Your neighborhood beer drinking mamals

If any of you have ever left a beer outside and seen your neighborhood wild life lumber over and lap it up you probably know of skunks secret love for alcohol. But I'm lying, this is not a literal phrase. Though I have seen a cat lick up almost an entire bottle of wine and proceed to sort of role down the attic stairs.

Why do we say drunk as a skunk? Probably because drunk only rhymes with 16 other frequently used English words and the only other one that makes sense is monk, and that saying already exists. Also people don't like it when you make fun of religious figures. Another possible reason, it sounds better than stinking drunk and has the same connotation.

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