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From another thread: The word pissed is used in the UK to signify drunk, whereas it means angry in the US. For angry, in the UK, we would use 'pissed off'. Is there a technical term for the following kind of joke [apart from weak, dreadful, etc]? Do rowers get one over the eight? Do brain surgeons get out of their skulls? I have more which I won't bore you with (yet-  ) but I am also interested to know how many of these "drunk" expressions are international or UK only. ["Off to trawl past threads for 'separated by a common language' themes" emoticon] Rod Ward
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Dunno if there is a term for the type of joke, but it seems to come from the same family as the 'Tom Swifties' (another thread somewhere here), and the old t-shirt ones: "Dress designers do it in style", "Accountants do it with double entries" and so on.
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ps: bladdered, wasted, out of it, arseholed come to mind...
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Do rowers get one over the eight?
Do brain surgeons get out of their skulls?
Rowers get out of their sculls, obviously.
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I'm glad someone took the bait. I only noticed as I proofed it, but decided to leave it hanging. Rod Ward
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Do rowers get one over the eight?
Seen on the back of a midget's T shirt at a head race
Because the cox can't stroke itself
BTW; I haven't the foggiest notion what one over the eight means.
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Editors do it on deadline
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One over the eight = drunk. A widely understood, but probably old fashioned term in UK. Presumably 8 pints (or double scotches) is just enough, nine is way too many.
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<<over the eights: nine's too many>>
I have read about a similar source for "mind your Ps and Qs," a line once used to admonish sailors going ashore leave to "mind [their] pints and quarts."
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magicians do it with mirrors...
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"Three sheets to the wind" is the one my mom uses... I know it's a sailing reference (Or rather, I suspect it's a sailing reference...), but have never gotten a confirm on that. Anyone? Anyone?
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