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Originally Posted by tubemonkey
I'm in training for 2013 Tour de France 
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Some of the Jet Jocks claimed that intravenous jet fuel could do wonders. It had to be miniscule amounts though or it will poison you.
I told them that when I was a kid long, long ago, the cops had problems with the bums (not homeless then, just bums) drinking Sterno. It could kill them, but it seemed to toughen them up too because they didn't mind sleeping on the ground when it was absolutely freezing out. I would ride to my paper route on a bike in an old Navy peacoat with two pair of socks on my hands, a watch cap on my head and a scarf and I would be frozen. I kept my hands (with socks) in my pockets most of the way. I learned to ride pretty good with no hands.
The bums would be laid out under a bush, happy as could be until they got frost bite.
That happened about 2 or 3 times every 4 or 5 years. Also of course moonshine made in a car radiator with lead solder and wood alcohol.
Those guys were pretty tough until they were totted away.