Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for April 12, 2013

“I drink, therefore I am.” – Descartes.-————————————-You can tell the place is upscale – Mel is spelled with two ’L’s.

Um, …has Mell been through his TAM classes yet? Dude’s gettin’ a little sloppy there…….(Nice touch on the spilled drink, Wiley….Nice counterpoint to the “Healthy” line…)

Hey, Mell, Crown Royal on ice? Thanks man, you’re great….and your wife’s cute….

remember 10 years ago when no one had any problem with gluten?

Drinking problem?

I don’t have a drinking problem!

I drink I get drunk I fall down. No problem

Also zero cholesterol. The olive, however, packs a burst of sodium.(By this measure, vacuum is the very most healthful… thing that comes in a container.)

If Mell hadn’t been out back in the ice shanty smoking, he would have had time to swirl the napkins for that high class look…I’ve noticed that in northern Michigan, that since you can’t smoke in bars, or anyplace that serves food anymore for that matter, in the winter, there always just happens to be an ice shanty just outside the back door….sometimes with a little propane heater…..

I’ll stick with the five bachelor food groups: sugar, fat, caffeine, booze and chocolate. One Irish Coffee and a slice of Schwarzwalde Kirschtorte and you’re good to go.

I think, therefore I dram.

To Alexikakos…I was a bartender at a posh country club in South Texas and I agree with your recipe except for the large amount of Vermouth. Instead of 1/2 tsp… I just waved the Vermouth cork over the glass and it was satisfactory dry for my customers.

Gluten is only not good for you if you’re gluten intolerant.

yes, i don’t remember ever hearing about gluten until recently. how lately it is “bad” for some. how things change, i mean, adding all these chemicals to our food, GMO, has resulted in so many new things that were already in our food now being “toxic”.

well when i grew up, there was a phrase, Better living through Chemistry." now i see what it means. lol.

Another Dean Martin goodie: “You’re not drunk if you can lie on the floor without holding on.”

Not sad from the perspective of the people that have to really be on a gluten free diet. Because of all the trendy people, there is now a much greater variety of foods available that are gluten free.

Starkle, starkle, little twink,Who the hell are you I think.I’m not under what you callThe alcofluence of incohol.I’m just a little slort of sheep,I’m not drunk like thinkle peep.I don’t know who is me yet,But the drunker I stand here the longer I get.So just give me one more fink to drill my cup,’Cause I got all day sober to Sunday up.

Here to ignorance, one drink at a time….

Don’t forget that it’s lactose- and casein-free as well.

I like his thinking! :)

@Alexikaklos THANK YOU!!! I’ve been railing about these do called “martinis” for a while now. There’s the original, gin, and there’s a vodka martini. Anything else is a COCKTAIL served in a martini glass. Don’t even get me going about those blankety blank flavored vodkas GRRRRR!!! Gummy worm flavored? Whipped cream?! Further proof the world is falling apart.

They don’t allow smoking in straight up, no-food-but-finger-food-like-pretzels bars or even tobacco shops? Yeesh! Even the Utah Clean Air Act let’s smokers light up in a true bar (though there was that whole “private club” thing until ‘08; don’t ask, look it up). If it’s inside a restaurant, though, then you have to smoke outside even here or go to a designated area indoors. I think the LDS Church decided if you’re going to drink, then you might as well risk it with secondhand smoke. Let the “sinners” kill themselves.

An old doctor and family friend once told my EX that in order to lose weight, stay away from the sugar bowl and the flour barrel.

“yet Socrates himself is particularly missed…”

One day Rene Descartes was at a cafe on the Left Bank. The waiter came and took his coffee order.“And would you like a pastry with that?” asked the waiter.“I think not,” replied Descartes, who then disappeared in a puff of existential smoke.

This whole ‘gluten free’ racket is another of the many dietary scams floating around. But there are always fish to take the bait.

Wrong. Stirred, not shaken. Shaken melts the ice, weakening the drink. Bond was a wimp.