BS: Most notoriotous boozers in history...

Subject: RE: BS: Most notoriotous boozers in history...
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 16 Apr 06 - 11:22 AM

Nikita Kruschev

Boris Yeltsin

Mikhail Gorbachev

Oh. hell! Let's just say anybody who's ever been the head honcho in Russia or the old USSR.

Subject: RE: BS: Most notoriotous boozers in history...
From: GUEST,.gargoyle
Date: 16 Apr 06 - 11:07 AM

Frank Sinatra

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 1915 - 1998

Grant's Brand of Whiskey.

Lincoln was not a man of impulse, and did nothing upon the spur of the moment; action with him was the result of deliberation and study. He took nothing for granted; he judged men by their performances and not their speech.

If a general lost battles, Lincoln lost confidence in him; if a commander was successful, Lincoln put him where he would be of the most service to the country.

"Grant is a drunkard," asserted powerful and influential politicians to the President at the White House time after time; "he is not himself half the time; he can't be relied upon, and it is a shame to have such a man in command of an army."

"So Grant gets drunk, does he?" queried Lincoln, addressing himself to one of the particularly active detractors of the soldier, who, at that period, was inflicting heavy damage upon the Confederates.

"Yes, he does, and I can prove it," was the reply.

"Well," returned Lincoln, with the faintest suspicion of a twinkle in his eye, "you needn't waste your time getting proof; you just find out, to oblige me, what brand of whiskey Grant drinks, because I want to send a barrel of it to each one of my generals."

That ended the crusade against Grant, so far as the question of drinking was concerned.

Winston Churchill

My rule of life prescribed as an absolutely sacred rite smoking cigars and also the drinking of alcohol before, after and if need be during all meals and in the intervals between them. Winston Churchill 1874 - 1965

Peter O Toole

Having caught a wonderful London performance of My Favorite Year I thought, as he stumbled over floor-stand-ash-tray, ..."the guy is drunk." Then catching a cab after the show, it became apparent that they were comic prat-falls when the cabby said, "Mr. O'Toole - was probably drunk again as usual - last night's customers say he couldn't keep from running into the ash-tray."Gargoyle

"I wouldn't have missed one drop of alcohol that I drank," he told Us magazine in 1989. He quit long ago but it's still what everybody wants to know about him. Still drinking? He played a fabulous drunken movie idol in "My Favorite Year" in 1982, and then last year a drunken magazine columnist on the London stage in "Jeffrey Bernard is Unwell," but he's been dry now for more than a decade, he says, taking only countless glasses of water or little green Tic Tacs to keep his mouth wet.

Peter O'Toole to the Last Drop

The Actor on His Life, Half Empty or Totally Full Martha Sherrill. Washington Post, April 24, 1993; D: 1, 7

Sincerely,
Gargoyle

Subject: RE: BS: Most notoriotous boozers in history...
From: Bob the Postman
Date: 16 Apr 06 - 10:45 AM

Evelyn Waugh's doctor asked him how much he drank.
"Four bottles of whisky, three of gin, two of brandy, a case or so of claret, the occasional bottle of hock, and ale ad libitum," replied the great man.
"Good lord, you get through as much as that in a month? It's a wonder you're not dead."
"Not in a month, old boy. Those are my requirments for a week."

Subject: RE: BS: Most notoriotous boozers in history...
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 16 Apr 06 - 10:42 AM

Ulysses S. Grant.

He may be a drunk but he wins battles - I wish I had more drunk generals like him -

allegedly attributed to President Lincoln.

Subject: RE: BS: Most notoriotous boozers in history...
From: Brass Monkey
Date: 16 Apr 06 - 10:38 AM

I think I'll become an alcoholic. I always wanted to make as much sense as Dylan Thomas and John Lennon, I could wax lyrical about different types of intoxication and its effects on me and my mates quite happily. This could be a wonderful start for a whole new career! If the artisitic side didn't work out, I could always become a pilot!

Subject: RE: BS: Most notoriotous boozers in history...
From: Dave (the ancient mariner)
Date: 16 Apr 06 - 10:19 AM

Winston Churchill abhorred drunkenness, he was a social drinker and was in the habit of drinking Champagne at meal times, and whiskey and soda with an occasional brandy. His speech impediment often led people to believe he had a drinking problem, but in fact he was not a real boozer as most people like to think. This is well documented in biography and in interviews with people who knew him (not all of them friendly towards him)

Yours, Aye. Dave

Subject: RE: BS: Most notoriotous boozers in history...
From: DMcG
Date: 16 Apr 06 - 04:29 AM

Noah. After all he started it (so they say)

Subject: RE: BS: Most notoriotous boozers in history...
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 16 Apr 06 - 04:29 AM

Dylan Thomas
Brendan Behan
That bloke out of the Pogues
F Scott Fitzgerald (how do you become an F Scott - wear a kilt, eat short breads, and drink whisky; I suppose)
Sebastian Dangerfield

Subject: RE: BS: Most notoriotous boozers in history...
From: alanabit
Date: 16 Apr 06 - 04:28 AM

After all the painstaking hours they put in at the bar, don't Richard Burton, Joe Cocker, Harry Nilsson and John Lennon all deserve an inebriate mention?

Subject: RE: BS: Most notoriotous boozers in history...
From: Little Hawk
Date: 16 Apr 06 - 02:02 AM

Ulysses S. Grant. He was a drunken failure before the war. He was a drunken president after the war. He seems to have been pretty much sober during it, however... ;-)

Subject: RE: BS: Most notoriotous boozers in history...
From: Gurney
Date: 16 Apr 06 - 01:28 AM

Winston Churchill. And he was world famous.

Subject: RE: BS: Most notoriotous boozers in history...
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 16 Apr 06 - 01:07 AM

Wait on!

Peter O'Toole!
Dean Martin!

Subject: RE: BS: Most notoriotous boozers in history...
From: GUEST,Keith Moon [RIP]
Date: 16 Apr 06 - 12:47 AM

Oliver Reed

I win ..

no point in continuing..

clones, you can close this thread now

Subject: RE: BS: Most notoriotous boozers in history...
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 16 Apr 06 - 12:45 AM

I say that some of Spaw's associates as detailed in his stories would be pretty close to first place.

Subject: RE: BS: Most notoriotous boozers in history...
From: Peace
Date: 16 Apr 06 - 12:24 AM

Macdonald.

Fields.

Churchill.

Subject: BS: Most notoriotous boozers in history...
From: GUEST,Blind DRunk in Blind River
Date: 16 Apr 06 - 12:20 AM

Okay, so the number one has gotta be...and I am flippin' PROUD to say this! John A McDonald!!! The first flippin' Prime Minaster of Canada, eh? And the flippin' guy was tanked most of the time! There's a flippin' roal moddle for yer kids, eh? Totally decent, man.

So, like, who esle we got who was a ntoerios and majerly famuos boozer in histry?

- Shane