Lord Byron (1788-1824) was a poet from England, who later in his life became a national hero in Greece because of his leading role in the revolution against the Ottoman Empire. But most of his fame he probably achieved with his extravagant lifestyle. George Gordon Byron had numerous love affairs and punished his liver severely…
Ladies and gentlemen, recently we stated that there are not enough alcohol related poems in this world. Soon enough we found out that some of you actually wrote some awesome ones, we just didn’t knew. We even suspect there are a lot more poems on drinking, booze, bars and hangovers that need to be shared.…
We were always quite fund of parrots. Probably since when picturing these birds in our minds they are usually in the company of a pirate carrying a big bottle of rum. But serious damage has been done to this positive image by a parrot in Mexico. According to the Mexican website El Universal this talking…
Time for a little homemade poetry. At least if we can call it that. It’s more like a funny verse really. At least we hope you’ll enjoy it. And if not, you should try to follow this scenario next time you hit the town. Cheers!
,,Bacchus has drowned more men than Neptune.” Italian general Giuseppe Garibaldi
The number of incidents with drunken passengers on airplanes has increased 12-fold in just 4 years according to the International Air Transport Association. Although the latest figures are from 2011 it’s still impressive. In 2007 there were ‘only’ 500 reported incidents, but 4 years later this number went up to 6.000. Although we wouldn’t want…
And the award for the most original attempt to lose the cops goes to Troy Procket. This 37-year old man was on the run for the police in the American state Massachussets after a single car accident last Monday. When state trooper Michael McCammon found the suspect he was hiding in a tree, pretending to…
We believed it was time for some poetry again. The only problem was we had no more alcohol related poems laying around. So it was time to ick up a pen ourselves. Last night Micky wrote his first poem ever and now we’d like to share this with you. A bit of an exciting moment really,…
A scandalous incident occurred last Monday in Saudi Arabian city of Taif as 7 men were sentenced in court to 99 whip lashes and long time jail terms. The reason: they were caught partying with girls and alcohol. No, this wasn’t a sex orgy or something, but just a party of students of both sexes…
It’s very well possible that alcohol can slow down the breakdown of the human body caused by the muscle disease MS (multiple sclerosis). At least for the ‘relapsing-remitting’ form of the disease. That’s the conclusion Dutch and Belgian researchers draw in the European Journal of Neurology. Besides alcohol the progress of MS would also be…
Lords of the Drinks 