Transnational
I'll admit from the off that this isn't a rehearsal of my own experience, but it does contain the best punchline to a drinking story that I've ever heard, and I've no reason to think it false. It concerns a roadtrip that the narrator took without knowing it.

The narrator and protagonist, whom I shall call Kenny, was a keen traveller. On one occasion, he found himself in Georgia. On the final day of his trip, he was invited to a kind of farewell banquet. The table groaned with food, and the booze flowed liberally. Every time a plate was emptied it was replaced; every time a glass was drained, it was refilled.
Kenny, not being a big drinker normally, was beginning to lose track of events.
"I'm not sure exactly what happened," he admitted, "but I woke up 12 hours later. In Armenia."
( Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Wed 20 Jul 2011, 11:35, 11 replies)

I nearly gave that story some shit.
Then realised who had posted it and thought "Enzyme usually talks a degree of sense, I'd better read it again in case I was missing something".

And I admit, it makes a lot more sense when you realise the final word is 'Armenia' and not 'America'.
( scarpe We Stole Bikes, Wed 20 Jul 2011, 11:43, closed)

Depends whether he started in Georgia the country or Georgia the US State...

(moon monkey is busy making memories worth repressing, Wed 20 Jul 2011, 11:56, closed)

Makes little difference either way.
He'd still managed to pack his bags and cross a national border while too blitzed to notice.
( Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Wed 20 Jul 2011, 12:01, closed)

Was gonna ask this. I assumed Georgia the country, otherwise it seems rather inplausible.
(tyrellsOwl, Wed 20 Jul 2011, 12:53, closed)

It's the country unless otherwise stated.
Not everyone lives in the US.
Oh, and Paris is in France, on account of it being the capital of France, in Europe -- it does not require "France" after it.
(Me, I'm not... in any way intoxicated, Wed 20 Jul 2011, 17:53, closed)

Hehehe!
I wanted to keep the Georgia bit ambiguous... on which theme: regmedia.co.uk/2008/08/11/sky_georgia_idiocy.jpg
( Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Wed 20 Jul 2011, 12:00, closed)

just got to love the sky researchers doing the job

( fluffybunnykiller Is feasting on the clitoris of life, Wed 20 Jul 2011, 12:11, closed)

I saw this on the BBC website during the last Olympics
http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y60/oball/georgia.jpg
(oball needs Satan more than he needs me, Wed 20 Jul 2011, 12:38, closed)

www.digitaljournal.com/img/1/7/0/5/i/4/2/7/p-large/yanswers1.jpg
(tyrellsOwl, Wed 20 Jul 2011, 12:54, closed)

Pretty sure
I saw this post on another QOTW, save that it was supposed to have begun with drinking in the UK. Was not too long ago, but maybe I just misread it.
( Ithyphallophobia, Wed 20 Jul 2011, 22:34, closed)

I don't think I've posted it before;
but if I had, I'm pretty sure I wouldn't have made the UK the starting point. His anecdote was good enough without embellishment.

EDIT: Oh, I have told it before (b3ta.com/questions/nightsoutgonewrong/post1133438). And only in March, as well. Damn my aged memory.
( Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Thu 21 Jul 2011, 9:43, closed)