Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/10/22
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Slightly stirred - but I'm not shaken ;-) As a man in a bar once said to a gorgeous young lady in skin-tight jeans - How on earth do you get into those jeans? Her answer: You could start by buying me a Martini Cheers Douglas Seth Rosner wrote: > Ken Carney wrote: > > 'Otherwise I don't get it, but then I've had a martini while waiting for > dinner. Maybe it would dial in with another one.' > > Impossible for me not to reply with a couple of martini aphorisms I > recently came across in a cocktail lounge on Queen Mary 2: > > One martini is alright, two is too many, three is not enough - James > Thurber > > When I have one martini I feel bigger, wiser, taller. When I have the > second, I feel superlative.When I have more, there's no holding me - > William Faulkner > > You can no more keep a martini in the regrigerator than you can keep a > kiss there. The proper union of gin and vermouth is one of the > happiest marriages on earth - and one of the shortest lived - Bernard > DeVoto > > I never drink anything stronger than gin before breakfast - W.C. Fields > > T'was a woman drove me to drink, and I never had the decency to thank > her for it - also, not surprisingly, W.C. Fields > > If the Lord hadn't intended to create the three-martini lunch, then > why do you suppose he put all those olive trees in the Holy Land? > - former House speaker Jim Wright > > Let's slip out of these wet clothes and into a dry martini - Robert > Benchley > > ............and reportedly, Humphrey Bogart's last words: > > I should never have switched from scotch to Martinis > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >