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Why does "tie one on" mean drunk?
On Formosa they Taiwan on.
As for what a sheet is, my sailor friends say both the sail and the line (NEVER "rope!") A common sailor's knot is a sheet bend. There, I took a bight out of that one, I did!
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So, it should have been... Sailors tie one on. Avy - maybe one of the senior (in total posts, not age  ) staff here knows.. it came from my parents.
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><<magicians do it with mirrors...>>
...and bunnies.
Not in THIS state, unless they want to go to gaol!
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As for what a sheet is, my sailor friends say both the sail and the line (NEVER "rope!")
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Never rope - I quite agree (unless you were asking someone if they had any spare, but it's really far too vague a thing to ask for). A sheet = the rope that is used for moving a sail in and out. Most other stuff would probably be control lines. Collectively it's all commonly referred to as 'string' or knitting! Depends on how tangled up you've managed to get them all.
Back to the original strain:
Out to lunch
Off his trolley
Trollied
Out of your tree
Wibbled (but that's a kind of personal one and probably ought to go under word-coinage - I seem to remember (way back in the depths of student-dom) that it harks back to Blackadder, that 'to wibble' was to talk nonsense - when drunk one does and therefore you are 'wibbled').
Wazzed
Worse for Wear
Drunk as a Skunk
Pissed as a newt
W**kered
'Had a little too much'
rat-arsed
'Under the weather'
Over-indulged
I think that about exhausts my supply!
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We have often wondered if "shitfaced" meaning drunk was a regional thing (from the Prairies). Anyone from elsewhere use it regularly? My Newfoundland friend contributed:
Ossified
Polluted
Drunk 'till I'm sober
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Subject: Re: Drunk/pissed etc
We have often wondered if "shitfaced" meaning drunk was a regional thing (from the Prairies). Anyone from elsewhere use it regularly?
The phrase is certainly in use in Michigan to mean drunk, but then, on a global scale, we are practically next-door neighbors.
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Indeed, and Manitoba is even closer to Michigan than Newfoundland!
By the way, the original post which started this off talked about usage of pissed. I use it both ways. Usually the context will help distinguish between angry and drunk. You can always say "pissed off" if you want to be clear about being angry.
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Around here, people say that someone "has a load on" if they're drunk. In my opinion, the phrase seems more closely related to Baby's diapers than to drunkenness. 
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Around here, people say that someone "has a load on" if they're drunk.
In my opinion, the phrase seems more closely related to Baby's diapers than to drunkenness.
i agree, rapunzel! your comment brings to mind a card i received when one of my babies was born, which said something to the effect of "You know you're a redneck when you think the '12-14lbs' label on the diaper package refers to the load it can hold."
as for the original conversation, "pissed" would almost always mean angry around here, but it's not a very nice word to use. for drunkenness, we usually use "lit" or "plastered".
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We have often wondered if "shitfaced" meaning drunk was a regional thing (from the Prairies).
This was in common use when I lived in a house in London, along with a Glaswegian and a couple of Cornish people whose father hailed from the Ukraine.
Don't ask me where it comes from originally...
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