Our state of inebriation was such that all he would have got for his money was a bit of snoring possibly interrupted by puking, so we declined out of courtesy.
Duncan got the best, sending Saturday's thriller sprawling into a second overtime from which the Spurs would emerge, white-knuckled and nauseous, with a 117-115 Game 1 victory.
All of a sudden the old fears were back. She was so nervous on the set, a reporter wrote, she "kept a sick bucket" nearby and admitted she "would go backstage after a singing scene and shake."
For the man emerging from a Soho sex shop and another being sick on the pavement outside an east London pub, Google's Street View proved a snapshot of modern life perhaps best not preserved.
And above them posed several easy and effective ways to resist the alcohol: resist the alcohol drugs, vomiting, drinking water, eating eggs, drinking little again after hours of drunk.