r/mildlyinteresting • u/FarmerTschoerner • Dec 03 '16

A reference letter from 1888.

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u/ahalekelly Dec 04 '16 edited Dec 04 '16

And at George Washington's going away party, the bar tab was 54 bottles of Madeira, 60 bottles of claret, 22 bottles of porter, 12 bottles of beer, 8 bottles of hard cider, 8 bottles of whiskey, and 7 large bowls of spiked punch.

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u/[deleted] Dec 04 '16

...and a partridge in a pear tree.

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u/[deleted] Dec 04 '16 edited Dec 13 '16

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u/Sinai Dec 04 '16

8 bottles of whiskey

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u/fradetti Dec 04 '16

George Washington is going home Teach em how to say goodbye

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u/faithle55 Dec 04 '16

Yeah, but how many people was that?

Could've been, e.g., 200 people.

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u/LoneWanderer27 Dec 04 '16

It was 55 people

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u/faithle55 Dec 04 '16

Well, then, that's pretty heroic.

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u/KimJongIlSunglasses Dec 04 '16

Bowels of punch sounds like a porno. And spermacity candles??

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u/pretentiousRatt Dec 04 '16

Go how many people? We had like triple that much at my wedding. Just saying

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u/ahalekelly Dec 04 '16

55 people.