" Alcohol provokes the desire but destroy the performance. "
I remember the scene in the movie "Unforgiven" where one of the hired killer was drinking, trying to get over his guilts, asked Clint if it was the same in the old days. Clint answered sarcastically, " I can't remember, I was drunk most of the time. " Even Barry Manilow said in a song "who could ease the pain much better than wine.
" We drink when we're happy, we drink when we're sad. " Every Irishman used to brag and there's even a story that it was a drunk who advised St. Andrew to end the game of Golf after 18 holes. The drunk said, "Since there are 18 rounds of drinks to a bottle of whisky, let us go home after 18 holes."
Wine is also called "spirit" because it brings out the other side of one's personality, usually the "Mr. Hyde part." My favorite cartoon character, Hagar The Horrible, use to say that its not because he drinks a lot of beer he has big guts, but because he has big guts so he can drink a lot beer.
One drunk reasoned out that there are more drunks in heaven than sober ones. It because when you drink, you get drunk ; when you get drunk, you go to sleep ; when you go to sleep, you commit no sin ; when you commit no sin, you go to heaven."
Some people drink because they want someone to talk to. Some don't want to talk so they drink until they get wasted. For most people, drinking is their way to socialize and have good time. And some, they drink to summon their courage to say things they could say when they are sober. But for people who have problems, they drink to drown away their sorrows.
In some unusual cases, drinking is a means of bringing out the hidden artistic attributes of some. Edgar Allan Poe wrote his famous poems and horror tales while he was drunk. So was Ambrose Bierce, a popular American writer, who writes best when he was drunk. Among local writers who were said writes better when they are drinking are Nick Joaquin and Rod Reyes.
The Prohibition Act of 1920, banning the sale of alcoholic drink, created more problems than the vice it is trying to get rid of. The illegal sale and transport of alcoholic drinks or "bootlegging" gave rise to organized crime. Mafia and gangsters like Al Capone became public figures in the prohibition era. It also phrased the idiom - "the real McCoy" - a term used by bootleggers to say that their whisky came from Edinburg distillery, G. Mackay and not a fake one.
"The Drunken Master" established Jacky Chan as an international superstar. The style is not really an exaggeration of the martial art prowess of adapting the moves of a drunk in fighting. When fighting defensively, playing possum or acting hurt, is a way to lure your opponent to attack recklessly making him open to counter moves.
Wine, liquor, drinks, or spirits, no matter what you call it, have always been a part of human history. It played a big part in the development of human culture, how they used it and how they try to cure and solve the problems it created. One relative even gave me this advice :
Wine is a good partner of every celebration. It could also be building blocks of a good friendship and some relationship. But its only good when it goes to your stomach. Once it goes to one's head, it works in reverse, for whatever you want to mend will be broken. And whatever you want to forget may turn out to be one that can't be forgotten. Just drink moderately, to double the fun, to share the joy, and not to cause any trouble.
Two drunks were arguing. The older guy said - "This is where I live." The younger guy said - " No, this is where I live." The older guy said - "You're wrong, this is my house." The younger guy countered - "You are mistaken, I live here." Then an old woman came out and said to the older guy - " Will you stop arguing and get it, and take your son with you."
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