"drunk riding"

[Jonathan Lighter]

The real question remains: regardless of how much more idiomatic "ride a
motorcycle" may be, is there a significant number of people inane enough to
believe that "drunk driving" laws do not apply - or could be argued in court
not to apply - to motorcyclists?

JL
On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 5:20 PM, Benjamin Zimmer <
bgzimmer at babel.ling.upenn.edu> wrote:

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> On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 4:33 PM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>
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> > And on the other hand, is there drunk piloting (for those at the wobbly
> helm of a motorboat)?
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> That's usually called, unimaginatively, "drunk boating." Various
> states have passed drunk boating legislation on the model of
> (terrestrial) drunk driving.
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