I must confess, I have been guilty of this sin on numerous occasions. I am sorry, but sometimes it is so hard to look at a computer screen with nothing flowing between my ears. Then, I pop open a good old bottle of my favorite ale and voila!

The secret is to let your feelings flow through the key board before the ultimate buzz hits you square between the eyes. I have found that a great start to an article can seem even more wonderful once I am able to nail the last paragraph, inebriatedly. (Is that a word?) Wait a minute, ah that's better. Good old brew! Now where was I?

Oh yes, what I mean is, that.......oh darn! Where was this going? Ah, that's better! What I am saying is that a good article can actually be ruined by the effects of alcohol, but at the time of writing it, it seems like the greatest thing I have ever written in my life.

Now, there is something to be said to support my heart felt emotions, once they appear in black and white, in the great cyberspace of beyond. In actual fact, I must admit that one evening, upon my return home from a fantastic night at a friend's house, where much beer was greatly consumed, I did sit myself down, and I did pour my heart out about a particular subject.

After creating a wonderful and daring piece of writing on the subject of global warming and gas prices, or something or other? I sort of spell checked it, I hit the submit button on the Helium site and went straight to bed, in a funny sort of climbing fashion.

In the morning, I awakened with that foreboding feeling, which is generally associated with drinking the night before. My thoughts were somewhat mixed and jaded by who I was, my past, my future and everything else, then it hit me! "Oh crap!" I thought aloud in my brain, causing it to rattle the very core of my central nervous system.

Well, to cut this long story shorter, I dwelled upon a terrible memory which gnawed at me. It was a horrible feeling of both guilt and embarrassment. I thought about the article that I had written in my inebriated state and I dared myself to check it's rating.

All I could think was, that thank God there was a leapfrog function. Then I thought of all the people in Australia, New Zealand and the United Kingdom, that had, had privy to my feeble, drunken meander while I was sleeping.

Not to draw this painful article on any further......Wait! Ah, that's better! Now where was I? Oh yes! So I approached my computer, as if entering a confession booth at the Vatican. I clicked on "My Helium" and then "My articles" and I couldn't believe it! My article was at number one!

Now I know that Mozart could write his little heart out while knocking back the vino, but I didn't think that a couple of hundred years later, a Joe Schmo, intoxicated by hops and yeast, could write something that was worth rating up.

[Disclaimer]

All said, I do not support drunken behavior. Don't drink and drive, or drink and write, even if it is on Helium. Wait......oh that's very good! Now where's the 2008 election debate channel?

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