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Having read a bio or two, I do not like the guy. Still....

This via Powerline. I read it first as "infinite" instead of "indefinite."

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I didn't realize Otto Pickhardt, M.D. had any more than one short bio that I managed to find. But I wouldn't like him either if he's prescribing alcohol for convalescence.

:) ;)

Churchill is an interesting character. I'm a fan, but not necessarily because of his policies. He was probably the right person for the time.

#1 Bulldog on 2018-12-11 16:35 (Reply)

Probably to keep Winston happy - or to fend off DTs.

#1.1 Bird Dog on 2018-12-11 16:54 (Reply)

When my grandfather was in the hospital recovering from surgery at age 76, he wasn't recovering very quickly. They expected him out in 3 days and he'd been there a week.
My grandmother kept saying "Let him have his Reading beer with dinner." The hospital wouldn't allow him his beer. My grandmother started sneaking it in, and he was better in a week and 3 days.

Reading beer has recuperative powers. Must be the 'aged in transit' properties.

#1.1.1 Bulldog on 2018-12-11 23:18 (Reply)

Cometh the hour, cometh the man.

Thank God he was there in 1940 to counter the defeatists.

#1.2 JJM on 2018-12-11 17:20 (Reply)

Years ago I read that when an heir to the Singer Sewing Machine fortune fell from his horse and broke a leg while foxhunting he immediately dispatched someone to his house to get a box of his favorite cigars and a crate of his usual champagne and deliver them to the hospital. Of course, that was back in the 1950's.

He was no Churchill but he lived his life his way and that meant enjoying horses and hounds. When asked why he never went to the company's office in NYC he replied he knew nothing of business and could think of no good reason he should bother the professionals who ran the company.

#2 tljhound on 2018-12-11 17:02 (Reply)

From Colorado...a whiskey and a cigar sounds pretty good right now.

#3 rocdoctom on 2018-12-11 17:04 (Reply)

In one of the books about wine in my library, there's a section at the back with anecdotes about wine lovers.

One of them is about an aristocratic nonagenarian oenophile in London who was informed by his doctor that he'd have to give up drinking claret.

"So I did the only thing I could do," he observed, "I found a new doctor."

#4 JJM on 2018-12-11 17:17 (Reply)

My mother was very upset when she finally decided she had to give up martinis. She was 96 and changed to sherry, which did not affect her.

#4.1 Mike K (Link) on 2018-12-11 17:52 (Reply)

My wife was chatting on the phone with her 87 year old father who would enjoy a dram or whiskey on Saturday evening. He rarely touched anything else but the odd beer here and there.

He mentioned that his doctor had to told him to give up the whiskey and he asked her what she thought about that.

"Find a new doctor!" was her answer.

When her mom was in hospice, solely for pain-relief care, she mentioned she was thirsty and when my wife asked what she'd like to drink, she answered, "Oh, I would just love a gin and tonic."

It was produced as rapidly as possible.

#4.2 Knucklehead (Link) on 2018-12-12 14:16 (Reply)

Barrister-- Which guy don't you like? Churchill or Pickhardt?

#5 snopercod on 2018-12-11 17:26 (Reply)

"Prohibition in the United States was a nationwide constitutional ban on the production, importation, transportation, and sale of alcoholic beverages from 1920 to 1933."

So, Winnie needed a note from his doctor so he could get his "medicine".

#6 Nunnya Bidnez, jr on 2018-12-11 18:06 (Reply)

"Prohibition makes you want to cry in your beer and denies you the beer to cry into."

- Archie The Cockroach

#6.1 JJM on 2018-12-11 19:05 (Reply)

The misery that comes out of bottle (or needle or other type harmful drug) is terrible. That we can't stop it or reduce it is just as terrible. I am not a fan of government controlling every thing we do but if they don't who will stop this terrible waste of life and incredible suffering? My suggestion is that we change the tort laws and allow families and the individuals affected to sue when harm results from alcohol or harmful drugs (not medicinal drugs). Let the shyster lawyers do the dirty work and put them out of business.

#6.1.1 OneGuy on 2018-12-12 17:22 (Reply)

England needed him then but they need someone like him today too. Can you imagine if Theresa May was who they depended on back in the 30's. Maybe it's just the nature of the man that can actually do what must be done that people don't like him all that much.

#7 Anon on 2018-12-11 18:39 (Reply)

Good observation. Explains Trump Derangement Syndrome too.

#7.1 Arty on 2018-12-11 22:21 (Reply)

Churchill was a functioning alcoholic. Always a publicity hound, glory seeker. Small man syndrome.

#8 Gary Foster on 2018-12-12 17:33 (Reply)

Having read more than one biography of Churchill, I feel quite qualified and confident in pronouncing you full of shit and miserably envious; the jackal nipping at the heels of the lion.

The man singlehandedly saved Western Europe. What have you accomplished?

#8.1 Galway Boy on 2018-12-12 21:04 (Reply)

I couldn't agree with you more. Churchill was a master statesman. The friendship between Roosevelt and Churchill before and during the war saved the free world.

#8.1.1 michael on 2018-12-13 18:16 (Reply)

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