gha! and one of my favorites, gaga. >> g. k. chesterton did not feel it was proper to refer to dead drunk. by the way, shakespeare is the first one in literature to use "dead drunk." chesterton felt that there had to be another word for that, and he came up with "blotto." >> it does not sound like it was more than 100 years old, does it? >> i have a character who says, "my name is auto, i like to get blotto." >> and the english also came up with squiffy. >> the one that came from the satirical magazine private eye, to describe drunken politicians, overly tired and emotional. journalists were famous for being overly tired and emotional. >> that is one of the reasons you have some many euphemisms, and i went all through the british tabloids going back to the turn-of-the-century they were using cockney -- to the turn of the century. there were using cockney rhyming list. >> apples and pears, four of the stairs. i do not pretend to know it, but i know a few phrases. they could talk using these derivative words. derived on their rhym