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2 unusual facts about Hip Flask


Hip flask

The hip flask appears frequently in comedy, in part because it allows drinking in inappropriate situations where a bottle would not normally be found--for instance, in Two and a Half Men, where Charlie Harper (Charlie Sheen) drinks alcohol from a hip flask during a funeral.

It also appears rarely in The Simpsons, when Homer drinks from it on occasion, and even allows Bart to take a drink during particularly intolerable occasions.


Aireborough Grammar School

Richard Starkings (1962 - ) creator of the Image Comic book series Elephantmen and Hip Flask; founder of the Comicraft design and lettering studio and comicbookfonts.com.

Mina Van Winkle

She described automobile rides, with their problems for the girl, hip flasks, petting and all the other "failings" of the modern girl as an unsolvable problem for mothers who were trained in the philosophy of Little Women.


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