Stuck on Repeats

[Adder]

Originally Posted by Sidd Finch

In my experience, she does. And yes, I did want to see them.

Spectacular?

[Sidd Finch]

Originally Posted by Adder

Spectacular?

She asked me not to discuss it here. At least, I think that's what she asked. It was hard to hear over the motorboating.

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally Posted by Did you just call me Coltrane?

Have you had Bookers?

Yes. It's overkill. Baker's is all you'll ever need in terms of strength.

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally Posted by Sidd Finch

She asked me not to discuss it here. At least, I think that's what she asked. It was hard to hear over the motorboating.

translation: i went to law school in Jacksonville, just off 95.

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield

Yes. It's overkill. Baker's is all you'll ever need in terms of strength.

translation: i went to law school in Jacksonville, just off 95.

[Pretty Little Flower]

Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield

I've a much cheaper use for the Bombay. Pour it in a martini glass, throw in a bit of crushed ice, pretend you own vermouth, pretend to sprinkle that vermouth in the gin, wait for ice to chill gin. Ingest. Repeat to taste, or desired anesthetic effect.

First Adder with this schtick, now you. Why are people against the martini? I understand the whole macho Churchill "I will pour gin in a glass and look briefly at a bottle a Vermouth in the next room" thing, but it's really kind of stupid and outdated. It's not like there is an appreciable difference in the strength of the drink when you add vermouth. Assuming you use 80 proof gin, your glass of cold gin is 40% ABV, whereas even a "wet" martini (4:1) is about 35-36%. And if you were THAT concerned about watering down your gin, you wouldn't let ice anywhere near it. I don't have anything in principle against a glass of cold gin, but don't call it a martini. And this whole idea that you are some macho fucking dick-swinger because you order the extra dry-dry-driest of all martinis is moronic. When you step up to the swank bar and order your martini EXTRA dry with a sly mischievous twinkle in your eye, I am sure you imagine that the bartender has starightened up a bit, realizing you are a true exotic man of the world, the kind of guy who doesn't always drink beer. But I assure you, it is just your imagination. Real bartenders like cocktails. Any jackass can add ice to booze.

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski

from the sports guy "In playoffs: LBJ ranks 2nd in MPG (41.1), 1st in FTA (10.8), 15th in RPG (9.2), 4th in steals (2.2) ... and 104th in fouls per game (1.8)."

he feels the Celts are not being treated fairly.

Haven't seen any of the games, but it's so tough to ref those games that it's kinda amazing how often they do a good job.

[Adder]

Originally Posted by Pretty Little Flower

First Adder with this schtick, now you. Why are people against the martini? I understand the whole macho Churchill "I will pour gin in a glass and look briefly at a bottle a Vermouth in the next room" thing, but it's really kind of stupid and outdated. It's not like there is an appreciable difference in the strength of the drink when you add vermouth. Assuming you use 80 proof gin, your glass of cold gin is 40% ABV, whereas even a "wet" martini (4:1) is about 35-36%. And if you were THAT concerned about watering down your gin, you wouldn't let ice anywhere near it. I don't have anything in principle against a glass of cold gin, but don't call it a martini. And this whole idea that you are some macho fucking dick-swinger because you order the extra dry-dry-driest of all martinis is moronic. When you step up to the swank bar and order your martini EXTRA dry with a sly mischievous twinkle in your eye, I am sure you imagine that the bartender has starightened up a bit, realizing you are a true exotic man of the world, the kind of guy who doesn't always drink beer. But I assure you, it is just your imagination. Real bartenders like cocktails. Any jackass can add ice to booze.

I do not know where you got the impression that my preference for unadulterated booze is a macho thing. It's not. Mostly, I like to keep it simple. In particular because I'm somewhat more likely to be drinking it at home than at bar.

When it comes to good gin, though, I actually want it just a little watered down with ice (I supposed cold water would do, but haven't tried that).

I do, however, sometimes do a perfect manhattan with blue cheese stuffed olives, ala my father, which most definitely includes vermouth.

[Did you just call me Coltrane?]

Is anyone watching this?

[Greedy,Greedy,Greedy]

Originally Posted by Sidd Finch

She asked me not to discuss it here. At least, I think that's what she asked. It was hard to hear over the motorboating.

Wouldn't this be more fun if the board at this moment were not a complete sausage factory?

For the record, though, that wasn't what I was going to ask.

[Adder]

Originally Posted by Did you just call me Coltrane?

Is anyone watching this?

Yes. I'm almost done with book 5 too.

Originally Posted by Did you just call me Coltrane?

Is anyone watching this?

Yes.

I never knew the books existed until there was an article in The New Yorker about how George R.R. Martin* has written himself into a 20,000-page corner and his diehard fans are cyber-bullying him into finishing the story before he dies. A friend loaned me the first one, and I read about ten pages before I realized that my days of reading clunky, anachronistic, swords & sorcery & heaving bosom prose are about 20 years behind me.

But the show? Pretty good, not on a par with some other HBO series, and should probably be called The Peter Dinklage Show, but still. Also I think I have complained on here recently about the Cinemax-ish obsession with softcore medieval porn getting kind of boring after a while.

*as if the whole thing weren't Tolkien-redux enough, he's gotta have two Rs.

Originally Posted by Pretty Little Flower

I understand the whole macho Churchill "I will pour gin in a glass and look briefly at a bottle a Vermouth in the next room" thing, but it's really kind of stupid and outdated. .

When I want a beer, I pour myself a glass of grain alcohol and look at pictures of hops and barley in my neighbor's encyclopedia, using a telescope.

Pussy.

[Atticus Grinch]

Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop

Haven't seen any of the games, but it's so tough to ref those games that it's kinda amazing how often they do a good job.

I like the cut of your jib. We have an opening. If we hire someone who colleged Boston-adjacent, I get a toaster.

[Adder]

Originally Posted by ironweed

Yes.

I never knew the books existed until there was an article in The New Yorker about how George R.R. Martin* has written himself into a 20,000-page corner and his diehard fans are cyber-bullying him into finishing the story before he dies. A friend loaned me the first one, and I read about ten pages before I realized that my days of reading clunky, anachronistic, swords & sorcery & heaving bosom prose are about 20 years behind me.

But the show? Pretty good, not on a par with some other HBO series, and should probably be called The Peter Dinklage Show, but still. Also I think I have complained on here recently about the Cinemax-ish obsession with softcore medieval porn getting kind of boring after a while.

*as if the whole thing weren't Tolkien-redux enough, he's gotta have two Rs.

And as if on cue, there has been significantly less sex in the last few episodes. Sigh.

Overall, I enjoy the books, but yeah, they aren't exactly briskly paced in terms of wrapping up their central conflicts. I have to give the show credit for cutting through a lot of the random wandering and back story. And still it gets criticized for talking too much.

I'm all for more Dinklage though.