Slang/folklore for drinking

[Morrus]

"Worshiping the porcelain god" is a common term for what happens if you can't hold your booze.

Speaking on the great white telephone.

 

[GlassJaw]

Speaking on the great white telephone.

More accurately, calling Ralph on the big white phone, because that's what it sounds like.

 

[kenobi65]

I always call bottle openers "church keys". Don't remember where I heard it from.

It's a pretty common euphamism. One story is that it comes from the monks who used to be brewers, but that may well be apocryphal.

When I was in college, one of the local bars was located in an old church; it was, of course, called "The Churchkey."

 

[Chaldfont]

There's the stereotypical "pink elephant" that you can only see when you're drunk.

You mean like this one up the road from Indianapolis on Pendleton Pike?

 

[Morrus]

More accurately, calling Ralph on the big white phone, because that's what it sounds like.

Never heard the Ralph version.

One thing that has always bugged me - in movies, people are portrayed as hallucinating when drunk (as in actually imagining people and things that aren't there). Or, alternatively, you get the "drunk" who sees the hero do something odd, loko at his bottle and throw it away, deciding he's hallucinated it.

I've never once hallucinated while drinking; neither have I ever met anyone who has. It just doesn't have that effect! Hallucinogenic drugs would cause hallucinations; alcohol does not.

 

[ObiAndy]

More accurately, calling Ralph on the big white phone, because that's what it sounds like.

Don't for get these gems:

"Shouting for Huey"

and

"Selling the Buick" (this on sounds like a run-on sentence: WillYouBuyMyBuick!!!!!).

 

[kenobi65]

Yeah, we used "talking to Ralph on the big white phone" a lot, as well as "selling Buicks", and "driving the bus" (imagine what a bus driver looks like, holding that big horizontal steering wheel, then replace the wheel with a toilet bowl).

 

[kenobi65]

You mean like this one up the road from Indianapolis on Pendleton Pike?

Wow, your camera must've been drunk when it took that.

 

[Chaldfont]

I didn't take that pic, it was actually from a web site.

On a side note, I really dig all the crazy statues they made back before the interstate system was completed. Most are gone, but if you drive on state highways you still see a bunch of this kind of stuff. Just on Pendleton Pike alone there is a big cow and a big chicken in addition to that elephant.

 

[megamania]

"Drank cans / bottles of drink"

dead soldiers
tall boys
cold ones
a twelver

"drunken state"

wasted
snookered
two sheets to the wind (don't ask- its what I hear)
tanked
relaxed
feeling good
easy


other various terms or things I've heard

The crawl (so drunk one crawls vs walks)
keep it between the lines (DWI)