We're not kidding - June 8 indeed is National Name Your Poison Day.
Charlie Chaplin kicks off Name Your Poison Day with this boozy bit from PAY DAY.
Here, a bon vivant version of Charlie celebrates with fellow inebriate Roscoe Arbuckle in the 1914 Keystone comedy THE ROUNDERS.
Charlie plays both a bamboozled bon vivant and a rowdy ruffian in a filmed version of the Fred Karno troupe "Mumming Birds" sketch that brought him to prominence.
Following Keystone and Essanay, Charlie fights a losing battle with the DTs in one of his Mutual masterpieces, One A.M.
In another Mutual masterpiece, THE CURE, Charlie attempts to get un-inebriated, 20 years before 12 step programs and over 60 years before the Betty Ford Center.
This scene from MODERN TIMES gets one wondering if by happenstance The Little Tramp knew Errol Flynn!
That noxious powder will, before it takes a person out entirely, inevitably prompt one to sing a song like this for no apparent reason.
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