Gentlemen, blow your froth

**Banditbandit** · 15th January 2013, 08:45

Originally Posted by Hitcher

I was there from 1975 thru 79. The Armada Bar was a bit posh for us Aggies. We used to hang out in the Fitz's "garden" bar.

Yes .. That's why us riders drank in the Commercial Hotel (south end of the Square) or the Cafe De Paris ... (I left Palmmie in 1975 ...)

**SVboy** · 15th January 2013, 10:32

The "helicopter"-the idea being to to rotate rapidly as you vomited-points for style and distance projected. The "pelican" {Canty} or "sharing a hot lunch"{Lincoln} where you vomited downwards into the upturned open mouth of the lucky recipient. Orientation week fun!

**Banditbandit** · 15th January 2013, 11:35

Originally Posted by SVboy

The "helicopter"-the idea being to to rotate rapidly as you vomited-points for style and distance projected. The "pelican" {Canty} or "sharing a hot lunch"{Lincoln} where you vomited downwards into the upturned open mouth of the lucky recipient. Orientation week fun!

Some very good reasons to not drink with university students ...

**Zedder** · 15th January 2013, 11:41

Originally Posted by Banditbandit

Some very good reasons to not drink with university students ...

Or go to the Munich beer festival.

**Ruahine** · 15th January 2013, 12:34

Some of these events were still going strong when I was at Massey in the 90s. Boat races were great fun and many a good night was had in the Fitz especially on Tuesdays (50c bourbon night).

Sadly the Fitz has closed its doors. The end of an era.

**Swoop** · 15th January 2013, 13:56

Originally Posted by SVboy

The "pelican" {Canty}

I believe Otago have the ownership rights for that one.

**slofox** · 15th January 2013, 14:29

I was Official Photographer at the Clarendon Chunder Mile a couple of times. This was an annual - and memorable - event turned on by the University of Canterbury during my sojourn there.

Participants were required to run half a mile in the heats and one mile in the final. A total of six times round the then 440 yard track. There were strict rules to be adhered to.

Heats came first. Two laps of the track. Before each lap the "athlete" was required to drink a half gallon flagon of beer, then run the lap. Repeat for the second lap. If you chucked up in the heat you were eliminated from the event.

The finalists were the fastest non-chuck competitors from the heats (if there were any!). And here is where it got interesting. The final was the four lapper - the mile event.

Same rules plus a bit. No chuckling up allowed in the first 220 yards of the event nor in the last 220 yards of the event. (ie, first half of first lap and last half of last lap). Anywhere else in between, you could chuck up without penalty. Oh and yes, they did!

Just to make it interesting, the final two laps of the race required not just the consumption of the usual half gallon of beer but the eating of a cold "Stevenson's" square pie as well...

Made for interesting viewing, believe me...

**jim.cox** · 15th January 2013, 15:17

Originally Posted by Ruahine

Sadly the Fitz has closed its doors. The end of an era.

You would think that supplying alcohol to students would be a licence to print money.

But as an Otago Graduate I was dismayed to find "the Gardens" and "the Bowling Green" hotels gone and "the Captain Cook" under threat.

"The Royal Albert" (complete with god-awful Stuart hunting tartan carpet) is now an Irish bar

Of my former haunts only "the Oriental Tavern" really survives

**merv** · 15th January 2013, 15:20

You were a hard man then Hitch.

I was a Canterbury man myself. My funniest memories of drinking were the end of term sessions at the Bush Inn. Sat there one day outside watching a poor tradesman fit a new glass window into the toilet block carefully smoothing the putty. As soon as he'd gone dammit some mean arse student just popped the glass back out not giving the putty any time to set.

**pete376403** · 15th January 2013, 16:03

Originally Posted by Ruahine

Some of these events were still going strong when I was at Massey in the 90s. Boat races were great fun and many a good night was had in the Fitz especially on Tuesdays (50c bourbon night).

Sadly the Fitz has closed its doors. The end of an era.

I got a fitz t shirt about 10 years ago. Only beautiful people went there before 1999