[dighton]

[jerod]

Now, if they could only cure Boris Yeltsen, and the rest of his countrymen.

[billorites]

"Hello. My name is Potapych and I'm an alcoholic."

[OWK]

Yeltsin?

[EggsAckley]

This reminds me of years ago, a shopping center had a chimpanzee in a cage. Kids would light cigarettes and hand them to him. He would hunker down and smoke them, just like a human. A few years later, if someone handed him a smoke, he'd run over and put it out in his water dish. They kicked his "habit."

[Constitution Day]

Absolut-ly amazing.

[FormerLib]

Ping (hic)!

[Lizavetta]

Later the bear helped itself to the vodka, and the pair would often be seen staggering around the estate.

Another Kennedy moment.

[Revelation 911]

"Later the bear helped itself to the vodka, and the pair would often be seen staggering around the estate."

Authorities state that the bear became uncontrollable one evening on a manhattan binge lacked olives, raiding the homes of several villagers to eat porrige and check the softness of thier sleeping quarters. Antonin Crapaloadof stated that the bears guttural noises sounded like "this ones too soft, this ones too hard, this ones just right" right before it collapsed on the mattress.

In a followup, the bear has completed a 12 step program and accepted Christ as his redeemer and holds a steady job at the local KFC making cole slaw where he bemaons the availability of moderate paying jobs. "Theres really no place for an ex vodkahund like me to get good job training" He emphatically stated, "capitalism sucks and so does perrier"

[DainBramage]

Does a bear sip in the woods.

[Orual]

With little to do, Uncle Misha increasingly turned to the bottle to pass the time, and shared it with Potapych by pouring it on his food.

A little vodka sauce on the Chicken Kiev? Hmmm.

[x]

Unfortunately, the fairy tale ending turned ugly when Martin Sheen charged that the bear was a "white knuckle drunk" and the bear mauled him.

[x]

In 2001 Potapych was riding high. He'd kicked his drinking habit in rehab and he was on top of the world, and on top of the charts. But now he was back on the road, with a grueling 47 day schedule: Omsk, Tomsk, Atomsk, Bombsk. And little did he know what trouble a bag of quaaludes and two teenage girls could get him into.

VH1's "Behind the Cage"

[jjbrouwer]

Did one of Justin Raimondo's colleagues write this?

[SamAdams76]

I never understood the appeal with vodka. Basically its a tasteless and colorless liquid. What's the point? Give me beer and wine that I can taste and smell and that fills me up so I don't drink too much for my own good.

[dighton]

Secret History promo 'n' ping.

[RichInOC]

Bummer...I would have liked to see him do some vodka commercials in the style of the Coca-Cola "polar bear" spots:

POTAPYCH: [tips the bottle up to his lips for a healthy shot, brings it back down and sighs contentedly...] MMMMhhhhhhhhhh....
ANNCR: Stoli for New Years? You betcha.

[dennisw]

How horrible. Am glad bearski is doing so much better now. Vodka is a terrible thing to waste!

[mrustow]

Am I the only one to see the tragedy in the break-up of Potapych and Misha? They say drinking alone sucks. Just try being sober alone!

[AnAmericanMother]

His English cousin . . .

I'm sure homebrewed ale is better for you than vodka (or gin). Hogarth certainly thought so.

[mrfixit514]

Back in the 80's, the game warden found a bear who had overdosed on cocaine. A package had fallen out of a plane that was carrying the drugs. The bear was found laying next to the package which had been ripped open. He had white powder all over his face. It was reported by the local newspaper in Blue Ridge GA and I have seen several t-shirts commemorating the event.