SWMBO demanded martinis tonight.
There's no gin I said. I can make you a vodka "martini" but that's sorta like spray can "cheese" Or something.
SWMBO will have her way. Make me a martini she says. There is Tito's in the freezer.

So, freeze the coupes, 4 oz. of Tito's handmade, 1.5 oz of Dolin vermouth, ice, shake, pour, pinch the twists in front of the kitchen torch over the glasses then twist and drop. Then sip.

Quite tasty really, but still not martinis. The wife is more forgiving.

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You're a daisy if you do.
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84 Euro 240D 4spd. 220.5k sold
04 Honda Element AWD
1985 F150 XLT 4x4, 351W with 270k miles, hay hauler
1997 Suzuki Sidekick 4x4
1993 Toyota 4wd Pickup 226K and counting

I disagree I prefer a vodka martini, I don't like Pine-sol in my drinks.

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1999 SL500
1969 280SE
2023 Ram 1500
2007 Tiara 3200

I wish they would call a vodka martini something else. If it doesn't have gin, then to me it isn't a martini.

I didn't like gin the first time I had it. I thought it tasted like drinking a Christmas tree. I still think that, only it's like drinking a really tasty Christmas tree.

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Whoever said there's nothing more expensive than a cheap Mercedes never had a cheap Jaguar.

83 300D Turbo with manual conversion, early W126 vented front rotors and H4 headlights 400,xxx miles
08 Suzuki GSX-R600 M4 Slip-on 22,xxx miles
88 Jaguar XJS V12 94,xxx miles. Work in progress.

Just had one last evening. Refreshing!

Gin makes me puke literally every time I drink it. It's delicious but disgusting.

I'll stick to whiskey.

I prefer whiskey as well, but sometimes like a good Hendrick's or Bombay Sapphire martini. I too wish there was another name for the thing made with vodka. It's not a martini. In this day and age anything (including the abomination called a chocolatini or something) served in a coupe is called some variation of a martini.
Nonsense.

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You're a daisy if you do.
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84 Euro 240D 4spd. 220.5k sold
04 Honda Element AWD
1985 F150 XLT 4x4, 351W with 270k miles, hay hauler
1997 Suzuki Sidekick 4x4
1993 Toyota 4wd Pickup 226K and counting

The ex g/f is coming back to my house in a week, to get all her stuff outta here.

Top of the list is a big 1.5 liter bottle of gin in the refrigerator. I just checked. It's Bombay Sapphire. Noticed that the damn thing is almost empty. Kaputt. (I never touch the stuff). Guess she loves it. (she is German and some of them can hold plenty of liquor.) lolz

Auf wiedersehen, fraulein!

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1991 560 SEC AMG, 199k <---- 300 hp 10:1 ECE euro HV ...

1995 E 420, 170k "The Red Plum" (sold)

2015 BMW 535i xdrive awd Stage 1 DINAN, 6k, <----364 hp

1967 Mercury Cougar, 49k

2013 Jaguar XF, 20k <----340 hp Supercharged, All Wheel Drive (sold)

I am shaken, shaken to the very core, I tell you, by this stirring tale!

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1986 300SDL, 362K
1984 300D, 138K

I'm shaken as well...still waiting for the twist to the story, though.

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1987 560SL
85,000 miles

Just gin and bear it!

Alcohol?

Yes, please.

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1980 300TD-China Blue/Blue MBTex-2nd Owner, 107K (Alt Blau) OBK #15
'06 Chevy Tahoe Z71 (for the wife & 4 kids, current mule) '03 Honda Odyssey (son #1's ride, reluctantly) '99 GMC Suburban (255K+ miles, semi-retired mule) 21' SeaRay Seville (summer escape pod)

Dirty martinis are where its at. Beyond that though, I'll stick to gin.

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Current stable:
- 2004 Mazda RALLYWANKEL
- 2007 Saturn sky redline
- 2004 Explorer...under surgery.

Past: 135i, GTI, 300E, 300SD, 300SD, Stealth

I was late to the alcohol game. My first drunk was at age 18, just after graduating high school. I and two friends at the house of one while his parents were out of town got some gin out of the cabinet and mixed it with the juice from some home canned cherries, it was as awful as it sounds. I wanted to really experience what it was all about and drank way too much. Thought I was going to die the next day. Might have actually gone some distance in that direction. Only in the last few years have I been able to drink gin w/o gagging. Some of it's not bad.

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1986 300SDL, 362K
1984 300D, 138K

Cocktails are too complicated for me. I'm happy with Bourbon, neat...sometimes on the rocks. Beer is always welcome, as long as it's cold...I'd never complain about being handed a cold one, no matter what brand.

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1987 560SL
85,000 miles

Jack Daniels was my beverage of choice in my later HS years. One party at a friend's brother's dorm at UConn spoiled me on it for 2+ decades. It's only been a couple years now that I can tolerate a Jack and Coke again.

Southern Comfort will never again pass these lips.

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1980 300TD-China Blue/Blue MBTex-2nd Owner, 107K (Alt Blau) OBK #15
'06 Chevy Tahoe Z71 (for the wife & 4 kids, current mule) '03 Honda Odyssey (son #1's ride, reluctantly) '99 GMC Suburban (255K+ miles, semi-retired mule) 21' SeaRay Seville (summer escape pod)

Yes!

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1980 300TD-China Blue/Blue MBTex-2nd Owner, 107K (Alt Blau) OBK #15
'06 Chevy Tahoe Z71 (for the wife & 4 kids, current mule) '03 Honda Odyssey (son #1's ride, reluctantly) '99 GMC Suburban (255K+ miles, semi-retired mule) 21' SeaRay Seville (summer escape pod)