In any status-hungry culture, the level a man is assigned depends on what people think he is--not on what he is. And that, of course, means that only the deliberately phony has real status! In other eras he might have been described as swacked, stewed, stoned, smashed, crocked, cockeyed, soused, shellacked, polluted, potted, tanked, lit, stinko, pie-eyed, three sheets in the wind, or simply drunk.…
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