Life — August 1932 — page 12: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

# Hangover Chart Analysis This page satirizes the "morning after" of heavy drinking through two pieces: **"Thrill" poem** by Ruth Pack: A tongue-in-cheek account of waking in a sleeping car with strangers, wanting to escape the awkward situation. **"Hangover Chart"**: A humorous graph plotting a drinker's physical condition over 24 hours, tracking the progression from "Blotto" (drunk) through various states (Dizzy, Good++, Normal, Low, Punk, Awful, Terrible) based on a specific drinking schedule. The chart includes comedic annotations about breakfast timing, drinking patterns, and remedies like "drink of water fountain with straw." The satire targets the predictable cycle of excessive drinking and its consequences—a commentary on 1920s-30s social drinking culture and hangover mythology, presenting the experience as both inevitable and measurable through pseudoscientific graphing.