The Bar

sputnik · Post by **sputnik** » Wed Feb 02, 2005 7:54 am

Have you seen the filter for liqour that turns low-end vodka into high-end vodka?

Martiansky · Post by **Martiansky** » Wed Feb 02, 2005 7:56 am

For real, Spunik? Good morning BTW!
I've had some nasty vodka that smells more like rubbing alcohol! BLEH!!

LeChatNoir · Post by **LeChatNoir** » Wed Feb 02, 2005 7:57 am

Good morning people!!!

Just having some coffee before I get to the shop. Late start today. Ms. Sky... could you use an old haz-mat suit? That’s be a hit with the kids... or maybe scare the hell out of ‘em...

Giggles!!! hope your day is just swell... and puke free.

(grabbing coffee and finding a leftover, crunchy, but still very magic donut under the bar... he's gone again).

Hate that I left before the peep show last night. dang...

But I got a limerick... that's pretty special... I've more marketable skills than I'd realized, it woulld seem. Hmmm...

(laughing out loud as he walks out the door... ever heard a cat laugh?... )

sputnik · Post by **sputnik** » Wed Feb 02, 2005 7:59 am

For real M. The 'poor' man's way is to use a brita filter a couple of times (just pour the vodka on through). But there is a commercial version that is faster and uses different materials that are designed for filtering liquor like the folks who make liquor use.

Morning LCN

buckethead alien · Post by **buckethead alien** » Wed Feb 02, 2005 8:00 am

...and the winner is...

The idea for the New York Times Dining section's tasting panel was to sample a range of the new high-end unflavored vodkas that have come on the market in the last few years in their beautifully designed bottles and to compare them with a selection of established super-premium brands.

To broaden the comparison, or possibly as a bit of mischief, our tasting coordinator, Bernard Kirsch, added to our blind tasting a bottle of Smirnoff, the single best-selling unflavored vodka in the United States, but a definite step down in status, marketing and bottle design.

After the 21 vodkas were sipped and the results compiled, the <b>Smirnoff</b> was our hands-down favorite.

In the United States almost all vodka producers buy neutral spirits that have already been distilled from grain by one of several big Midwestern companies like Archer Daniels Midland. The spirits, 95 percent alcohol or more, are trucked to the producers, where they are filtered, diluted and bottled. In our tasting only one brand, Teton Glacier Potato vodka, was distilled by the producer. Another producer, Hangar 1, distills a portion of its spirits and buys the rest.

sputnik · Post by **sputnik** » Wed Feb 02, 2005 8:00 am

Just google liquor filter. It's first on the list.

Martiansky · Post by **Martiansky** » Wed Feb 02, 2005 8:01 am

Hello LeChat!!! It might be kinda difficult to drive with a hazmat suit on...sure would be a hoot though!! I'll have to pass but thanks!

And Bye, have a good day!

sputnik · Post by **sputnik** » Wed Feb 02, 2005 8:05 am

Cool. I just bought a big bottle of Smirnoff and used it for martinis the other night. I liked it well enough. Certainly as good as the absolut I had prior to that.

GuinivereElise · Post by **GuinivereElise** » Wed Feb 02, 2005 8:45 am

I like grey goose. mmm.... and chopin.....

vodkaaaaaaa.....

but for now, COFFEE!!!

Hit me!

sputnik · Post by **sputnik** » Wed Feb 02, 2005 8:47 am

Kona, coming up. Do you need cream, sugar?

GuinivereElise · Post by **GuinivereElise** » Wed Feb 02, 2005 9:06 am

[makes icky face]

eww...

No.

i like my coffee unadulterated, thank you!

sputnik · Post by **sputnik** » Wed Feb 02, 2005 9:19 am

Alrighty then.

theCryptofishist · Post by **theCryptofishist** » Wed Feb 02, 2005 9:23 am

gigglesnort wrote: (didja get it yet? didja, huh?)!

Not yet. Rian--would you take a contract on my mailman. (Yes, I'm a Kill the Messenger type.)

theCryptofishist · Post by **theCryptofishist** » Wed Feb 02, 2005 9:27 am

samtzu wrote:*Checks out the spot that the cat 'marked' .... sniffs it.... then whips out Woodrow and marks the other side himself. Satisfied that his territory is secure, he addresses Zule*

When I tell people my age (fifty-seven) they can't believe it. I am more like a thirty-five year old. Ah, well... the corporate masters are all going to fall anyway... the earth cannot sustain them, and they will go.... wonder what will crop up in their place?....

Dang--there was an obit in yesterday's (tuesday's) paper for an animator at Pixar. 35. I feel old at 40.

theCryptofishist · Post by **theCryptofishist** » Wed Feb 02, 2005 9:32 am

LeChatNoir wrote: GE, There’s a local brewpub in town here, that brew a great porter and then ages it in used bourbon barrels. Might there be one of those around under that magic bar?

*fishy rubs kitty's belly and gets him deeply relaxed. Then she cuddles up to his ear and whispers--"you will bring sixpack of porter to playa for me. You will bring sixpack of porter to playa for me" over and over in her most soothing seductive voice*

gigglesnort · Post by **gigglesnort** » Wed Feb 02, 2005 9:37 am

sputnik wrote:Kona, coming up. Do you need cream, sugar?

May I have all three, pretty please?

ALERT: VOMIT UPDATE

No vomiting since about an hour ago from the oldest (the last to contract). The middle has now eaten a bowl of rice and some applesauce, and just now helped the youngest (the first to contract) wash my living room floor, the destination of much vomitus. Now she is reading books to her. I think we are over the hump.

*whew*

Times like these I feell mighty grateful as I think about the mothers in far away (or not so faraway) places who must deal with sickness in their children having poor and inadequate resources. Poor as we are, we have all we need. Makes my heart hurt.

theCryptofishist · Post by **theCryptofishist** » Wed Feb 02, 2005 9:37 am

Ranger Genius wrote:It's a lovely colorful expression, too: "second fiddle." God, I love the english language. Glad I didn't have to learn it as my second language, though. Can you imagine trying to master all that contextual meaning and euphemism? Joseph Conrad is a god.

theCryptofishist · Post by **theCryptofishist** » Wed Feb 02, 2005 9:45 am

Rian Jackson wrote:
buckethead alien wrote:Giggs, you read me like a dime-store novel, whatever the hell that is.

Thanks,

adoissssssssssssssssssss
cheap, dog-eared, and rarely intellectually stimulating?

Don't forget the lurid cover!

theCryptofishist · Post by **theCryptofishist** » Wed Feb 02, 2005 9:46 am

buckethead alien wrote:Ahem I am out going to my friends' Cheryl and Andres' coffee roastery to secure some beans for the week. I figure I can justify the $20 Kona if I bring my lunch from home twice a week. Good thing it doesn't cost me anything to keep my eplaya friends salubricated or I'd need to rob a bank.

Pick anyone up something?

Pity me. I've been drinking instant I got free to save money. ONly five bags left.

Better get me a nice Kenya.

Rian Jackson · Post by **Rian Jackson** » Wed Feb 02, 2005 9:48 am

PM me your address, and i'll send you something nice, fishie.

no one should be drinking instant on my watch.

buckethead alien · Post by **buckethead alien** » Wed Feb 02, 2005 9:50 am

theCryptofishist wrote:
Rian Jackson wrote:
buckethead alien wrote:Giggs, you read me like a dime-store novel, whatever the hell that is.

Thanks,

adoissssssssssssssssssss
cheap, dog-eared, and rarely intellectually stimulating?
Don't forget the lurid cover!

That'll be later, thank you very much.

theCryptofishist · Post by **theCryptofishist** » Wed Feb 02, 2005 9:57 am

Ranger Genius wrote:Sounds to me more like you could use some cough syrup. Two birds with one stone'n'all. Straight from the bottle okay?

One more flamin homer. . .

theCryptofishist · Post by **theCryptofishist** » Wed Feb 02, 2005 9:59 am

helitack wrote:heli wishes another beverage, herding hollywoods is a pain in the fucking ass.

Cattle prod.

theCryptofishist · Post by **theCryptofishist** » Wed Feb 02, 2005 10:03 am

GuinivereElise wrote:
Lydia Love wrote:
I'm trying to get LyLo to stick, Lydia. Think it will work?
Well, I'll answer to it now that I know it's supposed to be *me*.

But, honestly, nicknames have never stuck to me.
I just want to know how to pronounce it: "lie-low" or "lee-low"?

"lee-low" was my Grandmother Lilo, short for Lisalotte short for Elizabeth Charlotte (auf Duetsch)

theCryptofishist · Post by **theCryptofishist** » Wed Feb 02, 2005 10:05 am

Ranger Genius wrote:Damn. Means I can't use "Befall us."

It's a limerick. Streaching the sound like that is perfectly within the form.

theCryptofishist · Post by **theCryptofishist** » Wed Feb 02, 2005 10:07 am

Ranger Genius wrote:Here's an Idaho Special Harvest Riesling from Ste. Chapelle. Will that do, Noir?

Fishy will have some.

theCryptofishist · Post by **theCryptofishist** » Wed Feb 02, 2005 10:15 am

PurpleKoosh wrote:
GuinivereElise wrote:sort of like how I get whenever I tell anyone here that I'm originally from Minnesota: they say "oh yah, sure, you betcha" and I'm like "uh huh... yeaaaaahhh.... 'cause I NEVER hear that"....
*snrch*

My very best friend in the whole wide world moved from the Bay Area to Brainerd (long story), and would joke with the friends he moved with about "a pop in a sack in a boat in minneSOta." They realized they'd been there too long the first time one of them pronounced "about" as a-BOAT unintentionally....

theMrFishist thinks it's cute that I'm picking up his Minnesota accent.

theCryptofishist · Post by **theCryptofishist** » Wed Feb 02, 2005 10:19 am

buckethead alien wrote:Lordy, there are so many maladies going around this winter, it's really amazing. A key person here at work thinks she had the flu, a cold, and bronchitis all at once. They are dropping like flies.

And, as I am typing this, the photo scanner guy just announced that the school called to say they were sending his daughter home with the flu, too.

Note to everybody: wash your hands. A lot.?

I keep a bottle of that hand sanitizer at my desk for supplimental cleaning. A little tip from the cdc.

Rian Jackson · Post by **Rian Jackson** » Wed Feb 02, 2005 10:21 am

theCryptofishist wrote:
PurpleKoosh wrote:
GuinivereElise wrote:sort of like how I get whenever I tell anyone here that I'm originally from Minnesota: they say "oh yah, sure, you betcha" and I'm like "uh huh... yeaaaaahhh.... 'cause I NEVER hear that"....
*snrch*

My very best friend in the whole wide world moved from the Bay Area to Brainerd (long story), and would joke with the friends he moved with about "a pop in a sack in a boat in minneSOta." They realized they'd been there too long the first time one of them pronounced "about" as a-BOAT unintentionally....
theMrFishist thinks it's cute that I'm picking up his Minnesota accent.

they're in denial, Guin. large sections of this town went from Scandinavia to the Midwest to here.

It's a whole migration route.

Ranger Genius · Post by **Ranger Genius** » Wed Feb 02, 2005 10:31 am

theCryptofishist wrote:
Ranger Genius wrote:Here's an Idaho Special Harvest Riesling from Ste. Chapelle. Will that do, Noir?
Fishy will have some.

You can't beat it for the price (around $10) anywhere. It's a great aperitif or dessert, since it's fairly sweet without being cloying. Have your liquor store order it for you if they don't already carry it. You won't regret it. Drink within six months.