And only later still, in the quiet car retrieved from valet parking and en route back to the Laventura, Constance carefully blinking away her own drunkenness at the wheel, did the equally tipsy Fanny Mann squint at her flashing little screen, recover the message, and then phone the hospital to receive the news.

NEWYORKER: Shauntrelle

Each man brought something distinct to the discussion, from Keats's revelations about the state of British hospitals, to Lamb's tipsy assertion that Newton had destroyed the poetry of the rainbow by reducing it to a prism.

ECONOMIST: Literary table-talk

State regulation is definitely good for teenagers in Boston and for tipsy drivers in the assigned-risk pool.

FORBES: In Good Hands With All Those States?

Since the presumably alcoholics anonymous-approved Wizmark urinals can't keep everyone from getting a little tipsy, officials in Victoria, British Columbia are taking a note from European countries to keep urine off the streets.

ENGADGET: Urilift: the disappearing public urinal (and we do mean public)

Whatever the police say, it is widely believed that there are now automatic fines for passengers riding with tipsy drivers.

ECONOMIST: New laws on drink and smoking

Still a bit tipsy on Jack Daniels, they decided to leave a few of their live duck decoys in the travertine marble fountain located in the lobby.

BBC: Make way for marching ducks in Memphis