In his new book, Drunk: The Definitive Drinker's Dictionary, Paul Dickson, author of The Hidden Language of Baseball and Sputnik, pulls together 2,964 euphemisms for being drunk. The terms range from the obvious ("tipsy," "off his rocker," "blotto") and the not-so-common ("eating dirt," "off me pickle,") to the truly bizarre ("feng schwasted"). My personal favorite? Easy, "talking to Earl on the big white phone," a term I'm sure to use this weekend and, in all likelihood, the rest of my life.
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Friday, September 25, 2009
The Definitive Drinker's Dictionary
In his new book, Drunk: The Definitive Drinker's Dictionary, Paul Dickson, author of The Hidden Language of Baseball and Sputnik, pulls together 2,964 euphemisms for being drunk. The terms range from the obvious ("tipsy," "off his rocker," "blotto") and the not-so-common ("eating dirt," "off me pickle,") to the truly bizarre ("feng schwasted"). My personal favorite? Easy, "talking to Earl on the big white phone," a term I'm sure to use this weekend and, in all likelihood, the rest of my life.
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