Drinking, Schminking, was Re: Ethics, Schmethics

[Barry Arrowsmith]

--- In the_old_crowd at yahoogroups.com, "dungrollin" <spotthedungbeetle at h...> wrote:
> Eloise:
> > Now just to make myself plain, I'm not TT or anything...
> 
> Waldo:
> > As a former drinker and as a therapist...
> 
> Ginger:  
> > As a member of the hard-drinking lower class...
> 
> Kneasy:
> > The town where I live has (reputedly) more pubs per head of 
> > population than anywhere else in the UK...
> 
> Ewe2:
> > Speaking as a well-oiled Aussie, the "6 o'clock swill" referred... 
> 
> SSSusan:
> > Speaking as a former bartender and waitress...
> 
> Dungrollin:
> Well, speaking as a one-time undergraduate, I was quite impressed (à 
> la Harry chez Mrs Cole) with Slughorn offering Harry and Ron a drink 
> *before breakfast*; albeit on a Saturday. Yers. I don't remember 
> ever managing booze before breakfast, though I distinctly remember 
> queuing up outside the pub for opening time at 11am (though not much 
> afterwards, obviously).
> 

Before breakfast, that's a single-minded sybarite for sure - no; never done 
that, though one can hardly class Buck's Fizz as alcoholic, can one? 
It's merely a breath-freshener.

"The whole world is two martinis below par" - Humphrey Bogart.

Only two, mind. Remember Dorothy Parker's stricture:

"One martini is plenty,
Maybe two at the most,
For with three I'm under the table
And with four I'm under the host."

Kneasy