There is always enough drunken action going on in Bond movies. An English study concluded that Agent 007 must be a ‘functioning alcoholic’. But apparently there is plenty of action going on behind the scenes too. The 18th of March all hell broke loose when members of the film crew for the new Bond movie got…
If there was ever a functioning drunkard it must have been Mark Twain (1835-1910). In our list of historical drunks there are some examples of troubled minds, but that was absolutely not the case for this American author. Fellow writer and heavy drinker William Faulkner would describe Twain as ‘The Father of American Literature’. His…
A drunken man tried to rob a bank in Tallahassee (USA) last Wednesday. The 46-year old Stanley Geddie stumbled out of a taxi and told the driver to wait for him outside the Capital City Bank, as he was going to get the 25.50 dollar he owed him for the ride. Once inside Geddie told…
We already gave you some tips and tricks to get rid of your hangover. But every country has its own traditional dishes to make the process go faster. We like to give you a taste of the international anti-hangover cuisine. In this episode we try out some typical street food from Turkey named kokoreç. It’s made…
It seems pretty clear that pigs don’t handle their alcohol too well. After an intoxicated wild hog in Australia attacked a cow, we now found an example from England. In a pub in South London a micro-pig was given a lifelong alcohol ban after it started head-butting customers in an attempt to get their drinks.…
Long before Alexander the Great succesfully annexed the Persian Empire there was a first Greek invasion in the year 401 B.C. Although the mission of the Greek mercenaries to help Cyrus the Younger on the Persian throne failed, since he was killed in a battle, the adventure was documented by the Greek general Xenophon. In…
It’s been a while since we last had some poetry on Lords of the Drinks. Following in the footsteps of Charles Baudelaire and Emily Dickinson, we give you Danny Mell. He sent us a lovely poem called booze,cfor which we are very grateful. Let this be a reminder to all creative minds out there. We…
,,Not all chemicals are bad. Without chemicals such as hydrogen and oxygen, for example, there would be no way to make water, a vital ingredient in beer.” American author Dave Barry See more Drinking Quotes
Alcohol is a wonderful substance and as you know, we are the last people to ever speak ill of it. However, we must admit that booze seems to be quite risky when combined with narcissist megalomaniacs. These people usually get very paranoid, violent and cruel. From the last 100 years Jozef Stalin comes to mind, but…
We all get a little fearless and heroic when we drink. After a few drinks it’s just easier to walk up to that hot girl you like or pick a fight with someone twice your size. But a drunkard from Sri Lanka took the concept ‘Dutch courage’ to a whole new level as he attacked…
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