Tuesday, January 04, 2005

 
How do you like your Kopfweh?*

Re Jonah's "Alcohol & Acetaminophen" -Guess that means that when Portnoy's** wife says, "Not tonight, Dear; I've got a headache," and takes a couple of Tylenol, his liver will, uh, suffer.

*One rather depressing answer was given by the "Winston Churchill" character of the German comedy classic, "Flugzeug." Hungover, and having a limited german vocabulary, he thought was being asked about his java preferences before replying, "Black, like all my 'dogs'."
**I assume that the fictional character is married by now; never read the book, but it has been favorably reviewed by strange bedfellows John Derbyshire and Andrew Sullivan.