Every one was drunk back in the day- ask a bartender how well he's doing these days- missing digits were pretty common...
had to toss a carpenter off of a job yesterday and it comes to my attention that noone could recall the last such incident

Ralph Walter wrote:

>  I asked him if that was the case then how come all the painters we knew were also drunks?
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> I seem to remember painters being drunks, too (including Teddy at BBH who thinned oil paint with water, even after we told him it couldn't be done), and have a vague recollection that it was related to the lead in the paint.  What I'm less sure of is whether this is something I heard, or whether it was something in one of my 1920's painting and drecorationg handbooks.
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