Can rise alone and still drink more;
But drunk is he who prostrate lies,
Without the power to drink or rise."
Thomas Love Peacock (1785-1866)
Of course, the lawyer in me immediately spots the 'loophole': Peacock seems to be saying that the ability to resume a standing position is definitive of not-being-(too)-drunk, but then in the last line implies that if you can still drink while lying on the floor, that's OK too. Maybe that was a conscious corollary? I doubt if the distinction is ever of practical value, since it's pretty much impossible to drink lying down - even when sober.
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