Greatest Drunks of All Time: Ernest Hemingway

[petekaz1977]

Never pity a man who dies doing what he loved.

Just try to understand that drinking, fighting, and being depressed about the past could indeed be the very thing that he loved doing.

Instead raise a glass and remember how much one man managed to contribute, completely blasted from his mind, and then acknowledge how little you contribute.....then have another drink.

[Slingblade347]

Just another of a long line of Illuminati puppets in there agenda to create a "culture" separate from the God of the Bible (same as Hollywood, the music industry, mainstream controlled "news" etc.), this was the early version of Illuminati brainwashing via books, now it's TV and music. Another media-romanticized fraud and dupe of Satan. The way he ended his life speaks volumes on who he was serving in this present world. He was definately of this world.

[CalebBalderstone]

… there would often then ensue on oft- repeated bewailment of his exemption from military service on the grounds of irredeemable Willy Wufterism, but I never held the rantings against the man; nor would I hold it against him that he frequently soiled himself and often stunk of piss. He was, after all, Papa. One of the greatest drunks of all time.

[CalebBalderstone]

Like most drunks, Ernest was incredibly interesting to be around. His stories so almost intelligible, that one would lean closer to the spittle-flecked beard and endure the bad-breath and rotten teeth just to gain the slightest insight into what the fuck he was slurring on about. ‘See, ye? See ye?’ he’d often slur in a remarkably realistic Scottish accent , ‘I coooda bin a sodja’, a real fooking sodja!’ …

[Williamharold1000]

Hemingway was a lot more than a drunk!!! First of all he was a great writer

[j4unumber1]

Yep. Mr. Hemingway is definitely a legend! It's too bad though about his personal demise. That is extremely tragic.

[daffydocone]

GO TO ," WANDERIN STAR" WITH LEE MARVIN, A FORMER USMC.

[rlathbury]

There is no doubt that in his last two decades Hemingway was alcoholic. During the good writing years to 1940, he was not. The idea that he would "import" Fitzgerald to keep him company is absurd. Fitzgerald could not drink in the quantity that Hemingway could, and he was not "importable." Although the clips on Humphrey Bogart and W. C. Fields may be justified, this video is actually sad. Of larger and more serious accomplishment, Hemingway was a great artist. His decline and end were tragic.

[aicdethfan84]

Talented man and he had balls.

[pmanisc]

who ever put this to rap is a tool, along with andy rooney, who when asked about Hemingway, said he was a fraud. rooney is a coward having said this well after Hemingway died.

[4freespeech]

One of my best friends when I lived on the

Florida Keys was an old Merchant Marine

oiler named Allen Knight. He was one who used to take Hemingway fishing.

Matter of fact there is a picture in Sloppy

Joe's Bar on Duval St. Key West of

Hemingway next to Allen, (much younger,

of course), holding up a big fish. Anyhow

among Allen's Hemingway stories was

the fact that Papa NEVER WROTE A

SINGLE WORD in the "Hemingway House". He used a small shack near the lighthouse to do his writing.

[vincentpricesnephew]

you ruined this with the rap 2:51-2:54. i lost interest and i love Hemingway and to drink. i've been to the lake her vacationed on in MI

[JesseEgan]

Sorry that a three second snippet from Biggie about packing guns ruined it for you. Did the "I love it when you call me big Poppa" snippet at the beginning or the "Poppa was a Rolling Stone" song that played throughout the whole piece also irritate you? I'm just curious if its a dislike of rap specifically, the mixing of humor with Hemingway, or just the clumsy way I put that soundbite in that bothered you most?

[vincentpricesnephew]

no the "Poppa was a Rollin Stone" and even the "I love it when you call me bid Pappa" worked a little. just that one area. great video though

[JesseEgan]

Ernest Hemingway, aka Papa, was one of the greatest writers and one of the greatest drunks of all time. He had a "done by noon, drunk by three" approach to writing, and as a result has many bars and cocktails named in his honor. Hemingway was awarded the silver medal of valour, the bronze star, the pulitzer prize, the nobel prize, and on top of all that he invented the daiquiri!

[Alfrunk]

...said Frank Rich of Modern Drunkard Magazine! :)