My IQ rises after every vacation, then.
= P
Makes you stronger, too. At the beginning of the night, several large men have difficulty moving the keg. By the wee hours, one person can easily move it around.
SD
EFFECTS OF ALCOHOL ON BRAIN:
Stage #1 -- Smart
This is when you suddenly become an expert on every subject. You know all and greatly wish to express this knowledge to anyone who will listen. At this stage you are also always right. And of course the person you are talking with is very wrong. You will talk for hours trying to convince someone that you are right. This makes for an interesting argument when both parties are "smart". Two people talking, in fact, arguing about a subject neither one really knows anything about, but are convinced that they are they complete authority on the subject makes for great entertainment for those get the opportunity to listen in.
Stage #2 -- Handsome/Pretty
This is when you are convinced that you are the best looking person in the entire room and everyone is looking at you. You begin to wink at perfect strangers and ask them to dance because of course they had been admiring you the whole evening. You are the center of attention, and all eyes are directed at you because you are the most beautiful thing on the face of the earth. Now keep in mind that you are still smart, so you can talk to this person who has been admiring you about any and all subjects under the sun.
Stage #3 -- Rich
This is when you suddenly become the richest person in the world. You can buy drinks for the entire bar and put it on your bill because you surely have an armored truck full of your money parked behind the bar. You can also make bets in this stage. Now of course you still know all, so you will always win all your bets. And you have no concern for how much money you bet because you have all the money in the world. You will also begin to buy drinks for all the people in the bar who are admiring you because you are now the smartest, prettiest, and richest person on the face of the earth.
Stage #4 -- Bulletproof
You can now pick fights with the people you have been betting money with because you cannot be hurt by anything. At this point you would go up to the boyfriend of the woman who had been admiring your beautiful self all evening and challenge him to a battle of wits for money. You have no worry about loosing this battle of wits because you know all, have all the money to cover this bet, and you obviously win a fight that might erupt if he looses.
Stage #5 -- Invisible
This is the final stage of drunkenness. At this point you can do absolutely anything because no one can see you. You can get up and dance on a table; you can strip down to your underwear, to impress the people who have been admiring you all evening, because the rest of the people in the room cannot see you. You are also invisible to the person whom you have picked a fight with earlier in the evening. You can walk through the streets singing at the top of your lungs (because of course you are still smart and know the tune perfectly) and no one will think anything of it because they can't see you. All your social inhibitions are gone. You can do anything, because no one will know.
This finally explains the results I keep getting on all those darn IQ tests...
Woo Hoo! I must be a genius!
"Wet Brain" or Korsakov's Syndrome, which sends many a dedicated alcoholic directly into the looney bin, should counteract any beneficial effects in a hurry. Just keep drinking more and more until they come to take you away..
Is this the first thread you've ever posted?
You incredibly smart men need to get over here STAT!
This thread made me say Deeeeeeeeamn!
ping.
The mystery is solved over where my staggeringly galactic intellect comes from.
Makes bellies grow too, based on what I've seen!
yes is does...
I have to be very careful no more than one glass of wine with dinner.
Tinnitus gets worse with alcohol.
TMJ gets worse with alcohol.
I have both, and didn't want to believe it, but it is true two conditions made worse by alcohol.
Also adds to chronic dehydration.
The BBC?!? I don't buy anything they try to sell.
My lament has been that I always seem to hook up with "smart" men. For a PURELY "stupid" woman, this seems odd.
One night at Cheers, Cliff Clavin explained the "Buffalo Theory" to his buddy, Norm:
"Well ya see, Norm, it's like this. A herd of buffalo can only move as fast as the slowest buffalo. And when the herd is hunted, it is the slowest and weakest ones at the back that are killed first. This natural selection is good for the herd as a whole, because the general speed and health of the whole group keeps improving by the regular killing of the weakest members. In much the same way, the human brain can only operate as fast as the slowest brain cells. Excessive intake of alcohol, as we know, kills brain cells. But naturally, it attacks the slowest and weakest brain cells first. In this way, regular consumption of beer eliminates the weaker brain cells, making the brain a faster and more efficient machine! That's why you always feel smarter after a few beers."
Einstein cheking in.