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Subject: [Leica] Party pics and such
From: jgovindaraj at eth.net (Jayanand Govindaraj)
Date: Mon Oct 9 19:48:13 2006
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I thought absinthe was illegal because of all that wormwood...and the 
nearest legal equivalent was pastis.
Cheers
Jayanand

G Hopkinson wrote:

>Beat you to that line, Nick!
>I've read about that restriction on absinthe in some countries. I always 
>thought that it had taken on some mysterious aura due to
>the whole Van Gogh, bohemian thingy.
>It was apparently taken off the banned list in Australia some years ago. 
>I've never tried it myself. I just read that it may be 68%
>alcohol. Yikes. I'm thinking that may be more of a problem than any worries 
>about wormwood or whatever the evil component may be.
>Just checked and that makes it marginally more alcohol by volume than 
>Lagavulin. And you don't have to wear a beret to drink the
>single malt.
>Cheers
>Hoppy
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: lug-bounces+hoppyman=bigpond.net.au@leica-users.org 
>[mailto:lug-bounces+hoppyman=bigpond.net.au@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of
>Nick Roberts
>Sent: Tuesday, 10 October 2006 09:34
>To: Leica Users Group
>Subject: Re: [Leica] Party pics and such
>
>I always thought absinthe made the heart grow fonder...
>
>Nick
>
>----- Original Message ----
>From: Didier Ludwig <rangefinder@screengang.com>
>To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org>
>Sent: Tuesday, 10 October, 2006 12:16:53 AM
>Subject: Re: [Leica] Party pics and such
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>>>Pour your pint and chug-a-lug! Only milksops thin it with water.
>>>;-)
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>>Another bartender did that for another party goer (well small cups, not 
>>pints), and this woman got really mad at that. That party
>>    
>>
>goer got really drunk at the end though...
>
>The only time I have drunk absinthe, it's more than 20 years ago, we were 3 
>persons, and drunk a one liter bottle. We felt very
>funny, laughed like mad and believed not to be sooo drunk - until we tried 
>to stand up from the table. We couldn't walk anymore. Had
>knees like gum and creeped in our beds. The next day and the headache were 
>the hell. The overnext day was like next day after a
>normal drinking bout. Never again!
>
>BTW absinthe was forbidden since 100 years in our country, because of it's 
>aborting effect on pregnant women. But the guy who
>brought the bottle had pinched it in the wine cellar of his father, a then 
>well known federal prosecutor...
>
>Didier
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