mentalflossr:

Ben Franklin turned 305 today! To celebrate, here’s a list of expressions meaning “inebriated” that Franklin first published in the Pennsylvania Gazette on January 6, 1737.

The Drinkers Dictionary

A
He is Addled,
He’s casting up his Accounts,
He’s Afflicted,
He’s in his Airs.
 
B
He’s Biggy,
Bewitch’d,
Block and Block,
Boozy,
Bowz’d,
Been at Barbadoes,
Piss’d in the Brook,
Drunk as a Wheel-Barrow,
Burdock’d,
Buskey,
Buzzey,
Has Stole a Manchet out of the Brewer’s Basket,
His Head is full of Bees,
Has been in the Bibbing Plot,
Has drank more than he has bled,
He’s Bungey,
As Drunk as a Beggar,
He sees the Bears,
He’s kiss’d black Betty,
He’s had a Thump over the Head with Sampson’s Jawbone,
He’s Bridgey.

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Sondheim, on West Side Story: “I wanted this to be the first musical to use f—k. In fact, I first used it in ‘Krupke.’ I wanted the last line in ‘Krupke’ to be ‘Gee Officer Krupke, f—k you.’ And we played the song for a record company, Columbia Records, who was going to do the album and also for a lady who was raising money for the producer at the time, and she blanched visibly and clearly was upset by it. She didn’t complain. She was just sort of shocked and unhappy. But then Goddard [Lieberson, the president of Columbia Records] told us that if we used that word, we couldn’t ship the show across state lines because it would be in violation of the obscenity laws. So we changed it to ‘Krup you.’”

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