I should add: don't blend too long or it can get gluey. A few little chunks here and there give character.

It's a great starter. Proportions are always a guess for me, but it's never been over the top hot.

In Fredric Brown's hands, most of the times!

The Walls Came Tumbling Down deserves to be remembered as well as Primo Levi's similar memoir, The Reprieve.

Thanks, Brian. My father's best friend when he served in NORAD was an RCAF officer and at SHAPE, I sat next door to a Canadian officer who paraded the halls playing his bagpipe on the anniversary of Vimy Ridge. So, yes, allies we continue to be, despite the nonsense spewing from the president.

At my commissioning 45 years ago. Between us, my father, my brother, and I served almost 80 years on active duty. When people say "Thank you for your service," though, I feel obliged to thank them for all the opportunities their tax dollars made possible.

Salut!

Ach, the people would all have been snobs or bores, our cocktails are better, and yet we can enjoy the same music. All you need is that "Villa on the French Riviera Simulator," or as I call it, vermouth.

Feel free to express your "Mirth" over the waggish value of this thread. The End.

"Meddler" suggests to me that Prof. A. A. Griffith was less than successful in his meddling.

"Brute" comes in handy when disappointed with the size of your "Large Fries" portion.

Feel free to substitute "Drunkard" the next time a pharmaceuticals executive has a medical emergency in your Oval Office.

3.7% of French voters chose a candidate other than Emmanuel Macron over his inability to do a halfway decent "Frenchman" (which, of course, must be accompanied by an admiring "Ooh la-la!").

"Lover" may, for example, provoke "Coward" from the object of your affections.

Take care in using "Lover": it may not always produce the expected results.

I love this sort of thing, which I call jet set pop, the kind of music you'd expect to hear at a poolside cocktail party at Cap d'Antibes in 1966.

Penguin Cafe Orchestra.
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