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How are you feeling this morning? Oh, yes, you were the life of the party. We shot a video and have already uploaded it onto YouTube. Hopefully it’ll go viral. In the meantime, get your head together by trying one of the hangover cures used by famous actors, writers, or celebrities. Here’s what Robert Mitchum used:
He made friends with hard-drinking crooner Frank Sinatra, who was indebted to the Night of the Hunter actor for a trusted alcohol antidote, dubbed by Mitchum as Mother’s Milk. The Ramos Gin Fizz is a mix of gin, lemon juice, lime juice, egg white, sugar, cream, orange flower water, and soda water. It seemed to work for Sinatra, who took to calling Mitchum “mother” for years to come and supposedly even mailed him a card every Mother’s Day in thanks. The Ramos Gin Fizz was also said to be a fave of Doors frontman Jim Morrison.
Link -via Hell in a Handbasket | Image: Warner Bros.
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A lot of good, horrifying stories begin with “I was drunk, so I got on the Internet…” and go downhill from there. Some people even shop online while sloshed:
“I have my account linked to my phone, so it’s really easy,” said Tiffany Whitten, of Dayton, Ohio, whose most recent tipsy purchase made on her smartphone — a phone cover — arrived from Amazon much to her surprise. “I was drunk and I bought it, and I forgot about it, and it showed up in the mail, and I was really excited.”
And online retailers have noticed:
At QVC, the television shopping channel, traffic and viewers rise around noon, then quiet down until after 7 p.m. Then items like cosmetics and accessories sell briskly. “Call them girl treats — they seem to attract a really strong following once you get past dinnertime,” said Doug Rose, senior vice president for multichannel programming and marketing for the company. “You can probably come to your own conclusion as to what’s motivating her.”
Still, the nighttime spike requires delicacy among retailers: for reasons of propriety, they do not want to be seen as encouraging drunken shopping, and many people who inadvertently buy products in that state would most likely return them at high rates. On the other hand, a happy customer can lead to higher sales.
“In a shopping context, alcohol would lift people’s moods and make them feel more relaxed,” said Nancy Puccinelli, an associate fellow at the Oxford’s Saïd Business School who studies consumer behavior. “If we see a product and we feel good, we will evaluate the product more positively.”
Link -via Marginal Revolution | Photo (unrelated) by Flickr user somegeekintn
Hannah Hart is drunk. Or she’s pretending to be drunk. At any rate, she has a webcam, a kitchen, and a hunger for a grilled cheese sandwich. Don’t we all? This is a great idea for a show, but it needs spinoffs like My Drunk Metal Shop and My Drunk Day Care Center. Content warning: some foul language.
via Urlesque | Hart’s Twitter Feed
DrunkenNES is a video game controlled by breathing into breathalyzer built into a modified game cartridge. It was developed by Baltsy Adams, pictured above. Points are awarded based upon level of intoxication (the drunker the player, the higher the score). This video illustrates game play.
Video Link and Creator’s Blog via Urlesque | Photo: dcpop
Police in Bochum, Germany, say that a man was shot in the head with a .22 caliber bullet at a New Year’s Eve party in 2004 or 2005 (the victim was unsure because he was drunk at the time). He didn’t notice until he recently went to a doctor to get treated for head pain:
Presented with the 5.6mm projectile, the man recalled he had received a blow to the head around midnight at a New Year’s party “in 2004 or 2005”, but had forgotten about it because he had been “very drunk”, a police spokesman said.
“He told us he remembered having a sore head, but that he wasn’t really one for going to the doctor,” the spokesman said.
At the link, you can see an x-ray image of the man’s head.
Link | Photo (unrelated) via Flickr user JinglyJon used under Creative Commons license
Red-collared lorikeets in Australia exhibit signs of drunkenness at the end of the rainy season, most likely brought on by drinking fermented nectar. They behave much the way humans do when inebriated only with a little less screeching and more flapping of wings. The only thing sadder than a drunken lorikeek is a lorikeet with a massive hangover from swilling plonk. Sweetened porridge and fresh fruit for breakfast the morning after sets them straight.
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Letters of Note has a form letter from the 9th century found in western China produced by the Dunhuang Bureau of Etiquette. They had insisted officials issue letters of apology to dinner hosts after any embarrassing drunken escapades. The offender was supposed to recopy the characters in their own hand while inserting the recipient’s name. The translation:
Yesterday, having drunk too much, I was intoxicated as to pass all bounds; but none of the rude and coarse language I used was uttered in a conscious state. The next morning, after hearing others speak on the subject, I realised what had happened, whereupon I was overwhelmed with confusion and ready to sink into the earth with shame.
