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Wednesday Roundup 19-09-2007

By Gregon

A strange assortment to get you through the week…

Enjoy!

Greg
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Greg is the owner-editor of The Daily Grail, as well as the author of a number of books including Stop Worrying, There Probably is an Afterlife.
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  1. I want a date with the green fairy!!
    From the Curious Expeditions’ article on Absinthe:

    [quote]In truth the secondary effects of absinthe (which can be difficult to separate from the effects of it’s up to 70% alcohol content) are really quite mild, described usually as a sharpness of the mind. The effect likely comes from the other herbs in absinthe and not from the thujone at all. A good comparison would be the slight “buzz” one gets from drinking Tequila.[/quote]

    Mmmm… In all my years consuming Tequila I have NEVER experienced any “sharpness of te mind”! quite the contrary effect in fact, I mean that’s the point!! 😉

    Maybe it will be something like what people experience when mixing Red Bull with (insert beverage of choice here); the high caffeine level of the Red Bull can give the brain the impression that you’re not as drunk as you actually ARE, which is the reason it’s not such a brilliant idea to begin with, particularly if you don’t have a designated driver.

    Regardless, I really would like to give absinthe a try. Apparently absinthe was never banned here in Mexico, and while there’s a place in a mall I go frequently to that sells stuff advertised as absinthe, I rather doubt it is the real thing; for starters because the bottles have the regular cap of any liquour bottle, and I have read real absinthe oxidizes rather quickly just like wine, that’s why the bottle has got to have a cork; so probably those absinthe bottles at the mall are probably nothing more than “mouth-wash mixed with vodka” as Ted Breaux explained it in a Wired magazine article that sparkled my interest in the beverage.

    I do have to say that once while still in college I was taken with other students to a very old cantina in a small town called Metepec, near Toluca; there I tasted a really STRANGE drink called Garañon (the correct translation should be “Stallion”); the man who had taken us there advised us to take it easy with the first sip, and boy it felt like liquid fire in my mouth! By the second, third and fourth sip it was much easier though 😉

    So when we obviously asked “what’s in this stuff anyway?” The guy gave us a cryptical smile and in a low tone of voice, revealed us the secret recipe: Garañon was made of pure sugar cane alcohol (yes I still can see thankfully), and apparently it was mixed with absinthe. Now I don’t know what passes for absinthe in a town like Metepec, but the liquid DID have a funky green tone…

    Although maybe that was the result of the other secret ingredient: a little pinch of “magic dust”…

    -Magic dust?, we asked.
    –MARIJUANA, replied our host with a rather mephistophelian smile.

    Needless to say, we were shocked! although that didn’t prevented us from buying an extra bottle and taking it to our hotel. You know… so our other friends could meet the green lady 😉

    But now I wanna try the real stuff, and with no “magic dust” so the green fairy doesn’t turn into a malevolent harlot!

    —–
    It’s not the depth of the rabbit hole that bugs me…
    It’s all the rabbit SH*T you stumble over on your way down!!!

    Red Pill Junkie

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