Why Not to Dance
From today's NYT on drinking in Britain:
Churchill began each day with a whisky and soda; he "slurped through the war on a tidal wave of Champagne and brandy," writes Ben Macintyre in The Times of London. Drink also featured heavily in the life of George Brown, a Labor foreign secretary in the 1960's, who is once said to have stumblingly invited a guest in flowing purple robes at a reception in Peru to dance. But it was not to be.
"First, you are drunk," the guest is said to have replied. "Second, this is not a waltz; it is the Peruvian national anthem. And third, I am not a woman; I am the Cardinal Archbishop of Lima."
posted by JAB at 10:04 AM
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This rubish from the Times (of New York) article:
"Part of the problem is that in British pubs, now able to stay open later under a recent law, drinking is not a Continental-style accompaniment to a meal or conversation, but an end in itself."
First, if you've ever been kept awake by the nightly drunken shouting on the Left Bank in Paris (in French, so you know it's not British football hooligans), you know the second part is rubish. Second, did anybody ever consider that the fact that the pubs close at half-ten might be the reason that the lads have to stay focused on their pints to not end up sober by 11?
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