I see you...

[sgt.null]

“Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll; charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.” Alexander Pope (English Poet, 1688-1744)

[peter]

Geez null, can you tone it down a notch? Some of us are working off hangovers here......

1.Sleep. Rest is your best friend at this point to give your body a recover. It is best to stay in bed so call in to work if you have to, tell them you have the stomach flu. You will sound so horrible on the phone they may believe you (unless they saw you at the bar, not a good idea then).
2.Replenish your body with fruit juice and water.
3.Avoid caffeine. A weak cup of coffee may be okay but a lot of caffeine will continue to dehydrate you, the opposite of what you want right now.
4.Drink orange juice for Vitamin C.
5.Drink a sports drink like Gatorade or Powerade.
6.Eat mineral rich food like pickles or canned fish.
7.In Poland, drinking pickle juice is a common remedy.
8.Drink a Bloody Mary. While the popular phrase “hair of the dog that bit you” may sound logical with a shot of whiskey left in the bottle next to your bed, it’s only temporary. Try a Bloody Mary instead, while your blood is dealing with the new alcohol it is ignoring the old and in the mean time tomato juice and celery are full of vitamins. If you drank the last of the vodka make a Virgin Mary. Another spicy morning after drink option is Hair of the Dog, in which gin and hot sauce are sure to bite your hangover back.
9.Take a shower, switching between cold and hot water.
10.In Ireland it was said that the cure for a hangover is to bury the ailing person up to the neck in moist river sand.
11.Try Alka Seltzer Morning Relief. One reader says that it's all that he and his wife have found that really works for them. He stumbled across this "cure" while his wife was still suffering after two days, within 15 minutes after taking the Alka Seltzer she was fine.
12.Get some exercise. Another reader suggests doing some sort of physical activity. He writes, "In the rare case of having hangover I usually drink about 1-2 liters of water and go outside to do some exercise like mountain climbing, swimming, cycling or just about anything that keeps me sweating." It takes willpower to move like that when standing seems like a challenge, but it is a good theory.
13.The side effects of aspirin, Tylenol and ibuprofen can be magnified when alcohol is in your system, so it is best (even though it may be the first thing you reach for) to avoid them to kill the hangover pain. Aspirin is a blood thinner, just like alcohol, and can intensify its effects and Tylenol (or acetaminophen) can cause more damage to your liver. Ibuprofen can also cause stomach bleeding. So be cautious when going for the quick relief.
14.Watch the video: Hangover Remedies. Jonathan Stewart demonstrates how to make a blended hangover remedy. There are a more than a few ingredients so you may want to have everything organized prior to overindulging.
15.As an antidote, one reader takes a little extra multi B vitamin and drinks a lot of water before going to sleep.

Or you could just get pissed again.

[sgt.null]

1601 O Jove, a beastly fault! And then another fault in the semblance of a fowl; think on ’t, Jove; a foul fault! When gods have hot backs, what shall poor men do? For me, I am here a Windsor stag; and the fattest, I think, i’ the forest. Send me a cool rut-time, Jove, or who can blame me to piss my tallow? Who comes here? my doe? — Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Act 5, Scene 5.

[peter]

"How now, you two cofederate brimstones, where are you swimming with your fine top-knots - to invite Irish bully or Scotch Highlander to scour your cloven furbelows for a petticoat pension? I'll warent your poor cuckolds are hovering about the Exchange to hear what news from Flanders while you, like a couple of hollow-bellied whores are sailing up to Spring Gardens to stuff one end with roast fowl and the other with raw sausage."
(Thames boatmen insulting passengers in other boats as he plys his trade)
Tom Brown c.1700.

[sgt.null]

A knave; a rascal; an eater of broken meats; base, proud, shallow, beggarly, three-suited, hundred-pound, filthy, worsted-stocking knave; a lily-livered, action-taking knave, a whoreson, glass-gazing, super-serviceable finical rogue; one-trunk-inheriting slave; one that wouldst be a bawd, in way of good service, and art nothing but the composition of a knave, beggar, coward, pandar, and the son and heir of a mongrel bitch: one whom I will beat into clamorous whining, if thou deniest the least syllable of thy addition.

King Lear (2.2.14-24)

[peter]

A knave; a rascal; an eater of broken meats; base, proud, shallow, beggarly, three-suited, hundred-pound, filthy, worsted-stocking knave; a lily-livered, action-taking knave, a whoreson, glass-gazing, super-serviceable finical rogue; one-trunk-inheriting slave; one that wouldst be a bawd, in way of good service, and art nothing but the composition of a knave, beggar, coward, pandar, and the son and heir of a mongrel bitch: one whom I will beat into clamorous whining, if thou deniest the least syllable of thy addition.

King Lear (2.2.14-24)

(This may take a while!)

[sgt.null]

waiting /'weɪtɪŋ/
noun attente f;
"no ~" "arrêt et stationnement interdits".
adjective (épith) (taxi, crowd) qui attend/attendait etc;
(reporter) à l'affût;
sb's ~ arms les bras ouverts de qn.
waiting: waiting list~ list noun liste f d'attente;
waiting room~ room noun salle f d'attente.

[peter]

Partake my confidence! No creatures made so mean
But that, some way, it boasts, could we investigate,
It's supreme worth; fulfils by ordinance of fate,
It's momentary task, gets glory all it's own,
Tastes triumph in the world, pre-eminant alone.
Where is that single grain of sand, 'mid millions heaped
Confusedly on the beach, but, did we know, has leaped
Or will leap, would we wait i'the century, some once
To the very throne of things?
(Robert Browning, Fifine at the Fair, 1872)

[sgt.null]

What are the roots that clutch, what branches grow
Out of this stony rubbish? Son of man,
You cannot say, or guess, for you know only
A heap of broken images, where the sun beats,
And the dead tree gives no shelter, the cricket no relief,
And the dry stone no sound of water. Only
There is shadow under this red rock,
(Come in under the shadow of this red rock),
And I will show you something different from either
Your shadow at morning striding behind you
Or your shadow at evening rising to meet you;
I will show you fear in a handful of dust.

T.S. Eliot (1888–1965). The Waste Land. 1922.

[peter]

Sorry Sarge - my last post was supposed to be funny but could have been offensive - just to say it wasn't meant to be, but I took it out anyway!

[sgt.null]

Sorry Sarge - my last post was supposed to be funny but could have been offensive - just to say it wasn't meant to be, but I took it out anyway!

i can find nothing offensive about the browning post?

[peter]

Diplomat ('dIple,maet) n 1 an official, such as an ambassador or first secretary, engaged in diplomacy. 2 a person who deals with people tactfully or skillfully.

[sgt.null]

O mon Dieu, conserve-moi innocente, donne la grandeur aux autres.]
Caroline Matilda

[peter]

He who ascends to mountain-tops shall find
Their loftiest peaks most wrapt in clouds of snow;
He who surpasses or subdues mankind,
Must look down on the hate of those below.
Tho' high above the sun of glory glow'
And far beneath the earth and ocean spread,
Round him are icy rocks, and loudly blow
Contending tempests on his naked head
And thus rewards the toils to which those summits led

Lord (George Gordon) Byron
Childe Harold, Canto iii, Verse 45

[sgt.null]

"The attempt and not the deed confounds us.”

William Shakespeare

[Linna Heartbooger]

Lina!!
I see you!!!

Oooh, I missed this. =) Twas before I'd ever read this thread...

10.In Ireland it was said that the cure for a hangover is to bury the ailing person up to the neck in moist river sand.

The Irish should know... and yet... seems like it's just an excuse for a guy's "buddies" to mess with him after he's gotten drunk.

'I have a silly idea of what God could have said when He made the mountains. First he would say "be mountains." And then He would say, "Be wheels on the mountains." And then He would say, "Be chairs on the mountains." and then He might say "be sirens on the mountains for a police car mountain." And then He might say "be doors on the mountains, and then roof." ' -my kid

(not sure if that fits w/ the format of this thread, though...)

[sgt.null]

(not sure if that fits w/ the format of this thread, though...)

[peter]

"Great things are done when men and mountains meet."
(William Blake 1757-1827)

[sgt.null]

Del Gue: I ain't never seen 'em, but my common sense tells me the Andes is foothills, and the Alps is for children to climb! Keep good care of your hair! These here is God's finest scupturings! And there ain't no laws for the brave ones! And there ain't no asylums for the crazy ones! And there ain't no churches, except for this right here! And there ain't no priests excepting the birds. By God, I are a mountain man, and I'll live 'til an arrow or a bullet finds me. And then I'll leave my bones on this great map of the magnificent...

[Linna Heartbooger]

Well, I guess I couldn't have been too far off, Sarge! LOL!

My kid and I were both delighted with the picture, and with the house that we both initially thought was a rocket!

And I was totally entertained by that last quote. ...rocky mountains? Appalacians?

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