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  1. #57981
    Quote Originally Posted by YmoBeThere View Post
    When it is time for your robot vacuum to begin its appointed rounds, do you ever announce to the other residents of the household in your best Michael Buffer voice, "Let's get ready to Roooooooooomba!"?
    Sporked

  2. #57982
    Quote Originally Posted by YmoBeThere View Post
    If there can be silent lucidity, why can't there be silent stupidity?
    In my case, because I open my mouth and remove all doubt.

  3. #57983
    Quote Originally Posted by YmoBeThere View Post
    When it is time for your robot vacuum to begin its appointed rounds, do you ever announce to the other residents of the household in your best Michael Buffer voice, "Let's get ready to Roooooooooomba!"?
    Yeah. This was really good Ymo!

  4. #57984
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    Quote Originally Posted by bundabergdevil View Post
    Your math checks out but you lost me at gin. Blech.
    Gin and tonics are way less good without the gin I find.

  5. #57985
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    Quote Originally Posted by YmoBeThere View Post
    When it is time for your robot vacuum to begin its appointed rounds, do you ever announce to the other residents of the household in your best Michael Buffer voice, "Let's get ready to Roooooooooomba!"?
    I have friends who routinely notify their dog. He's not a fan of that thing.

  6. #57986
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    Quote Originally Posted by YmoBeThere View Post
    Your barkeep has a generous pour.
    our gin and tonics have been famous for years, house specialty, and three ounces of the best gin and tonic gin is what you get (which is another story in itself).

  7. #57987
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    Quote Originally Posted by budwom View Post
    Gin and tonics are way less good without the gin I find.
    I just don’t like gin

  8. #57988
    Quote Originally Posted by bundabergdevil View Post
    I just don’t like gin
    Nobody’s perfect I guess

  9. #57989
    Quote Originally Posted by budwom View Post
    our gin and tonics have been famous for years, house specialty, and three ounces of the best gin and tonic gin is what you get (which is another story in itself).
    How does one make a famous Gin? Ingredients and method please.

  10. #57990
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    Quote Originally Posted by fidel View Post
    How does one make a famous Gin? Ingredients and method please.
    You throw some juniper berries at a bucket filled with equal part piss, grain alcohol and Shame.

  11. #57991
    Quote Originally Posted by bundabergdevil View Post
    You throw some juniper berries at a bucket filled with equal part piss, grain alcohol and Shame.
    Don't hate the player, hate the game.

  12. #57992
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    Quote Originally Posted by fidel View Post
    How does one make a famous Gin? Ingredients and method please.
    Since you asked! Until the early 1980s (when, by the way, there were a lot fewer gins around) I"d make a good, basic G&T using one of the premium gins available at the time, either Beefeater or Tanqueray, the latter being a bit more floral due to different botanicals...then there was that fateful day!

    The Boston Globe (1982 or so) did a fun survey of a bunch of their writers (not just the food snots, everyone...sports guys, tv writers, local reporters, etc). They blind tested a bunch of gins, maybe 10 or so IIRC for several categories: on the rocks, in a martini, and in a gin and tonic.

    The results for the rocks and martini categories were as one might expect, Beefeaters and Tanqueray were dominant. But in the coveted G&T category, the prodigious runaway winner was little known (to me and them) Booth's gin. They raved about the crispness. So, skeptically, I tried it. The skepticism only mounted when I found it to be very inexpensive. (To this day, you can get the big 1.75 liter bottle for $14 at the New Hamster liquor stores for example). Gotta bend down low, it's WAY down on the bottom shelf.

    For some reason, it produces a marvelously crisp G&T, really quite remarkable. I wasn't trying to enjoy it, but I certainly did, and still do. And in the ensuing 40 years, I must have converted at least 20 friends to using Booth's. (I heartily agree with the Globe writers, it's not good on the rocks or in a martini, its chosen mission in life is to make a truly splendid G&T.

    So to finalize the answer: Get a Big glass (I like the large insulated kind), and fill it to the top with ice cubes, add three ounces of Booth's gin (bonus: it's 90 proof!), and finish it off with your chosen tonic...ours is still Schweppes (good grief, not the diet kind) though some these days favor stuff like Fever Tree..whatever you like. Just don't use the cheap crappy stuff like Polar or store brand...

    And of course you definitely don't want to skip on fresh squeezed lime, all drinks get a full quarter of a lime...(bartenders who skimp on the lime shall be condemned to venues with loud, bad music). I usually add the lime after the gin, then pour the tonic to finish things off, get the best lime penetration. Try it!

    p.s. Booth's is available in NC in the larger stores...

  13. #57993
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    Quote Originally Posted by bundabergdevil View Post
    You throw some juniper berries at a bucket filled with equal part piss, grain alcohol and Shame.
    shots fired!

  14. #57994
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    Quote Originally Posted by budwom View Post
    shots fired!
    I have strong gin-specific opinions. Gin is the AOC to my MTG. I struggle with why it exists at all.

  15. #57995
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    Quote Originally Posted by bundabergdevil View Post
    I have strong gin-specific opinions. Gin is the AOC to my MTG. I struggle with why it exists at all.
    this aversion is often seen in folks who drank too much of it on a particular occasion. We are not those people. (we drink too much of it on many occasions). Vodka is for sissies who don't have taste buds.

  16. #57996
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    Quote Originally Posted by budwom View Post
    this aversion is often seen in folks who drank too much of it on a particular occasion. We are not those people. (we drink too much of it on many occasions). Vodka is for sissies who don't have taste buds.
    Nope, not me. I’ve had too much to drink a few too many times but never on gin. I just do not like any of the guns I’ve had so far. Triggers an instinct dry heave.

  17. #57997
    Quote Originally Posted by bundabergdevil View Post
    I have strong gin-specific opinions. Gin is the AOC to my MTG. I struggle with why it exists at all.
    Gin and turkey vibes here.

  18. #57998
    Quote Originally Posted by budwom View Post
    Since you asked! Until the early 1980s (when, by the way, there were a lot fewer gins around) I"d make a good, basic G&T using one of the premium gins available at the time, either Beefeater or Tanqueray, the latter being a bit more floral due to different botanicals...then there was that fateful day!

    The Boston Globe (1982 or so) did a fun survey of a bunch of their writers (not just the food snots, everyone...sports guys, tv writers, local reporters, etc). They blind tested a bunch of gins, maybe 10 or so IIRC for several categories: on the rocks, in a martini, and in a gin and tonic.

    The results for the rocks and martini categories were as one might expect, Beefeaters and Tanqueray were dominant. But in the coveted G&T category, the prodigious runaway winner was little known (to me and them) Booth's gin. They raved about the crispness. So, skeptically, I tried it. The skepticism only mounted when I found it to be very inexpensive. (To this day, you can get the big 1.75 liter bottle for $14 at the New Hamster liquor stores for example). Gotta bend down low, it's WAY down on the bottom shelf.

    For some reason, it produces a marvelously crisp G&T, really quite remarkable. I wasn't trying to enjoy it, but I certainly did, and still do. And in the ensuing 40 years, I must have converted at least 20 friends to using Booth's. (I heartily agree with the Globe writers, it's not good on the rocks or in a martini, its chosen mission in life is to make a truly splendid G&T.

    So to finalize the answer: Get a Big glass (I like the large insulated kind), and fill it to the top with ice cubes, add three ounces of Booth's gin (bonus: it's 90 proof!), and finish it off with your chosen tonic...ours is still Schweppes (good grief, not the diet kind) though some these days favor stuff like Fever Tree..whatever you like. Just don't use the cheap crappy stuff like Polar or store brand...

    And of course you definitely don't want to skip on fresh squeezed lime, all drinks get a full quarter of a lime...(bartenders who skimp on the lime shall be condemned to venues with loud, bad music). I usually add the lime after the gin, then pour the tonic to finish things off, get the best lime penetration. Try it!

    p.s. Booth's is available in NC in the larger stores...
    That’s much better than my “Have it make a sex tape” response.

  19. #57999
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    Quote Originally Posted by budwom View Post
    this aversion is often seen in folks who drank too much of it on a particular occasion. We are not those people. (we drink too much of it on many occasions). Vodka is for sissies who don't have taste buds.
    Not I. Never been a fan. Would rather lick a pine tree.

  20. #58000
    Quote Originally Posted by aimo View Post
    Not I. Never been a fan. Would rather lick a pine tree.
    I have felt this way about IPAs for about 4 years now.

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