I had a nasty headache for most of last week. Last night I decided to screw it, dumped a lot of Jack Daniel’s Old No. 7 into my rootbeer, and got myself drunk (helps that I’ve got 0 tolerance for the stuff). Okay, so it hurt my stomach a bit, but I woke up this morning with nary a twinge. Sweet!
Hey, same thing happened to me last night. I had a killer headache, so bad I was incredibly stupid to go out to dinner like I’d agreed. I had a bourbon and Coke, and that headache was gone. It was strange.
-Lil
That is a pretty good scientific discovery. People have always assumed that alcohol causes headaches. Now we see that isn’t quite true. Turns out, alcohol is a Reverse-O-Portion. If you don’t have a headache, you get one and if you do, it cures it. I plan to publish these findings.
Well, it was sort of a trade-off, since it made my stomach very unhappy the next day even. That’s the closest I’ve ever gotten to a hangover. But now I don’t have either!
Yurk, you might try that with a good whiskey. Say, a nice glass of Jameson, on the rocks. Although if you’re going to kill it with root beer, well, then I guess you might as well.
A martini once cured…well, eased my cold symptoms. And it was my first martini ever!
I was 16, babysitting for the next door neighbors who were on their way to a party with a shaker full of martinis…I guess it was BYOB. I had a bad headcold, and the husband said he had the cure, poured me out a martini (though not in a fun glass) and told me not to worry, one wouldn’t make me drunk and the kids were already asleep. His wife was horrified, mainly because she knew my mom was a straight-laced old tartar who would never forgive him for giving a 16-year-old alcohol…like I was going to tell her! I sipped it slowly over the next hour or so and darned if my symptoms weren’t relieved! Stuffiness went away, headache went away…very effective!