Brian Finnigan was awesome at college.

Brian Finnigan was better at college than anyone in the world. Ok thats a bold statement but I went to college for 5 years and I never once met anyone that even came close to partying as hard as Brian...I have never met anyone in my life that has ever come close...like even remotely close. I get wasted. I have had some wild times.
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But nothing I have ever seen or heard about compares to Brian.
Brian was my 21 year old roomate freshman year at Champlain College in Burlington, VT. I also had 2 other roomates that were budding prospects of Brian just waiting to get their wings. Everything I have ever learned about college. I learned from Brian Finnigan. This page is dedicated to the man, the myth, the legend...Brian Finnigan. Brian was a 6 foot 4 tall and lengthy Irish kid with a shaved head for southie..(south boston) Like you don't understand, right now I have such a huge responsibility to do this kid the justice that he deserves that I have waited years to write this blog just so i could get it perfect. Here is a summary of how much better Brian was than your best friend that you think can outdrink anyone. We lived in the top peak of that building above. Summit house. Top floor. Top of the campus. Top of Burlington. How suiting for the story.




-Brian ordered all of us to remove our desks from the room so that we could have more space to party. We left one desk for "Atmosphere" he called it.

-He made a nerd splice some cable wires so that we got free cable and ordered the poor kid to do it for the rest of the building. As a reward Brian made fun of the kid's haircut.

-Brian smoked probably 2 packs of Newports a day. Keep in mind that he smoked in bed when he woke up and before he went to bed.

-Brain ordered all of us to go out and buy black sheets and create walls by pinning up the sheets in an elaborate manner across the room creating doors, hallways, and seperate rooms.

-Brian bought a home entertainment center that was 5 feet tall and told us that we had to throw all of our empty cigarette packs behind it untill it piled over the top.

-Brian taught me the "we" education principle. Here's how it goes, just refer to the teacher and yourself as we and use it against them. He would emphasis that the efforts that he put in were a diffect effect of the efforts of the teacher and how it looked poor on both their parts. He also then suggested that "they" take the test over. The rest is history. It also helped that he made friends with all of the board of directors of the school sheerly as a strategic move and had maintained these aliances since freshman year. Man, Brian had all the bases covered.

-He told our RA when to do rounds.

-We saved every bottle that we ever drank and once every month or so Brian would order us to throw them out the window in an event that he called "cleaning" Needless to say the next day there would be groundskeepers shoveling broken glass off the front lawn. Yes, they brought snow shovels to cleen up the glass. One time upwards of 40 empty bottles of jack daniels got thrown out the window.

-One time early one morning there was a loud racket from outside our window on the 4th floor. As it got louder i got out of bed and went to the window and i opened it and saw a man standing there with an axe. after i pissed myself, i told brian that there was a man with an axe on our roof outside our window. Brian said let it be and laid back down. The noise of the man with the axe chopping shingles off the roof got louder. Suddenly, Brian rose from bed as if possessed, lit a cigarette, stuck his head out the window and yelled at the top of his lungs "i hope you fall of the fucking roof" Then slammed the window shut. The noise stops. Brian finishes his cigarette and sleeps through all his classes and blames it on the teachers. Life goes on.

-Brian actually found 2 secret passageways in the building. One was a secret room...scale of 1 -10 in difficulty finding secret room in a college dorm...i'd give it a 6. Ok but then the second room that we found was actually above the ceiling pannels in the hallway above the bathroom that led to a tunnel to a secret room with an old chair in it. Difficulty of having the insight to punch out ceiling tiles and climb through the ceiling and down a tunnel to a secret room. I'd give that an 11. How he found this room no one but the room led to an area that we could drop in on anyones room on the floor so basically we just droped through the ceilings in peoples rooms when they were sleeping and scared the shit out of them. Ok lets try this again on a scary level.

1 =taxes are scarier
5 =mild fright
10 =vital signs fail

ok

Haunted hayride =6
That ugly asian girl from Gray's Anatomy= 5
Cemetary after dark = 7

Person screeming and yelling while falling through your ceiling in the middle of the night! =10

Seriously right now i am crying that i am laughing so hard because i can't believe how funny/cruel that was. Can you think of a funnier/Scarier prank, honestly, that must have been the funniest thing i have ever seen and or heard about. Nothing trumps the reactions it got. We went all out too, like crashing through ceiling tiles and all. Possibly the funniest thing I have ever witnessed but a close second is inflating an "Inflatable Jumpy Kingdom" in the lounge of our building at 3 AM and bouncing in it. I would like to give a shout out two 2 certain individuals for there help on that (CK and MH)

-Brian Invented the sexual position called the "coffee table" The man is behind the girl. She is bend over on her knees. (doggy style) You then put an ashtray and a beer and whatever you want on her back and basically use her as a coffee table while you are doing the damn thing.

-Brian once threw a 2 keg party in our dorm room. We had a 55 gallon trash barrel as our "trashcan" ok you know how in your dorm room you have like those little 5 gallon trash cans and recycle cans. Nope, those got thrown out the window day 1. hahah, i just remembered, Brian got so pissed one time that he tried throwning my desk chair out the window and since it wouldn't fit, he got more pissed and broke it into pieces and then threw the pieces out the window. Thats amazing. Anyways back to the story, so we didn't have a pussy trash can. We had a 55 gallon trash can. like the ones that like businesses use. He brought 2 kegs in those trash cans 1 in each can and we had a 2 keg party in our room and still kicked both kegs. We then got a ton of 30 packs and finished out the night. Amazing.

-One time Brian got arrested and made friends with the cop that arrested him at St. Michaels Univ. Brian then had the cop stop at 7-11 and get cigaretts and a slushie for him on his way to jail.

-Brian drank and smoked weed every day. No glory or fabrication. Dude did this every day like it was his job.

- Brian drank more than i have ever seen anyone drink in my life...here is why you should believe me. *my credentials*

-frat brother
-bartender for 4 years
-college for 5 years

Brian has drank more than anyone i have ever seen in my life...dude i would have put everything i have ever....no scratch that...i would have put my future earnings on the idea that my boy brian would outdrink anyone. It really can't be done, like ever, like your not getting this, Brian has done stuff that health science say are impossible and by impossible i mean cheating death on a large scale. Brians BAC has risen over levels that you go blind and your vital signs fail and has had conversations with me. It makes no sense yet perfect sense at the same time. I was taught my the best. Im sure of this. Anyone that knows me knows that in a small way I am a protege of Brian. Nowhere near the same legendary status as Bry but with the same ideals that college will be the best time of your life.

-If the liqour stores closed in VT. Brian would just go to CANADA to buy liquor. Yes, Brian would travel to other countries to buy liqour and illegally transport it across the border.

-Your still not getting this...Ok, my boy Brian...would get up in the morning, smoke a bunch of weed, and start drinking around 2 PM. He would drink bud light for hours (Brian had a firm belief that bud light was a quality beer and this is a belief that i still hold to this day and it is a direct tribute to Brian) Brian also was a huge Guiness fan an to share a Guinness with him was a honor. Honestly why even bother listing out what he drank, just know that it was basically infinity drinks. Towards the end of the night Brian would do something that seperates the men from the boys...ok, in no way am i supporting this but its worth mentioning because it makes your friend who you think could outdrink brian look like a pansy. Ok brian would then at like 4 AM when he was tired do coccain sheerly so he could have enough energy to stay up and keep drinking. Ok lets name a list of people who do hardcore drugs just so they can drink...not to do coccain to do coccain....but to do it just so they could stay up longer and drink...ok here is the list.

1. Brian Finnigan
2. Not your friend

oops there goes your friends chances...sorry


Anyways Brian also blew coke off my school desk. When Brian didn't have coke he crushed up ritalin.

-Brian once heard some guys talking about how "that girl over there way hot"...the girl infact was Brians girlfriend..Since the 2 guys didn't know that,Brian bet them that he could just go over there and without talking to her just kiss the girl and she would be fine with it. He bet them 20 dollars. They agreed. Brian went over and kissed his girlfriend. He bought me a drink later with his winnings.

-I wondered if Brian today has a myspace or facebook profile and if there is a picture of him...Would would his picture look like.....This is my conclusion as quoted to one of my friends "there would be a picture of him blowing lines of coke off your girlfriends ass" Yes, im pretty sure that is exactly what Brian would put as his pic.

(THIS IS THE END OF PART 1, I WILL ADD MORE AND REPOST AS PART 2 ASAP)

Brian Finnigan ran shit. As stupid as it sounds Brian taught me, a scared little freshman, everything i really needed to know about college. I have done a lot in college and i know there are people that certainly look up to me. Just know that if you are one of those people, certainly, the person that derserves the credit is Brian. Because without him, I wouldn't be who i was today.