Quote: You're not drunk if you can lie on the floor without holding on

[Jonathan Lighter]

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You must be part Irish.  Happy St. Pat's!

JL

On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 4:47 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 4:19 PM, Jonathan Lighter
> <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > "… hang onto the grass without falling off the earth."
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> I once - once was enough! - experienced a similar feeling: struggling
> to keep from falling out my bunk as it slowly rotated around its long
> axis, after a Dime Night - all hard liquor at ten cents per *straight
> shot*; in its war on weed, the Army *strongly* encouraged alcoholism -
>  at the EM club. And some guys did, in fact, fall out of their bunks,
> one breaking his jaw as a consequence of having fallen out of a top
> bunk onto his face.
>
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> -Wilson
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> All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint
> to come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
> -Mark Twain
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