Given the shuttle's safety record...
...I suppose a joke about needing a belt before flying aboard the thing isn't entirely out of order.
But the next thing I'm curious about, as details painfully emerge, is which astronauts aboard a shuttle had been drinking? I think it might make a big difference whether it was a pilot or commander, versus the wretched passengers strapped-in blind on the mid-deck. Hell, I think the payload specialists deserve sedation during launch if they want it. But alcohol may not be the best self-administered med; what would it be like to be "faced" when the engines cut off and you're suddenly weightless? Bleeeaaahhh!