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Silliest column of the week award, in vino veritas division

August 21, 2008 - 8:48 am - by Roger Kimball
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2008-08-26 05:29:23

J Bonaccorsi writes: “Have I seen any significant cases of drunks falling from buildings? I don’t know. What would an insignificant case look like?”

Perhaps the question should be expanded, not that it will do any good at all, as you are deliberately playing the fool. Have you seen any cases, significant or otherwise, of drunks falling from high windows? It has happened, of course, but it is not high on the list of things I expect I might die of, ranking just a bit below being savaged by a freshwater shark, and a bit above apoplexy at the site of a mixed-race child brazenly promenaded down main street.