As we’re now well and truly into the party season, here’s some very good advice on how to get the best out of your festive bash from the late actor and professional hellraiser Peter O’Toole. Does this perhaps describe your work Christmas party?
Fornication, madness, murder, drunkenness, shouting, shrieking, leaping polite conversation and the breaking of bones, such jollities constitute acceptable behaviour, but no acting allowed.
I’m sure O’Toole both hosted and attended many an epic party along such lines, although I’m not sure he’d remember much of it the the following day – after all, this was a man who once self-deprecatingly said:
I loved the drinking, and waking up in the morning to find I was in Mexico. It was part and parcel of being an idiot.
Idiot or not, he was a great actor in his time, and the worlds of theatre and film are lessened by his passing – they don’t make them like Peter O’Toole any more. Raise a festive toast in his memory at the next wild Christmas party you go to…
Another Kind Of Mind 
Two Fave Peter O Toole stories: On US customs form, replied to “do you intend to overthrow the government?” question with “sole purpose of visit.”
2. After an riotous afternoon’s drinking, he drags his new drinking partners over to a show. Half-way through, he elbows his mate and says “This is brilliant! This is the bit where I come in….OH BOLLOCKS!”
Brilliant! They really don’t make ’em like O’Toole any more…