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** [[Winston Churchill]] goes one better. Worked and slept unusual hours, for a start, but topped it by holding a meeting with [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]] while taking a bath. He commented that "two great men have nothing to hide from each other". This particular encounter occurred during his stay at the White House, during which time he more or less got Roosevelt operating according to his schedule (not that the fun-loving if workaholic FDR minded), which besides the odd hours meant drinking consistently large quantities of alcoholic beverages [[Drinking on Duty|even when making major decisions]]. Realizing that a substantial portion of the Allied strategy for World War II was cooked up by these two while never less than tipsy and frequently while hammered really makes you wonder.
*** In fairness, whilst there are many anecdotes about Churchill drinking, there are fewer about him being ''drunk''. His close contemporaries report that he very rarely got drunk, and that one glass of whisky would last hours.
***It had it's advantages. Churchill often had a soft spot for Bunny Ears Lawyers and gave them promotions. Some of these choices were ambiguous(Orde Wingate was a pretty good small unit commander, but not a very good general) but others like the ones that ran the secret service or produced the various gadgets could be spectacularly effective.
== Specific People ==
-Peter O'Toole was widely regarded to be one of the best stage and screen actors of the 20th century, with so many iconic roles and quotes. However, he was also more than a little bit eccentric, and there are many stories surrounding him (hell, he was a hell raiser according to many of his friends), as he was (deep breath) prone to heavy drinking and smoking when he was younger and making fantastic mischief in the time (he quit in 1975, though not completely), once went to a horse racing game and was shown openly cheering and yelling on TV when he was supposed to be escorted to the Catherine the Great movie set, never carried his money or keys with him when he went out of his home, once beat up thugs for insulting a prostitute, once jumped into a pool two feet deep, would often be gone randomly for several days at a time, accidentally set his own bed on fire, fixed his finger when he dipped it in a bit of brandy, was a very reckless driver, once tried to get inflatable props for a theatrical production of Macbeth, prone to playing pranks and jokes on other castmates, hit on Ryan Gosling's sister rather openly during the 2006 Oscars, tried to smuggle an antique out of customs by hiding it in his foreskin, was regarded to be a bit of a parkour pioneer, and was also at times a bit forgetful getting lost in different places, among many other things.
* James M. Barrie, author of [[Peter Pan]], refused to grow up, didn't understand why kids ''did'' want to, spent most of his time with boys who he (allegedly) slept with, and was depressed most of his life; in later life it became a depression so deep he could barely function in society.
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* Stonewall Jackson, of the Confederate Army during the [[American Civil War]], was a shrewd tactician and a dauntless battlefield commander. He was also a hypochondriac and restlessly raised one arm, both of which may have played a role in his death (he was shot in the arm, and developed pneumonia when he had an aide wrap him in wet cloths after the amputation). He also had the habit of praying, eyes open, on horseback, content in the belief God could surely hear him there as well as anywhere; this was in order to ward off demonic possession, which he feared, with the prayer. Before the war he taught at Virginia Military Institute, where he earned the name "Tom-fool Jackson" for his useless physics lectures.
** [https://web.archive.org/web/20061030033045/http://www.scpnet.com/paper2_2.htm It's been strongly suspected that Stonewall Jackson had Asperger's Syndrome.]
** The Civil War could pretty much be renamed the War of Bunny Ears. Aside from Jackson's antics, Longstreet went into battle wearing carpet slippers at one point, and Custer carried a pet mouse with him in battle at all times.
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