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Greatest Drunk Ever

Discussion in 'Anything goes' started by Flying Headbutt, Feb 20, 2007.

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Who was the better drunk?

  1. Norm Peterson

    5 vote(s)
    17.2%
  2. Ernest Hemingway

    9 vote(s)
    31.0%
  3. Ted Kennedy

    1 vote(s)
    3.4%
  4. Each of us

    5 vote(s)
    17.2%
  5. Jones

    9 vote(s)
    31.0%
  1. Riddick

    Riddick Active Member

    How about the guy from The Man Show. For an old guy, he could sure put them down, and fast.
     
  2. PhilaYank36

    PhilaYank36 Guest

    Yeah, where is Mickey? I also nominate the honorable Mayor Joe Quimby. Err, uh, err, uh...
     
  3. spnited

    spnited Active Member

    Dean was mostly an act. Billy was the worst drunk ever.
     
  4. Michael_ Gee

    Michael_ Gee Well-Known Member

    When I worked at the Phoenix, the ground floor of our building was a restaurant called the Newbury Steak House. It was terrible, but the bar got some of our trade at lunchtime because the Eliot Lounge didn't open until Tommy Leonard woke up.
    But I digress. Anyway, the point is, the Newbury bar is where Billy Martin drank in Boston after games. You know the old Westerns where the piano stops and everyone leaves when the gunslinger comes to the bar? It was like that, only more so. A joint full of 200 people would have maybe five or six left inside of ten seconds.
     
  5. How about some old school guys?
    W.C. Field and Winston Churchill would each drink a quart of whiskey a day. But Not together.

    If Jackie Gleason says somebody can drink I'd believe it!
     
  6. writing irish

    writing irish Active Member

    Richard Harris.
     
  7. Rough Mix

    Rough Mix Guest

    Winston Churchill had the best line about being drunk.

    Marshmellow salesmen lived in fear of Billy.
     
  8. writing irish

    writing irish Active Member

    ???

    I don't get it.
     
  9. Montezuma's Revenge

    Montezuma's Revenge Active Member

    Foster Brooks. And lest you doubt it ...

     
  10. Jones

    Jones Active Member

    Is it possible to be honored, but also ashamed?
     
  11. Flying Headbutt

    Flying Headbutt Moderator Staff Member

    I only added you in jest, with a side heaping of envy.
     
  12. I thought Foster Brooks was largely an act?

    http://www.answers.com/topic/foster-brooks

    An inebriated Martin once had a row with a marshmellow salesman in a bar.

    It has nothing to do with Churchill's line about drunks....
    Which I assume is "I may be drunk miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly."
     
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