super-smashed before, so tommorow should be very interesting.

Here is a picture of the booze stockpile I will be indulging in:

http://i179.photobucket.com/albums/w...463_8457-1.jpg

Whoever else is celebrating, feel free to add your own stuff...

I am 0% Irish btw... And I know Keystone is crap beer, but it is VERY cheap...therefore a no-brainer to purchase for such things as beer pong.

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wow you drink alcohol and post about it you must be awesome.

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yeah, unlit cigarettes are cool too.

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jealous

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Holla. Starting to drink at 3 30, not going to barz cuz i dont wanna lite 3 hundos on fire, but have the fridge really stocked already.

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LOL NICE ALCHOHAL < NOT

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vnh

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Every time i see an empty Keystone around campus I want to cringe, and seeing that much makes me feel ill =/

I turned 21 like 2 weeks ago and had mad fun picking out the di beers that i will be consuming tommorrow.

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The keystone is NOT the bad beer in that pic. Ever had Magnum Malt Liquor? It's one of the worst sub-6% malts. Go OE800 or Colt 45 wayyy before Magnum. If you don't mind the taste then upgrade to Steel Reserve or St. Ides.

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Also curious if I read the DI right, but is the city of champaign forcing the bars to sell only diluted shots, and also no pitchers? Going to the bars seems retarded -EV no matter what tommorrow, esp considering the probable di raids going down.

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Man I'm jealous. I tried my hardest to get some people to head down there this weekend and stay with my cousin, but no luck. Have fun guys. I'll be there in heart [img]/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img]

BTW- Green puke=BALLA!

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Also curious if I read the DI right, but is the city of champaign forcing the bars to sell only diluted shots, and also no pitchers? Going to the bars seems retarded -EV no matter what tommorrow, esp considering the probable di raids going down.

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Yeah. I'm pretty sure they can't sell bottled beverages, or pitchers. So I really don't see the point of going to the bars. Plus, they will be infested with cops, so being < 21 is no bueno.

Magnum malt was the only stuff they had at the time, and it was cheap, so we got it.

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we played the first game of beerpong at 12am tonight. we have 3 kegs of green Miller Lite. Itinerary ...
6:30am- wake up and shower
7am- drink first beer while making eggs
7:30am- play beerpong
10am- go to class hammered
11:05- drink
1pm- stumble to La Bamba
2pm- drink more
and then i prolly wont know whats goin on the rest of the day

Happy Unofficial Everybody !!!

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and they made you guys get rid of the indian

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pic of my fridge on its way from roo.

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antonios pizza is sweet, i will see you there at 6

(that is a joke since ill probably be in coma by then)

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seriously....unofficial started in full force in '96 IIRC. I've been here since '97. This is one 'tradition' that the new chancellor is not a big fan of. It's getting bigger each year as more and more people from outside the University of Illinois make the trip (ie friends/relatives at the other state schools and nearby big10 universities).

The whole reason it came up was a greedy bar owner (Cochran). St Pat's often falls during Spring Break. To make up for it, the bar owner invented unofficial St. Pat's the first Friday of March. It's basically St. Pat's day in Champaign tomorrow.

My gf has to be at her place at 8AM to drink.
I'll be there about noon and will drink most of the day.

I [img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img] unofficial

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who wants to get drunk?

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who wants to get drunk?

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working on it already [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

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expecting to see graphs in drinks/hour tommorrow. IMO for unoffical drink/hour>winrate

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i had 8 am class and just got back. I'm not going to any class after 10am just cuz of stupid drunk asshats think its cool to make a big scene in class just because they have been drinking. Bars are definitely -ev and there are long lines already. Hope everyone have fun and be safe.

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I'm in my 11:00 AM btw right now. Hammmmeerrreeddd. We got 70 cases at the house that have been flowing since 6AM. Ima try to nail the rare daytime hookup when I get back. There is this smokin puerto rican i had my eye on all morning haha

fire it up

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You lucky drunks. I am pretty sure I went there for unoffical last year or the year before. Don't remember it much. Yet again I never remember much of my trips to U of I.

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WOEK UP AT 1:30 WENT TO 2Pm SPAN COMP SOBER, AFTER THIS CALESS IS SDOEN GOGOGOGOGO \

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Same at PSU.

St. Patrick's Day is the ultimate excuse for acting like a total moron. It's St. Patrick's Day, therefore it is okay.

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lol KAMS

I miss U of I [img]/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img]

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FIGHTHOUSE nice. classy

hey by the way - is everclear legal in most states? I can't buy it in Mass or new hampshire, closest state where it is legal is rhode island.

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Yesterday was great.

I went to Antonio's about 5pm and there were a bunch of guys playing bagpipes in the restaraunt, Antonio kept telling to play, so it was pretty cool.

Also, being drunk multiple times in a day is very interesting.

This weekend would be a lot better if I could devote all day today to recovering instead of studying for a midterm on Monday [img]/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img]

Does anyone know how many total arrests there were?

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Just woke up, total drinks
2 Shots of petro
1 shot of captain morgans
3 shots absolute pear vodka
1 mixed cranberry vodka drink (I hate mixed drinks...)
Total weight 145
3 drinks to get drunk
Started @ 4 pm - 3 am

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Holy crap yesterday was awesome

I got hammered thursday night at Station, then got a couple of hours of sleep in.

6:30 Wake up to that Dropkick Murphy's song in the Departed
Pounded Guinness and some Scottish beer called Fraoch
7:30 Went to my friends house party. It was really cool because I knew almost everyone there.
12:00 Thought about going to class drunk, but decided to keep drinking instead.
1:30 Retarded friend got drinking ticket for double fisting beer while walking in the street.
2:00 Hung out with some alums that came down, did beer bongs
All Afternoon: Drinking games, guitar hero, 90's music, hit on girl that I kinda like (no action, but I invited her to a dance)
6:00 Went to apartment party
7:00 Niro's Gyros for dinner. The line was huge, everyone was drunk and retarded and it was awesome.
8:00 Went back to my place, got more guinness, Jameson, and Bailey's for Irish car bombs.
8:30 Randomly ran into friend who smoked us up before the party
9:00 New party, Irish car bombs, place is getting out of control
12:00 Went to Station to see some friends who came from Wisconsin
2:00 Don't really remember, came back to friends apartment, I guess I was ripping on her and her friends (the friendly kind), and eventually passed out on her clothes pile with my jacket on after trying to play her recorder

Heres a pic (I'm on the left, I don't know what time in the day it was taken)
http://photos-841.ak.facebook.com/ip...25841_5672.jpg

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Just woke up, total drinks
2 Shots of petro
1 shot of captain morgans
3 shots absolute pear vodka
1 mixed cranberry vodka drink (I hate mixed drinks...)
Total weight 145
3 drinks to get drunk
Started @ 4 pm - 3 am

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EDIT - PATRON = petro

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Does anyone know how many total arrests there were?

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Also more curious how many times the bars were raided? As I didnt go to the bars but everytim eI walked past there were insane lines and I just thought the popo would be sitting inside them and that bar attendance or would be down inf

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I got to the bars just before the lines built up.

Finished off two pitchers of Yuengling's in about an hour and a half, got bored and made my way home...eventually.

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I'm a junior at U of Iowa (20 years old). I got to Champaign-Urbana at 10pm on Thursday and left at noon on Sunday. thoughts:

-Unofficial was great. Started drinking at 8, ended at around 2. Everybody wandered around the streets in green the whole day. We just drank in my friends apartment at first, then house partys during the afternoon and nighttime. House partys were pretty fun, but nothing special. we avoided the bars cause all of my friends said cops were gonna go crazy and raid everything.

-Saturday night we headed over to Station(never been there before), because "its cool" and thats where all our friends were. We literally waited 90 minutes outside. There were lots of douches trying to cut in line. It was terrible. There was even a long wait for the "VIP line", which was humorous. The bar itself wasn't anything special either. For anybody who goes to Iowa, its basically half the size of union and half as fun. We stayed in a corner area where drink were free at hte beginning, which was cool. For anybody who visits, I recommend not waiting in line at Station and going to one of the other bars where theres no wait.

Afterwards we went to Nero's. It was packed, everybody wasted. Pretty fun experience, but lots of people were cutting inline. With everybody being wasted, there were some confrontations, but no fights. Nero has great drunk food. I got the gyros and fries and boy was it good. Lots of drunk mariokart once we got back. Fun fun fun time.

For anybody who didn't go this year, It's definitely somethin you gotta do at least once while your at college.

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There werent any bars w/out ridic lines on unofficial that I knew of. I also expected the bars to get raided infinite times and I think they only really got raided like once (station among them)

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i think the di said something like ~24 notices for court appeacersnces were given out.

i think this includes things like public urination, fighting etc.
and it sounded like 5 bars were raided

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i think the di said something like ~24 notices for court appeacersnces were given out.

i think this includes things like public urination, fighting etc.
and it sounded like 5 bars were raided

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when you say a bar is "raided" what do you mean?

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i think the di said something like ~24 notices for court appeacersnces were given out.

i think this includes things like public urination, fighting etc.
and it sounded like 5 bars were raided

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when you say a bar is "raided" what do you mean?

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it means cops (more than 1, sometimes undercover) go in there and check that people are 21 (if they have a drink in their hand)

everytime im in a line for a bar ill almost always see two hot underage chicks being escorted out by cops who arent in uniform, but when the show themselves they have badges like in necklace

p.s. basically raided = spot check

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our apartment party was busted up by 11am. we finished a keg and was bringing in another and the cops just happened to be walking by during the switch. $900 in fines for adult responsibility or whatever. anyways, they left and we still had 2 kegs which was great. good time all around, went to Murphy's at night for more green beer. oh yeah, never go to Station. The bar sucks, its basically a frat bar with a bunch of douchebags with popped collars cutting in line and actin like tough [censored]. Brothers or one of those bars are a lot more fun.

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Station is TERRIBLE.

Brothers, Murphy's and Legends are all solid chill bars. Kam's is an illini tradition, even though it is a POS. CO's, Stations, and Clybourne are all loud typical dirty, smelly college bars with fat chicks dancing on poles.

Joe's is a very good bar when it is nice (read: warm) outside. They have a nice beer garden to hang out in.

My friend's apt. complex fire alarm went off at like 2, but we stayed inside even though cops and firemen were roaming the hallways. No one I know got arrested, etc.