10 Best Things About Booze
Everybody needs a pick-me-up now and again, even if it's just being picked up out of the gutter after a few too many. When we're feeling low, we tend to head over to the Modern Drunkard for pearls of wisdom (make that pearl onions...soaked in vermouth). Today's treat? Their roundup of the 10 best things about liquor, from its ability to unite humanity, to its yin/yang scale from exuberance to hangover.
A small sample:
10. It brings the joy.
"Why on earth aren't people continually drunk? I want ecstasy of the mind all the time."
--Jack Kerouac
There isn't enough joy in the world, and that's a fact. If there was, alcohol would have been dismissed as a mere disinfectant long ago.
I know, I know--we should just get "high on life" and then we wouldn't have to bother with the booze. And I've noticed that it seems to work for some people. What I've also noticed is those people all seem a little, well, insane.
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Posted by Liquor Snob at January 21, 2009 6:03 AM