Booze: 10 Best Things

Bada Bing · #1 07-22-2008, 02:43 PM

This one goes out to you LozerBoozer!

Modern Drunkard Magazine: 10 Best Things about Booze

I excerpted the choice bits from the article:

1. It shines a light in the darkness.
“When I need a light inside me, I walk into a pub and drink 15 pints of beer.”
—Shane McGowan

2. It inflames the imagination.
“For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable—intoxication.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche

3. It unites the tribe.
“The secret of drunkenness is that it insulates us in thought, whilst it unites us in feeling.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson

4. It makes you more human.
“In a world where there is a law against people ever showing their emotions, or ever releasing themselves from the grayness of their days, a drink is not a social tool. It is a thing you need in order to live.”
—Jimmy Breslin

5. It’s a sure path to adventure.
“It’s like gambling somehow. You go out for a night of drinking and you don’t know where you’re going to end up the next day. It could work out good or it could be disastrous. It’s like the throw of the dice.”
—Jim Morrison

6. It’s a fool-proof escape plan.
“Modern life is often a mechanical oppression and liquor is the only mechanical relief.”
—Ernest Hemingway

7. It makes you pay.
“The hangover became a part of the day as well allowed-for as the Spanish siesta.”
—F. Scott Fitzgerald

8. It imparts self awareness.
“It is most absurdly said that a man is disguised in liquor; for, on the contrary, most men are disguised by sobriety.”
—Thomas de Quincy

9. It allows you to believe you are a better person than you ever imagined you were.
“When I have one martini, I feel bigger, wiser, taller. When I have the second, I feel superlative. When I have more, there’s no holding me.”
—William Faulkner

10. It brings the joy.
“Why on earth aren’t people continually drunk? I want ecstasy of the mind all the time.”
—Jack Kerouac

Panama Girl · #2 07-22-2008, 02:46 PM

To alcohol: the cause of and solution to all of life's problems!
-Homer Simpson

bl0ndie87 · #3 07-22-2008, 02:47 PM

Raptor · #4 07-22-2008, 02:53 PM

"Beer is living proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy." - Benjamin Franklin

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When in doubt, EMPTY the magazine.

Bada Bing · #5 07-22-2008, 02:59 PM

"Without drugs or alcohol, none of us would be here"
-Bada Bing

witchofthedogs · #6 07-22-2008, 03:00 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Bada Bing

"Without drugs or alcohol, none of us would be here"
-Bada Bing

So, you met my parents?

SCRAPPY · #7 07-22-2008, 03:17 PM

Here's to a long life and a merry one
A quick death and an easy one
A pretty girl and an honest one
A cold beer and another one!
~Author Unknown

I feel sorry for people who don't drink. When they wake up in the morning, that's as good as they're going to feel all day. ~Frank Sinatra

Woman first tempted man to eat; he took to drinking of his own accord. ~Four Hundred Laughs: Or, Fun Without Vulgarity, compiled and edited by John R. Kemble, 1902

Bada Bing · #8 07-22-2008, 03:53 PM

I'd rather have a bottle in front of me, than to have to have a frontal lobotomy.

(no clue who the hell said that)

Panama Girl · #9 07-22-2008, 04:04 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Bada Bing

I'd rather have a bottle in front of me, than to have to have a frontal lobotomy.

(no clue who the hell said that)

That's actually a song...

Raptor · #10 07-22-2008, 04:42 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Bada Bing

"Without drugs or alcohol, none of us would be here" -Bada Bing

I think you need to include the national anthem in that too...not the one that we sing before a ball game, but the one by Judas Priest that everyone lost their virginity to ("Livin' After Midnight")....

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