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Top Ten Tuesday: Top 10 Drunk Phrases

April 7, 2009 By Jay Brooks

For my 12th Top 10 list I’m feeling word nerdy, so it’s time to break out the Drunk Words, a project I worked on several years ago and finally got back on line last year. One of things I absolutely love about the English language is just how many words we have for the same thing, especially colloquialisms, better known as slang. If you accept the anthropologist theory that what’s important to a culture can be deduced by the number of words it has for certain aspects of its culture (which I don’t, BTW) then the nearly 2,000 words for being drunk would say quite a bit. Only sex and parts of the body seem to have more. Anyway, my choices are based simply on the way the words sound or some other ephemeral quality that I like, like cleverness or the pure unabashed silliness of the phrase. For this list, I stuck to phrases rather than single words, which I’ll reserve for a later top ten list. There are so many great drunken phrases to choose from, take a look at the list and let me know your faves. Anyway, here’s List #12:
 

Top 10 Drunk Phrases
 

Called Earl on the Big White Phone (sometimes it’s Ralph that’s called)
Breath Strong Enough to Carry Coal With
Sir Richard Has Taken Off His Considering Cap
Amicably Incandescent
Laughing at the Carpet
Nicely Irrigated with Horizontal Lubricant
Put to Bed with a Shovel
Got His Snowsuit On and Heading North
Cork High and Bottle Deep
Diluted the Blood in His Alcohol System

 

It was really difficult to keep the list to ten, and a great many colorful phrases were left on the cutting room floor. Here’s a few more that almost made the list:

Blue Around the Gills, Brahms & Liszt [Cockney], Full Up to the Brain, Got Up to the Third Story, Has Taken Hippocrates’ Grand Elixr, In Tipium Grove, Letting the Finger Ride the Thumb, The Malt is Above the Water, Moist Around the Edges, Shellacked the Goldfish Bowl, Sniffed the Barmaid’s Apron, Swallowed a Hare, and Under the Affluence of Incohol.

Let me know your favorites, and if you see any you know of that are missing from the list, please post a comment and I’ll add it.

 

Also, if you have any ideas for future Top 10 lists you’d like to see, drop me a line.
 

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Comments

  1. Michael Kiesling says

    April 7, 2009 at 5:10 pm

    I was at a wedding on the Jersey Shore, just north of Atlantic City, a few years back and learned the phrase “Got tuned up last night.”

    To use in a sentence, “The boy and I are gonna get tuned up before we see Springsteen at the Meadowlands.”

    -Motor

  2. Mario (Brewed For Thought) says

    April 7, 2009 at 10:37 pm

    Not necesarily a common phrase, but it always makes me smile. At my bachelor party. on the eve of the wedding, one of my groomsmen got rather intoxicated and laid on the floor of the living room next to cases full of butterflies (wedding props, don’t ask), prompting him to drunkenly roll around mumbling, “Butterflies, Butterflies! Butterflies around my head!”

  3. Frank M says

    April 9, 2009 at 10:19 am

    “He had a case of the wobbly boot”(Australian-thanks Elk!)

  4. Brent Ainsworth says

    April 11, 2009 at 9:28 am

    I was almost crying laughing about this list. Certainly you could do a top 10 about terms for throwing up, but maybe that would be too sophomoric for your sophisticated site. And now, after I make an offering to the porcelain gods, I shall depart by driving the drunk bus.

  5. Ruben says

    February 4, 2010 at 11:19 am

    Let’s Kick Part this Starty!

    Officer, I swear to Drunk i’m not god….

    No officer, there’s no blood in my alcohol system!

    One morning after a heavy (and I mean Heavy) night out, my mate Liam and I woke up in his bedroom. In the middle of the afternoon, the housekeeper abruptly disturbed our hangoverish sleeping and kicked us out the bedroom. We walked down to the living room wondering what the fuck she was so mad about…
    Once we get to the living room, Liam’s father (an old school Aussie) goes: “Hey Liam, Ketut is mad cuz you parked your tiger all over the bathroom last night”

    ????????
    Parked the tiger?

    “Yeah, you spewed all over the place son, she wasn’t happy about that…”

    Peace

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