Happy 2004!

[Nicole Marie]

Wishing everyone the best in 2004! Have a good new years tonight! Be safe and post your hang over remedies below. Mine is eat lots of bread and drink tons of water before you go out. Then when you get home drink more water and you'll be fine in the morning.

[Austin]

YRH
It's easy to avoid hangover. Get sober very very slowly. Have a happy new year and thanks to everyone on the staff for an excellent year.

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[Serenity]

If you're in bed and the room starts spinning, touch the floor with your foot to "ground" yourself; the room will eventually stop spinning! Happy New Years everybody!

[Selma in Sandy Eggo]

Originally posted by Serenity:
If you're in bed and the room starts spinning, touch the floor with your foot to "ground" yourself; the room will eventually stop spinning!

This does not work. The foot merely provides a fixed pivot point, shortens the radius of rotation, and increases the spin rate. At this point, things can get ugly.

My own strategies include
(a) Try to maintain mellow, do not advance to smashed.
(b) Snack lightly throughout the entire evening.
(c) Drink a glass of water or soda in between glasses of more potent beverages.
(d) Stay vertical and moving until you are no longer squiffed. Tired and headachy is good.
(e) DO NOT under any circumstances play the accordion, bagpipe, or banjo while under the influence, unless you are a professional musician. Your alleged friends might get a video and blackmail you for life. Worse, they might show your children!

[OperaTenor]

Originally posted by Selma in San Diego:
(e) [b]DO NOT under any circumstances play the accordion, bagpipe, or banjo while under the influence, unless you are a professional musician. Your alleged friends might get a video and blackmail you for life. Worse, they might show your children! [/b]

I'm a professional & I wouldn't even try it sober! Besides, bagpipes suck! Oops, wrong thread....

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[piqaboo]

Piqaboo's hangover avoidance method:
Drink like a fish, get completely wasted, enjoy the room spinning (like being on a carousel!).
When party is over, drink water and stay awake until sober - this may involve watching a sunrise.
Watching the sunrise is a great cover story anyway - much better than "I was too drunk to get myself home" .
Under no circumstances sleep while drunk.

Note: if induced to play so-called musical instrument, do so while wearing lampshade to ensure plausible deniability.

Happy New Year to All!

[Serenity]

The are three sequential stages to getting wasted: the monkey, the lion and the pig.

When you're the monkey, you are having a good time and entertaining just about everybody. When you're the lion, you're getting mean and start looking for fights. Finally, you're wasted when you are the pig; you just wallow in your muck!

[Shapley]

RE:<<Note: if induced to play so-called musical instrument, do so while wearing lampshade to ensure plausible deniability.>>

If ou do it while wearing only a lampshade, you may be forgiven for playing the bagpipes.

V/R
Shapley

[barfle]

Although my experience with hangovers is a bit in the past, I did extensive research on their cause and prevention in my youth.

Assuming you have the presence of mind to remember this, I found that a vitamin B complex, washed down with a hot Alka-Seltzer while you were still blotto reduced the severity by well over half.

[Nicole Marie]

Hey folks! I just read all the posts and what fun! Serenity I am so a monkey, great examples.

The room spinning thing happens best when you are outside. A girlfriend of mine once came up with the idea to go outside and watch the stars as we spun. Watching the cosmos spin by is much better then the ceiling fan. Just bring a blanket if it's winter. Thanks everyone!