Looks like gin Blossoms to me.

[alfredo]

Take a look at this picture. He sure looks like a heavy drinker. Looks like his face is a mass of broken capillaries. (gin blossoms)

http://www.usofficepristina.usia.co.at/bushph/dos7b.htm

what do you think?

[kaitykaity]

1. I've always thought that he had gin blossoms.

I don't know if they go away over time, though. :shrug:

[Warpy]

6. no, they're permanent

He has one across his nose and a real beaut under his left cheekbone. They're usually airbrushed out in the US press, but quite clear in pictures overseas. The only time they're slightly visible here is when he's sweating all the greasepaint off under bright lights during his extremely rare appearances on TV.

[kaitykaity]

8. Oh, okay. Thanks.

I think he's still a drunk, though. I don't know if he's
dry or not, but I guess it really doesn't matter. He's still
got the "stinkin' thinkin'" problem.

[bemildred]

2. Nah. Much as I'd like to, he don't look that bad for

a serious boozer of his age.

[alfredo]

5. a photo doesn't show

serious brain damage. His walk sure does.

[bemildred]

7. serious brain damage ...

How would you tell?

[alfredo]

19. He's got a wino gait

[colonel odis]

3. what's that big chancre-looking thing on his upper lip?

ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww

[Lisa]

4. abrasion from that bike fall?

Looks like the scab's fallen off -- or rather, the BIG scab, the one with the smirk, is still attached to it.

[Eurobabe]

9. maybe he's getting that funky shit poppy had?

only the dermatologist knows.

[Zorra]

10. Yeah...the Gin Blossoms

Lost Horizons - by the Gin Blossoms

Drunk drunk drunk in the gardens and the graves
Turn summer trees to bones and ice
Turn insect songs against the night
With words we build and words we break
I'm drunk drunk drunk in the gardens and the graves
Maybe I could use you to reassure myself
I wouldn't wish this indecision on anybody else
Drink enough of anything to make this world look new again
And when the sin smiles how could it be wrong
The last horizons I could see are now resigned to memories
I never thought I'd still be here today
Drink enough of anything to make myself look new again
Drunk drunk drunk in the gardens and the graves

[Jade Fox]

14. Found Out About You.....!

[VolcanoJen]

11. So!! Is that what "Gin Blossom" means?

I've always wondered... so, does "Gin Blossom" refer to the wound/scar one suffers after a drunken, falling-down-or-what-not incident?

Fascinating... and... from which region does this phrase originate?

[kaitykaity]

12. No, it has to do with the metabolization of alcohol.

It bursts the blood vessels right under the skin,
causing them to look red and spidery. Heavy boozers
get them.

:hi::bounce::hi:

[VolcanoJen]

16. Fascinating!!

Thanks, Dawn!!

:toast:

[kaitykaity]

17. I stopped drinking before mine got too bad.

My fourth birthday is Friday. Hi, JenJen. Hope life
is treating you good. :pals:

[baldguy]

13. He's not wearing the über-patriotic flag pin?

He must be some sort of terra-ist!

And that's a really ugly tie.

[DemBones DemBones]

15. Can't they be cleared up with plastic surgery?

Assuming one has the $$$ and the guts to have it done? Must be less painful than a face lift, I'd think. I've seen face lifts done on TV surgery shows and YUCK! Peel my face off and put it back tighter? YUCK! :scared:

[vajraroshana]

18. the bike-fall abrasions aside, it looks like

seborrheic eczema.

I have that a bit also. That could explain why it's sometimes there and sometimes not, because the only decent medication is topical steroids with anti-fungals. And you aren't supposed to use them continuously to avoid skin atrophy and scarring and "gin blossoms" (I forget the technical term).

It sucks. Sometimes you're perfectly clear, then bang, it's back.

[Catherine Vincent]

20. DON'T YOU EVER DO THAT TO ME AGAIN!

I know, I shouldn't have clicked on the link but you should have warned us!