Stuck on Repeats

[Not Bob]

Originally Posted by Oliver_Wendell_Ramone

I don't care what Don Draper does with it but keep your seltzer out of my old fashioned. Not as offensive as muddled fruit cocktail, but still.

A splash to help the bitters moisten the sugar cubes. You use still water (or nothing) for that? Genuinely curious.

True confession -- I got the old fashioned recipe from a Rachel Maddow YouTube series. The bartender at this whiskey cocktail joint a client took me to in [redacted city] after a mediation told me to look them up after I watched him make a few that way. She is apparently a classic cocktail snob, in addition to being a pinko commie lesbian sent from Mockba to destroy Western Civilization.

[Oliver_Wendell_Ramone]

Originally Posted by Not Bob

A splash to help the bitters moisten the sugar cubes. You use still water (or nothing) for that? Genuinely curious.

True confession -- I got the old fashioned recipe from a Rachel Maddow YouTube series. The bartender at this whiskey cocktail joint a client took me to in [redacted city] after a mediation told me to look them up after I watched him make a few that way. She is apparently a classic cocktail snob, in addition to being a pinko commie lesbian sent from Mockba to destroy Western Civilization.

Still water, indeed. I suppose a splash in that context would be okay. But I see "seltzer" and think about the fizzy "old fashions" I've been served on more than one occassion. Frequently with the muddled fruit cocktail. Yuck.

And Hank is Atkins, right, so if he drinks G & Ts at all, he probably uses diet tonic.

I like the new less-sugar "craft" tonics out there, but they are wayyyy to expensive for the quantity of gin and tonic I go through once the weather gets decent.

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally Posted by Not Bob

Ever look at the Nutrition Facts label on your bottle/can of Canada Dry tonic water ("with quinine" so that you can have a few and protect yourself from malaria while putting down the Sepoy Mutiny this summer).

Never mind -- I will look for you. The bottle I have handy says my Canada Dry tonic has 29 grams of sugar (it's a 10 oz bottle). For comparison, look at a can of Coca Cola Classic. 39 grams for a 12 oz can. Thus, a G&T has about as much sugar as a Cuba Libre, NTTAWWT.

I don't drink tonic or coke. or, if forced to drink a V&T there is so little T in it as to be non-insulin inducing. Now I'll just be that much more snobbish.

[Fugee]

Originally Posted by Not Bob

And, as I think I noted last year, the Official Not Bob Summer Drink.....

The Official Fugee Summer Drink last year was lemonade with a healthy splash of my homemade strawberry liqueur.

Dangerous stuff on a hot day.

Unfortunately the rainy weather last June meant the strawberry crop was gone before I got around to making another batch of the strawberry hooch, so will have to drink something else this summer.

[Oliver_Wendell_Ramone]

Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski

I don't drink tonic or coke. or, if forced to drink a V&T there is so little T in it as to be non-insulin inducing. Now I'll just be that much more snobbish.

You are totally getting malaria.

[notcasesensitive]

Originally Posted by Oliver_Wendell_Ramone

Still water, indeed. I suppose a splash in that context would be okay. But I see "seltzer" and think about the fizzy "old fashions" I've been served on more than one occassion. Frequently with the muddled fruit cocktail. Yuck.

And Hank is Atkins, right, so if he drinks G & Ts at all, he probably uses diet tonic.

I like the new less-sugar "craft" tonics out there, but they are wayyyy to expensive for the quantity of gin and tonic I go through once the weather gets decent.

Dare I mention that I've taken to ordering my G&T's with half tonic, half soda? The, uh, skinnygirl gin and tonic. Bethanny can thank me for the involved recipe later.

[J. Fred Muggs]

Originally Posted by Not Bob

Ever look at the Nutrition Facts label on your bottle/can of Canada Dry tonic water ("with quinine" so that you can have a few and protect yourself from malaria while putting down the Sepoy Mutiny this summer).

Never mind -- I will look for you. The bottle I have handy says my Canada Dry tonic has 29 grams of sugar (it's a 10 oz bottle). For comparison, look at a can of Coca Cola Classic. 39 grams for a 12 oz can. Thus, a G&T has about as much sugar as a Cuba Libre, NTTAWWT.

I prefer the taste of diet tonic water anyway.

[Adder]

Originally Posted by Not Bob

True, but with all the beer snobs around here, it will go from ridiculing my love of the Bucket of Rocks special at the Dew Droppe Inn to all sorts of pedantic hop barley yeast equations and obscure microbrew one-upsmanship.

Beer served in a bucket gets special dispensation.

If its cheap.

[Adder]

Originally Posted by Not Bob

A splash to help the bitters moisten the sugar cubes. You use still water (or nothing) for that? Genuinely curious.

True confession -- I got the old fashioned recipe from a Rachel Maddow YouTube series. The bartender at this whiskey cocktail joint a client took me to in [redacted city] after a mediation told me to look them up after I watched him make a few that way. She is apparently a classic cocktail snob, in addition to being a pinko commie lesbian sent from Mockba to destroy Western Civilization.

I share Hank horror at adding sugar to a drink, but not his hangover superstition.

A drink ideally involves no more than booze, maybe ice, and maybe a small wedge of lime. If you require any more, you hold drink better booze.

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally Posted by Not Bob

A splash to help the bitters moisten the sugar cubes. You use still water (or nothing) for that? Genuinely curious.

True confession -- I got the old fashioned recipe from a Rachel Maddow YouTube series. The bartender at this whiskey cocktail joint a client took me to in [redacted city] after a mediation told me to look them up after I watched him make a few that way. She is apparently a classic cocktail snob, in addition to being a pinko commie lesbian sent from Mockba to destroy Western Civilization.

she's not a pinko if she makes drinks just like the founders did back in 1776! But, you know their fish was almost 100% salted because it would otherwise spoil, and their spirits tasted like vomit because they had sub-par distilling and storing, right? that's why they put sugar in the whiskey. Do you only eat bacala when you drink old fashioned or are you throwing out half the old time pretension?

[dtb]

Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski

she's not a pinko if she makes drinks just like the founders did back in 1776! But, you know their fish was almost 100% salted because it would otherwise spoil, and their spirits tasted like vomit because they had sub-par distilling and storing, right? that's why they put sugar in the whiskey. Do you only eat bacala when you drink old fashioned or are you throwing out half the old time pretension?

"Bacala" is the name of a Sopranos character.

Perhaps you're thinking of "bacalao"?


Otherwise -- this is a pretty good smackdown.

[dtb]

Remember that "riddle" from long ago (I distinctly remember its being the subject of an All in the Family episode -- before I was born, of course) involving a father and son in a car accident? The father is killed instantly, and the son is Medivac'ed to a nearby hospital and rushed to the O.R. for emergency surgery. Upon seeing the boy's face when preparing for surgery, the doctor declares, "I can't operate on this boy... He's my son!!" So... how can this be?

I asked this "riddle" of my family this evening - certain that the kids would know the answer right away, and would look at me as though I had lost my marbles for characterizing it as a "trick question". I was pretty sure my husband wouldn't get it right away.

Imagine my disappointment when my younger children guessed things like, "The father wasn't really dead!!" "The father crawled into the helicopter...". Sigh.

My husband (perhaps predictably) said, "It had to be his step-father."

So the bad news is obvious. The good news, however, is that both my 9-year-olds and my 13-year-old (quizzed independently) immediately came up with, "The parents are gay, and the surgeon is the dad's husband!"

We're so modern!

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally Posted by dtb

Remember that "riddle" from long ago (I distinctly remember its being the subject of an All in the Family episode -- before I was born, of course) involving a father and son in a car accident? The father is killed instantly, and the son is Medivac'ed to a nearby hospital and rushed to the O.R. for emergency surgery. Upon seeing the boy's face when preparing for surgery, the doctor declares, "I can't operate on this boy... He's my son!!" So... how can this be?

I asked this "riddle" of my family this evening - certain that the kids would know the answer right away, and would look at me as though I had lost my marbles for characterizing it as a "trick question". I was pretty sure my husband wouldn't get it right away.

Imagine my disappointment when my younger children guessed things like, "The father wasn't really dead!!" "The father crawled into the helicopter...". Sigh.

My husband (perhaps predictably) said, "It had to be his step-father."

So the bad news is obvious. The good news, however, is that both my 9-year-olds and my 13-year-old (quizzed independently) immediately came up with, "The parents are gay, and the surgeon is the dad's husband!"

We're so modern!

maybe the boys need better examples of modern professional females?


zing!!!!

[Atticus Grinch]

Actual fashion post. NSFW in cubicles.

[Sidd Finch]

Originally Posted by Atticus Grinch

Actual fashion post. NSFW in cubicles.

Not sure what's creepier, that ad or the fact that you posted it.