She's very strict about what constitutes real lime juice and how much you should shake the drink.
She's a cocktail snob! We could totally go drinking together.
Looks like civilization finally caught up with us.
Mal ,'Bushwhacked'
Natter 62: The 62nd Natter
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
DavidS - Jan 01, 2009 12:22:10 pm PST #8994 of 10002
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Jesse - Jan 01, 2009 12:22:59 pm PST #8995 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
She's a cocktail snob! We could totally go drinking together.
Just know that she will judge you by your order.
DavidS - Jan 01, 2009 12:25:16 pm PST #8996 of 10002
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Just know that she will judge you by your order.
Not a problem! My current favorite drink has rye, cognac and bitters in it.
For those who are not cocktail snobs but would want to impress Rachel Maddow should you be having drinks with her, the two fool proof cool drinks to have in front of a cocktail snob would be: The Aviation (Betsy is a partisan of this, incidentally) or The Negroni.
Or, you know, just order what you prefer.
Jesse - Jan 01, 2009 12:26:27 pm PST #8997 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
MC: What do you do when you're not doing your pundit thing?
RM: On weekends I stay away from politics, which isn't hard because we don't own a TV. I go to the dump every Saturday. I wake up on Sunday and plan out what cocktail I'm going to make that night. I'm a hobbyist bartender and a drinking bully.
MC: You bully people into drinking?
RM: I bully them about what they drink - whether I think it's worthy. Your Peronis pass muster.
DavidS - Jan 01, 2009 12:29:16 pm PST #8998 of 10002
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Okay, well, you could try to have a Slow Comfortable Screw on the Beach in front of Rachel Maddow but she would totally go bartender dom on your ass.
Jesse - Jan 01, 2009 12:30:55 pm PST #8999 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
True fact.
DavidS - Jan 01, 2009 12:33:46 pm PST #9000 of 10002
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
The Aviation is very tasty! It's not a hardship to drink. (Betsy prefers the variation with Violet, as I recall.)
Jesse - Jan 01, 2009 12:35:25 pm PST #9001 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I don't care what Rachel Maddow thinks, I'm about to throw some Bailey's into instant hot cocoa.
Steph L. - Jan 01, 2009 12:37:19 pm PST #9002 of 10002
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe
I'm about to throw some Bailey's into instant hot cocoa.
Yum. A winter classic.
Scrappy - Jan 01, 2009 12:38:28 pm PST #9003 of 10002
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
Last night we hung out with an old friend who has been off in China and Mongolia for a month Went to dinner at Swingers Diner (french toast for dinner, yum) and got to hear cool stuff about Ulan Bator. Then we all went to see Cadillac Records, which had great performances in a mediocre movie. DH and I got home earlyish, did, well, something private which married people do, then got up and watched That's Entertainment and the ball drop.
Today we have gone to Lowe's and Sears for house stuff. We also stopped off at CVS and had a cheap animal cracker taste-off. We bought three kinds and here are our observations
CVS Brand: a bit puffy-looking. Burnt taste and crumbly = Fail
Modern brand Animalitos: finer crumb, floury taste = only in a dire cracker emergency
Gamesa Animalitos: Totally puffy, more like balloons than animals. Deliciousl, with a nice hint of lemon = FTW