Ben Franklin made up 200 terms for being wasted

[hermosabeach]

Ben Franklin made up 200 terms for being wasted

Ben Franklin is often quoted as having said, “Beer is proof God loves us and wants us to be happy.” But he was actually talking about wine. In a 1779 letter to French artist Francois Morellet, Fran…

nypost.com

In the days before snipers hide, people had more time to make lists

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Ben Franklin is often quoted as having said, “Beer is proof God loves us and wants us to be happy.”
In a 1779 letter to French artist Francois Morellet, Franklin began by stating, “In vino veritas . . . Truth is in wine.”


Franklin’s 200 synonyms for ‘being drunk’

• He is Addled
• He’s casting up his Accounts
• He’s Afflicted
• He’s in his Airs
• He’s Biggy
• Bewitch’d
• Block and Block
• Boozy
• Bowz’d
• Been at Barbadoes
• Piss’d in the Brook
• Drunk as a Wheel-Barrow
• Burdock’d
• 
  
  full list and more in link

 

[TheGerman]

I can't wait for Joe Biden's list of 200 terms for sneaking a quick grab in on a young girl or basically any women.

 

[Jscb1b]

Ben Franklin made up 200 terms for being wasted

Ben Franklin is often quoted as having said, “Beer is proof God loves us and wants us to be happy.” But he was actually talking about wine. In a 1779 letter to French artist Francois Morellet, Fran…

nypost.com

In the days before snipers hide, people had more time to make lists

-snip-(full story in link)
Ben Franklin is often quoted as having said, “Beer is proof God loves us and wants us to be happy.”
In a 1779 letter to French artist Francois Morellet, Franklin began by stating, “In vino veritas . . . Truth is in wine.”


Franklin’s 200 synonyms for ‘being drunk’

• He is Addled
• He’s casting up his Accounts
• He’s Afflicted
• He’s in his Airs
• He’s Biggy
• Bewitch’d
• Block and Block
• Boozy
• Bowz’d
• Been at Barbadoes
• Piss’d in the Brook
• Drunk as a Wheel-Barrow
• Burdock’d
• 
  
  full list and more in link

I used to be called fucked up.

 

[rbutcher]

That’s some dedication.

 

[napt0wnc1ty99]

I can't wait for Joe Biden's list of 200 terms for sneaking a quick grab in on a young girl or basically any women.

Had to whisper about his hairy legs

 

[CSGambill]

Seems language was more colorful 280 years ago.

From the article :

While loving the drink itself, Franklin was so contemptuous of out-of- control drunkards that in 1737 he published “The Drinker’s Dictionary,” a list of over 200 alternative terms for drunkenness he had overheard in taverns over the years, in his newspaper The Pennsylvania Gazette.