Friday Night Vodka Buzz. Ask me anything.

[Aristus]

Two shots to get the party started. Now, a Perfect Manhattan. Bourbon, sweet vermouth, dry vermouth, and Angostura bitters. And two cherries.

Just like Nonno, the poet in Tennessee Williams’ “Night Of The Iguana”, “I say yum for one cherry, and yum again for the other.”

I love you all…

[Marthe48]

1. If you do word puzzles

Do you prefer online or on paper?

[Aristus]

3. Paper.

I’m old…

[True Dough]

2. What's the most "buzzed" you've ever been?

[pandr32]

4. I want to check back to see if there's a story!

[Aristus]

7. Update:

There’s a story…

[Aristus]

5. Buzzed enough to black out and not remember the rest of the evening.

This was back when I was in the Army. Celebrating the end of a month-long field exercise with Mad Dog and Boone’s Farms, (and Pop-Tarts when we got hungry.)

I can’t believe I survived all of that without choking to death on my own vomit.

[Skittles]

9. Mad Dog and Boone's and POP TARTS

DA FOOK?!

[Aristus]

12. Hey, I was twenty-one.

No one makes good decisions at that age.

[Skittles]

17. I was a USAF sergeant at age 21

yeah, definitely more risk-taking

[Aristus]

18. I was also a tanker.

Tankers don’t make good decisions at any age.

[LSparkle]

19. My first 2 fave wines: MD 20/20 and Strawberry Hill

I could drink like a fish in college and still show up for class the next day. 😳

[Skittles]

20. ah those were the days my friend

if I had to say the first indication of advancing age I noticed was really paying the next day for those wild nights

[Captain Zero]

22. Those days taught me I could never

Be an alcoholic.

I couldn't ever drink into the hangover.
I needed at least 4 days before another drink and maybe not even then.

[Skittles]

25. OH YOU AND ME BOTH

alcoholism is rampant in my family - lost my older brother and all aunts and uncles to it - me, I LOVE liquor but I just CANNOT STAND hangovers and I always got 'em BAD.......I too am convinced they saved me

[Dulcinea]

41. MD 20/20

I got drunk on that as a college freshman & was sick for 2 days. To this day I can't look at it. However, I can drink beer with the best of them. Go figure!

[Aristus]

44. We drank Mad Dog because we were soldiers and didn't know any better.

I have had ample time since then to refine my palate. My Scotch is Lagavulin. My red wine is Bordeaux. And my beer is Belgian.

[redwitch]

10. Boone's Farm Strawberry Hill

Tastes as good coming up as going down! If I recall correctly.

[Aristus]

13. Memory fails.

Could be loss of brain cells…

[surfered]

32. 😁

[pandr32]

11. At least you didn't wake up in a strange bed.

Next to someone you can’t remember.

[Aristus]

15. Not that time, anyway.

[pandr32]

29. Ha!

I would love to hear your stories.

[Aristus]

34. There was this one time, when I was stationed in Germany,

I was hanging out at a German bar that I had selected because it was not one of the ones American soldiers hung out in a lot. I speak German, so I managed to have a good time with a small crowd that kept getting larger the drunker we got. Hit it off with this German lady, and somehow, not wanting the evening to end, we all staggered back to her tiny apartment, and kept on drinking. One by one, the partiers called it quits, and went home, until it was just the two of us.

I only remember waking up the next morning, and doing what a lot of inconsiderate twenty-two year-old guys do: I got dressed as quietly as I could, left her apartment, and hit the local taxi stand for a ride back to the post. I sort of half-consciously made a note of where her apartment was located, and a couple of days later, feeling guilty, I went back, and knocked on her door to apologize.

"Oh, hi! I was hoping you it was you. Did you get home all right the other day?"

We ended up having a relationship for the next few months, until I got deployed to the Gulf. When I got back, she had moved on.

[pandr32]

38. That's a nice story, not an OMG what-the-hell one.

I love how you went back to apologize. It says a lot about you. I am glad you had a relationship for a while. It goes to show that not all drunk encounters turn out badly.
Cheers to you!

[Aristus]

39. Thank you.

I don't have a lot of OMG what-the-hell stories to tell. Sorry to disappoint you. I'm not the hellraiser a lot of my fellow tankers were. On the plus side, I never saw the inside of the stockade, or had an uncomfortable conversation with a JAG defense lawyer, the way a few guys I knew did.

[pandr32]

40. I'm not disappointed at all!

Usually, though, when someone tells drunk-as-fuk stories they are pretty scary. Yours didn't land you in the drunk tank or "the inside of the stockade" or worse. Your story showed you didn't turn into a fiend. You obviously have good character even while drunk.

[Aristus]

42. On the very rare occasions now when I get mind-alteringly drunk,

I wait until I’m home, and all alone. I won’t embarrass myself or hurt anyone else. Then I watch “Blade Runner”, “Dark City”, and “Excalibur”.

Very cathartic…

[Wolf Frankula]

28. About 50 years ago I woke up next to a woman I'd never met before.

She said, "Thanks for the fun and the scotch. I have to leave for Toronto today." We parted. I never learned her name.

Wolf

[True Dough]

31. So there's a chance

there's a 50-year-old Wolf pup out there that you've never met?

[Maraya1969]

6. Have you ever seen the show "Drink Masters"? I find it amazing what they go through to make a drink

https://tinyurl.com/yyhznapt

Here is the trailer

[Aristus]

8. Not yet.

Thank you for the rec!

[surfered]

14. If a train going to Trenton, leaving from Yonkers at 3 AM and traveling at 55 mph,

..how many Manhattans can be mixed in the Bar Car by the time of arrival?

Cheers 🍷

[Aristus]

16. Twenty-four.

You’re welcome.

[surfered]

33. You are as good at math as you are with mixing cocktails. 😁

[GP6971]

21. Reminds me of my commutes on the LIRR!!

[Captain Zero]

23. I got drunk on a tugboat converted

To a Lake Erie excursion cruiser.
I mean a bar on a boat, seemed like a good idea when I started. Let me tell you, there is some chop out on Lake Erie.

[True Dough]

26. You're 3 posts from 70,000

How do you think your life will change when you reach that milestone?

[Aristus]

36. You tell me. This is it. 70,000.

So far, I don't feel any different...

[True Dough]

37. Oh, it's different!

Onward and upward!

[pdxflyboy]

27. Hey Aristus!

What is the crux of the biscuit??

[Duncanpup]

30. I found old TA-50 wet weather gear.

The Green coat and pants I looked online I’m sitting on $180 . ? Should i sale now or wait until the market is more stable
P.S. apologies to the tax payers for stealing this gear on my E.T.S.

[Aristus]

35. My Dad had an old duffel bag full of vintage TA-50 gear.

He had what was likely the standard-issue rain poncho of his time. It had a built-in hat/brim visor attached to the hood. I wonder when they got rid of that? The rain poncho I was issued in Basic Training in 1986 didn't have it.

[Duncanpup]

43. I never had the visor rain gear either.

Here is humorous story my friend was with 75th regiment 1985. They were issued Gore tex for cold weather training then it was brand new not issue. So when they came back they turned it all in and sent it back so manufacturer could see how it held up.

Have a nice Memorial Day friend I’m on flag detail i have two troopers one Korean War the other Vietnam neither lived to see their twenties.

It’s just what we do quietly out of respect.