Tuesday, February 22 2005 @ 03:06 PM CST By Cloudesley_Hobbs Views: 48585
Beer, wine, and spirits come in all flavours – why shouldn’t our descriptions of their pleasant effects do the same? The National Pist proudly presents as many ways to say you’re drunk as we could think of while sitting around getting good and Guinness-headed. If there are any notable omissions, by all means rescue us from our ignorance and let us know!
Enjoy!
A. Addled, Ale’d, Alight, A few shades to the wind.
B. Bagged, Badgered, Ban jaxed, Bashed, Battered, Been drinking, Bent, Bladdered, Blind, Blasted, Blathered, Blitzed, Blotto, Boiled, Bombed, Brahms & Liszt, Buckled, Buzzed.
C. Cabbaged, Campaigning, Canned, Chevy Chased, Clobbered, Creamed over, Crocked.
D. Dead drunk, Dean Martinized, Decimated, Discombobulated, Dipsomaniatic, Dizzy, Drowned, Drunk, Drunk as a Lord, Drunk as a skunk, Drunken.
E. Etched, Ethanol engorged , Ethanolized, Etherized, Euthanized.
F. Fecked, Feeling it, Finished, Flushed, Flying, Frothy, Fruit looped, F*cked, F*cked
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Authored by:
Gharlans on
Tuesday, January 17 2006 @ 10:21 PM CST
The phrase is not "shades to the wind," it's, as marvin kist says, "sheets to the wind," generally "3 sheets to the wind."
It's a sailing reference. When the "sheets" (sails, although on a boat "sheets" are the ropes that control the sails) are "to the wind," they are flapping wildly because you either a) haven't adjusted them correctly, or b) are sailing (or at least attempting, it doesn't work too well) straight into the wind, so the sails aren't going to work.
Hence, when a sailor is drunk, they tend to be, rather incompetently, "three sheets to the wind."