"And you, Lady Astor, are ugly. But I shall be sober in the morning."
(I heard this quotation years ago. I came across it this a.m. and read about Winston Churchill and his drinking. It sounds like he was such a heavy drinker, he probably never really woke up "sober". I have provided the site's address below it. I found the next to the last sentence of my cut and pastes below very interesting .....)
BTY
"Boer war...... Sent out to the front line, he took with him 36 bottles of wine, 18 bottles of ten-year old scotch, and 6 bottles of vintage brandy (a drink he believed was essential to a stable diet). Clearly Churchill had better access to alcohol than most people on the South African front: his stores were said to contain "many bottles of whiskey, claret, and port."
"Even as Prime Minister, Churchill refused to moderate his drinking. He believed Europeans liked leaders who could hold their liquor, so he did nothing to discourage rumors about his alcoholic excess. Churchill admitted he relied on alcohol. He always had a glass of whiskey by him, and he drank brandy and champagne both at lunchtime and dinner."
Some believe Churchill's heavy drinking caused his decline as Prime Minister. As Lord Moran commented: "It makes his speech more difficult to understand and fuddles what is left of his wits; and yet he does not attempt to control his thirst." When the subject was raised with Churchill, he replied enigmatically: Is alcohol a food?"
"In the 10 years of retirement before he died, Churchill drank more than ever. He never missed having a bottle of champagne for lunch and very often had another one for dinner. One visitor from the period noted: "There is always some alcohol in his blood, and it reaches its peak late in the evening after he has had two or three scotches, several glasses of champagne, at least two brandies, and a highball but his family never sees him the worst for drink."
That was the most remarkable thing about Churchill: he always seemed perfectly sober. Raised as an aristocrat, he believed drunkenness to be contemptible and disgusting, and a fault in which no gentleman indulged.
But was Churchill an alcoholic? He drank so much for so long that, in the end, no-one could really tell."
The important question here ??? ... am I an alcoholic ??? ... ... ... nothing else really matters to me ... It may make for an interesting story, but others drinking habits are not for me to judge ... others will ultimately judge us by our deeds ... and alcohol has affected my past deeds and therefore others had a very low opinion of me ... that is changing for the better as long as I remain sober ...
Some people are perhaps just heavy drinkers ... my drinking is all that matters, I went way beyond just 'heavy drinking' ... I went to the 'insane amount' of drinking ... and I pray I never return to those days ... Churchill was a remarkable leader and I think it was good that he retired when he did ... so I prefer to remember his accomplishments rather than focus on his drinking habits ... just say'n ... ... ... (Like it says on my AA medallion, "To Thine Own Self Be True" ...) ...
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'Those who leave everything in God's hand will eventually see God's hand in everything.'
I'm glad you think so, Pappy....although my way of doing it by posting his drinking habits may not have been the right way to go about it and sorry if anyone was offended by it. Certainly wasn't my intention.
