Used to be "whiskey and branch water" was a thing
Still is at Bourbon and Branch.
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DavidS - May 20, 2011 6:48:01 pm PDT #9056 of 30001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
-t - May 20, 2011 6:48:39 pm PDT #9057 of 30001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
What is it? I've always wondered.
Eta: I only know it from something I read as a kid in which some guy complained about how people talked about drinks and how such fanciful descriptions ought to be taken literally, that would show them.
§ ita § - May 20, 2011 6:49:03 pm PDT #9058 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Spring water, I think.
Connie Neil - May 20, 2011 6:49:24 pm PDT #9059 of 30001
brillig
What is branch water? I've always assumed it was something like creek water, because I've heard of small streams being called branches. But if it is, euw. I know what happens in streams.
Connie Neil - May 20, 2011 6:49:47 pm PDT #9060 of 30001
brillig
Well, that was an interesting cross post.
-t - May 20, 2011 6:53:05 pm PDT #9061 of 30001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
That was what complainy guy said people who ordered branch water should get - a glass of muddy creek water with leaves in it. Also, actual rocks. That sort of thing.
So it actually means still water rather than soda? Or more specifically something like Evian?
DavidS - May 20, 2011 7:14:26 pm PDT #9062 of 30001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Yes, branch water is water from a stream or a branch. Back when that was the clearest, cleanest water you could get.
Connie Neil - May 20, 2011 7:46:38 pm PDT #9063 of 30001
brillig
Yeah, they didn't live in sheep or cow country. But I'd put the taste of the spring I grew up on against just about anything. (damned mining company that destroyed the spring system)
-t - May 20, 2011 7:50:02 pm PDT #9064 of 30001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
This game does not look like it will end in ten minutes.
msbelle - May 20, 2011 7:57:37 pm PDT #9065 of 30001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
Omg y'all, I'm reading withering heights for the first time. Spoiler alert!!!!
Heathcliff is a neglected orphan with attachment disorder and abandonment issues AND I'm only up to chapter 5!!!! He's thus far like a textbook casestudy from my adoption books.