Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 exptools 1/6/84; site ihuxx.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!ihnp4!ihuxx!ignatz From: ignatz@ihuxx.UUCP (Dave Ihnat, Chicago, IL) Newsgroups: net.misc Subject: Re: Protecting bottle at BYOB parties Message-ID: <688@ihuxx.UUCP> Date: Mon, 5-Mar-84 13:38:17 EST Article-I.D.: ihuxx.688 Posted: Mon Mar 5 13:38:17 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 6-Mar-84 03:10:58 EST References: <638@seismo.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Naperville, IL Lines: 20 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 ihuxx!ignatz