Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/10/09
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Jayanand, I think you are correct. However the danger may have been overstated. Another theory advanced was that its excessive consumption was degrading the French populace! "Absinthe was the drink of choice among artist and writers in the mid to late 19th century. It inspired poets and appeared in works by Pablo Picasso and Vincent Van Gogh. It was drank by the scandalous playwright Oscar Wilde, the eccentric Toulouse-Lautrec, the poets Charles Baudelaire and Edgar Allen Poe, and the famous 20th century author Ernest Hemingway, just to mention a few". Probably because it became forbidden, it acquired a mystique and desirability for some folks. I haven't tried it, nor Pastis(?) But I know my wife occasionally likes to sip Pernod which also has an aniseed flavour. For whatever reason it was no longer restricted for import in Australia about 6 years ago. I guess there are far worse things for people to imbibe. Absinthe was the drink of choice among artist and writers in the mid to late19th century. It inspired poets and appeared in works by Pablo Picasso (left) and Vincent Van Gogh (right). It was drank by the scandalous playwright Oscar Wilde, the eccentric Toulouse-Lautrec, the poets Charles Baudelaire and Edgar Allen Poe, and the famous 20th century author Ernest Hemingway, just to mention a few. Cheers Hoppy -----Original Message----- From: lug-bounces+hoppyman=bigpond.net.au@leica-users.org [mailto:lug-bounces+hoppyman=bigpond.net.au@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of Jayanand Govindaraj Sent: Tuesday, 10 October 2006 12:47 To: Leica Users Group Subject: Re: [Leica] Party pics and such I thought absinthe was illegal because of all that wormwood...and the nearest legal equivalent was pastis. Cheers Jayanand G Hopkinson wrote: >Beat you to that line, Nick! >I've read about that restriction on absinthe in some countries. I always >thought that it had taken on some mysterious aura due to >the whole Van Gogh, bohemian thingy. >It was apparently taken off the banned list in Australia some years ago. >I've never tried it myself. I just read that it may be 68% >alcohol. Yikes. I'm thinking that may be more of a problem than any worries >about wormwood or whatever the evil component may be. >Just checked and that makes it marginally more alcohol by volume than >Lagavulin. And you don't have to wear a beret to drink the >single malt. >Cheers >Hoppy > >-----Original Message----- >From: lug-bounces+hoppyman=bigpond.net.au@leica-users.org >[mailto:lug-bounces+hoppyman=bigpond.net.au@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of >Nick Roberts >Sent: Tuesday, 10 October 2006 09:34 >To: Leica Users Group >Subject: Re: [Leica] Party pics and such > >I always thought absinthe made the heart grow fonder... > >Nick > >----- Original Message ---- >From: Didier Ludwig <rangefinder@screengang.com> >To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org> >Sent: Tuesday, 10 October, 2006 12:16:53 AM >Subject: Re: [Leica] Party pics and such > > > > >>>Pour your pint and chug-a-lug! Only milksops thin it with water. >>>;-) >>> >>> >>Another bartender did that for another party goer (well small cups, not >>pints), and this woman got really mad at that. That party >> >> >goer got really drunk at the end though... > >The only time I have drunk absinthe, it's more than 20 years ago, we were 3 >persons, and drunk a one liter bottle. We felt very >funny, laughed like mad and believed not to be sooo drunk - until we tried >to stand up from the table. We couldn't walk anymore. Had >knees like gum and creeped in our beds. The next day and the headache were >the hell. The overnext day was like next day after a >normal drinking bout. Never again! > >BTW absinthe was forbidden since 100 years in our country, because of it's >aborting effect on pregnant women. But the guy who >brought the bottle had pinched it in the wine cellar of his father, a then >well known federal prosecutor... > >Didier > > > > > > >_______________________________________________ >Leica Users Group. >See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > >___________________________________________________________ >Yahoo! Messenger - with free PC-PC calling and photo sharing. >http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com > > >_______________________________________________ >Leica Users Group. >See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > >_______________________________________________ >Leica Users Group. >See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > > _______________________________________________ Leica Users Group. See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information