Alcohol is alcohol, and too much of it will make anyone feel sick.

"There is no evidence that drinking in a particular order alters how sick you get," Julia Chester, a behavioral neuroscientist at Purdue, told NBC.

However, people who switch from beer to mixed drinks (with senses and judgment already dulled) may be less likely likely to monitor their alcohol consumption and thus drink more.

This may be because your body metabolizes beer and mixed drinks faster than higher-concentration alcohol (like a shot of whiskey). Adding liquor to a stomach-full of beer could, in theory, create a sort of mixed drink that would metabolize faster than one or the other on its own.

But while "liquor before beer" seems partly true, we'll mostly chalk up "never sicker" to bad decision-making.