Well... I have no objection to vodka in its place, it's just not a martini. Gin must be (or should be, anyway) consumed with discretion, taste, and restraint, or the old adage will kick in, "Gin makes you sin". I have a lovely relationship - restrained and disciplined - with Hendrix, a particularly fine example of Ginophage.
These are children's drinks wherein the intent is to get mentally rearranged and never taste the instrument of one's destruction. For such people, I recommend straight Sterno.
P.S. I have few rules about living, but one of them is ironclad: No alcohol before power tools, firearms, or women - mixing any of the aforementioned will cause one to lose life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness...
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Tim Daneliuk
Seven and you're a banker.
Ten and you're a legislator,
15 and you're President, Premier, Emir, or Potentate.
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LDosser
When I was stationed at Montgomery, Alabama, we'd buy mason jars of shine at a roller rink in Columbus, Georgia.
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Larry Jaques
On Sat, 03 Apr 2010 10:03:43 -0500, the infamous Morris Dovey scrawled the following:
DAYUM. I sure hope you _cleaned_ that suckah first...
(for those who missed a great skit, long load time)
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is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change. -- Charles Darwin
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DGDevin
Ahh. I get it. Different kind of juice. ;^)
Ya, the kind they never heard of, until the indictments started coming down.
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Morris Dovey
I would, but feel free to add bass (anchovies, kippers, squid, etc) to suit individual taste. :-/
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Markem
But then you have the moonshine martini, you just stick a few pine needle in your mason jar of hooch for a minute, remove needles.
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Larry Jaques
On Sat, 3 Apr 2010 15:01:51 -0700, the infamous "LDosser" scrawled the following:
Mine is, too. $20 plastic Singer, no less! But it works, and separates the pulp, which I can use in breads.
TMI, and now you realize just how much fiber there is in juice. But nix the Immodium. It's bad for you. Just drink less juice more often for health.
-- It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change. -- Charles Darwin
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Leon
Where would your Omega 3 come from??????
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Leon
Even more memorable than Blue Cheese flavoured soda.
I recall "Monkey Puss" winning the contest for the new "jelly flavor"
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basilisk
Screw the lid off a pint of 100 proof Tangueray gin, pitch lid out car window, after much discussion with your drinking partner, mark the halfway point with your thumb, drink down to the marked point and pass to partner, they discard empty bottle out the other window.
Perfect martini.
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notbob
They make 100 proof Tanq gin!!?? On what planet and how much are tickets?
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J. Clarke
Nahh, that's just gin. For it to be a martini you need a picture of a vermouth bottle in the car.
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David Nebenzahl
On 4/5/2010 1:56 PM J. Clarke spake thus:
I believe the standard prescription is pouring the gin while looking at a portrait of Lorenzo Schwartz, the inventor of vermouth. So just tape a picture to the dash.
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Winston_Smith
"Shaken, not stirred" - British Secret Service agent James Bond. I should be that "effete", grin.
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reason the debonair Bond wants his martini shaken is that he is an iconoclast. He's not drinking a martini at all! He's drinking a vodka martini. There's a difference, as we shall see. Pay close attention--we will not use the terms interchangeably but it's easy to get confused.
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Some connoisseurs believe that shaking gin is a faux pas, supposedly because the shaking "bruises" the gin (a term referring to a slight bitter taste that can allegedly occur when gin is shaken). In Fleming's Casino Royale novel, it is stated that Bond "watched as the deep glass became frosted with the pale golden drink, slightly aerated by the bruising of the shaker," suggesting that Bond was requesting it shaken because of the vodka it contained. Prior to the 1960s, vodka was, for the most part, refined from potatoes (usually cheaper brands). This element made the vodka oily. To disperse the oil, Bond ordered his martinis shaken; thus, in the same scene where he orders the martini, he tells the barman about how vodka made from grain rather than potatoes makes his drink even better. Other reasons for shaking tend to include making the drink colder or as Bond called it, ice-cold. Shaking allows the drink to couple with the ice longer thus making it far colder than if it were to be stirred. Shaking is also said to dissolve the vermouth better making it less oily tasting. While properly called a Bradford, shaken martinis also appear cloudier than when stirred. This is caused by the small fragments of ice present in a shaken martini.
There now. Do not touch power tools for 12 hours, please.