Thread: History's 10 Most Accomplished Drunks

Originally Posted by Boon Mee

Originally Posted by misskit

Hunter S. Thompson is my favorite accomplished drunk.

He was more into psilocybin & THC than booze?

Found a snip from a biography written by E. Jean Carroll, Hunter: The Strange and Savage life of Hunter S. Thompson regarding Thompson's drug and alcohol use.


I have heard the biographers of Harry S. Truman, Catherine the Great, etc., etc., say they would give anything if their subjects were alive so they could ask them some questions. I, on the other hand, would give anything if my subject were dead.

He should be. Oh, yes. Look at his daily routine:

3:00 p.m. rise

3:05 Chivas Regal with the morning papers, Dunhills

3:45 cocaine

3:50 another glass of Chivas, Dunhill

4:05 first cup of coffee, Dunhill

4:15 cocaine

4:16 orange juice, Dunhill

4:30 cocaine

4:54 cocaine

5:05 cocaine

5:11 coffee, Dunhills

5:30 more ice in the Chivas

5:45 cocaine, etc., etc.

6:00 grass to take the edge off the day

7:05 Woody Creek Tavern for lunch-Heineken, two margaritas, coleslaw, a taco salad, a double order of fried onion rings, carrot cake, ice cream, a bean fritter, Dunhills, another Heineken, cocaine, and for the ride home, a snow cone (a glass of shredded ice over which is poured three or four jig[at]gers of Chivas.)

9:00 starts snorting cocaine seriously

10:00 drops acid

11:00 Chartreuse, cocaine, grass

11:30 cocaine, etc, etc.

12:00 midnight, Hunter S. Thompson is ready to write

12:05-6:00 a.m. Chartreuse, cocaine, grass, Chivas, coffee, Heineken, clove cigarettes, grapefruit, Dunhills, orange juice, gin, continuous pornographic movies.

6:00 the hot tub-champagne, Dove Bars, fettuccine Alfredo

8:00 Halcyon

8:20 sleep


The book is available free online here:

The famous biography of Hunter S. Thompson which influenced a generation of college kids. The book can be downloaded for free. - HUNTER: The Strange and Savage Life of Hunter S. Th0mpson by E. Jean Carroll

Originally Posted by snakeeyes

Drunk Boris Yeltsin was found outside White House in underpants trying to hail cab 'because he wanted some pizza

Former Russian president Boris Yeltsin got so drunk during a visit to Washington that he was found standing outside the White House in his underpants trying to hail a cab to go and buy a pizza.
The following night he was mistaken for a drunken intruder when he was discovered stumbling around the basement of his guest house by secret service agents.
The drunken behaviour of Yeltsin, who was known for his fondness for vodka and died two years ago aged 76, were revealed by former US president Bill Clinton.


Drunk Boris Yeltsin found outside White House in underpants trying to hail cab 'because he wanted some pizza' | Daily Mail Online

They don't make nuke-button-access-superpower-leaders like this anymore

"90% of the money I made in my life, I spent on booze and women. The rest, I wasted."

-George Best

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Originally Posted by Paddy Whackery

Originally Posted by snakeeyes

Drunk Boris Yeltsin was found outside White House in underpants trying to hail cab 'because he wanted some pizza

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Drunk Boris Yeltsin found outside White House in underpants trying to hail cab 'because he wanted some pizza' | Daily Mail Online

Shit...us Irish couldn't top that one, not even on Paddy's Day.
Oscar Wilde should have an honourable mention:
"Drink is the curse of the working classes".

Sorry...i didn't do that one justice:
He said "Work is the curse of the drinking classes."
Note to self: don't drink early on Paddy's day.

Originally Posted by Black Heart

-George Best

knew him in his early teens and girls were important then for him.
it's the reason why he came home from Man U cause he missed her.
my last conversation was when he came home and told him he was crazy.
i'd forgotten all about that chat until the day he died
and then it came back like it was yesterday.
His mum was a secret tippler.
and a beautiful lady.

Thanks for sharing Billy.

What is a "tippler?" Drinker?

yes she would hide her wine bottle in the garden.
his dad kept it clean tho
in over 35 yrs. he looked exactly the same, outliving George.

Billy the Kid,

Were your neighbors? Friends? Classmates?


Please do tell.

It's OK. He's been dead for 10 years.

think we're going off topic here

we lived about 2 mins walk from each
not a matie i hung out with but we'd chat now and again in the street.
my sister got closer to him; she was a friend of Barbara.
we went to different schools as he kicked with both feet,
he was 2 yr. older than me.

Malcolm Lowry should, surely, be included in the top ten...

Mr Earl no 11?

Originally Posted by Lantern

What!!!!!!!!!! No Oliver Reed

Looks like a normal Thai bush karoke night there . . .

Originally Posted by billy the kid

think we're going off topic here

You're right on topic, billy. You're talking about a famous drunk.

we lived about 2 mins walk from each
not a matie i hung out with but we'd chat now and again in the street.
my sister got closer to him; she was a friend of Barbara.
we went to different schools as he kicked with both feet,
he was 2 yr. older than me.

Cheers.

you're welcome. i think the reason why he went back on the drink was that some golddigger woman accused him of touching her daughter.
that done his head in.

^ That's horrible. I can't imagine how bad it would feel to be accused of something like that. Particularly unjustly

and when the tabloid comics get their gangsters on the job
'they' can destroy a guy
all for profit.

Quote

" I was ill, and everyone but me could see it "

George Best.

Originally Posted by peaches

Quote

" I was ill, and everyone but me could see it "

George Best.

How true it is - cunning, powerful & baffling & KILLS.

^^^

Always good to see your posts cnx, something to do with
Lucy Liu, I think

Originally Posted by billy the kid

and when the tabloid comics get their gangsters on the job
'they' can destroy a guy
all for profit.

Just like Fatty Arbuckle...

Champions liver on the right

Originally Posted by Paddy Whackery

Fatty Arbuckle...

what/who mean ?

#34
Bukowski, a "laureate of American lowlife". Of which 99.9% of expat yanks in Thailand should read. Just so they can get in their comfort zone.

A year after Oliver Reed died my brother and his family went to a bar in Malta not realising this was where he fatally collapsed.
The barman was there when he lost his life and told my bro. that when Ollie came in with a group of friends he said 'You can turn that music off - the entertainment has just arrived'.
Collapsed at the bar shortly after but truly a never to be forgotten lover of the evil juice.

^ too true. Better to die on your feet than live on your knees. The take-away - live life to the full & bugger the consequences!