00:00The word in the English language that has the most synonyms is intoxicated.
00:04In addition to drunk, there's bombed, smashed, juiced, pickled, wasted, plastered, hammered, loaded, gassed, but three sheets to the wind.
00:13I mean, what do sheets and wind have to do with being tipsy?
00:16We need to think nautical.
00:18Sailors and alcohol have had a long relationship, so a sheet is a rope that controls the trim of a sail.
00:24And if those sheets ever became loose, that ship is swerving, staggering, and probably yelling, lurching about like a drunken sailor.
00:34Hence, three sheets to the wind.
00:36The term is found in books and journals dating back to the early 1800s.
00:40In fact, it's been said that sailors have a sliding scale for drunkenness.
00:44One sheet to the wind, tipsy.
00:45Two, pretty drunk.
00:47And three...
00:48Kyle's arguing with the mailbox again about whose turn it is to pay for the tacos.
00:52Always wondered.
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