Think-drinks

I don t think drinking is a big deal. Sure everybody does it every weekend, but it s not out of control."... 

My next mixed drink was the gimlet, discovered in the heatwave of the summer of 1986. Ice cold when it s right, it kept me as cool as the big BTLIs, but it ruined my reputation for thinking before I speak. I accept the trade-off. And I still badger bartenders to make the gimlet as close to frozen as they can, because you want the liquid to go down as though it were the purest excitement. Which it is. 

THERE ARE NIGHTS WHEN YOU THINK you ll NEVER DRINK AGAIN... 

If Schiller s frozen margaritas are an honorable escape, the Sparkling Mango is a triumph. There are nights when you think you ll never drink again, and then you come upon a drink like it, a piece of exoticism whose simplicity is its surprise. 

You might think that the cocktail is an American drink. But Paris hasn t lost its touch. 

The drink, attributed to a bartender named Robert C. Butt at the Oak Beach Inn in Hampton Bays in tire 1970s, has in it every white liquor you can think of—vodka, gin, rum and tequila. It s a frat party in a glass. College students love it. It s right up there with Jell-O shots and Sex on the Beach—a solid B plus (hey, tills is an easy school), says www.student.com, aWebsite devoted to college life. 

What s wrong, isn t it any good she asked, when two minutes passed and half of it hadn t disappeared. The Park Avalon puts beer in its Long Island iced tea, too—a kind of everybody s invited move not inappropriate to the drink s basic thinking. 

The Minnesota Antifreeze is green and thick, like its namesake. You would not want to drink it until you are trapped in your car in a snowstorm, and looking for a way to make yourself happy to die in the cold.You might want to try the antifreeze in the car first.The Minnesota Antifreeze is disgusting, and I think brain health would be an issue, if you finished one. It looks and acts more like glue-sniffing than a cocktail. 

She said two things rapidly to the bartender I think I ll do white and What kind of Chardonnay She had her gold credit card down on the bar before the drink arrived. The tab was running. She looked at my unfinished drinks. 

You think guys won t drink it because ladies are drinking it, said Fernando Jurado, who attends the party. But it s like contagion. One person at the bar orders it, and it spreads. ... 

You think of blue drinks, curacao blue —horrible, Ms. Volpicelli said. 

I ve often thought of breakfast cocktails, she said. Do you call them breakfast drinks I think it could be a lovely drink for that. 

But as the days of Noe were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be. For as in the days before the flood they were eating and drinking.. . And knew not until the flood came, and took them all away so shall also the coming of the Son of man be. . . Therefore be ye also ready for in such an hour as ye think not the Son of man cometh (Matthew 24 37-44) ... 

Usually we think of solutions as liquids, and aqueous solutions are the most common liquid solutions in eveiyday life. Blood, sweat, and tears all are aqueous solutions. So are the beverages that we drink. The oceans are aqueous solutions of sodium chloride and other mineral salts. Even the fresh waters of streams and lakes are aqueous solutions containing salts and organic solutes. Most of this chapter discusses aqueous solutions. 

Hypothesizing Why do you think the can of non-diet soft drink is more dense than the can of diet soft drink ... 

After owning a dry cleaning store for 40 years, he is thinking about retiring because he does not enjoy visiting with the customers anymore he does not smoke or drink alcohol... 

BB, a 48-year-old man with a history of hypertension, presents to your clinic for follow-up evaluation of his hypertension. You notice that he admits to drinking from one-half to one pint (237—473 mL) of whiskey daily. He says he drinks more on the weekends, but he drinks every day. When you question him about his drinking he says that he doesn t think that it s a problem but admits that his wife has told him he needs to "cut down." He doesn t believe that he is alcohol dependent because on workdays he never drinks before 5 P.M. He admits to having had occasional blackouts. 

It was fun to think about how I should dress, speak, move, and touch, to talk of type-foundries and colophons, watermarks and printers patrons, and all the time watch a mans hands, the tilt of his head, the way his mouth moved as he spoke, the way his fingers brushed mine as he put more drinks on the table. It was fun that could fill my head and then my body, that bright, dumb spark in a man s eye that made my skin shiver in response. And we were away from home, after all, it was only a week, and the sun was shining on the Venice canals, or the moon was rising from behind the Rockies, or the coal fire in my rooms was so glowing that it shut out the gray cold and the Lancashire rain, and wrapped us in warmth. 

I should have waited till we were comfortable, till we d had a drink, till later, till never. My heart s banging in my chest and he hasn t answered me. If he does. .. He s protecting himself, or me, or he s thinking of some other comforting reason that won t expose me or him to humiliation. Because I can feel humiliation... 

I have a long, hot bath, and unpack my small bag from our little trip. Not many clean clothes left, but enough for today jeans and a sweater. I tidy up, put some washing on. It s three by the time I m drinking coffee and eating toast, and I think I m fully awake, but the phone ringing makes me jump almost out of my skin. I pick up the receiver. Perhaps it s. .. Hello ... 

As we went on down the hall, she began to praise Charmatz while Sprecher cleared his throat. She and Charmatz had worked together for months yet all she knew about him was that he had been a professor at the University of Prague. He had never explained why he had come to Numberg. "He doesn t drink, he doesn t smoke, he doesn t dance and he doesn t get fresh and he never speaks about anything but work. You know me, Joe I tell him about my home in Suffem and my sweet sister — well, he s never mentioned any sisters or brothers. I don t think he even had a mother and father. He must have been bom out of a book."... 

More years than I care to think of now, Father. The drink again. In fact, it s been the drink at every turn it s ruined my life, made a complete fool of me. But let s get down to... 

Think how many carcinogens are household names asbestos, cigarette smoke (a mixture of several thousand chemical compounds), DES, dioxin, saccharin, arsenic, PCBs, radon, EDB, Alar. Hundreds more of these substances, some very obscure, are known to the scientific and medical community, and many of these are scattered throughout the land at thousands of hazardous waste sites similar to Love Canal. People are exposed to these dreadful substances through the air they breathe, the water they drink and bathe in, and the foods they eat. Chemicals can also produce many other types of health damage, some very serious, such as birth defects and damage to our nervous and immune systems. 

Some coffee companies use methylene chloride to take the caffeine out of regular coffee (and you drink that stuff ). In this solvent extraction process, what do you think are the solvent, the raffinate, the extract, and the feed ... 

Now that I think back I can remember blood being taken once. It seemed to be very, very painful. I also remember my hands and feet being red in color. At one time I seemed to have a very sore throat it was then I asked for and received a drink of water. 

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