Monday, May 07, 2007

Another drinking bon mot

"If I had all the money I'd spent on drink.... I'd spend it on drink!"

JohnA, my old college drinking buddy and occasional commenter here on the Barstool, put in a plea last week for me to include this as one of my 'sayings of the week'. Spookily enough, I had been pondering using it already.

Does anyone else know where it's from??

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Sir Henry on Rawlinson End (1980)

(I cheated... google)

Have you seen this movie?

Froog said...

Years and years ago - only dimly remember it. Always remember that line, though.

Possibly the weirdest film ever made. Well, the weirdest English film, anyway.

Anonymous said...

Trevor Howard delivers other seminal lines, such as: "Generally speaking, after I've eaten something, I'd rather not see it again."

I had always laughed at the "pet prisoners of war" he kept - Germans who lived on his estate behind barbed wire and who entertained him by continually trying to escape. I thought it was satire until I stayed soemwhere in Wales: they (an "ancestral family") have retained their prisoners of war and still emply them to tend their lawns and kitchen garden.

The film is also available on DVD. It is not politically correct and is best watched from a chemically-enhanced viewpoint (although I think my 10 year old was sober when he watched it and he cried with laughter).