Hunter S. Thompson’s Hangover Cure

You can always count on Hunter S. Thompson for memorable epigrams and useful life lessons. The same man who pioneered Gonzo journalism, penned Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas and requested that he have his ashes fired out of a cannon has always been good for a bit of advice. And as an inveterate drinker and connoisseur of a range of substances, he tended to know what he was talking about.

Since his suicide in 2005, various bits and pieces have posthumously emerged from the Thompson archive, most recently with Playboy's publication of its entire correspondence with him during the 1960s and 70s. This, of course, was when Playboy was a little bit classy, and included writings from Vladimir Nabokov, Kurt Vonnegut, Anne Sexton and Saul Bellow amongst its pictures of scantily-clad women. Found amidst the papers was Thompson's hangover cure, undated and scrawled on stationary from the Beverly Hills Hotel. The cure reads: "P.S. — inre: Oui's request for "my hangover cure" — it's 12 amyl nitrites (one box), in conjunction with as many beers as necessary. OK H."

That's right kids, it's beer and amyl nitrate that will really kill that throbbing in your skull. According to Hunter S. Thompson, anyhow. If you want to check out the rest of his Playboy correspondence you can do it here.

[Via Gawker]