State regulation is definitely good for teenagers in Boston and for tipsy drivers in the assigned-risk pool.

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Whatever the police say, it is widely believed that there are now automatic fines for passengers riding with tipsy drivers.

ECONOMIST: New laws on drink and smoking

Tipsy employees, they say, find it hard to focus on a task, but this makes them more likely to come up with innovative ideas.

ECONOMIST: The sad demise of the three-Martini lunch

Still a bit tipsy on Jack Daniels, they decided to leave a few of their live duck decoys in the travertine marble fountain located in the lobby.

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However, this is changing and certain areas - particularly those popular with a younger crowd - can get rowdy with tipsy teens (for example, around Campo de'Fiori and parts of Trastevere).

BBC: An evening out in Rome

At Ta Prohm, to the northeast of Angkor Wat, strangler figs spill like liquid over 39 temples in various stages of ruination, creating a tangle of tipsy roofs and dark hallways.

BBC: The perfect trip: Cambodia

Since the presumably alcoholics anonymous-approved Wizmark urinals can't keep everyone from getting a little tipsy, officials in Victoria, British Columbia are taking a note from European countries to keep urine off the streets.

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Each man brought something distinct to the discussion, from Keats's revelations about the state of British hospitals, to Lamb's tipsy assertion that Newton had destroyed the poetry of the rainbow by reducing it to a prism.

ECONOMIST: Literary table-talk

And only later still, in the quiet car retrieved from valet parking and en route back to the Laventura, Constance carefully blinking away her own drunkenness at the wheel, did the equally tipsy Fanny Mann squint at her flashing little screen, recover the message, and then phone the hospital to receive the news.

NEWYORKER: Shauntrelle