All about the Demon Drink?

I can only relate: When I came home from surfing, my wife just went to stay with her mother and didn't leave a note...

Guessing the fridge was on the fritz but sure there's more to it I'm just not getting . . . Not unlike those darned mystery pictures.
 
That Guy said:
I can only relate: When I came home from surfing, my wife just went to stay with her mother and didn't leave a note...

Guessing the fridge was on the fritz but sure there's more to it I'm just not getting . . . Not unlike those darned mystery pictures.
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I think the key word is "it's" - she was referring to their marriage, but being the usual practical male he thought she meant the fridge. :D

Good one, Michael!
 
This usual dumb-male narrative requires more than one reading?! Seriously?!

It's the same old song... women are smart, men are dumb. Surely we all see it regularly in the media! Wife has had it with dumb husband fishing, and leaves. Dumb male can't understand the simple message and thinks she meant the fridge due to his lack of ability to understand anything but fishing and beer.

And of course, the only important thing to the typical dumb male is was that the beer was cold.

Again... count your blessings, fellow fisher, count your blessings!


 
AHHHH..good ol' W.C....one of my all time favs! In a lot of his movies you have to listen closely to hear his muttering...they are some of his funniest lines, and some are pretty risque for the time.

Thanks for posting that That Guy..gave me a much needed chuckle today.
 




W.C. Fields Quotes:
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Man: I have no sympathy for a man who is intoxicated all the time.
WC: A man who's intoxicated all the time doesn't need sympathy.

Man (to WC): You're drunk!
WC: Yeah, and you're crazy. And I'll be sober tomorrow and you'll be crazy for the rest of your life.

Christmas at my house is always at least six or seven times more pleasant than anywhere else. We start drinking early. And while everyone else is seeing only one Santa Claus, we'll be seeing six or seven.

I feel like a midget with muddy feet had been walking over my tongue all night.

During one of my treks through Afghanistan, we lost our corkscrew. We were compelled to live on food and water for several days.

Sleep...the most beautiful experience in life--except drink.

It's a wonderful thing, the D.T.'s. You can travel the world in a couple of hours. You see some mighty funny and curious things that come in assorted colors.

I've been on a 46-year diet of olives and alcohol. The latter I consume. The former I save and use over again in more alcohol.

A woman drove me to drink, and I'll be a son-of-a-gun but I never even wrote to thank her.

In response to a waiter who'd offered him a Bromo Seltzer for a hangover, Fields said: Ye Gods, no! I couldn't stand the noise.

I never drank anything stronger than beer before I was twelve.

Some weasel took the cork out of my lunch...

Say anything that you like about me except that I drink water.

I exercise extreme self control. I never drink anything stronger than gin before breakfast.

Say, Mr. Fields, I read in the paper where you consumed two quarts of liquor a day. What would your father think about that?
WC: He'd think I was a sissy.

Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's house unless they have a well-stocked bar.

Thou shalt not kill anything less than a fifth.

Now don't say you can't swear off drinking; it's easy. I've done it a thousand times.


How well I remember my first encounter with The Devil's Brew. I happened to stumble across a case of bourbon--and went right on stumbling for several days thereafter.


Back in my rummy days, I would tremble and shake for hours upon arising. It was the only exercise I got.



 
William Claude was funny but his eventual blacklisting by the studio heads, as well as his delirium tremens toward the end, make a sad statement about the effects of alcohol.
 
SifuPhil said:
William Claude was funny but his eventual blacklisting by the studio heads, as well as his delirium tremens toward the end, make a sad statement about the effects of alcohol.
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Yes, even though we joke about alcohol and it's effects, the devastation it causes to the drinker and their families is certainly no joking matter....many talented individuals have been brought down by the demon drink.

Nowadays, drugs seem to be the poison of choice in a lot of addiction cases. No one seems to think the effects of drugs are funny or makes jokes about drug addicts.
 
And yet . . . alcohol remains legal (as it should in a free society) and its use touted, encouraged and admired. Ahhh, the power of big and bigger business.
 
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