Thanks for the ESPN tip. Plenty of love for my Trojans too... Wait. I'll bet that saounds bad when you're drunk....

In any case don't get so drunk that you taunt the security guards or the TSA even though they probably deserve it :)

Drinking at airports can be expensive. Before deregulation i used AMTRAK between chicago and cleveland going to and from school.Tempted by cheap fares i then switched to Midway Airlines. Due to airport bars i actually ended up spending more on the trip than i would have before deregulation. Who really benefits? Does haliburton control airport bar concessions?

Hmmm, ESPN, Nope don't like 'em, don't like 'em at all. Although I do like this blog so far.

Speaking of Tereeeza, what ever happened to the Wellness Centers? It seems like the idea disappeared once it was ridiculed...

The only time I indulged in a little drinky before a flight, I enjoyed myself thoroughly. Had a nice Grey Goose martini at the bar directly across from my gate. After the drink, I strolled over to the gate and asked if the flight would be boarding soon. "Uh sir, we just finished boarding five minutes ago. The plane just pushed off."

Whooops!

the line's not that much longer; you're just seeing double.

hope you hit the little boy's room before you got in line...

A statement of fact: if the Web had existed when I was in college, I'd have flunked out. No way I ever would have gotten any work done.

I don't know when you were in college, but back in the stone ages we had BITNET. Many's the night I wasted watching the US go to sleep and Europe awaken on a BITNET SEND relay.

Oh yeah. Forgot to mention that BITNET was among the many reasons I got tossed out of both EE and CS and wound up with a degree in Philosophy (my boss wouldn't let me drop out entirely).

The internet is probably partially to blame for me flunking myself out of Purdue University. Damn internet.

You might want to be careful you don't get *too* inebriated.

I don't know if this is a currently common thing on all airlines, or a peculiar quirk of Southwest Airlines' policy, but I've been watching *Airline* on TV, the documentary/reality "day in the life of Southwest" series quite a bit. One of the recurring events - almost one per episode, it seems - is "passenger grounded for attempted FWI (flying while intoxicated.)"

What surprises me is that, while some of these people are belligerent or disruptive, a lot of these people just seem pretty mildly tipsy, maybe a little tired or dozy, but that's not uncommon in airports with or without alcohol. Maybe some would qualify as DUI, but it's not like driving a car equates to being a *passenger* on an airplane!

On the show, they seldom really explain the policy very well, and it's made me curious how widespread this sort of thing is these days. The closest I've seen to a real explanation is something like "passengers must be able to perform emergency procedures," which seems pretty lame.

Any frequent fliers out there have any insight into this?

Well, there's also the distinct possibility that someone who is already drunk will become an angry, belligerent drunk once on board....

Must be a Southwest Airlines thing. Back when I was flying Delta from Portland, OR to Atlanta on a weekly basis, being a bit hammered was par for the course. It took your mind off the fact that you'd already seen the movie seven times.

A statement of fact: if the Web had existed when I was in college, I'd have flunked out. No way I ever would have gotten any work done.

Oh... you have no idea.

The white raisins in gin thing for arthritis is one of those folk remedies that's been around forever. It's highly likely that any of the elderly listening to her speak, had already heard of it, tried it, and found that it's not gonna work for them. Heck my mom even tried this about 15 years ago for the arthritis in her hands.

Cheched out the Theresa story linked above. Am I the only one reading perhaps too much into the website's headline and html tag for that page:

Heinz Kerry Pitches Health Care

(printable version)

I'm just sayin....

"Flying while drunk" is not a Southwest policy item. It is a matter of Federal law.

Federal Air Regulation (FAR) 121.575(c): No certificate holder may allow any person to board any of its aircraft if that person appears to be intoxicated.

Full rule available online through www.faa.gov

After I read your old essay about Tori Cameron and Apligraf, I couldn't resist googling to find out what happened. Here's a link updating her case when she was two years old:

http://www.healthdiary.com/story.php?id=287

9 white raisins soaked in gin, eh? Tanqueray, I presume.

But that's nothin'.

I hear the best remedy for old war wounds - shrapnel in the ass, swollen head, loss of short term (last 20 years) memory, is to occasionally bang some crazy old billionaire heiress, and to wander around the country imitating the sonorous, lowing call of the Asian water buffalo. I hear it works wonders for your health, and you'll be up and windsurfing in no time.

Al,
You still have to worry about the bastard Secret Service assho13s knocking you down. You also forgot about the recuperative powers of pumpkin spice cookies...

A drink before flight is always nice. But, in my experience, a little alcohol goes a lot further once airborn. I get drunk so much faster up there - which makes me a much better flier.

I'm pleased to say I've "smuggled" plastic liquor bottles onto my Southwest flights in the past, and made my own tasty beverages for much le$$. Free cranberry juice and bring-your-own vodka is one of my favorite drinks!

I, on the other hand, have no idea houw I would have survived college (as much of it as I have completed so far, a 2-year degree in roughly three and a half years)without the Internet to keep me from becoming dangerously bored enough to do something truly stupid. And for the classes in which no web-connected computers were available, I pretty much had to survive via solitaire on my PocketPC (it's a good thing I bought the good screen protectors, after a while there were distinct wear spots in the location of the card piles...

Yes, my classes were THAT boring.

Did you know you can polish off 17 martinis between DFW and Sao Paulo?

So now you know why I got arrested while spray painting my name on an overpass in Barueri.

Do you just not like gin?

"Teresa's Cure" sounded good. I will try it. Maybe gin, moscat (or some other liquor or a grappa?) shaken and a couple of white grapes dropped in the glass.

Donkey Kong Jr.?

The original Donkey Kong was superior.

There's a program called Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator that will turn your PC into a classic arcade!