. . at an aerospace firm I used to work at.
They had a new guy in the department, a young Russian immigrant. He was a sweet, soft spoken kid, very conservative in his habits and morally upright. The engineers decided to take him out and get him drunk (aerospace engineers were a lot wilder back then).
One of the engineers said the last thing he remembered was the kid saying, "It's midnight - time to get down to some serious drinking!
Moral: never try to out-drink a Russian, any Russian.