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SAYINGS ABOUT DRINKING ALCOHOL
1. I'm a hurtin' Albertan.
• This tipsy lament airs frequently in Calgary around Stampede time.2. Ground swell seems pretty rough tonight, or am I pissed?
3. He was gooned out of his tree.
• Some youth in Squamish, B.C. use this to mean: he was so drunk he could barely stand up.4. He's long gone to Mancoda.
• It's a Saskatchewan expression meaning he's drunk by now. Mancoda was a cattle-buying and selling centre in Saskatchewan. After getting the money for his herd, a cowman might well think he deserved a few pints in a Mancoda tavern or beverage room.5. Drink up and drown.
• Christopher Melsted writes from Banff, Alberta: "This is said to fellow drinkers when last call has sounded and it's time to leave a particular establishment. It's heard all over Saskatoon and I've heard it in Calgary and Edmonton. It might originate in a song by the Saskatoon-based band The Northern Pikes. In the mid 1980s they had a hit entitled 'Teenland' whose lyrics contain the expression."6. Booze artist? He'd lick it off a leg sore.
7. He's drunker than a rodeo goat.
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