Wherever you consult it, bear in mind Franklin’s introductory note that all these terms come “gather’d wholly from the modern Tavern-Conversation of Tiplers. He’s right before the Wind with all his Studding Sails out,įranklin’s glossary also appears in Lists of Note, the brand new, highly recommended book from Letters of Note‘s Shaun Usher. Sir Richard has taken off his Considering Cap,
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He’s had a Thump over the Head with Sampson’s Jawbone,
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Has Stole a Manchet out of the Brewer’s Basket, His reputation as a bon vivant and a man of letters converged in a Januedition of the Pennsylvania Gazette, wherein he published this “ Drinkers Dictionary” consisting of 200 synonyms for wasted, blotto, half in the bag, three sheets to the wind, and others that would emerge over the following centuries.
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In 18th-century America, this seems often as not to have meant to know how to drink - and, in Franklin’s case, also to know how to identify the drunk. It also turns out that Franklin could indulge in a vice as heartily as he could a virtue the man who wrote Poor Richard’s Almanack knew how to have a good time. Most Americans can, I suspect, summon to mind the image of Franklin flying a kite with a key on it as well.
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(Something got him on the $100 bill, after all.) Of course, only his biographers could remember the every accomplishment of this “First American,” from helping unite the colonies, to publishing newspapers, to serving as Ambassador to France, to putting US national security at risk, to co-founding the University of Pennsylvania, to inventing bifocals and everything in between. How many Americans could, off the top of their heads, tell you exactly why history remembers Benjamin Franklin? Not many, I suspect, though we all know that he did a great deal worth remembering, even by the standards of a Founding Father.