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From: ignatz@ihuxx.UUCP (Dave Ihnat, Chicago, IL)
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Subject: Re: Protecting bottle at BYOB parties
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Date: Mon, 5-Mar-84 13:38:17 EST
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A most interesting idea.  I have some friends who took a different
approach.  It seems that, at Science Fiction conventions, this fellow
kept putting his drink down, stepping away for a moment, and coming
back to either an empty spot on the table, or an empty cup in a full
spot.  Tiring of this, he invented the SPAYED GERBIL.  Truly a
horrendous drink, it consists of gin, Campari, an olive, and a poor,
tortured ice cube.  (Possibly other indignities, too--I seem to sense
the ghost of Vermouth in the back of my mind, but I believe I'd prefer
to leave it there, thank you.)  True to his expectations, his former
friends showed positively excellent responses to this primitive
avoidance therapy; the only problem remaining was to convince his own
tongue and stomach that he liked this witches' brew.  Alas, I guess he
failed, since I have seen him smile since then when lifting a glass to
his lips; but the Spayed Gerbil has gone down in fannish history.
Hopefully, to a permanent resting place in some primordal ooze.

			Have YOU ever enjoyed Campari?

				Dave Ihnat
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