From Lustige Blätter, 1917.

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt quips: "Spilled milk may be nothing to cry over...but spilled Chianti literally spells [a synonym for] disaster!"

Reblog if you've hallucinated anthropomprohic lobsters after drinking from a funnel. From Nebelspalter, 1888.

From Lustige Blätter, 1917.

How well do you know your giant bottles?  Is this a Jeroboam, a Rehoboam, a Methuselah, a Salmanazar, a Balthazar, a Nebuchadnezzar, a Melchior, a Solomon, a Goliath, or a Melchizedek?  From Lustige Blätter, 1917.

From Walks About Chicago, 1871-1881 by Franc Bangs Wilkie, 1882.

On a visit to California, we passed by a “University Vineyard,” triggering this joke:

Did you hear about the troubles at Wine College?  Yeah, they lost their faculties.

From Life Magazine (1897).

From Le Journal Amusant, 1897.  This recalls the Smell of Reeves & Mortimer running gag about a father who begs for "booze for t'baby," which we featured at this link.

From Kladderadatsch, 1925.

From Shut, 1907.

From Pliuvium, 1908.

Bottles of cognac and absinthe cry at the funeral of the last schnapps nose.  From Nebelspalter, 1885.

Reblog if you'll have some party spirit.  From Le Charivari, 1879.

"Preachers League."  From Millsaps College's Bobashela yearbook (1907).