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"Crew cut lads fresh from college would put aside their childish experimentations with wine and beer, join a respectable company, and start the business of learning how to belt hard liquor from the seasoned souses at work. It was a hell of a deal and explains why there were so few layabouts back then. Why lounge around in a bar, spending money, when you could get cockeyed on the clock while dollars rolled into your pocket?

"Sadly, those grand days of paid guzzling have gone the way of the snap-brim fedora. The nogoodniks, in their undying effort to ensure no one has any fun at anytime, have made a pariah of the desk bottle. They have passed laws where it is not only illegal to drink on the job, it is illegal to drink before you even show up for work. They have rescued the workplace from being a place of happy production and joyful camaraderie to a depressing prison crowded with high-strung nannies and treacherous snitches."

-- Frank Rich, in Modern Drunkard Magazine.

(From the Quotaton of the Day mailing list, 2003-11-18. Submitted to the list by Terry Labach.)