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I'm reading all the Bond books again. Why? Because I can!
Anyway, for those interested, his Martini is called a "Vesper" and, as he states in Casino Royal:
Bond, James Bond: 'A dry Martini,' he said. 'One. In a deep champagne goblet.'
'Oui, Monsieur.'
'Just a moment. Three measures of Gordon's, one of vodka, half a measure of Kina Lillet. Shake it very well until it's ice-cold, then add a large slice of lemon-peel. Got it?'
I have had various Vodka Martinis over the years but tonight I may well try and make it this way.
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I suspect you would need to double treble the Gordon's measure but other than that it sounds nice.
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one Nagy martini
1/ Drink one bottle of gin
2/ one third bottle of vermouth
3/ jump up and down for 3 seconds
repeat until 3 is not completed
You cant outrun the world, but there is no harm in getting a head start
Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.
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For a perfect Dry Martini it is three parts Gordon's over ice and wave the glass in the general direction of France.
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Wasn't it 3 parts gin and wave a vermouth cork over it (courtesy of MASH)
You cant outrun the world, but there is no harm in getting a head start
Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.
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But they made bath tub gin, with a condenser that was too short!
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Suddenly my mind is racing, trying to figure out the side effects of a short condenser.
Lower yield due to the ethanol not having had a chance to cool below 175 (ish)?
Anything else?
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You pour six jiggers of gin and drink it while staring at a picture of Lorenzo Schwartz, the inventor of vermouth
Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master. ~ George Washington
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I keep asking the bartender to make mine like that and they always look at me funny. My wife wrinkles her nose when I have them like that and asks why I don't just go chew on a juniper tree.
My reply always gets me in trouble.
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PTW![^]
Elephant elephant elephant, sunshine sunshine sunshine
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Nagy Vilmos wrote: his Martini is called a "Vesper"
Called after Vesper Lynd, Bond's love in Casino Royale.
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Entropy isn't what it used to.
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I knows, I are reading it currently.
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How are the books ? Especially Casino Royale, is the movie along the book or did they have to make a lot of shortcuts ? I had to watch the movie thrice, to be honest, to fully understand the plot.
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Entropy isn't what it used to.
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The first three or four films were very close to the books and then they started to diverge. I have not seen any of the Daniel Craig Bonds so I cannot comment on those, but Roger Moore was nothing like Fleming's creation.
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Casino Royale is probably one, if not the, best Bond movie so far.
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Entropy isn't what it used to.
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Which? There were at least four.
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The last one.
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Entropy isn't what it used to.
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Thought that but had to point out its been done. Even with Woody Allen.
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The plot was simple. Here's a highlight:
In London, Mata Bond is kidnapped by SMERSH in a giant flying saucer, and Sir James and Moneypenny travel to Casino Royale to rescue her. They discover that the casino is located atop a giant underground headquarters run by the evil Dr. Noah, who turns out to be Sir James's nephew Jimmy Bond. Jimmy Bond secretly leaves the MI6 to defect to SMERSH to take a new role of killing spies. Jimmy reveals that he plans to use biological warfare to make all women beautiful and kill all men over 4-foot-6-inch (1.37 m) tall, leaving him as the "big man" who gets all the girls.
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Was it also the password he entered in the bank money transfer machine?
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I have not read many, however, I did notice that Bond usually gets the stuffing beat out of him at least once each book. The current set of movies does this more than the old ones.
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A View to a Kill involves him lying on a bed the whole way through and shooting once.
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Here are some others to try:[^]
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I'm an optoholic - my glass is always half full of vodka.
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a "vodka martini" is properly called a "kangaroo".
a martini is gin-based.
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