“I’m not as think as you drunk I am”
“I’m not as think as you drunk I am”—a drunk “spoonerism” version of “I’m not as drunk as you think I am”—is a one-line saying that has been printed on many images. “John, hic—I ain’t so think as you drunk I am” was published in Humorous Tales of Bennington-on-the-Hill (1918). “REVELER—It’s all ri’, constable. I ‘sure you I’m not sho think as you drunk I am!” was published in Pearson’s Magazine in 1924 and was reprinted in many newspapers.
British poet and author J. C. Squire (1884-1958) wrote “But I’m not so think as you drunk I am” in ‘Ballade of Soporific Absorption’ (1931). Squire is frequently credited with the line, although he wasn’t the first to use it.
HathiTrust Digital Library
Humorous Tales of Bennington-on-the-Hill,
Collected and written for her sons and daughters by one who was born near the site of the old continental store house
By Richard Seymour.Bayhan
Cleveland, OH: Central publishing House
1918
Pg. 65:
Straightening himself up, he pointed at my father and replied, “John, hic—I ain’t so think as you drunk I am.”
26 January 1924, Mount Carmel (PA) Item, pg. 6, col. 2:
REVELER—It’s all ri’, constable. I ‘sure you I’m not sho think as you drunk I am!—Pearson’s Magazine.
2 April 1928, Every Evening (Wilmington, DE), pg. 6, col. 5:
“Tom Shay, I’m under the affluence of incahol! Well, I’m not as think as you drunk I am.”—America’s Humor.
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One Hundred & One Ballades
Cobden-Sanderson
1931
Pg. 91:
And stable quite ill to see what’s what.
I under do stand you surprise a got
When I headed my smear with gooseberry jam:
And I’ve swallowed, I grant, a beer of lot —
But I’m not so think as you drunk I am.
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The Nonsensibus
Drawn by Dominic Bevan Wyndham Lewis
London: Methuen & Company, Ltd.
1936
Pg. 57:
And I said to him, ‘Sergeant, I’ll come like a lamb —
The floor it seems like a storm in a yacht,
But I’m not so think as you drunk I am.’
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2500 Anecdotes for All Occasions:
a new classified collection of the best anecdotes from ancient times to the present day
By Edmund Fuller
Garden City, NY: Doubleday
1961, ©1943
Pg. 8:
The young fellow, slightly green in the ways of the smart set, apologized to his hostess, explaining, “Though I may be slightly under the affluence of incohol, I’m not so think as you drunk I am.”
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Urban Dictionary
I’m not as think as you drunk I am.
A spoof, often on a t-shirt, of someone who is so drunk that they begin to confuse words in a sentence with other words, and switch their places, often after an all night party.
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by Conman140069 January 05, 2010
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Oxford Treasury of Sayings and Quotations
Edited by Susan Ratcliffe
New York, NY: Oxford University Press
2011
Pg. 131:
But I’m not so think as you drunk I am.
J. C. Squire 1884–1958: ‘Ballade of Soporific Absorption’ (1931)