Shoe by Gary Brookins and Susie MacNelly for November 22, 2014

I had an uncle like that. He tried to keep the breweries in business the best way he knew how.

“They” are now saying that ‘it is the number of drinks per seating that determines an alcoholic’. So I always get up to make a new drink and use the restroom.

I’ve got “saloon arthritis”. I get stiff in a different joint every night.

Drunkard!

Show doesn’t need season for a reason he just practices consumption a lot.

What a great play on words to start the day!

my joints are usually pretty stiff, until they burn down

Patient: Doc, it hurts in these joints. Doc: Stay out of those joints.

It is better to try and fail than fail to try.

From an old Mad Magazine article about the difference between the rich and the poor: “If you’re poor, you’re a drunk. If you’re rich, you have a well-stocked bar.”

At my age, I’m getting stiff in the wrong joints…

Alcoholics go to meetings. Drunks die and sometimes take others with them.

When my mother was newly arrived from England, she told her Canadian friend she was going out to buy “a joint” (of meat.) The friend truly believed she was going out to invest in a bar!