The Big Game: You Humans Sure Can Party

Beer. You humans sure love beer. And any excuse to drink as much of it as possible.

Now, this Big Football Game is not so special. The Blarkos of Domnel 8 played a similar game and death or decapitation wasn't at all abnormal. In their championship game one could place bets on the number of deaths or limbs lost. My great-uncle Chiko made the family fortune on a last minute eye gouging that the referee's incorrectly counter as a loss of limb.

But this is commonplace around the galaxy. Most citizens of the galaxy have contests and most of those celebrate the event. But none in my experience do it as well as humans.

Sure the Rax of Rax Prime shut the entire planet down every 15 years to hold what most Earthlings would call a worldwide snowball fight. Although they use the spores of an insect that only breeds once every 15 years. But most of that is used for clean-up.

Not a lot of races use chemicals to alter perceptions. I mean, it makes sense. In most human contests, one does not know how interesting the contest will be. But with a few pints or a couple of joints, ANY event becomes more enjoyable.

So party on humans. I know I'll be enjoying the festivities.