*    1 star hangover
 
  No pain.  No real feeling of illness.  Your sleep last night was a mere
  disco nap which is giving you a whole lot of misplaced energy. Be glad
  that you are able to function relatively well. However, you are still 
  parched.
  You can drink 10 cokes and still feel this way.  Even vegetarians are
  craving a steak sandwich and a side order of gravy fries from any
  motorway cafe.
 
  **  2 star hangover
 
  No pain.  Something is definitely amiss.  You may look okay but you have
  the attention span and mental capacity of a staple gun. The coffee you chug
  to try and remain focused is only exacerbating your rumbling gut, which is
  craving a MacDonalds breakfast. Last night has wreaked havoc on your
  bowels and even though you have a nice demeanor about the office,  you are
  costing your employer valuable money because all you really can handle is 
  surfing internet porn and writing junk e-mails.
 
 
  ***  3 star hangover
 
  Slight headache.  Stomach feels crappy.  You are definitely a space shot
  and so not productive.  Anytime a girl  walks by you gag because her perfume
  reminds you of the random gin shots you did with your alcoholic friends
  after the bouncer chucked you out at 1:45 a.m. Life would be better 
  right now if you were in your bed with a dozen donuts and a steak sub watching
  the Q awards. You've had 4 cups of coffee, a gallon of water, 3 Snapples and
  a litre of diet coke - yet you haven't peed once.
 
  ****  4 star hangover
 
  Life sucks.  Your head is throbbing and you can't speak too quickly or
  else you might puke.  Your boss has already lambasted you for being late and
  has given you a lecture for reeking of booze. You wore nice clothes, but 
  that can't hide the fact that you missed an oh-so crucial spot shaving,
  (girls, it looks like you put your make-up on while riding the bumper cars) your
  teeth have sweaters, your eyes look like one big vein and your hair 
  style makes you look like a retard. You would shoot your mother for one or all
  of the following -
  1. the clock to strike 6pm
  2. the entire appetizer list from TGIFridays or
  3. a time machine so you could go back and NOT have gone out the night
  before.
 
  *****  5 star hangover, aka Dante's 4th Circle of Hell
 
  You have a second heartbeat in your head which is actually annoying the
  employee who sits at the next desk. Vodka vapor is seeping out of every
  pore and making you dizzy. You still have toothpaste crust in the corners of
  your mouth from brushing your teeth. Your body has lost the ability to
  generate
  saliva, so your tongue is suffocating you. You'd cry but that would take
  the last of the moisture left in your body. Death seems pretty good 
  right now. Your boss doesn't even get mad at you and your co-workers think 
  that your dog just died because you look so pathetic. You should have called
  in sick because, let's
  face it, all you can manage to do is bitch about your state - which is a
  mystery to you because you definitely don't remember  who you were with,
  where you were, what you drank and why there is a stranger still 
  sleeping in your bed, unaccompanied, at your house. The only thing you can do is
  smoke a spliff and pass out. It's when you wake up a few hours later with a
  lesser star hangover that you eat a large pizza, an order of Tandoori Chicken, 
  a ham and cheese omelet and a batch of Cadbury's chocolate.

 

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