By the time the one-day game had taken off in the Packer era, the wallets of advertisers and sponsors were fatter than ever and both booze and smokes made their play for sport.
Those God-fearing Free Presbyterians the Paisleys do not approve of betting, which they see as being as sinful as supping the "devil's buttermilk" (ie booze).
Rising at around 8am, we practised manoeuvres or sailed all day, mooring at 6 or 7pm, leaving plenty of time for eating the homemade meals provided and indulging in our sizeable pre-cruise booze run while listening to Kevin's picaresque life story.
Politicians of all stripes refuse to deal with our booze-soaked culture because vested interests lobby so hard against it.
So much here prefigures the tropes found in modern winter literature: family and friends gather for warmth and jollity, feasting is the order of the day, good cheer is lubricated by heroic quantities of booze … and then the stranger arrives.
Many of the islands have nowhere to buy provisions, take on water or buy fuel, so you have to plan carefully; ie always have your own booze in the fridge.
So if you're looking for an excuse for a pre-Christmas booze run, look no further.
Without going into too much gory detail, booze (more precisely, the over consumption of booze), got me into much more bother, in far more ways, than illegal "evil" drugs ever did – and by some margin.
Wetherspoon is seeking a bigger share of the breakfast market to offset the effect of cheap booze deals at superstores, which have hammered sales across the pub industry.
Before we can discuss the finer points of why Michael Jackson kept booze in Pepsi cans when he was around kids, the real star of the show arrives, on all fours.
Or disruptive like REM's Peter Buck, who attempted to play a CD on the hostess trolley, sat next to a passenger and insisted she was his wife – she wasn't – raided bottles from the galley after he had been told he couldn't have any more booze and threw yoghurt over everyone?
