What's the use of getting sober...

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

[rooboy]

1. I seem to recall Joe Jackson singing that song.

Although it may be a cover version of someone's more famous rendition. If so, I don't know who it was.

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

5. Yes he did. On Jumpin' Jive.

My understanding was that JJ's dad was a big band player or leader and he was musically trained in that tradition, as so many Brit rockers were. So the album was fun for him but a homage too.

[tuvor]

10. Poor Joe missed the swing revival by 15 years.

That was such a good album.

[LeighAnn]

6. Boy, you listen to your old Pappy

Louis Jordan & His Tympany 5 - 1943
The Beatles - 1969
Joe Jackson - 1981


INTRO:
1st Voice: Boy, you listen to your old Pappy
2nd Voice: Yeah, Pappy
1V: And stop drinking so much
2V: I'm-I'm ain't been doing so much drinking, Pappy
1V: Shut up, boy! You drink all day and you drink all night and you
know, son, that that ain't right
2V: Oh Pappy, you just give me a chance. I, I can, I . . .
1V: Shut up, boy! Boy, you're lookin' thin as a twig
2V: I know that . . .
1V: Look likes your dear old Pappy - about to blow your wig
2V: Oh I'm gonna blow my wig, Pappy

What's the use of getting sober
When you're gonna get drunk again...

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

8. Wow the Beatles too? I did not know this!

[tuvor]

11. Hey, LeighAnn, who's that in your avatar?

Is that one of the Dragonball Z franchise, maybe?

Just curious. My last gig was three years for a company that adapted anime for English distribution.

[toymachines]

2. its a nice base from which to judge inebriation.

otherwise pointless

[motely36]

3. If you're gonna get drunk again

Louis Jordan

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

7. I love my whiskey! And I love my gin!

Everytime you see me, I'm in my sin!

So what's the use of getting sober...
When you're gonna get drunk again?! :shrug:

[DrWeird]

4. You're less likely to suck back bong water.

if you're not drunk.

[Nikia]

9. Being drunk, high, or drugged all the time sucks

This is why I quit taking two of my medicines that my doctor tried me on. I do not enjoy feeling that way all the time. The fun of using a mind altering substance is to feel an altered reality for a while and then return to reality. A perpetual altered reality is just out of control.