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- From: bobp@cherise.UUCP (Robert Parkinson)
- Newsgroups: rec.boats
- Subject: Re: boat drinks
- Message-ID: <161@cherise.UUCP>
- Date: 15 Nov 92 16:42:56 GMT
- References: <t9B=yQ@engin.umich.edu> <Bxo73n.98p@news.cso.uiuc.edu>
- Reply-To: bobp@cherise.UUCP (Robert Parkinson)
- Organization: S&R Software, Incorporated
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- In article <Bxo73n.98p@news.cso.uiuc.edu> bereson@cs.uiuc.edu writes:
- >In article <t9B=yQ@engin.umich.edu>, gybeho@engin.umich.edu (John Senger) writes:
- >|> Help! We're having a party and need to serve drinks with nautical/boat
- >|> related names. Please email any/all suggestions.
- >|> Thanks.
- >|>
- >
- >Well you know you have to serve grog (or at least offer it). It's
- >watered down rum a'la the british navy. Mix dark rum and water 1:1.
- >(It's not a very pleasant drink, though very nautical).
-
- You'll need to make sure the water is brackish, or at least has a faint
- odor of fiberglass resin. Other nautical drinks are warm beer (ran out of
- ice) piss-warm coffee or tea (lost patience/sanity waiting for alchohol
- stove to maybe boil water) Gin and tonic with large, irregularly shaped
- ice chips, and some blood in them (learned lesson about fast-melting bagged
- ice cubes, bought block ice, but stabbed self with ice pick). You can
- simulate blood in a G&T by adding a few drops of angostura bitters, and
- it tastes better than blood, too.
-
- Periodically, spill everyone's drinks or heave them all out a window
- to simulate losing them overboard. Also, jam all your furniture
- together in a small circle and don't have enough seats/space for
- all your guests (cockpit). Turn off the air conditioning if it's
- summer, or if it's winter, run the heat so the temperature in
- your house is around 95 degrees. Also run 4 or 5 humidifiers.
- That'll lend a sort of 'Chesapeake Bay in August' theme to the affair.
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- bobp@sandr.com
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