Who Hit John? and other drinking terminology....

[the ringo kid]

Even though I don't crave the liquid spirits, I always like this drinking phrase. I also like: Another Dead Soldier-meaning-another empty bottle.

And speaking of drinking--what the heck is the name of the song these words belong to? My dad used to sing it and I don't remember much of the song.

I was sitting in O'Reilly's bar listening to tales of blood and thunder when a man comes in singing tales of blood and thunder singing piddly eye ay piddly eye oh ......... something about a one eyed reilly............

Dunno if its a nasty song or not? but one I barely remember my dad used to sing to us young'uns.

 

[walkin jack]

I was always kind of partial to: Knee walin', Snot slingin' drunk. Not that anyone has ever used that term to describe me....

 

[doublesharp]

Show me the way to go home

I'm tired and I wanna go to bed

Had a little drink about an hour ago and it went straight to my head...

Been on a bender, on a toot, heard Jimmy Buffett sing about commode hugging drunk and I've been there too.

Been knee walking drunk, been one-eyed drunk, probably wore a lampshade for a hat a time or two but I don't remember.

But come Feb 19th it will be 20 years since I've been any kind of drunk because I haven't had a drink of booze since 2-19-1998, Thank You Jesus.

 

[the ringo kid]

Some funny ones to come I'm sure. Anyone knpw about the drinking song I'm sure I butchered? Ive heard a partial rendition of it towards the very end of the movie: Halls of Montezuma-as sung by a character actor (Bert Freed- while cooking up a batch of Jungle juice-using his trusty still)

until interrupted when a platoon member arrives-mud-encrusted-badly wounded and dies.
Richard Hylton-the mud-encrusted Marine that dies....

 

[Iggy]

Did a little bit of drinking in college, but became a cop while still in school.
Bar fights every night with football players and such.. Quit the PD and went on the WHP to get away from all that.

Then I learned the horrors of drunks on the highways.
I came to hate drunks.

I may have a beer or a drink once in a few months, but there's no way I could ever allow myself to be in a condition to cause the kind of things I have seen.

 

[Marshwheeling]

I spill that much.

 

[rustythread]

"Giddy-ey-ay, giddy-eye-ay, gidddy-eye-ay for the One-eyed Reilly...try it on your own bass drum. "

One of those raunchy tunes I picked up in lieu of an education my first time around at college.

 

[jscheck]

Someone who can post a link on this needs to put in some "Irish Rovers" I'm thinkin'!

 

[JayFramer]

Coming from a proud family of alcoholics and drunks, we've plenty of names for it. "Tipsy", "blitzed", but my favorite would have to be "white girl wasted"!

 

[Protocall_Design]

Some guys I used to work with told me - you're not really drunk if you can lie on the floor without holding on...

 

[Bekeart]

I googled (I was sitting in O'Reilly's bar listening to tales of blood and thunder lyrics)

Found NAUGHTY lyrics for O'Reily's Daughter.

Bekeart

 

[DeathGrip]

Three sheets to the wind.

 

[BC38]

We used to call it "lip-walkin' drunk"
Or just "lip-walkin" for short....

 

[kozmic]

I like to wave my hands over my beer and tell folks "Now for my magic trick, watch me pull a buzz out of this glass".

 

[ExcitableBoy]

A Navy man never gets drunk... he just gets "a little tired."

I've had to take a nap or two over the years.

 

[Stevens]

I've heard, in Georgia, "Knee walking & mumbling drunk"
and somewhere else, "Stumbling down the railroad track, complainin' about the low banisters."
Steve W

 

[sheepdawg]

Well at the moment I'm chasing the cold away with some Eagle Rare. One of the old timers I used to work with long ago called drinking "getting my head charged." I've used the term now for at least 40 years.

 

[Iggy]

Knee walkin' and gutter crawlin'

Drunker than a waltzin' pissant.

 

[sigp220.45]

Rooster Cogburn: That is genuine, double-rectified busthead!

 

[JohnRippert]

Been many a year since I last made an offering to the porcelain god, and I am quite thankful for it.