Drunkenness

** Refers to the influence of other recreational drugs as well as alcohol, most frequently marijuana. alt.fan.blues-brothers FAQ (http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~pringle/bluesbros/faq.html). * Refers to slight drunkenness. John, Lou Rawls, Travis Tritt, Jimmie Vaughan, Wilson Pickett and many others, many of whom featured as members of the fictional band The Louisiana Gator Boys. The Qur'an, or book of Islam, declares that God prohibits the consumption of alcohol by humankind, because of harmful effects for the body, harmful effects for the consumer's life and family, social problems, and distraction from mindfulness of God. King, Erykah Badu, Junior Wells, Taj Mahal, Lonnie Brooks, James Brown, Eric Clapton, Steve Winwood, Paul Shaffer, Koko Taylor, Bo Diddley, Isaac Hayes, Dr. Many religions discourage or prohibit alcohol consumption. It featured John Goodman singing with Aykroyd and cameos by Blues Traveler, B.B.

This also works in the game of Nethack. In 1998, Blues Brothers 2000 was released to theaters but had none of the spirit and charm of the first film and failed miserably. The Ancient Greeks believed that putting a piece of amethyst in the glass or in one's mouth while drinking prevented drunkenness, although this usage may be related to a play on words (Ancient Greek: "a-methyst" meaning "not intoxicated"). Aykroyd continued to be an active proponent of blues music and parlayed this avocation into foundation and partial ownership of the House of Blues franchise, an international chain of nightclubs. In character as Elwood, he also hosts the syndicated House of Blues Radio Hour.. Drunkenness is generally felt to be a good thing by the drunk person, at least until it wears off and the associated hangover starts. They released an album of new material in 1992 entitled Red White and Blues, which included a guest appearance from Elwood Blues. Arguably, such an attitude can be regarded as pathological, leading as it often does to alcoholism. In 1988 Cropper, Dunn, Murphy and others re-formed The Blues Brothers Band for a world tour.

Many societies have cultural stereotypes associated with drunkenness - where the ability to drink vast quantities of alcohol is thought to be worthy of respect. On March 5, 1982, Belushi died in Hollywood of an accidental drug overdose. A person who is an alcoholic or habitually drunk is often referred to as a 'drunk', or, more traditionally, a 'drunkard'. In 1981, The Best of the Blues Brothers was released; this disc would be the first of several compliations and hits collections issued over the years. Extreme over-indulgence can lead to alcohol poisoning and death due to respiratory depression. The Blues Brothers is often regarded as the best of many films adapted from Saturday Night Live sketches. This is often a common symptom of the hangover. The film effectively combines the deadpan humor of Belushi and Ackryod as the title characters with over-the-top action and slapstick sequences, interspersed with highly-stylized musical numbers from the soul music legends in the supporting cast.

When this wears off (usually taking until the following morning) the brain has adjusted to the spinning, and interprets not spinning as spinning in the opposite direction causing further disorientation. Several car chases with an extremely large number of crashes result (possibly in parody of the car chases in earlier movies such as The French Connection); the film held the record for the most cars destroyed in one film, until surpassed by its sequel. These 'fake' nerve impulse tells the brain that the body is rotating, causing disorientation and making the eyes spin round to compensate. The duo also make numerous enemies along the way, notably a neo-Nazi group, the Chicago Police, Illinois state troopers, a Country and Western band, and Jake's former fiancée who continually tries (and fails) to kill them using various methods (including a bazooka). However, when alcohol gets in to the bloodstream it distorts the shape of the cupola, causing it to keep pressing on to the hairs. Staged and spontaneous musical numbers commence during their journey. This brushes against hairs in the ear, creating nerve impulses that travel through the vestibulocochlear nerve (Cranial nerve VIII) in to the brain. The Blues Brothers spend much of the rest of the film tracking down members of the Band and convincing them to rejoin, as well as playing venues to raise the requisite $5,000.

Inside both of these is a flexible blob called a cupula, which moves when the body moves. Early in the film, they learn that the orphanage they were raised in is to be torn down unless the back property taxes on the building can be paid within a short time. Balance in the body is monitored principally by two systems: the semicircular canals, and the utricle and saccule pair. The two almost immediately attract the attention of the police with their reckless driving habits (in an old Dodge Monaco police car, affectionately known as the Bluesmobile). Although motor areas of the brain are usually heavily affected at this time, it is not directly the brain which is responsible here; alcohol has affected the organs responsible for balance (vestibular system), present in the ears. The movie revolves around the title characters, who are reunited at the beginning of the film as "Joliet" Jake is released from Joliet Prison into his brother's custody (he was imprisoned for armed robbery). Often, after a lot of alcohol has been consumed, it is possible to get the sense that the room is spinning, a type of nystagmus referred to as positional alcohol nystagmus. Jake and Elwood released their second LP, Made in America, which included the Top 40 hits "Gimme Some Lovin'" and "Who's Making Love".

Severe drunkenness and diabetic coma can be mistaken for each other, with potentially serious medical consequences for diabetics. The Blues Brothers also toured that year to promote the movie. With less glucose metabolism, the cells work less efficiently and aren't able to process images properly. The motion picture is set in Chicago, Illinois and the surrounding area. The occipital lobe, the part of the brain responsible for interpreting vision, has been found to become especially impaired, consuming 29 percent less glucose than it should. In 1980, The Blues Brothers motion picture, directed by John Landis, was released, featuring cameos by Aretha Franklin, James Brown, Cab Calloway, Ray Charles, John Lee Hooker, Carrie Fisher, Frank Oz, Steven Spielberg, Joe Walsh, John Candy, and Paul Reubens. Alcohol seems to suppress the metabolism of glucose in the brain. The album went platinum, and featured Top 40 hit covers of Sam and Dave's "Soul Man" and The Chips' "Rubber Biscuit." Despite the name of the act, most of the songs performed by The Blues Brothers throughout their existence were soul music or R&B classics rather than blues music.

Blurred vision is another common symptom of drunkenness. The Blues Brothers recorded their first album, Briefcase Full of Blues, in 1978 while opening for comedian Steve Martin at Los Angeles' Universal Amphitheater. As the GABA system is found in the hippocampus, which is thought to play a large role in memory formation, this is thought to be possible. and the M.G.s; and Matt "Guitar" Murphy. It has been asserted that GABA signals interfere with the registration and consolidation stages of memory formation. Backing Jake and Elwood were top session men like guitarist Steve Cropper, bassist Donald "Duck" Dunn, formerly of the Stax Records house band Booker T. GABA could also be responsible for the memory impairment that many people experience. Part of the humour is the image of two men who are dressed in black suits looking like mob hitmen suddenly exploding into energetic song and dance.

The GABA system is known to inhibit activity in the brain, and would cause other areas to slow down. The Blues Brothers made their first appearance on air at SNL, with Belushi and Aykroyd dressed in the bee costumes they normally wore for the "Killer Bees" sketch, performing Slim Harpo's "I'm a King Bee." In the weeks following that performance, The Blues Brothers became a popular addition to the show and began to appear on a semi-regular basis. Contributing to this effect is the activity which alcohol induces in the gamma-aminobutyric acid system (GABA). Belushi (as vocalist Jake Blues) and Aykroyd (as harpist Elwood Blues), both members of the original cast of NBC's Saturday Night Live television program, created The Blues Brothers and their alternate identities in early 1976 to warm up SNL audiences. NMDA receptors start to become unresponsive, slowing thought in the areas of the brain they are responsible for. The Blues Brothers is the name of a rhythm and blues band fronted, incognito, by comedians Dan Aykroyd and John Belushi. The effect alcohol has on the NMDA receptors, earlier responsible for pleasurable stimulation, turns from a blessing to a curse later in the evening if further alcohol is consumed.

Likewise, people consuming non-alcoholic beer or "shirley temple" mixed drinks have been observed exhibiting increasingly drunk-like behavior on a par with their alcohol drinking companions even though their own drinks contained no alcohol whatsoever. A scientific study found that people drinking in a social setting significantly and dramatically altered their behaviour immediately after the first sip of alcohol, well before the chemical itself could have filtered through to the nervous system. Behavioural changes associated with drunkenness are, to some degree, contextual. This causes reward systems in the brain to become more active, and combined with released inhibition can induce people to behave in an uncharacteristically loud and cheerful manner.

This is due to increased metabolism in areas of the brain associated with movement, such as the nigrostriatal pathway. A related effect, caused by even low levels of alcohol, is the tendency for people to become more animated in speech and movement. Areas of the brain responsible for planning and motor learning are dulled. A well-known side effect of alcohol is lowering inhibitions.

Heightened pulses are thought to correspond to higher levels of enjoyment. Alpha waves are observed (with the aid of EEGs) when the body is relaxed. Another one of alcohol's agreeable effects is body relaxation, possibly caused by heightened alpha brain waves surging across the brain. Stimulated areas include the cortex, hippocampus and nucleus accumbens, which are responsible for thinking and pleasure seeking.

Alcohol sensitises the N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) system of the brain, making it more receptive to the neurotransmitter glutamate. Although alcohol is commonly thought of purely as a depressant, at low concentrations it can actually stimulate certain areas of the brain. An appropriate first aid response to an unconscious, drunken person is a manouever known as the recovery position. Death can also be caused by asphyxiation (choking) as a result of vomit blocking the trachea.

After excessive drinking, unconsciousness can occur and in extreme cases (when the concentration of alcohol in the bloodstream is over 0.5 percent) alcohol can even cause death. Alcohol has a biphasic effect on the body - its effects transform over an evening of drinking, from initial feelings of relaxation and cheerfulness to blurred vision and problems with coordination. This can contribute to the correspondingly dramatic effect seen when large amounts are taken. Cell membranes are highly permeable to alcohol, so once alcohol is in the bloodstream it can diffuse into nearly every tissue of the body.

This is because the presence of food in the stomach is able to slow the absorption of alcohol into the bloodstream, spreading its effect over a longer period of time. Drinking after eating a large meal is much less likely to induce drunkenness compared with drinking on an empty stomach. The amount consumed and the circumstances under which the alcohol was taken can play a large part in determining the extent of drunkenness. Alcohol is a potent drug and consequently it has a range of side effects, some pleasurable and some less so.

ethanol) to a sufficient degree to impair mental and motor functioning. Drunkenness, in its most common usage, is the state of being intoxicated with alcohol (i.e. zonked **. wiped out **.

wazzocked. wasted **. wankered. under the table.

under the influence. trollied. trashed **. totally awesome.

tired and emotional (used to describe politicians who make fools of themselves when drunk, see Private Eye). tipsy *. tiddly *. three sheets to/in the wind.

tanked up. tanked. swallied (Glasgow slang). stewed.

steaming. squiffed / squiffy. spiced. sozzled.

soused. smashed. sloshed. sloppy.

slammed. slaughtered. skunked (from "drunk as a skunk", note: different etymology of "cannabis-intoxicated" meaning, from "skunk", a type of marijuana) **. shnockered.

shit-faced. shit-canned. shikker (Yiddish). sauce monster.

rat-arsed / ratted. pounded. popped. plowed.

plastered. parcel forced. means "angry"; variants: "Pissed as a newt", "Pissed out of his/her skull", "Pissed to the eyeballs"...). pissed (generally not used in U.S., as pissed in the U.S.

pie-eyed. Perry-Egertsoned. out of it **. out of his/her head **.

one too many (to have had). one over the eight. off the path. newted (from "pissed as a newt").

mortal. merry *. mashed. maggoted.

locked. where it more normally means "wealthy") **. loaded (as slang, generally not used in U.K. liquored up.

legless. jacked **. inebriated. Ian Smith'd.

hurt. hosed (largely Canadian usage). hootered. honkeyed.

happy * **. hammered. half-cut. hairy uncle dan.

gunned. "he's so far gone!"). gone (e.g. gassed.

fucked/fucked up (not exclusively for drunkenness, of course) **. flaming. faded. discombobulated.

destroyed. crunked. caned **. buzzed *.

bombed. bollocksed. blootered. blotto.

blitzed **. blasted. bladdered. bevvyed.

beered up. battered. ball hair. arseholed.