flinn@seismo.UUCP (E. A. Flinn) (03/05/84)
Tired of finding that other people are helping themselves to your good liquor at BYOB parties? An English friend passed along the following tip: take along a candle, which you insert and light after you've opened the bottle. No one ever expects anything drinkable to be in a bottle which has a candle stuck in its neck. This really works as long as too many people don't see you pouring your own drinks.
wetcw@pyuxa.UUCP (T C Wheeler) (03/05/84)
There are two ways to protect your booze at a BYOB party. 1. Buy a bottle of the cheapest rotgut you can find, buy a bottle of your favorite poison. Pour the rotgut in a coffee can to use to drown Japanese Bettles that you pick off the rose bush. Pour the good stuff in the rotgut bottle. Those who see the rotgut bottle will pass it by, but it won't do much for your image when they see you drinking from it. 2. Cultivate a taste for Tequilla. Others won't bother you much by drinking from your bottle. Besides, you can appear to be Macho by tossing it down neat with salt and lemon. T. C. Wheeler
rfg@hound.UUCP (R.GRANTGES) (03/05/84)
A better and more fool proof suggestion is to drink something disgusting (like sweet vermouth) or at least appear to do so by using the bottle. Peoiple will leave you and your bottle alone. hound!rfg
ignatz@ihuxx.UUCP (Dave Ihnat, Chicago, IL) (03/05/84)
A most interesting idea. I have some friends who took a different approach. It seems that, at Science Fiction conventions, this fellow kept putting his drink down, stepping away for a moment, and coming back to either an empty spot on the table, or an empty cup in a full spot. Tiring of this, he invented the SPAYED GERBIL. Truly a horrendous drink, it consists of gin, Campari, an olive, and a poor, tortured ice cube. (Possibly other indignities, too--I seem to sense the ghost of Vermouth in the back of my mind, but I believe I'd prefer to leave it there, thank you.) True to his expectations, his former friends showed positively excellent responses to this primitive avoidance therapy; the only problem remaining was to convince his own tongue and stomach that he liked this witches' brew. Alas, I guess he failed, since I have seen him smile since then when lifting a glass to his lips; but the Spayed Gerbil has gone down in fannish history. Hopefully, to a permanent resting place in some primordal ooze. Have YOU ever enjoyed Campari? Dave Ihnat ihuxx!ignatz
faunt@hplabsc.UUCP (Doug Faunt) (03/06/84)
Disgusting drinks are no help. I was there at the invention of the "Spayed Gerbel", vodka and root-beer, because that was what was left.
rpw3@fortune.UUCP (03/07/84)
#R:seismo:-63800:fortune:6700032:000:492 fortune!rpw3 Mar 6 19:29:00 1984 Just by accident, I guess, I happen to LIKE Campari and soda. Is that why my drink never disappears at parties? :-) Rob p.s. Another off-the-wall concoction that I like (that many don't) was taught to me by a bartender from the Marina Del Rey T.G.I. Friday's when she and her husband were on "detached duty" in San Bruno: IRISH GODFATHER couple oz Irish (Bushmills will do) small splash Amaretto chill with ice, strain, serve "up" Yummm! (...and a Tip-o-the-Hat to Cathy Landers)
berry@zinfandel.UUCP (03/09/84)
#R:seismo:-63800:zinfandel:8200072:000:289 zinfandel!berry Mar 6 12:17:00 1984 Gee, at most BYOB parties I go to, the general rule is that as long as you bring a bottle, you can drink anything on the liquor table. It can be more interesting that way (and you can get some FIERCE hangovers) Berry Kercheval Zehntel Inc. (ihnp4!zehntel!zinfandel!berry) (415)932-6900
cwa@ihuxm.UUCP (Carl W. Amport) (03/09/84)
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I think disgusting drinks would prevent people from drinking it right out
from under you. If you don't, then try the
SWEATY LUMBERJACK
1.5 oz. 151 Rum
1.5 oz. Wild Turkey
15-30 drops Tabasco sauce (more if you can stand it,
but never less)
Stir well and serve with a very cold beer chaser.
Maybe this is the drink you would WANT everyone to try. Never drank this at
a party 'cause it wouldn't be a good way to be invited back. Remember:
"He is a lumberjack and he's ok.
He sleeps all night and he works all day."
- the Lumberjack Song by Monty Python
Carl W. Amport Naperville (no lumberjacks here), IL.cdanderson@watarts.UUCP (03/10/84)
What I tend to do in B.Y.O.B. parties is to assume that if your
(my) bottle is assumed to be common property, then so are all others.
This tends to maximize quantity available as most people cannot drink
more than a bottle (that I know, but then I talk about large
quantities in bottle or case).
However, quality, if no-one else shares yours, tends to suffer.
How can one drink what fish **** in,
Cameron Anderson
watmath!watarts!cdandersonfaunt@hplabsc.UUCP (Doug Faunt) (03/12/84)
I'm not sure I would like to try this on my bottle of choice, since it is Cruzan Clipper 120-proof rum, which has a flammable liquid warning on the bottle, and burns VERY nicely. Other over-proof liquors would have the same problem.