What's your very first memory of hearing the Pogues

**Thu Jul 06, 2006 2:00 pm**

Keep it up. It's a long, twisting road from there to over here beyond the smokestacks and the sulfur fumes. And worth every step it is too. Welcome to the Medusa. :wink:

**Thu Jul 06, 2006 8:01 pm**

Fintan wrote:Keep it up. It's a long, twisting road from there to over here beyond the smokestacks and the sulfur fumes. And worth every step it is too. Welcome to the Medusa.

Thankyou very much

I've got...
Red Roses For Me
Rum Sodomy And The Lash (the best one I reckon)
If I Should Fall From Grace With God
Peace And Love
The Ultimate Collection - the one with the live CD too (I love that live CD, brings back good memories of last christmas)

I'm certain that it is worth every single step :wink:

**Thu Jul 06, 2006 9:48 pm**

And now you must buy Hell's Ditch, post a thousand posts, drink two bottles of whisky in one week, and .....well, at that point we'll tell you what to do next.

Welcome!

**Thu Jul 06, 2006 9:51 pm**

Eric V wrote:And now you must buy Hell's Ditch, post a thousand posts, drink two bottles of whisky in one week, and .....well, at that point we'll tell you what to do next. Welcome!

*Mwuhuhuhuhuh* The clan swells, Brother V. Some our numbers shall be.... legion. :twisted:

**Thu Jul 06, 2006 9:52 pm**

I'm working on the posts

I sadly can't stomach whiskey after a certain drinking contest involving 2 Bottles, 2 People, and a 2 minutes on the stopwatch

unless Jack Daniels counts...? Or Sambuca - it's not whiskey but I can drink it strait off

**Thu Jul 06, 2006 9:56 pm**

Apachetear wrote:...unless Jack Daniels counts?

Well, it qualifies as American Whisky being a Tennessee Bourbon. It'll do. But please to be remembering - ALWAYS indulge in binge drinking responsibly. Or something. :wink:

**Thu Jul 06, 2006 10:00 pm**

Fintan wrote:
Apachetear wrote:...unless Jack Daniels counts?

Well, it qualifies as American Whisky being a Tennessee Bourbon. It'll do. But please to be remembering - ALWAYS indulge in binge drinking responsibly. Or something.

That's like saying 'Put the hand grenade inside your liver and then stand well back' :lol:

**Thu Jul 06, 2006 10:10 pm**

Apachetear wrote:
Fintan wrote:
Apachetear wrote:...unless Jack Daniels counts?

Well, it qualifies as American Whisky being a Tennessee Bourbon. It'll do. But please to be remembering - ALWAYS indulge in binge drinking responsibly. Or something.

That's like saying 'Put the hand grenade inside your liver and then stand well back'

No really... its fine. Just don't pull the pin. That would be messy. As for Sambuca.... well THAT is like putting a timebomb in your skull and setting the timer for two hours and fooling yourself into thinking you have an amazing tolerance. Next thing you know you are a Brady Bunch volcano science project spewing the most interesting smelling lava imaginable. Not that I know from personal experience, but this is common knowledge. And then the time bomb goes off, and head injuries just bleed so much, and ...well... hurt. So. Whiskey.

**Thu Jul 06, 2006 10:20 pm**

Fintan wrote:*Mwuhuhuhuhuh* The clan swells, Brother V. Some our numbers shall be.... legion.

Well I'm glad you didn't say our members are swelling, 'cuz that would just be wrong.

**Thu Jul 06, 2006 10:22 pm**

Eric V wrote:No really... its fine. Just don't pull the pin. That would be messy. As for Sambuca.... well THAT is like putting a timebomb in your skull and setting the timer for two hours and fooling yourself into thinking you have an amazing tolerance. Next thing you know you are a Brady Bunch volcano science project spewing the most interesting smelling lava imaginable. Not that I know from personal experience, but this is common knowledge. And then the time bomb goes off, and head injuries just bleed so much, and ...well... hurt. So. Whiskey.

Ah, compadre, you crack me so consistently upwards. Aye, last night was a mix of Jameson and Magners. Yummmm. And surprisingly little collateral damage this morn. Yay! :lol:

Eric V wrote:Well I'm glad you didn't say our members are swelling, 'cuz that would just be wrong.

So very, very wrong. :lol:

**Fri Jul 07, 2006 8:55 am**

Eric V wrote:No really... its fine. Just don't pull the pin. That would be messy. As for Sambuca.... well THAT is like putting a timebomb in your skull and setting the timer for two hours and fooling yourself into thinking you have an amazing tolerance. Next thing you know you are a Brady Bunch volcano science project spewing the most interesting smelling lava imaginable. Not that I know from personal experience, but this is common knowledge. And then the time bomb goes off, and head injuries just bleed so much, and ...well... hurt. So. Whiskey.

.......

........Only time Sambuca has made me ill is in combination with wine - bloody wine :evil:

**Fri Jul 07, 2006 10:44 am**

Magners and Jamesons sounds like a winning combination, Fintan ??!!!

Tip for those in summer heatwave (was that it?) - try making your own V2s.

1 part vodka (preferably Finlandia or Reyka)
1 part dry martini
1ish part lemonade
Some ice

Repeat.

Very refreshing and "gets you where you want to be", as they say

**Fri Jul 07, 2006 11:02 am**

I saw a barman making a vodka lime and ginger ale kind of a cocktaiil for someone last night.. no idea what it is called.. might have to give it a try.. it sounds um.. interesting!

**Fri Jul 07, 2006 11:07 am**

Sounds awful. Vermouth is only for martinis. Even then, I would argue against it as anything more than a subtle flavoring. Try a Southside:

tall glass full of ice
some gin (to taste)
some fresh lemon juice
simple syrup with lots of fresh mint in it
then fill up the glass with club soda (seltzer)
garnish with a sprig of mint

(a friend of mine squeezes a couple dozen lemons and picks the leaves off of a couple garbage bags full of mint plants, then blends the mint with the lemon juice, pushes the whole mess through some cloth, then mixes in some sugar -- it makes sort of an instant Southside concoction)

Its kind of an alcoholic mint lemonade.

**Fri Jul 07, 2006 11:11 am**

Sounds like hard work...

To simple that down..

Gin
Mint Cordial
Lemonade!

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