Are you drunk?

[JPSmit]

Obviously this conversation needs the Irish Rovers. (I remember once visiting a fellow who had had quadruple bypass walking down the hospital corridor with his IV singing this song.

 

[mikephillips]

Sat around one evening in college so many years ago and a group of use were passing 3 bottles of Kentucky bourbon around. The stated goal was to decide which tasted best out of two of them and the third was to "wash" the taste of the two being tested out of your mouth between shots. We finished the 3 and I went to bed. About 10 minutes later I headed to the restroom knowing I was going to be sick. Had time to stand there for a few minutes waiting and sure enough, down the bowl it went...

 

[DrEntropy]

On first meeting Mitsy, late in 1976, I didn't invite her to my apartment until we'd had several dates. Concerned she might consider me a bad risk. In my living room, against one wall were shelves fifteen feet wide, floor-to-ceiling, stacked up on empty Walker Black Label bottles. Apparently it didn't matter...

 

[Basil]

Long ago I ran deliveries for an auto parts store. Older counter man named Shorty was stone sober most of the time til he'd go on a two week bender. 6 am when the bar opened and a pint of whiskey to go at closing. "So drunk I gotta hold on to the grass to keep from fallin off the Earth"

Wow, resurrecting the old posts!

 

[JamesH]

a tennessee judge explained the old tennessee caselaw on this once, which he and i agreed that we thought sensible: "drunk is he who cannot rise to drink another."