January 01, 2007

Hold the smoke in, rummy! Happy New Year! [VIA glumbert.com]
  • gee, this looks like a swell idea. what could possibly go wrong?
  • Good lord! I wonder how many hospitalizations this has resulted in thus far?
  • If I'm not mistaken, this would result in 0 to drunk in 30 seconds. Pithy for a Ferrari, not bad for a wino. Gooooooooo Winos! (without the obligatory liver damage, but probably still with the obligatory brain cell destruction.) Still, I have heard the "high" or "drunk" from inhaled liquors is much different from the staggering drunkeness of imbibed booze. There is the nice warm feeling of a drink going down (i.e. it eating away at your stomach lining) that just can't be compared to. Strangely enough, I looked into this for another reason recently. Apparently, most people believe the "booze" smell comes from their stomachs. While this may be true of beer (having beer breath), Alcohol is released from the body in three major ways. First, your breath. Meaning directly from your lungs. The booze breath you smell on the next person you meet actually has little to do with the amount of vodka sitting in his stomach, but much to do with the amount of alcohol that is in his/her bloodstream an thereby exiting through the lungs. 2 Urine. We've all been there. And thirdly, sweat. This is more of a next morning proxy, which is why you should ALWAYS take a shower before going to work, as your pores could contain boozy smelling stuff, regardless of how hungover you are. Lastly, we should be aware that the MAIN reason you should eat before drinking has little to do with the absorption of alcohol in your stomach as it has to do with valves. When your stomach is empty, a valve opens allowing pretty much anything into your intestines. This includes booze. With the valve primed open, booze is free to be rapidly absorbed by your miles long intestine, rather than be imprisoned in the stomach awaiting the periodic insertion into the intestine.
  • Dr. Dick Wang seemed really uncomfortable. The higher the ethynol's water base is, the better, as too much water will clump around the CO2, forming a solid casing, and preventing further sublimation. Um, doesn't that mean you want a lower water base?