false 25583407 193310 2250720 1596915285 9781596915282 12 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2250720.Everyday_Drinking_The_Distilled_Kingsley_Amis 3.63 41 Kingsley Amis was one of the great masters of comic prose, and no subject was dearer to him than the art and practice of imbibing. This new volume brings together the best of his three out-of-print works on the subject. Along with a series of well-tested recipes (including a cocktail called the Lucky Jim) the book includes Amis’s musings on The Hangover, The Boozing Man’s Diet, What to Drink with What, and (presumably as a matter of speculation) How Not to Get Drunk—all leavened with fun quizzes on the making and drinking of alcohol all over the world. Mixing practical know-how and hilarious opinionation, this is a delightful cocktail of wry humor and distilled knowledge, served by one of our great gimlet wits.</div></div>]]> 13078 3.74 3127 475 3 2 false Thu Jun 26 13:15:14 -0700 2008 Thu Jun 26 16:06:16 -0700 2008
Here is a story about a sinner,
He used to be a winner, who enjoyed a life of prominence and position.
But the pressures at the office and his socialite engagements,
And his selfish wife's fanatical ambition,
It turned him to the booze,
And he got mixed up with a floosie
And she led him to a life of indecision.
The floosie made him spend his dough
She left him lying on skid row
A drunken lag in some salvation army mission.
It's such a shame.

Oh demon alcohol!
Sad memories I cannot recall,
Who thought I would say,
Damn it all and blow it all.
Oh demon alcohol!
Memories I cannot recall,
Who thought I would fall a slave to demon alcohol.

Barley wine, pink gin,
He'll drink anything,
Port, pernod or tequila.
Rum, scotch, vodka on the rocks,
As long as all his troubles disappeared.
But he messed up his life and he beat up his wife,
And the floosies gone and found another sucker.
Shes gonna turn him on to drink
Shes gonna lead him to the brink
And when his money's gone
She'll leave him in the gutter.
It's such a shame.

Oh demon alcohol!
Sad memories I cannot recall,
Who thought I would fall,
A slave to demon alcohol.]]>