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Subject: [Leica] Stock Photography - now: Martinis
From: douglas.sharp at gmx.de (Douglas Sharp)
Date: Thu, 22 Oct 2009 14:18:38 +0200
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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
>
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