The Bar

stuart · Post by **stuart** » Thu Oct 07, 2004 4:20 pm

I love cape cods

I love a lot of mixed drinks

I guess my governor would call me a girly man

any votes on what the classic mixed drink is? Martinis don't count.

is it of the manhattan/old fashioned variety?
of the tom collins/margarita variety?
or of the G&T/V&T variety?

does anyone drink screwdrivers anymore?

theCryptofishist · Post by **theCryptofishist** » Thu Oct 07, 2004 4:35 pm

stuart wrote:I guess my governor would call me a girly man

And you'd take that from a collectable action figure. Dang, I need a govenator to give to my mom to go with the Jesse Ventura doll.

Oh well, it's been a year now. And we're all still alive. Except those whose programs got axed.

He'd look good in a boa. And there's something moopy about his personality anyway.

sparkletarte · Post by **sparkletarte** » Thu Oct 07, 2004 4:36 pm

My condolances about your gram, stuart. She sounds an awful lot like mine...crawled to the phone a day before her (Xmas day) birthday as she was having her first ever asthma attack (serious smoker), even made the paper for her herioc efforts to save herself. As soon as she got out of the oxygen tent and back home she was right back on the ciggies. I miss her, she was pretty neat. People of that age have seen soooo much- it's hard to imagine we'll be the same.

I need a drink too. Rough day with the banks and mortgage people, wah. Final meeting with the auditor tomorrow, hopefully it will go well. Been doing bookwork all day, how exciting. Hey, I think I have a real live beer in the fridge!

cowboyangel · Post by **cowboyangel** » Thu Oct 07, 2004 4:44 pm

stuart wrote:
does anyone drink screwdrivers anymore?

moi...sometimes with apricot juice instead! I didn't know there was a drink named after Cape Cod ( is it made with clam juice too? and what kind of fire water?)

cowboyangel · Post by **cowboyangel** » Thu Oct 07, 2004 4:46 pm

big Kalifornia hug to ya sparkletarte
( we are required by the governator to speak in an austrian accent now) now get yourr ahhss to mahhhs

theCryptofishist · Post by **theCryptofishist** » Thu Oct 07, 2004 4:47 pm

cowboyangel wrote:
stuart wrote:
does anyone drink screwdrivers anymore?

moi...sometimes with apricot juice instead! I didn't know there was a drink named after Cape Cod ( is it made with clam juice too? and what kind of fire water?)

Cranberry and vodka. Although the first I had (in Massachusits) had gin, I think.

theCryptofishist · Post by **theCryptofishist** » Thu Oct 07, 2004 4:51 pm

cowboyangel wrote:( we are required by the governator to speak in an austrian accent now)

Not me! I'm one of those Official Berkeley Free Speechtm dissadents. If you don't hear from me in the first week after a round up, be afraid. Be very afraid for your finny friend.
(Ya'll remember Marie Antoinette was Austrian too. It seems to me there's a bad historical pattern in letting austrian immigres have too much power.)

theCryptofishist · Post by **theCryptofishist** » Thu Oct 07, 2004 4:55 pm

Remind me sometime and I'll tell you my favorite bar-tender story.

Rian Jackson · Post by **Rian Jackson** » Thu Oct 07, 2004 4:57 pm

theCryptofishist wrote:
cowboyangel wrote:
stuart wrote:
does anyone drink screwdrivers anymore?

moi...sometimes with apricot juice instead! I didn't know there was a drink named after Cape Cod ( is it made with clam juice too? and what kind of fire water?)
Cranberry and vodka. Although the first I had (in Massachusits) had gin, I think.

really????
jesus.
when i tended bar, it was far far away.
so thing like this 'cape cod' were called 'cranberry & vodka'
very descriptive, with few froofy names at all.
but we definitely had black and white russians!!!

i miss my vodka bitter lemons.
hey tish, you got any shweppes bitter lemon to mix up with me fire water?
i miss it sooo much....

geekster · Post by **geekster** » Thu Oct 07, 2004 5:09 pm

I liked Bitter Lemon right out of the bottle as a soft drink. Have they stopped making it? I noticed I couldn't find it at the store last time I looked.

As for drinks, I think there is something to be said for the Old Fashion and even Tom Collins type.

geekster · Post by **geekster** » Thu Oct 07, 2004 5:13 pm

Soda King still seems to carry it. I guess I will head down to BevMo (Beverages and More) and see if they have it.

buckethead alien · Post by **buckethead alien** » Thu Oct 07, 2004 6:15 pm

Since I am in a toasting kind of mood, I propose a toast to Tisha because this thread now has over 100 more posts than the all-politics one. Which just goes to show you that booze will triumph over evil every time. This must be some kind of world record.

Cheers! Here's to many more wasted nights on the e-playa!

geekster · Post by **geekster** » Thu Oct 07, 2004 6:28 pm

Well, I think there was a concerted effort to tear down all the campaign posters and crap people had tried to put up in here. That probably helped.

Yeah, here's to Tisha ... home with a dead mouse. Sounds so sad.

stuart · Post by **stuart** » Thu Oct 07, 2004 6:30 pm

booze over evil

that's my new political party I think, or sig line, or something

anyway

when I learned of cape cods I was like, in new england and shit.

did ya call screwdrivers screwdrivers or did ya call them vodka OJ?

what did you call puisse cafe? that would get fuckin wordy

anyone know how to make a metropolitan? That's right, I said metropolitan

Simply Joel · Post by **Simply Joel** » Thu Oct 07, 2004 6:37 pm

Metropolitan Cocktail

Qty. Ingredients
1 oz. Brandy
1 oz. Sweet Vermouth
1 splash Simple Syrup
1 dash Angostura Bitters

Glass type: Cocktail

Directions: Shake with ice and strain into a cocktail glass.

Source: BarDrinks.com

stuart · Post by **stuart** » Thu Oct 07, 2004 6:45 pm

hmm..

I was thinking of something else. Like a cosmo variant with grapefruit

anyhow
and now for something completely different

http://www.conferencebike.com/

I smell ARTCAR

Simply Joel · Post by **Simply Joel** » Thu Oct 07, 2004 6:48 pm

for $10K, you can have a lot of art car, and more than that contraption.

cowboyangel · Post by **cowboyangel** » Thu Oct 07, 2004 6:54 pm

stuart wrote:booze over evil

that's my new political party I think, or sig line, or something

anyway

when I learned of cape cods I was like, in new england and shit.

did ya call screwdrivers screwdrivers or did ya call them vodka OJ?

screwdriveras....now whees my caaaa?

cowboyangel · Post by **cowboyangel** » Thu Oct 07, 2004 6:58 pm

stuart wrote:hmm..

I was thinking of something else. Like a cosmo variant with grapefruit

anyhow
and now for something completely different

http://www.conferencebike.com/

I smell ARTCAR

looks like the democratic party on wheels ta me....

I meant to say srewdrivaas.....I was raised on Cape Cod.......Land of the Kennedies. land of Emerson and Thoreau, Land of the only state never to go for Nixon, Land of the best long line swordfishers in the world, Land of the Pilgrims ( you can have them) oh time for a Jäger

Simply Joel · Post by **Simply Joel** » Thu Oct 07, 2004 7:09 pm

cowboyangel wrote:
stuart wrote:hmm..
I was thinking of something else. Like a cosmo variant with grapefruit
anyhow
and now for something completely different
http://www.conferencebike.com/
I smell ARTCAR
looks like the democratic party on wheels ta me....

you mean powered by committee, only one can steer and only goes in one direction at a time?

tisha2 · Post by **tisha2** » Thu Oct 07, 2004 7:13 pm

buckethead alien wrote:Since I am in a toasting kind of mood, I propose a toast to Tisha because this thread now has over 100 more posts than the all-politics one. Which just goes to show you that booze will triumph over evil every time. This must be some kind of world record.

Cheers! Here's to many more wasted nights on the e-playa!

Geekster wrote:Well, I think there was a concerted effort to tear down all the campaign posters and crap people had tried to put up in here. That probably helped.

Yeah, here's to Tisha ... home with a dead mouse. Sounds so sad.

Thanks kids!!! Cheers!!!! A *smooch* to you and a *smooch* to you! Yep - if you pour it, they will come!!

Just a quick check-in while stopping in at work...may or may not get things working at home later...sigh...keep up the drinks!!

I vote for the G&T all time classic - even in prohibition they couldn't kill that one!!!

Of *course* I have bitter lemon, Rian!! This the Eplaya Bar!!! I have flaming dayglo strawberry vodka if that's what ya want!!

ta-ta!!!!

Alpha · Post by **Alpha** » Thu Oct 07, 2004 7:14 pm

I happen to be in Massachusetts as we speak, just had a lovely dinner with Emily Sparkle and bucky!

My classic is bourbon & 7, but maybe that's just how I grew up. :-)

One final piece of advice, don't ever drink 20 oz of chocolate russian. (what can I say, we ran out of whole milk!) Twelve years later I STILL remember ever component of my digestive system slamming into hard reverse.

stuart · Post by **stuart** » Thu Oct 07, 2004 7:15 pm

one for the road

I'm out

Simply Joel · Post by **Simply Joel** » Thu Oct 07, 2004 7:17 pm

good night all, i am out of here.

Sandwichman · Post by **Sandwichman** » Thu Oct 07, 2004 7:22 pm

How about a nice glass of Absinthe poured proper.

Jason

Sandwichman · Post by **Sandwichman** » Thu Oct 07, 2004 9:14 pm

*Tumbleweed rolls by*

Did I miss exodus or something? Where did everyone go?

Jason

geekster · Post by **geekster** » Thu Oct 07, 2004 9:43 pm

shhhh. Wabbits!

Oh, hey there Spinner! Didn't see ya come in. Our favorite hostess is out with a dead mouse and there was a whiteout tonite and ... well ... its been kinda slow in here.

How about a Bailey's and coffee?

Sandwichman · Post by **Sandwichman** » Thu Oct 07, 2004 9:55 pm

geekster wrote:shhhh. Wabbits!

Oh, hey there Spinner! Didn't see ya come in. Our favorite hostess is out with a dead mouse and there was a whiteout tonite and ... well ... its been kinda slow in here.

How about a Bailey's and coffee?

Bailey's and coffee sounds nice. Thank you

Not only does she have a dead mouse but also a monitor that is only working when the breathing of a mule deer in New Mexico and the tide fall within synchronization.

Jason

geekster · Post by **geekster** » Thu Oct 07, 2004 9:59 pm

Here ya go. Just made a fresh pot. The place isn't the same since DPW took away Center Camp. Lets just hope the mirrors on the outside of the walls keep them from noticing The Mirage.

Zulegoona · Post by **Zulegoona** » Thu Oct 07, 2004 10:03 pm

Hey geekster, sandwichman.

Could I have one of those too please?

The Bar

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