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 Town drunk -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
The town drunk is a (additional info and facts about stock character) stock character, almost always (A person who belongs to the sex that cannot have babies) male, who often seems (Someone who is intoxicated) drunk more often than (additional info and facts about sober) sober.
The town drunk typically dwells in a small town, small enough that he is the only conspicuous (A person who drinks alcohol to excess habitually) alcoholic.
The town drunk may play the role of the (A person who lacks good judgment) fool, and his antics serve as the engine for (Light and humorous drama with a happy ending) comedy.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/t/to/town_drunk.htm   (729 words)

  
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Perhaps the Town Drunk is a former warrior who saw something she shouldn’t have.
If the Town Drunk is a specific target, he gets his Town Drunk class level as a bonus to all actions involved extricating himself from the situation, including his AC, Saving Throws, and relevant skill checks.
A Town Drunk suffers no penalty when he cannot see, including in combat (in such cases, concealment due to lack of visibility is ignored).
www.community3e.com /dn/pclass/TownDrunk.doc   (626 words)

  
 Val Halla's Journey for People Who Don't Play Diablo
is a town character in Diablo (that's him in the blue robe by the fountain near the bottom of the screen).
is one of the town characters in Diablo (that's her in the upper left of background in the blue blouse).
He is the Town Healer and players can go see him for medical attention after getting mauled by monsters in the dungeon.
theboojum.com /Tales/Dumptruk/Valhalla/nodiablo.htm   (384 words)

  
 Tim Reynolds - Message Board - Something I've been working on...
Next to this proud, shimmering monument to the advances of the American Society Club was Alkie, the town drunk.
He just got drunk and walked to his little morbid shack and ate tomato soup made of stolen ketchup and rainwater.
He was generally loved in town, but after the infamous “Pipe Organ Incident” of ’64, things haven’t really been the same.
www.timreynolds.com /forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=3910   (929 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Town-drunk   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
In mathematics, particularly in topology, a topological space X is sober if every irreducible closed subset of X is the closure of exactly one singleton of X. An irreducible closed subset of X is defined to be a nonempty closed subset of X which is not the union of two...
Alcoholism is an addictive dependency on alcohol characterized by craving (a strong need to drink); loss of control (being unable to stop); physical dependence and withdrawal symptoms; and tolerance (increasing difficulty of becoming drunk).
Drama is a term generally used to refer to a literary form involving parts written for actors to perform.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Town_drunk   (1649 words)

  
 Buried In Burrywood   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
The small town of Burrywood, Washington has a lot going for it—a beautiful setting on the waterfront, a town manor built by Harold Burrywood with his Alaska gold rush money, and the constant titillation that he might have left a fortune hidden somewhere close by when he died.
Burrywooders are proud of their town and they have a cleanup campaign in progress.
Diana Sackett, editor of the town paper, discovers the first victim—the shifty mayor—dead in his office of a blow on the head.
www.booklocker.com /books/989.html   (343 words)

  
 iafrica.com | news | sa news Drunk man delays London-bound flight
New Year celebrations in Cape Town proved a bit too much for one passenger booked on a flight to London, when he was asked to stand down on Thursday evening after displaying signs of drunkenness.
She said the unnamed man was the last to arrive at the boarding gate at about 8.25pm for BA flight 058 from Cape Town to Heathrow and was "slightly inebriated".
Cape Town International airport security confirmed the man slept off his headache at the departure terminal.
iafrica.com /news/sa/294216.htm   (181 words)

  
 You Never Know   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
At the very next meeting of the town council, the chairman announced he had received a formal letter, typewritten on clean white paper, requesting the council to rescind its ban against Charlie's volunteering.
The wedding party moved to the town square and the smart looking couple were elevated to the band stand.
Drunk as drunk could be and with precious little of his moonshine left, Charlie had opened the trap door and let himself down into that place under the bandstand and had gone unconscious as a rock.
4-writers.com /fiction/september-f2k-contest/you-never-know.shtml   (1336 words)

  
 malthus.diaryland.com
Every year the town holds a Shakespearean Festival and the whole world is invited - many of the invitees attend.
I'm not kidding; marriage number five was to Jim, the town drunk.
A couple of hunting accidents and several bottles of alcohol later, Jim was the town drunk, barley able to walk and living at home with his emphysema ridden mother.
malthus.diaryland.com /050426_36.html   (525 words)

  
 Jack Crow   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
The other two men sit in opposition to Team Crow both of them project the picture of the town drunk if one man can be distinguished as that in the Windy City.
Jack rather than actually getting involved in a brawl with the man pushes him on his chests and from the momentum of that push the man takes 2 steps back, sidesteps, and goes down with a crunch as he lands of pieces of broken glass.
Leave your number on the nightstand and we'll call you in the morning." The standing "town drunk" says slurring most of the words heavily but forcing himself to be understandable within the last sentence.
home.graffiti.net /teamcrow101:graffiti.net/jack1.html   (533 words)

  
 FOX23 - Coverage & Convenience - Drunk Snowplow Operator   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
The wing operator on the truck was reportedly drunk.
Town highway supervisor Dick Roberts was desperate for workers to keep up with the storm at the time.
The North Greenbush democratic chairman is calling on town officials to set up a rule that would keep drunk highway workers off the road.
www.fox23news.com /news/you_paid/story.aspx?content_id=82C2460A-75BF-4723-A0C5-D56DACF4A1B0   (353 words)

  
 Notes From an Eclectic Mind: Remembering the Local Drunk   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
The horse belonged to R.S. He rode him to town because at the end of the evening he could haul himself into the saddle, pass out with a death grip on the horn, and that old cow pony would head out across the bridge and take him home.
We always sat at the Round Table and the old drunk took one of the stools at the nearby counter.
Sometimes if he was too drunk to get on his horse the sheriff would take him and the pony down to the jail, feed and water the horse and let R.S. sleep it off in one of the cells.
www.ranablog.com /archives/000219.php   (1476 words)

  
 comments   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Addiann, as far as I know, "College town" and "drunk children" are pretty synonymous.
MSU students didn't seem to be as publically drunk in the seventies when I lived there.
I invite you all to town this week, as the kiddies are gone, to witness the peaceful, idyllic riverside setting (no shantytowns since the late 80's) as a welcome respite from the madding crowds that is the Art Fair.
ypsidixit.diaryland.com /comments/1090256364.html   (264 words)

  
 Wizard's Bane : Book one of the Sojourn Chronicles
Silence sat heavily on the sleeping town, it’s buildings swathed in a thick fog, light pooling in liquid puddles under the occasional street lamp.
The town drunk stumbled down the street, his head spinning from the pots of ale he’d just finished off in the pub.
By the time he reached the street, the town drunk was happily snoring, the words to his song long forgotten in the stupor produced by the ale.
www.authorhouse.com /BookStore/ItemDetail~bookid~24394.aspx   (1428 words)

  
 'Town' comes back to life
Smith and company vivify "Our Town," a deceptively simple look at life and death and a reminder that "the least important day in your life" is a treasure beyond measure, without any of the anachronistic gimmickry that's sometimes used to modernize aged plays.
When "Our Town" opens we recognize Grover's Corners, N.H., on a clear May morning in 1901 and when it ends we are still in Grover's Corners, N.H., at the end of a rainy summer day in 1913.
Smith also creates a memorable character out of the skimpiest material: Simon Stimson (Dallas Henry), the town drunk, who doesn't speak his few lines until the third act, when he is among the dead in the town cemetery.
www.freep.com /fun/arts/hil19_20000119.htm   (586 words)

  
 Beer Travelers - Pub Profile: Mine Shaft Tavern, Madrid, New Mexico
Madrid, N.M. Madrid was a thriving coal mining town of 3,000 in the early 1900s, but shrunk to 13 after Los Alamos, the last major customer for its coal, switched to gas in 1959.
The tavern was the last of the company town buildings to be erected, in 1946, and feels like it could be even older.
Artists, gallery owners and folks seeking an alternative lifestyle were able to buy the abandoned mining shacks for very attractive prices in the 1970s, and today the town of about 400 is a bustling stop along the Turquoise Trail.
www.beertravelers.com /details/newmexico/mineshaft.html   (411 words)

  
 Modern Drunkard Magazine Online
The person who, when he is supposed to be passing the bottle of liquor around, stops to reflect on the first time he got drunk, last time he got drunk, etc. A derivative of the stoner term bogart.
When a drunk inexplicably has sex with the person he swore he would never speak of or to again, never ever.
The look a drunk gets when he spies someone he always hated but never had the guts to fight.
www.moderndrunkardmagazine.com /issues/07_02/lexicon.htm   (1030 words)

  
 Humor, Short Stories and Poetry - Kona Lowell - The Mayberry of the Pacific
I like to think of it as the Mayberry of the Pacific, which it is, except that we have more than one town drunk.
In my town, you can have a parade if you have at least two running cars, a hula dancer and some guy to throw hard candy at you.
But by the time I got home I had missed the special about wombats and never did find out exactly what secrets their world held or why they were incredible.
www.eyeofhawaii.com /konalowe/html/the_mayberry_of_the_pacific.html   (560 words)

  
 BEER INSTITUTE - Online!   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
The meeting marks the 20th anniversary of the Presidential Commission on Drunk Driving, the only national organization that welcomes all groups committed to reducing drunk driving.
The town hall meetings are November 27 and 28 at the Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center in Washington, DC.
The number of drunk driving fatalities has declined by 37% since 1982.
www.beerinstitute.org /pr/pr_112701.htm   (524 words)

  
 iafrica.com | news | sa news Serial drunk driver gets house arrest
A Cape Town serial drunk driver has been sentenced to three years' house arrest and banned from touching alcohol, the Cape Times reported on Thursday.
Matthee, who works in the construction industry, was arrested in November for drunk driving, only five months after he had been picked up for the third time for the same offence.
The house arrest means he is allowed to leave his home only to go to work, church, and to perform 200 hours of community service at the Quadriplegic Association also ordered by the court.
iafrica.com /news/sa/231409.htm   (205 words)

  
 Marshal Dallas Stoudenmire Terrorized Town
Although the town was convinced it had made a good choice in the 6-feet, 2-inch 36-year-old, it would rue the day he became the law.
When Manning was acquitted, the marshal became a drunken lout, "as irresponsible and dangerous as the town hoodlums," writes Leon Metz.
The town continued to attract notorious gunmen to the border after Stoudenmire's short career as marshal.
www.epcc.edu /ftp/Homes/monicaw/borderlands/20_stoudenmire.htm   (1500 words)

  
 Town quotes & quotations
That's why I get immediately bored with anyone's complaining about how boring their life is, or how bad their town is. Fucking leave and go somewhere else.
But we wouldn't be laughing that evening when he'd come back with some whore he picked up in town.
That way, when he came to town, we could all take a shot at him and not feel too bad.
en.thinkexist.com /quotes/with/keyword/town   (461 words)

  
 Lone Star Verse -- New Zealand Western Saga, Part 2   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
She carries on with Larry Hairy He's a guy she'll never marry Has a wife who lives in town Nags at him and puts him down.
I am as upright as a drunk can be, Devoid of any hanky-panky I was merely wiping my frothy lips With what I thought was my hankie.
He'll have to head off that stampede, a steed he'd have to find A camel ranch way out of town had come into his mind There wasn't any horse around; he'd use a different mammal He had to cover lots of ground, he'd walk a mile for a camel.
tenderbytes.net /rhymeworld/lonestar/nzwestrn2.htm   (1261 words)

  
 Getting Squirrely  -  Jokes-Funnies.com
As a last resort, he asked the town drunk to tag along.
The next morning, the drunk was ready and waiting, with a fifth of whiskey.
When they got to the woods the old drunk took a seat under a large oak tree.
www.unwind.com /jokes-funnies/sportsjokes/squirrely.shtml   (186 words)

  
 Town Drunk Records - Bringin the niose, Bringin' the funk - ABOUT US   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Town Drunk Records - Bringin the niose, Bringin' the funk - ABOUT US Skip to Content Skip to Navigation
Town Drunk Records got started back in the 90's with Dre and the now defunct group, Nemesis.
They were writing great songs, but the songs were a bit ahead of their time.
towndrunkrecords.com /bio.html   (117 words)

  
 The Advertiser-Tribune: My first Santa Claus was the town drunk! - - The Advertiser-Tribune   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Most of mine as a boy growing up in a small town on the Eastern Shore of Maryland are joyous, some funny, one scary.
When he came home drunk, she wouldn't allow him in the house and he spent the night in the barn/shed out back.
Each year men of the town would clean Topsey up, dress him in a Santa suit and have him stroll the main street ringing his bell.
www.advertiser-tribune.com /columns/story/1219202004_colthomas1219.asp   (715 words)

  
 Yew Stupid Basturd!   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Drunk Man #1: (off panel) 'Ey, man. This kid is a caucasian girl, 'Merican balut vendor.
Drunk Man #2: Hey, man. I have a suggestion for you...
Drunk Man #1: Man, I graduated in U.P. in Cainta (not Universitiy of the Philippines).
ysb.edgartadeo.com   (685 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Hoosiers (1986) : Video   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
From the opening scenes of this film--majestic shots of a car traveling the rural midwest on a crisp autumn morning--HOOSIERS serves notice to the viewer that he or she is in for a wonderful movie experience.
Set in a tiny Indiana town half a century ago, HOOSIERS captures the look and feel of rural Americana, of a hardworking people with a single commonality: their love for basketball.
Shooter, a former great player himself and father of one of the boys on Coach Dale's team, is the town drunk; despite his alcoholism, his knowledge of the game is immense, and Dale enlists his aid.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B0000399WQ?v=glance   (2091 words)

  
 Hoosiers   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Hoosiers is a 1986 movie, based on a true story, about a small-town high school basketball team that made the state finals, telling the story of a coach with a spotty past, and the town's basketball-loving drunk, who lead their team to victory.
Like the movie's Hickory High School, Milan was a very small high school in a rural Indiana town, although Milan's enrollment of 161 more than doubled Hickory's 64.
Town drunk – The town drunk character from the movie, who was also Hickory's assistant coach, was also missing from the real Milan team.
www.worldhistory.com /wiki/H/Hoosiers.htm   (957 words)

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