Maverick, my memory (not always to be relied upon), has it that the phrrase was first used by Harold Wilson, prime minister at the time, trying to excuse George Brown's obviously drunken state in a TV interview by claiming that he (George Brown) had been "tired and emotional". It has since passed into the language.

Ooooh, I think we can do better than that down here in Zild. In 1984, a very appropriate year, our dictatorial but permanently pickled Prime Minister, Sir Rob (Gin is my middle name) Muldoon, staggered out of a meeting with a dissident MP and declared an election without any real consultation with anyone else. The National Party proceeded to lose the election on a scale virtually previously unheard of. He was tired, yes, emotional, yes, but most of all, he was PISSED as a chook ...


The idiot also known as Capfka ...