The Moaning After

January, 1956

The Moaning Afterplayboy's food & drink editorThe normal young man awakens on the first day of January with all the steady sparkling effervescence of an old tire pump. His eyes are two huge cranberries. His brain bears a remarkable resemblance to a broken light bulb. He attempts to rise, and his limbs move like an India rubber man. For weeks the bright young fellow has had various high-minded hopes for the new year. But the congested mass of verbiage that now issues from his throat can produce o...