For anyone still feeling faintly the worse for wear, the zippingly clever book by S.J. Perelman and Ogden Nash for Kurt Weill’s One Touch of Venus has the memorable line:
‘God, I feel awful! All my teeth have little sweaters on them.’
Happy 2009 to us all.

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