Discourse Fustian

I captured Laura Earle here at the end of a yawn, but in such a way that she has a drunken expression on her face. I wasn't sure what to say about it until I remembered Foster Brooks (1912-2001), the comedian best known for his "Lovable Lush" character during the 1970s. It was popular only until public sensiblities regarding public drunkenness changed, but Brooks was not only a highly skilled actor-comedian, but a sober alcoholic as well --he talked about it here.

Here is Brooks in an extremely successful skit as a drunken airline pilot from around 1974.

The lines of Cassio from Shakespeare's Othello come to mind:

I will rather sue to be despised than to deceive so
good a commander with so slight, so drunken, and so
indiscreet an officer. Drunk? and speak parrot?
and squabble? swagger? swear? and discourse
fustian with one's own shadow? O thou invisible
spirit of wine, if thou hast no name to be known by,
let us call thee devil!