Wednesday, October 17, 2007

Uncle Ben









Before the revolution Benjamin Franklin wrote 229 words for a drunk.
Here are some of them:

He' s casting up the accounts
He's pissed in the brook
His head is full of bees
He sees the bears
He's cherry merry
He's wamble crop'ed
He's half way to Concord
He's killed his dog
He's eaten a toad and a half for breakfast
He's groatable
He's dizzy as a goose
He's globular
He's loose in the hilts
He's going to Jerusalem
He clips the King's English
He sees two moons
He eats the cocoa nut
He's oil'd
He's among the Philistines
He's wasted his paunch
He's religious
He's been too free with Sir Richard
He's like a rat in trouble
He's double tongu'd
He's tramel'd
He's got Indian vapours
He's out of the way