Time for a drink. What'll ya have?

[tjwmason]

I make it well into the afternoon on the East-coast - and far far later over here.

It's been cloudy, and rainy, and thundery today - I'm torn between red wine and gin (the latter being the default position for me); later I could well get a brandy or a whisky.

[CubsFan1982]

1. It's five o'clock somewhere in the world.

I'll have a good, stiff Scotch on the rocks. And wash it down with about three Guinnesses. :D

:beer:

[tjwmason]

2. You'll get a dodgy look along with that scotch.

Unless you want some ghastly blended thing which I couldn't care about ruining with ice.

The Guinness sounds good :beer:

[CubsFan1982]

3. I can handle the dodgy looks, just give me my booze!

:P

[MrScorpio]

4. Lay some of that Irish love on me

Bailey's, my good man.

[tjwmason]

5. Straight up, or on the rocks?

Or with lime-juice? A friend actually tried this at uni, the whole thing separated, and turned this nasty colour (or rather two nasty colours); the damn fool drank half of it, and felt rather ill the next day :crazy:

[MrScorpio]

6. Straight up, if you please

I love mine unfiltered

[anarch]

7. maker's mark...neat

and some kind of beer.

[tjwmason]

8. Is that cold-carbonated-cat's urine beer, or the real stuff?

Noting that this barman is English, and much prefers bitter to lager. :P

[anarch]

9. well, when you put it that way...

I'll have a pint of bitter, thanks!

[tjwmason]

10. The grumpy barman wins again

One person at a time on his unending quest to get the whole world to agree with his ludicrous drinking prejudices :bounce:

:beer:

[yvr girl]

11. It's still morning here

I should stick to champagne and OJ

[tjwmason]

14. I was once told that old-school etiquette allows women to drink

port in the mornings - if you'd prefer Bucks' Fizz though fine by me.

[yvr girl]

20. Never heard of a Buck's Fizz

but I know I don't like port, so let me try one.

[tjwmason]

21. Bucks' Fizz is just organge juice and champagne

Though mostly made with champagnoise rather than the real stuff.

[CitrusLib]

12. We're having the same weather. I'd like a nice Cabernet please.

[tjwmason]

15. That does sound ideal for the current weather.

Old or new world?

Plenty of good stuff in both.

[Deep13]

13. Glennlevit 18, neat.

[tjwmason]

16. You'll get a wee water jug oh so unsubtely placed by the side

Just as a slight hint. :P

[Deep13]

27. You lost me.

A slight hint of what?

:shrug:

[tjwmason]

37. A small splash of water

To bring our the flavour of the whisky.

[Lavender Brown]

17. Midori Sour, please

[tjwmason]

24. That does sound most delicious

Not right for our weather round here - but on a hot day, with slices of melon to bite into....

[MadHound]

18. About three fingers of tequila

And none of the Jose Cuervo crap either. Chinaco, Evolucion, or at least Patron if you have nothing else. Thanks, and keep the training wheels.

[tjwmason]

23. You mean you don't want the mass-produced for tourists special stuff?

shock, horror.

[MadHound]

25. LOL! No, no I don't. I'm too old, and too set in my ways

To settle for crap:evilgrin: Besides, I've done my fair share, back when I was young dumb and poor. I figure now that if I'm going to feed my vice, I'm going to feed it in style, or not at all;)

[Doomy]

19. When

I was drinking I used to love Margaritas! That was before rehab and the only I had after that was aftershave. They confiscated that. Seriously folks, I hope you can handle drinking because many of us can't.

[tjwmason]

22. Welcome to D.U.

and best of luck with your on-going struggle. :hi:

[Doomy]

45. Thank-you

I love my new home!

[dajoki]

26. i want...

to be wasting away again in margaritaville:smoke:

[tjwmason]

33. Sounds like happy memories.

It's wonderful when a drink can bring them flooding back.

[barb162]

28. ice cold coca cola, it's 96 here

[tjwmason]

34. Grrrrrrrs

No where near 96 here :(

I have yet to find weather too hot for me. I'm perfectly happy walking round in the middle of an Italian summer wearing a jacket.

But if you're wanting to cool down - that's a very good way.

[ComerPerro]

46. Add a shot of Morgan to that Coca Cola and I'm with you

;)

[MN ChimpH8R]

29. Stolichnaya martini

painfully, excruciatingly dry - a martini that is dying of thirst - the vodka should be shaken while the mixologist is staring at a bottle of vermouth. Straight up, with two (preferably blue cheese-stuffed) olives.

[tjwmason]

32. That's the only way to drink martini

Chilled down to buggery, served in chilled glasses.

Now if anybody starts to suggest that there can be any other ingredients to a martini than gin/vodka and vermouth I suggest that all other patrons leave the bar rather quickly. Chocolate martini is a contradiction in terms :nuke:

[MN ChimpH8R]

38. Amen!

The current tendency to refer to cocktails as "Martinis" is an abomination unto both Great C'thulhu and the Invisible Pink Unicorn. Stop it, I say, STOP! :grr:

[Spacemom]

30. I'd like a Buttery Nipple

In fact, better make it a double :P

[tjwmason]

35. No sex-threads!

:D

Sounds a wee bit rich for my delicate constitution - but whatever ya want.

Also it's Friday, doubles (at the minimum) all round.

[khashka]

31. The sun is over the yard arm

whatevever that means, it must be true somewhere...


So, I'll take a vodka on the rocks.

Khash.

[tjwmason]

36. The sun passes the yard-arm at about 11 a.m.

Trust the Royal Navy to get pissed that early in the morning.

For your edification:
The yardarms on a sailing ship are the horizontal timbers or spars mounted on the masts, from which the square sails are hung. (The word yard here is from an old Germanic word for a pointed stick, the source also of our unit of measurement.) At certain times of year it will seem from the deck that the sun has risen far enough up the sky that it is above the topmost yardarm. In summer in the north Atlantic, where the phrase seems to have originated, this would have been at about 11am. This was by custom and rule the time of the first rum issue of the day to officers and men (the officers had their tots neat, the men’s diluted). It seems that officers in sailing ships adopted a custom, even when on shore, of waiting until this time before taking their first alcoholic drink of the day.

http://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-ove1.htm

Now are you wanting a top notch vodka, or are you more of a gut-rot type?

[khashka]

39. Trust you

do be so damn pedantic :)

Straight up? Top notch.

Mixing it? Who the hell cares?


Khash.

(I'm easy but I'm not cheap - buy me the best vodka on the market and I'm all yours)

[tjwmason]

40. Sorry but that wasn't pedantic

That was pernickety - fundamentally difference concepts. :P

Which do you prefer?

I've had Stolichnaya and Smirnoff Black Label recommended to me - but I must confess not to knowing the vodka market terribly well (did you know that vodka litterally means little-water - in the sense that one might call one's son little-Johnny - being the diminutive voda?).

[khashka]

41. You missed your calling

you really should have been an Oxford don.

I refuse to engage in the vodka wars with you...
But the more pernickety you get the cuter you get......


Khash.

[tjwmason]

42. This is my real calling

Being an irritating git here in the Lounge.

If you think it makes me cute, then by golly that's one heck of a fringe-benefit. :D

[El Fuego]

43. Martini, please!

[ComerPerro]

44. Captain and Coke, or Boulevard Wheat with a lemon.

[hvn_nbr_2]

47. Homemade damiana liqueur

[RebelOne]

48. I'm already on my third glass of white wine. n/t