That's Just Insipid!

I'm at SUNY Stony Brook's main library, in the midst of an AP Literature training course and supposedly browsing the AP Central website (which is an excellent and extensively back-catalogued resource), and I have been tangentially led to this excellent slice of Americana: Benjamin Franklin's "Drinker's Dictionary," a compilation of colonial slang for "being hammered."

A few choice selections from just the top of the list: "His Head is full of Bees," "He sees the Bears," and "He's had a Thump over the Head with Sampson's Jawbone."