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Tuesday, October 02, 2007

Heard on the Shuttle

"Happy hour is when you either don't get drunk enough, or get too drunk to go out later."

Aren't these pretty much contradictory? Doesn't the second suggest that the goal is not too get so drunk? Or is there a happy medium, "drunk enough"? (It may be in bad taste to run this right after a baby post. But this was an undergrad's statement, not a statement of my life philosophy.)

2 Comments:

At 9:22 PM, Blogger Wilson said...

I don't know. It seems to me that, theoretically, you could be aiming for an ideal level of drunkenness. (See: The Ballmer Effect: http://xkcd.com/323/ although in this case we're talking about a level that maximizes your enjoyment over the hour while still enabling you to go out elsewhere afterwards)

I think they are talking about two distinct 'varieties' of happy hour. At one type of happy hour, you get completely hammered. The other type is hardly conducive to drinking at all. I think I can see what they are referring to, on a hypothetical level.

 
At 5:15 PM, Blogger Travis said...

This reminds me of a what I heard a bartender say to a customer a couple of weeks ago.
He was pulling up some un-labeled bottle of liquor from under the counter and, by way of advertising it to the patron in front of him, said "I usually drink it with wine. Of, if I'm drunk, just drink it."

Now that's a bartender you can trust.

 

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