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[ShamelessMcBundy]

The president says differently:

Jed Bartlet: Can I tell you what's messed up about James Bond?
Charlie Young: Nothing.
Jed Bartlet: Shaken, not stirred, will get you cold water with a dash of gin and dry vermouth. The reason you stir it with a special spoon is so not to chip the ice. James is ordering a weak martini and being snooty about it.

 

[trekkiedane]

The president says differently:

Jed Bartlet: Can I tell you what's messed up about James Bond?
Charlie Young: Nothing.
Jed Bartlet: Shaken, not stirred, will get you cold water with a dash of gin and dry vermouth. The reason you stir it with a special spoon is so not to chip the ice. James is ordering a weak martini and being snooty about it.

True, which is why you need ice that is VERY cold (so chips will actually fall off) and Gin that is VERY strong (so the weakening of the drink doesn't matter)

 

[captcalhoun]

it's the films fault. in the novels, it's stirred not shaken because that's how his adventures leave him: stirred, but not shaken.

 

[ShamelessMcBundy]

The president says differently:

Jed Bartlet: Can I tell you what's messed up about James Bond?
Charlie Young: Nothing.
Jed Bartlet: Shaken, not stirred, will get you cold water with a dash of gin and dry vermouth. The reason you stir it with a special spoon is so not to chip the ice. James is ordering a weak martini and being snooty about it.

True, which is why you need ice that is VERY cold

Enough of that pesky warm ice.

 

[Omnius]

Some pictures from my Canada trip:

Canadian Science & Technology Museum in Ottawa

Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum in Hamilton

Its... Bird-Man!

My flight home!

 

[Holdfast]

James Bond says shaken, not stirred.

Bond is wrong.

Stirred is better.

 

[ShamelessMcBundy]

Holdy, we totally agree.

Nice.

 

[trekkiedane]

True, which is why you need ice that is VERY cold

Enough of that pesky warm ice.

Exactgly

 

[Holdfast]

Holdy, we totally agree.

Nice.

Let's raise a properly mixed martini in honour of our agreement.

 

[ShamelessMcBundy]

Holdy, we totally agree.

Nice.

Let's raise a properly mixed martini in honour of our agreement.

With olives, of course.

 

[Alidar Jarok]

Well, i don't like tequila. I got sick on the stuff...

I don't like Whiskey for the same reason. I go by the theory that your first really bad hangover will be a liquor you won't like the rest of your life.

The theory is sound, but for me, it was my first TWO really bad hangovers (vodka and Jack Daniels respectively). I can tolerate them nowadays, in mixed drinks, but I still don't particularly like them. For a long time I had a total aversion to them.

BTW, Martinis should have gin in them.

Well, I can drink whiskey (particularly good whiskey) in a mixed drink or if I have a chaser.

How about a Vesper martini? 3 oz gin, 1 oz vodka, 1/2 oz Lillet blanc wine.

Maybe we should start a thread about alcohol rather than hijack the picture thread.

 

[Holdfast]

Holdy, we totally agree.

Nice.

Let's raise a properly mixed martini in honour of our agreement.

With olives, of course.

You killed the mood.

Twist of lemon.

How about a Vesper martini? 3 oz gin, 1 oz vodka, 1/2 oz Lillet blanc wine.

It's OK, I guess, but not what I think of when I want a martini. I actually think Vespers would taste better with the original Kina Lillet, which was supposedly more sugary than Lillet blanc. I've never had one with Kina Lillet, since I would have been starting pretty young if I had! But based on what I've heard, I reckon I'd have preferred that incarnation.

Maybe we should start a thread about alcohol rather than hijack the picture thread.

Yeah, probably.

 

[An Officer]

Enough talk, more pictures. Preferably new blood. None of you old timers who've been posting in this thread since time began...

 

[ShamelessMcBundy]

Let's raise a properly mixed martini in honour of our agreement.

With olives, of course.

You killed the mood.

Twist of lemon.

But a real martini needs olives!

 

[RoJoHen]

Yeah, nobody drinks gin martinis with lemon.

 

[ShamelessMcBundy]

I'd expect that with a vodka cocktail.

 

[RoJoHen]

Something like a Cosmo.

 

[Kestra]

Enough talk, more pictures. Preferably new blood. None of you old timers who've been posting in this thread since time began...

I know I'm an old-timer, but I'm sick of this alcohol discussion. Look, it's me on an elephant!

 

[An Officer]

My cousin rode one, and she said she got sea-sick on it... how did it feel?

 

[Michael Chris]

That is an awesome picture, Kestra!