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#47318 11/09/01 06:14 PM
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“Words” by Paul Dickson has a chapter with 2,231 terms for being intoxicated. (it's in the Guiness Book of Records)
I wonder if he has fuzzled?

why don't you start a list here, bill?



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Chester is a clever fellow. Say something clever, Chester. I don't know two hundred terms, let alone two thousand. I have had little personal experience with intoxication. After a surfeit of port, I discovered it tasted much better when regurgitated that did the dry wines. Once I fell in with some entertaining tipplers in Port Deposit, MD, not only lost count of beers ingested, but could not remember the next morning how I got home. When it occurred to me that I might have come to serious harm, I decided never to repeat that performance. I am not sure of the best word for that. I didn't meet any basketball stars. Blackout might be one of the names for the condition.


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snockered, three-sheets-to-the-wind, blitzed, zonked, tipsy, whoozy, blippo, blotto, sloshed, tanked, inebriated, juiced, lubed, oiled, wasted, wiped out, lit, gonzo, high, staggering, swilled, over-and-out, gorged, sh**faced, torpedoed, doused, fried, liquored-up, plastered, pickled, stoned, intoxicated, drunk...

only a couple thousand more to go...

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Don't drive that way. The fuzz'll get you for sure.



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Rendered, shikkered, steamboats,bladdered,caned, these are all Northern English, but of course your average cockney(southern) would say "Brahms and Liszt " (pissed)

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Well, I read WW's list three times and didn't see hammered there at all. In Spanish we have cuete, hasta las cachas, borrachón,inebrio,hasta las trancas;bien, pero bien, borracho.....enfrascado, I can't think of any more just now.


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Found this one in Mrs. Byrne's list I've got under construction:

gambrinous

It means full of beer. I'm assuming that it's a person who's full of beer, but that's an assumption and my assumptions are often incorrect...

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Correct as to beer. St. Gambrinus is the patron saint of brewers. Don't know anything about him except that for many years a full-color life-size statue of him stood on Gay Street in Baltimore across from the National Brewery, an incredible Gothic pile that looks like something out of a horror movie and has been sitting there slowly crumbling since it was abandoned more than a quarter century ago and is still awaiting someone to do a rehab job and rent it out in high priced condos. As to the statue, it disappeared years ago and no one knows what happened to it.


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And what, pray, may have been this saintly person's miraculous works? It's nearly midnight, so I'll go dream upon this last thought...

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encyclopedia.com gives Gambrinus as a mythical Flemish king, to whom the invention of beer is attributed. He is represented in modern folk art as straddling a keg. this doesn't sound so very saintly an' all that.


here's a "Drunctionary" which has fuzzled and gambrinous.
http://members.tripod.com/Freaky_Freya/drunktionary/drunkcentral.html

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