................or a drunk falling on ice or whatever, will usually manage to get up and with an "I ate the canary smile" amble off to his stash of Thunderbird while a tea totaller after taking a spill on a slippery surface will wind up on the operating room table as surgeons try to reassemble their skeletal system like a jigsaw puzzle after being spilled on the floor.
Supposedly, the alcohol drunk by the Titanic's chief baker aided him in his survival as he claimed he did not feel the cold in the icy waters.