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Fat drunk people are funny.
Look at classical depictions of Bacchus...never skinny.

*Ahem* I hate to be nit-picky, ... well, actually that's a complete lie, I live for being picky. But Bakkhos is not noticeably fat in classical depictions (e.g. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6).

I'm guessing you're thinking of Silenos ... except that, usually, he's also not distinctively fat (1, 2, 3), except when painted by Rubens -- a painter of the modern period. And I defy anyone to regard the Silenos in that painting as jolly -- he's revolting! We're not talking goatse revolting, not quite, ... though I can imagine him pulling a goatse after a couple more goblets of wine.

Oaooow. Now my brain needs washing to get rid of that mental image.

I believe that phrase likely originated with the poet John Keats

I wonder if Keats in turn got the idea from Catullus' Carmina No. LXX:

"... what a woman says to her ardent lover / should be written in wind and running water."

Keats was real big on the classical stuff. You know, the whole:

"Much have I travell'd in the realms of gold,
And many goodly states and kingdoms seen;
Round many western islands have I been
Which bards in fealty to Apollo hold,"

and all that.

http://www.vroma.org/images/mcmanus_images/brothel _painting1.jpg

The Roman Army, Part II

The worst punishment of all was decimation, usually applied to a whole cohort, in which every tenth man in the unit was randomly selected to be clubbed or beaten to death by the other soldiers.

After about three hours of setting up my servers in a walk in closet and using my laptop to send my x a final fuck you letter I went out and bought some cheap mexican beer and quickly became inebriated and fell asleep on the floor with my backpack as a pillow.

As nightmares of my x rattled in my brain something terrible began to happen in the supporting wall of my apartment. The ceiling became endowed in a matter of hours with a multitude of huge white teets like the roman she-wolfof lore. Rippling gigantic tits.

Those tits were the paint holding in excess of a gallon of water a peice, the water main had blown, and my electronics were in 2 inches of water. I dried my electronic outside it was a 110 degree arizona summer and the only thing I lost was an answering machine that sounded like you were underwater when you played anything on it.

Needless to say I had my apartment upgraded to a better one for free by management and they paid me 2000 dollars to pretty much stop me from calling the authorities. This was a brand new apartment complex and the water main for the entire building ran through that supporting wall and it was only a 3 inch in diamater plastic pipe that had appearently shattered due to the pressure.

The newly reinvented safety pin was protected by a US patent issued in about 1850 despite these items (fibulae) having been widely used a couple or three thousand years earlier. Look close: that thing's a fancy safety pin. The small item above it looks like a variation.

I think you're thinking of Mosaic Man.