Wednesday, June 15, 2005

Shickered, tanked, cacko and full as a goog

There are a lot more terms for drunkenness than I knew, according to The Drunktionary. It even has a few Australianisms in its pages, which is entirely appropriate, though under-represented.

If its editor came to Australia, we could mention "full as a Catholic school" and give him a whole new lexicon -- with a good couple of dozen terms just for vomiting. Like, "call Ruth", "go to Europe" (both onomatopoeic, as is "meet Herb"), "drive the white bus" and "call long distance on the white telephone", which both refer to the bathroom utensil, the latter denoting projectile behaviour.

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