THE FIVE P M COCKTAIL MOUSE
Most people used to leave work at five and most bars opened then for the cocktail hour. Like cocktails themselves, the cocktail hour dates from the 1920s. East Coast society women needed to fill the span between tea, dinner, and evening fun. Thus, 5-7 became the cocktail hour.
Ah, but some ladies and gents wondered why the hell wait for five! Start whenever. After all, they reasoned, in Seattle it might be only 2 o'clock but it's 5 in Boston. And so the idea behind the drinking expression, "It’s 5 o’clock somewhere" took root.
About to celebrate his 50th birthday the comic Red Skelton worried it was too early to start drinking but then quipped, "I don’t drink this early in the day, but what the heck, it must be 5 o’clock somewhere in the world.”
The words outlived Skeleton and even became a popular hit song by Jimmy Buffett. And luckily for drinkers, it always is 5 somewhere. Put my print in your home bar as a reminder, and drink a toast to five o'clocks everywhere.
The 5 o'clock Cocktail Rodent is an original, signed 7x5 digital art print. Artspan also offers this print in unsigned, inexpensive print sizes. Just click the Prints on Demand icon on this page. Then find the design on tees, onsies, pillows, etc. in my Ketchum Art Store: www.teepublic.com/t-shirts/ketchumart.
Ah, but some ladies and gents wondered why the hell wait for five! Start whenever. After all, they reasoned, in Seattle it might be only 2 o'clock but it's 5 in Boston. And so the idea behind the drinking expression, "It’s 5 o’clock somewhere" took root.
About to celebrate his 50th birthday the comic Red Skelton worried it was too early to start drinking but then quipped, "I don’t drink this early in the day, but what the heck, it must be 5 o’clock somewhere in the world.”
The words outlived Skeleton and even became a popular hit song by Jimmy Buffett. And luckily for drinkers, it always is 5 somewhere. Put my print in your home bar as a reminder, and drink a toast to five o'clocks everywhere.
The 5 o'clock Cocktail Rodent is an original, signed 7x5 digital art print. Artspan also offers this print in unsigned, inexpensive print sizes. Just click the Prints on Demand icon on this page. Then find the design on tees, onsies, pillows, etc. in my Ketchum Art Store: www.teepublic.com/t-shirts/ketchumart.