Hi Peter,
I'm afraid I must admit, back in my drinking days I wasn't too discriminating, 'specially 'round closing time.
It's kinda like the old joke...
What's the difference between a Dog & a Fox?
Oh, I reckon just about eight beers.
Speaking of Beer, here's a few quotes you might not have heard...
Time is never wasted when you're wasted all the time. --Catherine Zandonella
Abstainer a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure. --Ambrose Bierce
I never drink anything stronger than gin - before breakfast.
A woman drove me to drink and I didn't even have the decency to thank her.
What contemptible scoundrel has stolen the cork to my lunch? --W.C. Fields
Beauty lies in the hands of the beerholder.
Sir, if you were my husband, I would poison your drink. --Lady Astor to Winston Churchill. His reply -- Madam, if you were my wife, I would drink it.
Work is the curse of the drinking classes. --Oscar Wilde
When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading. --Henny Youngman
Life is a waste of time, time is a waste of life, so get wasted all of the time and have the time of your life.
I'd rather have a bottle in front of me, than a frontal lobotomy. --Tom Waits
24 hours in a day, 24 beers in a case. Coincidence?
It's better to have a beer in hand than gas in tank.
Life is too short to drink cheap beer.
Beer - it's not just for breakfast anymore.
Beer - Nature's Diuretic.
Beer. If you can't taste it, why bother!
One more drink and I'd be under the host. --Dorothy Parker
When I heated my home with oil, I used an average of 800 gallons a year. I have found that I can keep comfortably warm for an entire winter with slightly over half that quantity of beer. --Postpetroleum Guzzler, Dave Barry
Without question, the greatest invention in the history of mankind is beer. Oh, I grant you that the wheel was also a fine invention, but the wheel does not go nearly as well with Pizza --Dave Barry
The problem with the world is that everyone is a few drinks behind. --Humphrey Bogart
Friends don't let friends drink Light Beer.
Draft beer, not people!
Adhere to Schweinheitsgebot. Don't put anything in your beer that a pig wouldn't eat. --David Geary
Why is American beer served cold? So you can tell it from urine. --David Moulton
People who drink light "beer" don't like the taste of beer; they just like to pee a lot. --Capital Brewery, Middleton, WI
"I feel sorry for people who don't drink. When they wake up in the morning, that's as good as they're going to feel all day." --Frank Sinatra
"When we drink, we get drunk When we get drunk, we fall asleep. When we fall asleep, we commit no sin. When we commit no sin, we go to heaven. So, let's all get drunk and go to heaven!" --Brian O'Rourke
"To some it's a six-pack, to me it's a Support Group. Salvation in a can!" --Dave Howell
It seems that even Men of the Cloth get a bit thirsty now & then...
A priest, a pastor, and a rabbi are walking down the street on a hot day and are quite thirsty. They pass a busy bar and want to go in and get a drink but have no money. But the priest comes up with an idea that he thinks might work, so he goes in alone, telling to others that if his idea works they can all get free drinks. He orders his drink, and when he'sfinished with it, the bartender gives him his tab.
The priest says, "But son,... I already paid for the drink!"
The bartender says, "I'm terribly sorry father but it's really busy in here and I must have forgotten."
The priest goes out and tells the pastor and the rabbi what happened, so the pastor goes in next. The pastor orders his drink and then informs the bartender that he already had paid when the bartender asks him for the money. Again the bartender apologizes.
Finally the rabbi goes in and orders his drink. Again the bartender gives him the tab and the rabbi tells him, "Son, I paid you when I ordered the drink."
"I'm terribly sorry rabbi," says the bartender, "I don't know what's wrong with me, but your the third man of the cloth that I've done this to."
"I'm sorry son," says the rabbi, "but I'm in a terrible hurry,... Just give me my change for the $20 I gave you, and I'll be on my way!
So, in case it's not clear just yet, as anyone who's done a bit of drinking knows, and as our 'ole Buddy Mickey Gilley is right ready to point out...
Y'all Have A Good One Now Ya' Heer!
Phil