Comments on: Celebrity drunkards

By: Peter

Peter — Fri, 10 Nov 2006 16:15:22 +0000

Hi Miss C, the prime minister you refered to, Bob Hawke, was a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford and the beer was English, he was Primed rather than Prime at that stage.
BTW he quit drinking when elected to office and did a reasonable job as PM until he went a bit feral towards the end of hi term.

By: Alan

Alan — Tue, 24 Oct 2006 22:15:13 +0000

Appears to be not entirely an American phenomenon. In the Canadian province of Alberta, a few years back, their celebrated Premier (read Governor), a renowned tippler himself of sorts, was roasted crisply in the media for attending a function in a government welfare/unemployment office in a decidedly inebriated state. Seems he bellowed out for all to hear a stern chastisement to all the present recepients that they ought to be ‘getting a job and quit being welfare bums’. Not the most prudent PR manouever for an acting Chief Executive as it were. Humourous all the more so.

By: Sillstaw

Sillstaw — Tue, 24 Oct 2006 19:10:10 +0000

Let’s not forget Mark Twain’s comment, “Whiskey is for drinking. Water is for fighting over.”