[geeks] Beer

[David Cantrell]

On Thu, Jul 04, 2002 at 02:35:31AM +0100, Will Mc Donald wrote:

> Though I've yet to get bladdered on Asinthe.

Absinthe is a Bad Drink.  I reserve it for special occasions, like getting
the groom shitfaced at his wedding reception.

About three years ago, the dot-com I worked for threw a party.  I think the
main reason was to prove that we *could* organise a piss-up in a brewery
(which was where our offices were - pity the brewery had closed some years
earlier).  Anyway, there was absinthe.  Lots of it.  $colleague who lived
a long way away, and his SO, were going to spend the night at my place.
We all drank lots during the party, and at midnight they cracked oipen the
absinthe.  I had a couple of glasses, my colleague had three or four, and
his missus had LOTS.  Now, bear in mind that I can normally drink one hell
of a lot and have the stomach of a concrete elephant, but I find that unless
I drink it really slowly and carefully, absinthe hits my stomach and
bounces straight back out again.

So we got a cab home.  The cab had to stop twice for puking, in a journey
that maybe takes half an hour.  Saffron (my friend's SO) also managed to
puke out of the window whilst we were moving, leaving a sodding great smear
of spew all along the side of the cab.  We got home, I grovelled and
apologised to the driver, who sped off glad to see the back of us.  I got
the bed ready for them and stuff, complete with a bucket on either side,
then went to sleep myself.

I awoke to the charming sound of the birds singing outside my window - and
to Saffron, sounding like she was being held upside down above the bucket
and squeezed out.

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