Category Archives: Drinking

GLATT BACCHUS by Peter Nolan Smith

February 5, 2014 – 3:54 pm

These days most people in America survive from paycheck to paycheck and New York’s Diamond District has been feeling the pinch, so that my bosses Richie Boy and his father Manny couldn’t offer me a place behind the counter upon my return from the Orient. “It’s brutal out there.” Manny always kvetched about business, but […]

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Na zda-ró-vye Nyet

August 27, 2013 – 7:34 pm

Soviet Russia attempted three times to curtail alcohol consumption. The last temperance movement was in 1985-1987 under Mikhail Gorbachev. Vodka and other spirits were rationed throughout the USSR and public drunkenness was punished by prison time. The loss of tax revenue was in the hundreds of billions of rubles and this economic shortfall led to […]

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Hang-Over Cure #1

June 12, 2013 – 9:03 pm

This cure comes from the WORST CASE SCENARIO SURVIVAL CALENDER. 1.) Avoid pills before, during, or after drining to excess. They will fuck you up worst than the hang-over. 2.) Drink lots of fluids. OJ and Tomato Juice contain potassium which handles the wobbly feeling of a good night’s drunk. 3.) Vitamins. A B-12 shot […]

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Man’s First Words

May 9, 2013 – 8:46 pm

The University of Reading in England has determined that two dozen words have survived the fifteen millennium since the end of the recent Ice Age such as “You, hear me! Give this fire to that old man. Pull the black worm off the bark and give it to the mother. And no spitting in the […]

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Beer Logic

May 6, 2013 – 6:04 pm

Woman: Do you drink beer? Man: Yes Woman: How many beers a day? Man: Usually about 3 Woman: How much do you pay per beer? Man: $5.00 which includes a tip Woman: And how long have you been drinking? Man: About 20 years, I suppose Woman: So a beer costs $5 and you have 3 […]

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