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

[Jonathan Lighter]

Maybe it was "...hang onto a blade of grass...."

Ha! Close enough! After 20+ years:

http://www.spreadshirt.com/an-irishman-is-never-drunk-C3376A4138189

JL

On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 5:01 PM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>wrote:

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> You must be part Irish.  Happy St. Pat's!
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> 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:
> > > "=85 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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> > to come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
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