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RE: 1500kg of joy - Chris Garner - 20-11-2020
On my regular business trips to Switzerland, I often brought back bottles of absinthe. These were generally obtained whilst on the road with one of the company's principles I dealt with. A stop would be made, usually at a hamlet deep in the country, my host disappearing into a cottage emerging with a bag containing a few illicit bottles.
One occasion a bottle leaked in my briefcase, initially wiping out the hand written notes I had made and after a few days the paper itself!
RE: 1500kg of joy - Nick Salmon - 20-11-2020
I am told that absinthe makes the heart grow fonder...
RE: 1500kg of joy - Ruairidh Dunford - 20-11-2020
If only the memories could be erased so...
RE: 1500kg of joy - Spex - 20-11-2020
I always thought that absence made the heart grow fonder.
But I now know it is abstinence.
Spex
RE: 1500kg of joy - Tony Press - 21-11-2020
(20-11-2020, 10:45 PM)Nick Salmon Wrote: I am told that absinthe makes the heart grow fonder...Curses ! Just took my breath away
RE: 1500kg of joy - David Stepney - 21-11-2020
I thought that absinthe powered Arianne rockets.
RE: 1500kg of joy - Erich - 22-11-2020
Ah, yes I had some absinthe(the green) just a week or so ago. I do like the Swiss bleu absinthe but now it is hard to get in the US. Yes, lots of myths. It was outlawed for several reasons. One was that a Swiss fellow hacked up his wife and kids after having absinthe. Of course, it didn't help that he had a bottle of cognac before that and was noticeably unstable while sober. And in late 19th century, some less responsible distillers were using some copper chemical to get the green color. And then there was the doctor who injected rats with thujone, the chemical in Grand Wormwood and it dissolved their brains. But in the second distillation, none of the thujone crosses over. Interestingly, Grand Wormwood was used as far back as the Romans as a way to rid the gut of intestinal parasites.
Erich in Mukilteo
RE: 1500kg of joy - JonE - 22-11-2020
good for Austin 7 owners
wormwood and woodworm
Bet former kills latter too but more expensive than permethrin
RE: 1500kg of joy - Robin Boyce - 22-11-2020
An old joke has the punch line "absinthe makes the fart go Honda". Can't remember the joke, fortunately.
RE: 1500kg of joy - Ruairidh Dunford - 22-11-2020
Wanda! That was her name, what a girl!