The Hype Thread

Vodka is a pretty efficient alcohol delivery system. It's almost tasteless and odorless and pretty high octane. And it's made from potatoes! If alcohol delivery is what you're looking for, the attraction is pretty clear.
 
I remember the days long ago when guys would choose vodka as their drink of choice so that if they were pulled over, the alcohol (supposedly?) could not be detected on their breath.

. . . . Pete
 
originally posted by Peter Creasey:

I remember the days long ago when guys would choose vodka as their drink of choice so that if they were pulled over, the alcohol (supposedly?) could not be detected on their breath.

. . . . Pete
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I'm guessing those of those guys who were pulled over found out the error of thinking that was the way the alcohol would be detected.
 
Song by Rick Wakeman from 1977, "The Breathalyser":

I woke up this morning
My head was throbbing so bad I just could not see
My eyes had ceased to serve me

Last night I passed a police car in a thirty mile an hour zone and I was doing
93.
That's what they said
I admit I am a guilty man ooh-ooh
So I blew in the breathalyser
Watched those pretty little crystals turn a shade of disgusting green

They took me down to the station,
But I refused to give a blood test
So they took the urine out of me

Oh, man, that's pissing.
 
originally posted by Peter Creasey:

. . .drink of choice so that if they were pulled over . . .
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WTF. I love that the max BAC in Norway for driving is zero. Makes it a helluva lot safer to be a pedestrian on a Saturday night.
 
originally posted by mark e:
originally posted by Peter Creasey:

. . .drink of choice so that if they were pulled over . . .
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WTF. I love that the max BAC in Norway for driving is zero. Makes it a helluva lot safer to be a pedestrian on a Saturday night.
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Yes, one wouldn't want to get run over by a drunk on a bicycle.
 
originally posted by mark e:
originally posted by Peter Creasey:

. . .drink of choice so that if they were pulled over . . .
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WTF. I love that the max BAC in Norway for driving is zero. Makes it a helluva lot safer to be a pedestrian on a Saturday night.
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a pedestrian is in much more danger from a driver fiddling with his phone than from an inebriated driver.

as a pedestrian i have had to jump out of the way of a driver texting 3 times in the last year.
 
originally posted by robert ames:
originally posted by mark e:
originally posted by Peter Creasey:

. . .drink of choice so that if they were pulled over . . .
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WTF. I love that the max BAC in Norway for driving is zero. Makes it a helluva lot safer to be a pedestrian on a Saturday night.
Click to expand...

a pedestrian is in much more danger from a driver fiddling with his phone than from an inebriated driver.

as a pedestrian i have had to jump out of the way of a driver texting 3 times in the last year.
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What? First, VLM will tell you that n=3 is just weak. And your anecdotal evidence actually means something? Honestly, your comment of "much more danger" is entirely baseless.
 
originally posted by mark e:
originally posted by robert ames:
originally posted by mark e:
originally posted by Peter Creasey:

. . .drink of choice so that if they were pulled over . . .
Click to expand...

WTF. I love that the max BAC in Norway for driving is zero. Makes it a helluva lot safer to be a pedestrian on a Saturday night.
Click to expand...

a pedestrian is in much more danger from a driver fiddling with his phone than from an inebriated driver.

as a pedestrian i have had to jump out of the way of a driver texting 3 times in the last year.
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What? First, VLM will tell you that n=3 is just weak. And your anecdotal evidence actually means something? Honestly, your comment of "much more danger" is entirely baseless.
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jeeeezz. . .
 
from a universtity of utah study:

"“[C]ell phone use was associated with a 4-fold increase in the likelihood of getting into an accident and that this increased risk was comparable to that observed when driving with a blood alcohol level at the legal limit. [D]riving performance was more impaired when drivers were conversing on a cell phone than when these same drivers were legally intoxicated.”

does this help?
 
And here I was hoping I could pull this thread up and talk about wine rhetoric.

Just finished Theise's "reading between the wines" [sic].

If others have read it, I'm curious to hear your thoughts. I liked it, but found it ponderous in some sections. I now know that Rieslings, and many other things, are numinous. The story about his bio-dad, OTOH, was remarkable and touching.
 
Understandable. It was a lot like wine itself. Some pages (bottles) were inconsumable, and others, specifically the stories about the growers and winemakers, were terrific. I felt obliged to finish it, simply out of respect for the number of Terry's bottles I have drained. Which worked out well, because the last chapter was the most enjoyable.

The other book on the nightstand simultaneously was Bourdain's "Kitchen Confidential," and goddamn that guy can write. Deep sigh.
 
I liked the book quite a bit. It reminded me a bit of KL's Adventures on the Wine Trail. Mostly what I appreciated were the profiles of various producers such as the Merkelbachs.

Mark Lipton
 
I just re-read Neal Rosenthal's memoir, published a decade ago. The producer discussions were lots of fun, and occasionally inspiring, but the constant need to settle scores with people who'd pissed him off was very off-putting. Why memorialize people you don't like in your own memoir? Particularly when there's so much worthwhile to share. Even so, glad I re-read it. I've got one bottle of old Voyat Chambave Rouge in my cellar and look forward to it someday.
 
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