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What is your favourite kind of alcohol? Mine is absinthe, unflamed, with cloves in. It's not just a "spirits" thread, it's a "spirits/cocktails/whateveryoucanthinkof" thread. Tell all.

Also, can anyone tell me, if they have read G. Orwell's "1984", how do you decipher "Newspeak"?

Hobgoblin wrote:What is your favourite kind of alcohol? Mine is absinthe, unflamed, with cloves in. It's not just a "spirits" thread, it's a "spirits/cocktails/whateveryoucanthinkof" thread. Tell all.

25-year-old Macallan, but that's a bit, you know, <i>pricey</i>.

For a more usual drink, the Manhattan is a favorite:

2 oz. rye whiskey
1/4 oz. sweet vermoth
1/4 oz. dry vermouth
Dash of bitters

Shake with ice and strain. Serve with a maraschino cherry.

But that's basically a winter drink. In the summer I like gin and tonic, and there's a neat little trick you can do to keep the ice cubes from diluting your gin too much:

Fill an ice cube tray with tonic water. Freeze.

Plymouth gin and tonic, with tonic ice cubes. Add a lime wedge.

Also, can anyone tell me, if they have read G. Orwell's "1984", how do you decipher "Newspeak"?

Sure, just listen to the Bush administration or the RIAA and MPAA. Practice makes perfect.

Bruce

bruce wrote:But that's basically a winter drink. In the summer I like gin and tonic, and there's a neat little trick you can do to keep the ice cubes from diluting your gin too much:

Fill an ice cube tray with tonic water. Freeze.

Plymouth gin and tonic, with tonic ice cubes. Add a lime wedge.

Bruce

Good idea with the ice cubes. I'd recommend Tanqueray Malacca Gin for your gin and tonics. Or if you're really adventurous go for my absolute favorite:

Tanqueray Malacca Gimlit
- Fill a shaker with ice,
- pour generous amount of Tanqueray Malacca Gin
- add a tiny dash of Rose's lime juice
- Shake and serve (either up or on the rocks)

Malacca costs a bit more than Bombay Sapphire and the flavor is really different. It's kinda earthy and spicy rather than the normal gin flavor.

Hobgoblin wrote: Also, can anyone tell me, if they have read G. Orwell's "1984", how do you decipher "Newspeak"?

From what I can remember from reading the book in high school over ten years ago, Newspeak was the process of using more and more generic words in order to control the public dialogue. In the book I think they actually took words out of the dictionary. In reality we have political correctness which changes interesting and descriptive words like "shell shock" into bland and less offensive terms like "post traumatic stress disorder".

Bruce is right on about the way the Bush administration uses vastly oversimplified words and phrases to gloss over the details of what they are doing and planning.

Casual Observer wrote: Good idea with the ice cubes. I'd recommend Tanqueray Malacca Gin for your gin and tonics.

I usually go with regular Tanqueray, but the Plymouth, for some reason, works better with those ice cubes.

Bruce

...Now even casual observers are ripping me off? Goddammit. I get no respect, no respect at all.

Speaking, personally I rarely drink anything more complex than drinks that are named after their ingredients. You know, a [name of alchoholic beverage] and (name of non-alchoholic beverage). The advantages of this policy are:

A. You cannot fuck the drink up, nor have it fucked up by a bad bartender.

B. Similarly, it's easy to tell when you're being skimped on liquor.

C. There's very little chance of naively ordering some sort of funny reddish-purple limp-wrister.

Gin & Tonic's fine with food. For just drinking, I prefer Jack and Coke. I like the way it manages to kick your pallet square in the nads, while still somehow tasting kind of good after you've gotten used to it. Let's you know you're drinking, whereas with gin the drunk kind of winds up sneaking up on you after you've been downing "funny Sprite" for an hour. Also, while I normally don't believe in brand loyalty, I think it's important in this case. I wouldn't readily drink a Wild Turkey and Pepsi, or something concocted by messers Walker and Pibb.

bruce wrote:Sure, just listen to the Bush administration or the RIAA and MPAA. Practice makes perfect.

No, no. What they do is called lying.

I'm going home to drink.

Actually, the version of the book I read had a detailed description of newspeak in the back. The idea was to make traderous actions impossible because there would be no words for it.

I took a spin around the drinking world recently, and this is what I found:

o Screwdriver: Will forever have a place in my heart because of the time four of us living in the Hacienda turned a half-finished gallon of orange juice into a gallon of screwdriver. I have lately been ordering this for myself only when I can't think of anything else I'd rather have.

o Gin and Tonic. An airport bar in Rochester had a great thing going -- with each subsequent gin & tonic that I ordered, I got an extra lime. (The old lime was left in the bottle.) Finally! A reward for drinking more. We constantly hear about all the negative side effects from binge drinking, but at long last I found a bar that was going to essentially give me prizes for continuing to play. And by play I mean "drink."

o Fruity margaritas, various: If the bartender doesn't look like she or he has this huge problem with people, I might inquire as to what they have to create one of these monstrosities. Some chain restaurants do it all for you -- they have incredibly flaming names like the "Gator Cooler" or the "Testes Squash" but hey... I like drinks that are sweet and being involved with someone means that I can drink whatever I like during the night and still get a peck on the cheek. Aces!

o Beer: The last time I ordered beer exclusively was at the Coopersmith tavern in Fort Collins. My taste in beers is opposite of Pinback's -- if it's a "quality' beer and I dislike it, he probably will enjoy it. If it's crap, well, nobody wins. That being said, I drink beers at Coopersmiths because I simply cannot believe what they will put into a mug. Beers that taste like trees. Beers that taste like pine. Beers that taste like wheat, like sour oranges, like branches, like stifling defeat. (And usually while I am downing them I am either waiting for a billiards table or monopolozing the Donkey Kong Jr. machine). They're all terrible -- to me -- each one gets downed with an expression on my face somewhat akin to "JESUS WHO FARTED?"

Vino. Alabama slammers, white russians, margaritas. Mad Dog, Jack and cokes or vodka red bulls at metal concerts, Sapporo beer and/or sake with sushi, but usually, the vino.

Rum (not spiced rum... at least, not Captain's) and vodka are good for me.

Fave drinkies:

Mojito (aka BEST SHIT EVER):

3 fresh Mint sprigs
2 tsp Sugar
3 tblsp Lemon juice (or lime), fresh
1 1/2 oz Light rum
Club soda, Chilled

It's sorta like a mint julep/margarita, but instead of bourbon or tequila, rum. Yum!

Also, vodka & club soda.

Also, Ketel One martini, straight up, with a twist. Nothing better.

Bugs wrote:Fave drinkies:

Mojito (aka BEST SHIT EVER):

3 fresh Mint sprigs
2 tsp Sugar
3 tblsp Lemon juice (or lime), fresh
1 1/2 oz Light rum
Club soda, Chilled

It's sorta like a mint julep/margarita, but instead of bourbon or tequila, rum. Yum!

Also, vodka & club soda.

Also, Ketel One martini, straight up, with a twist. Nothing better.

nOTE to self: remember this, when sober, when it comes to asking certain JC female for marriage


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