# Drinking alone

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drinking-alone/620412>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [April 30, 2012, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drinking-alone/620412 "2012-04-30T14:28:59Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
**Page:** 3

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**Author:** ![Autolycus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/22d042/32.png) [@Autolycus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Autolycus)\
**Post date:** [May 2, 2012, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drinking-alone/620412/41 "2012-05-02T15:23:45Z")

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It’s Golden Week and my GF belly-danced herself to sleep. No way am I going to bed before 2AM in the rare weekday I have off. Sake up! (Where’s that damn accented e?)

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**Author:** ![Rigamarole](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/77aa72/32.png) [@Rigamarole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rigamarole)\
**Post date:** [May 2, 2012, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drinking-alone/620412/42 "2012-05-02T16:18:13Z")

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> [@Autolycus](#):
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> It’s Golden Week and my GF belly-danced herself to sleep. No way am I going to bed before 2AM in the rare weekday I have off. Sake up! (Where’s that damn accented e?)

I don’t know what this means, but it sounds hot.

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**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\
**Post date:** [May 2, 2012, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drinking-alone/620412/43 "2012-05-02T16:21:44Z")

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Know who else drinks alone?

Yep, George Thorogood.

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> The other night I laid sleeping  
> And I woke from a terrible dream  
> So I caught up my pal Jack Daniel’s  
> And his partner Jimmy Beam  
> And we drank alone, yeah  
> With nobody else  
> Yeah, you know when I drink alone  
> I prefer to be by myself

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**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\
**Post date:** [May 2, 2012, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drinking-alone/620412/44 "2012-05-02T22:43:55Z")

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Pssst, **kayaker** : post 7.

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**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\
**Post date:** [May 2, 2012, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drinking-alone/620412/45 "2012-05-02T22:56:59Z")

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Whoops. Shit my pants.

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**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\
**Post date:** [May 2, 2012, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drinking-alone/620412/46 "2012-05-02T22:59:33Z")

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George Thorogood _is_ fuckin god to those of us who tend to drink alone. In my defense.

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