aristotle - noun - Australian rhyming slang - bottle (Lexico.com)
Apparently, poet T.S. Eliot once said, "I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy." If he had been an Australian poet, he would have said "I'd rather have an aristotle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy," and the laughs would not have been lost, except maybe on Aristotle himself, albeit he most likely had a bit of a sense of humor as well. According to a recent article in Atlantic magazine and Bill Maher's closing monologue of last Friday night, Americans have taken up collecting aristotles of beer and wine and hard liquor and drinking the contents as a hobby. If you are old enough, you probably thought baseball was America's favorite pastime. Well, okay, yes, but baseball with the addition of copious aristotles of beer, naturally. Unofficially, drinking booze defines America's downtime.
It all sounds innocuous superficially, but the fact is that alcohol in excessive quantities can kill you one way or the other. I lost my best friend to cirrhosis last year right before the pandemic and just saw a post on Facebook illustrating that her widower husband and twenty-something daughter are partying down in FLA together at a beer microbrewery. Huh? What could he be thinking? Most likely, he's not. Oh, and I have another friend who is at present dying from cirrhosis. I don't drink myself, never had much tolerance for the stuff. It's too bad that being a good example matters not these days.
Here's wishing you a happy, healthy July 4th. Maybe you don't want a frontal lobotomy, but you don't want cirrhosis either. Keep those aristotles in check. Your loved ones will thank you.
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