Ed Webster published in 1958 a book called Bar Room Reveries
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There is a lot of info on Glenn Chestnut Site about
Ed Webster Author of
An Interpretation of the 12 Steps
now known as the Little Red Book
I will try to put more info here soon.
Ed printed a thousand copies of it at that time. It was a book of jokes, which was not well received in many A.A. circles, so the book was never reprinted. Many A.A. historians are not even aware of its existence.
The front cover of Bar Room Reveries
A closeup of the cartoon on the front cover
The back cover of Bar Room Reveries
Closeup of the drunk and the dog on the back cover
The title page of Bar Room Reveries, published as we can see in 1958. The Coll-Webb Company meant that Barry COLLins and Ed WEBster printed it and distributed it themselves, just as they had done with The Little Red Book.
Copyright page of Bar Room Reveries
Ed Webster, Author's Note at the
beginning of Bar Room Reveries
Ed Webster, Bar Room Reveries, Introduction
Ed Webster, Bar Room Reveries, Introduction (continued).
Ed predicted that by the year 2000, alcoholics would be drinking in cocktail lounges located in outer space, thousands of miles away from the planet Earth.
Instead of ordering drinks like boilermakers, gin and tonics, scotch and soda, margaritas, and brandy alexanders, alcoholics of the year 2000 would be bellying up to the bar and ordering Atomic Highballs, Satellite Champagne, Nuclear Gin, and Cosmic Beer.
The idea of an alcoholic beverage that glows in the dark and gives an x-ray picture of the inside of the alcoholic's stomach is in interesting one, but it is already the year 2005, and it hasn't happened yet.
This is probably because no one in their right minds would WANT to look at the inside of an alcoholic's stomach!
Court: Come now, O'Toole, your sentence will be less if you confess where you bought this liquor.
I didn't buy it, your honor. A kindhearted Scotchman gave it to me.
Court: Guilty on two counts. Sixty days for theft and thirty days for perjury.