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Li bai is famous drunkard.Li Bai or Li Po or Li Bo (Chinese: 李白; pinyin: Lǐ Bái, or, Lǐ Bó) (701 – 762) was a Chinese poet. He was part of the group of Chinese scholars called the "Eight Immortals of the Wine Cup" in a poem by fellow poet Du Fu. He write poet ,drinking beer on order achieve image.
My favorite drunkards have to be the brave men and women who sacrifice so much in order to be the "caption of the moment" fodder.
WC Fields. “I've been drunk only once in my life. But that lasted for twenty-three years.” That is some serious drinking. He was in a league of his own.
My favorite is Dean Martin...he could multitask while drunk...sing, dance, and make funny quotes like...
"I feel sorry for peoplewho don't drink. They wake up in the morning and that's the best they're going to feel all day."
He may have once claimed to have had 18 glasses of whiskey in a row and, also said, "An alcoholic is someone you don't like, who drinks as much as you do."
But my favorite drunkard is Dylan Thomas because he is the one who wrote the famous beautiful lines:
Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
Ernest Hemmingway. Because he might have been drunk but he was still ernest.
Sue Ellen Ewing, fictional character, of the soap opera Dallas.
When I was child, I was looking the rebroadcast of the show and I was fascinated by all the drunken scene, her fight with J.R., her despair and anger drown in alcohol, her way to grab a glass…She is a great actress, it looked so powerful and real.
I also have a favorite drunkard. He was an athlete--a professional wrestler in fact--but he was also a gifted entertainer and a true artist. His parents named him Andre Rene Roussimoff, but we knew him as The Eighth Wonder of the World, Andre the Giant. Andre the Giant weighed 500 pounds, so we couldn't figure out how to get him on the horse. So we hooked up a pulley system with wires. Now, this is the day the Beaujolais nouveau has come out, and he starts drinking at 9 a.m. By the end of the day, he's literally drunk 20 bottles of [wine].
Yuan Hung Tao (1573 - 1619) was one of the major poets and essayists of the late Ming dynasty, a time of decadence and confusion, but also one of considerable artistic brilliance. Yuan himself, who said, "The good poet learns from the panoply of images, not from writers of the past," was one of those rarest of creatures, a true individualist.
Each year he travels between north and south China. He wears a seven-brim hat and embroidered robes; he has high cheekbones and a broad jawbone. His beard hangs down to his belly - to look at him, you'd think he was a ferocious general. The Old Drunkard's behavior was truly bizarre. He had no fixed home. At night he would stay at an old shrine or beneath the eaves of the city gates. He was constantly repeating the words: "All dharmas return to the One - where does the One return?" whether moving about, staying in one place, sitting, sleeping, or conversing. If anyone asked him why, he would not answer.
it has to be journalist and author Hunter S. Thompson, who else holds party where you get drunk off whiskey and shoot automatics? that only sounds like the worst combination ever, "I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me" - Thompson
Winston Chruchill. At a party when told off by a woman that he was drunk he replied, "I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly. "
Oh and he had something to do with winning a war or such.
Oliver Reed. Hands down.
He was an enormously famous drinker, considered himself to be "Mr England" as he remained in the UK during the high-tax heydays of the 70's.
His death was attributed to drinking three bottles of Captain Morgan's Jamaica rum, eight bottles of German beer, numerous doubles of Famous Grouse whiskey and Hennessy cognac, and beating five much younger Royal Navy sailors at arm-wrestling. His bar bill was almost £450.
And that was lunch time, by the way.
He was also forced to leave the set of a UK Channel 4 TV show after attempting to smooch one of the female presenters coining th memorable phrase "give us a kiss, big tits."
Legend.
do you remenber Boris Elstine ? an ex president of russia ? if yes....i don't need to addd anything else...he was the worse ever ! Remenber the press conference with Clinton, Legen..(wait for it)..dary !!!
My favourite drunkard is Li Bai, the poet from China, this is because he was a drunkard, but he was still able to create beautiful poems. Being drunk helped him write, so just because you are a drunkard, doesnt mean you won't gain a talent :D
My favourite drunkard is the poet Li Bai from Ancient China. This is because he loved to drink alcohol, but he was still a very good poet. It proves that just because you are drunkard, doesnt mean you can't have a talent you are very good at. :D
Bitchin blues man George Thorogood gets my vote. "One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer" is the best cover of any kind ever recorded. And "I Drink Alone" makes being a lonely alcky seem heroic. Also check out the classic turn of the tables in "If You Don't Start Drinkin' I'm Gonna Leave."
Awsome stuff Georgie boy. Gotta love it. If you read this then get yer drunk ass over to Shanghai. I've got a bottle of Bai Jui waiting for you. Whisky Live too.
As an American, have to say Ernest Hemingway, a real man's man. Awesome author who went on drinking binges with other awesome authors, like James Joyce.
Su Can (蘇乞兒) from the film True Legend. This character is based on a story of Su Can and the Drunken Fist (醉拳). Thanks to the bottle, we are able to witness some of the most mindblowing kungfu moves in this lifetime, and explore that which was thought impossible to create. often times, we drunkards drink because we fail to disenchant the illusion of reality which we have not yet accepted, but ironically what happens instead is that we end up enchanting reality. .. ok, im not an alcoholic. i just live in shanghai.
As a German I definetely have to name Goethe - German Poet, Dramatist, Novelist. He said (probably while drunk): "Lieb-, Leid- und Weines Trunkenheit, ob's nachtet oder tagt, die göttlichste Betrunkenheit, die mich entzückt und plagt.", which means: "No matter if day- or nighttime I'm always drunk, if not of wine then of women or agony." I think this earns my fellow countryman the gold medal!
As a German I definetely have to name Goethe - German Poet, Dramatist, Novelist. He said (probably while drunk): "Lieb-, Leid- und Weines Trunkenheit, ob's nachtet oder tagt, die göttlichste Betrunkenheit, die mich entzückt und plagt.", which means: "No matter if day- or nighttime I'm always drunk, if not of wine then of women or agony." I think this earns my fellow countryman the gold medal!
As a German I definetely have to name Goethe - German Poet, Dramatist, Novelist. He said (probably while drunk): "Lieb-, Leid- und Weines Trunkenheit, ob's nachtet oder tagt, die göttlichste Betrunkenheit, die mich entzückt und plagt.", which means: "No matter if day- or nighttime I'm always drunk, if not of wine then of women or agony." I think this earns my fellow countryman the gold medal!
As a German I definetely have to name Goethe - German Poet, Dramatist, Novelist. He said (probably while drunk): "Lieb-, Leid- und Weines Trunkenheit, ob's nachtet oder tagt, die göttlichste Betrunkenheit, die mich entzückt und plagt.", which means: "No matter if day- or nighttime I'm always drunk, if not of wine then of women or agony." I think this earns my fellow countryman the gold medal!
As a German I definetely have to name Goethe - German Poet, Dramatist, Novelist. He said (probably while drunk): "Lieb-, Leid- und Weines Trunkenheit, ob's nachtet oder tagt, die göttlichste Betrunkenheit, die mich entzückt und plagt.", which means: "No matter if day- or nighttime I'm always drunk, if not of wine then of women or agony." I think this earns my fellow countryman the gold medal!
Jacky Chan in his Drunken Style Kung Fu movies (e.g., Drunken Monkey in Tiger's Eye etc.). Hilarious & out-of-control, yet always mastering the situation. If only....
It has to be George Best, one of the greatest football players ever, and I'm not even into football.
Some of his quotes :
I spent a lot of money on booze, birds and fast cars. The rest I just squandered. George Best
I used to go missing a lot... Miss Canada, Miss United Kingdom, Miss World. George Best
I'd have to be superman to do some of the things I'm supposed to have done, I've been at six different places at six different times. George Best
I've stopped drinking, but only while I'm asleep. George Best
My favorite famous drunk would have to be the ancient Chinese poet Liu Ling that I studied back in college. Apparently after drinking a lot of wine, Liu would often free himself of his clothing. When his friends found him drunk and naked in his house one day, they criticized him. He answered with the best come back ever:
"I take heaven and the earth for my dwelling and roof, and the rooms of my home as my pants and coat. So...what are you gentlemen doing in my pants?"
As a french guy I would like to say Serge Gainsbourg is the most famous drunkard ! Who else had already say "I want to F*** you" to Whitney Houston on a TV show ?? and that's not the worth...
Karen Walker from the TV show Will and Grace. Some of her great one-liners are, "You say potato, I say Vodka" and “I'll quit coffee. It won't be easy drinking my Bailey's straight, but I'll get used to it. It'll still be the best part of waking up.” and "I'd suck the alcohol out of a deodorant stick." I think she is the best all-time drunkard.
Definitely the infamous Haibao: his wide-eyed expression, his flailing arms, his disconcerting friendliness...he is 100% intoxicated. Shanghai is becoming a better city, but I ask you, with such a low-life drunkard on the loose, will we indeed have a better life?
Me! oh drats, I forgot I was not famous ... or being extra in IP Man 2 counts? if not well, I guess my pick is Dyonisos. Some people think they are party gods, I worship the actual one. I mean what is cooler than having all the wines you can drink and the most beautiful spirits of nature all around you to help you enjoy the night? If you can think of better, add also eternal life and godly power... yes I like the guy... If I had to choose a god that one would be mine!
Classiest and best drunk of all times is Frank Sinatra:
"I feel sorry for people who don't drink. When they wake up in the morning, that's as good as they're going to feel all day. "
Yeah Shanghaikan, the Buk would have been my obvious choice, but I'm going local on this one. I defy anyone to find me a better drunkard than Li Bai:
A cup of wine, under the flowering trees;
I drink alone, for no friend is near. Raising my cup I beckon the bright moon,
For her, with my shadow, will make three people.
The moon, alas, is no drinker of wine; Listless, my shadow creeps about at my side. Yet with the moon as friend and the shadow as slave I must make merry before the Spring is spent. To the songs I sing the moon flickers her beams; In the dance I weave my shadow tangles and breaks. While we were sober, three shared the fun; Now we are drunk, each goes their way. May we long share our eternal friendship, And meet at last on the Cloudy River of the sky.Shi ren Li Bai, you are a beautiful man. Cheers.
My favourite famous drunkard has got to be American comedian, actor, juggler and writer William Claude Dukenfield – better known as W.C. Fields (1880-1946)
This man had a passion for drinking and the nose to go along with it.
Some of his more famous drinking quotes include…
Always carry a flagon of whiskey in case of snakebite. And furthermore, always carry a small snake.
I cook with wine, sometimes I even add it to the food.
I never worry about being driven to drink; I just worry about being driven home.
The best thing for a case of nerves is a case of Scotch.
It was a woman who drove me to drink, and I never had the courtesy to thank her for it.
Some weasel took the cork out of my lunch.
The cost of living has gone up another dollar a quart.
And my personal favourite…
Once, during prohibition, I was forced to live for days on nothing but food and water.
When I think of a famous drunkard, I automatically think of Barney from the Simpsons. The best way for Barney to drink beer was directly from the tap.
"Two beer or not two beer?" - that is the real question.
Oooohhhh that's an easy one. I hate to beat you to the punch on this one Hellowatch but it's gotta be Bukowski. His drunkenness was his art and his art was his drunkenness. Booze was his muse and the method in his madness. Bukowski it is.
Speaking of drunkards, give me a ring Hellowatch, I've got a great Bukowski bio to loan you and we're about due for a righteous piss-up. We'll call it a warm-up for this particularly fine bottle which we'll be drinking on May 20th...God and Bukowski willing.
This was a tough one. Hellowatch's post on Li Bai was very beautiful. Many people loved Li Bai, even angelina520, who weighed in on this subject with a late entry.
But, courting controversy, I'm going with Dylan Thomas--not for his bragging, or for his quips, but for the beauty and anger of his verse.
Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
Bottle of fine Scotch on the way to you, shpgg.