Madness
Love really is a form of madness. You’re not in your right mind… or maybe you are.
For this toon, I really wanted to have the bartender serve up an “Irish Car Bomb”… as Ryan likes the Guinness… and I liked the name. BUT I didn’t like the political implications… so I skipped it.
Seems like a “London Fog” would fit well, except that it’s a brand of coat.
Brig: I think London Sour works better for the joke, anyway 🙂
I… have nothing. The extent of my mixed drinks knowledge is wine and Sprite. But, yeah… good call on the PC-ness of your drink selection. (And don’t you really, REALLY wish that PC-ness would just go away?)
Pete,
Wine and Sprite?? What is that? A Wine Spritzer? Oh the sacrilege. My brother is in the wine business and the grape beverage is one long-favored in my family at dinner time. Yet, I recall bringing over a nice bottle of red to a dinner date in which spaghetti was being served and watching the girl pull out a 2 liter of Sprite and mix it with the good stuff. (tears)
By the way, Pete, while my name is officially Peter, I’m Pete to my friends.
Brig,
PC-ness can be a good thing as it keeps comics published. I, like Pete, am not a connoisseur (it’s really spelled like that?) of shots. I’d imagine something like a Nazi Incinerator would be a great name, but, alas, also not PC. So, just what is an Irish Car Bomb made of? And does having to do story summaries in the first panel of every new strip get old?
As for Randie; last week she offered counseling, today she’s offering madness intervention, and yet, she continues to wind up on the receiving end of those consolations. Aint love grand?
Pete: Getting rid of political correctness – good thing. Though I’m not sure that a drink name which essentially glorifies terrorism is political correctness.
Gah – sorry – misposted. I should have said “Though I’m not sure that avoiding the use of a drink name…”
Randie’s source of coffee is drying up. Of course she’s upset 😉
stick,
A “bomb”is a shot of hard liquor (usually whiskey) in the bottom of a mug of beer. I would expect an “Irish Car Bomb” uses Irish Whiskey.
Mmmm….Guinness…. (“The Simpsons” revealed that this most wonderful of drinks is made of two ingredients: bog water and chocolate syrup. Make of that what you will).
Beetles,
Thanks. Makes sense. Sort of like an old-school Boilermaker.
With Ryan setting sites on elsewhere, Randie may just go for hard coffee…Irish, hold the whipped cream.
Hi all… my internet was down today so I’m just now joining the conversation.
The “London Sour” worked fine. (It’s a real drink)… I have a bartender book and it’s got some CRAZY drinkee poos therein.
I take my wine straight. I’m rather fond of a label called “Perfecta.” It is as the name indicates.
Guinness… you know that’s serious stuff when you can’t see through the glass! Bog water? makes sense.
Fella i knew once, who introduced me to Guinness, said that the Guinness ads in Ireland touted that it was “Made with the water of the river Liffey” which flows thorugh Dublin. He said that the water of the river Liffey looks exactly like Guinness Stout.