Re: Why do people still get married?

On Tue, 20 May 2008 18:53:22 GMT, bill van wrote:

>In article <d2t534p31ansfv7ipj2e6ath196c9vb1lk@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
> Peter Ward <me@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
>> On Mon, 19 May 2008 16:43:05 -0700 (PDT), Dana wrote:
>> 
>> >On May 19, 9:16 am, spam...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 (S. Checker) wrote:
>> >> Dana <dcarp...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> >> > I was bringing my father scotch on the rocks when I was, what,
maybe
>> >> > eight?
>> >>
>> >> "Do not allow children to mix drinks. It is unseemly, and they use
>> >> too much vermouth." I think that's attributed to Fran Lebowitz.
>> >
>> >Hah.  When I was 17 I was cooking dinner for my Dad a couple of nights
>> >a week when my Mom was working.  I'd make his martini, too:  Rinse a
>> >martini glass with vermouth(Noilly Prat) and pour it back in the
>> >bottle. Fill glass with gin, and place in freezer for a couple of
>> >hours.
>> >
>> >Dad always claimed they were the best martinis he'd ever had.
>> 
>> Sounds like straight gin to me.  I've never encountered so much
>> bull**** as I have on this group about martinis, and I've attended
>> management meetings.  If you don't want vermouth in your gin, it's
>> gin.
>
>It's a joke, Peter. People have been telling martini jokes at least 

It's a very worn joke.  I like old jokes if they're funny, and usually
survival of the fittest means they are.  This was funny once, perhaps
twice, but no more.

>since the 1930s, when a bunch of New York literary wits would gather at 

Ah, literary wits.  Usually an oxymoron.

>the Algonquin Hotel, exchange bon mots and drink martinis. The very dry 
>martini (go to another room and whisper "vermouth") has been a running 
>joke for at least 70 years now. We are merely helping to keep the 
>tradition going, though admittedly there's not a lot of fresh material 
>being generated.
>
>Arguably the leading light of the Algonquin crowd was Dorothy Parker, 
>who gets this (non-dry) martini joke attributed to her:
>
>I like to have a martini,
>Two at the very most.
>After three I'm under the table,
>after four I'm under my host.

Well, at least that's amusing.

-- 

Peter

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