A Conversation for Absinthe
Neat Absinthe
Researcher 186176 Started conversation Oct 19, 2001
Pah! Forget all the water and sugar stuff! Just develop a taste for it and drink it neat!
Actually, it's best not to. I did, and drank one third of a bottle in an afternoon. The effects were, er, strange... It's not too much of a surprise when you drink loads and wake up the next day with gaps in your memory, but when you 'lose time' while still being (outwardly) awake, now that's just scary! On the occasion in question, I had been dropped in town by a mate (who hadn't been drinking, thankfully!), and then, apart from a few flashbacks dotted here and there, the next thing I was aware of was being back at home, totally sober, some four hours later... It affects your testosterone levels too, apparently, which enabled me to run for ages without stopping (one of the flashbacks), and also had another effect, which I can't really go into here... *ahem*
I have to say that I can't even touch the stuff any more - some kind of mental block, I think - although Agua Diente (I think that's how it's spelt!) has the same kind of properties, but tastes different, so on the odd occasion when the need to get out of my skull outweighs the lack of time to do so, it makes a suitable alternative!
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Peet (the Pedantic Punctuation Policeman, Muse of Lateral Programming Ideas, Eggcups-Spurtle-and-Spoonswinner, BBC Cheese Namer & Zaphodista) Posted Oct 20, 2001
Been there, done that, no dilution required... 
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Don Malvado, so bitter my cat won't even lick me Posted Feb 7, 2002
I've never hallucenated on absinth. I was very dissapointed.
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2SHY ("The most fun you can have without laughing") Posted Apr 11, 2002
when I got a bottle of the green stuff home from tenerife [about £10 for the bottle, 70%...it was the Santa Maria stuff or something...a well knowen quality brand]
I was lookign forward to the trippy effects i read that I'd get from absinthe but when it came to the party and time to drink it I poofed out and just had the one...bought the bottle nearly three or four summers ago and still have more than half of it....
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Peet (the Pedantic Punctuation Policeman, Muse of Lateral Programming Ideas, Eggcups-Spurtle-and-Spoonswinner, BBC Cheese Namer & Zaphodista) Posted Apr 11, 2002
Wait till 4:30am on a clear Summer morning, then mix half a pint of it with a can of Red Bull... Drink immediately before heading to the nearest park/beach/golf course to watch the sun rise. 
(Sadly, I haven't tried this with Absinthe, but it sure sounds like fun, huh?!? 
)
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2SHY ("The most fun you can have without laughing") Posted Apr 11, 2002
neoooooo.....that sounds auful....absinthe and red bull....ewgh
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Peet (the Pedantic Punctuation Policeman, Muse of Lateral Programming Ideas, Eggcups-Spurtle-and-Spoonswinner, BBC Cheese Namer & Zaphodista) Posted Apr 12, 2002
It's for the effect, not the taste... 
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Don Malvado, so bitter my cat won't even lick me Posted Apr 12, 2002
Hyper, super drunk hallucinating?
ON A GOLF COURSE In the morning
Sounds fun!
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Peet (the Pedantic Punctuation Policeman, Muse of Lateral Programming Ideas, Eggcups-Spurtle-and-Spoonswinner, BBC Cheese Namer & Zaphodista) Posted Apr 12, 2002
Don't forget the sunrise...
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2SHY ("The most fun you can have without laughing") Posted Apr 12, 2002
you wouldn't see the sunrise....you'd either be dead, dying or at the very least, blind with no hope of regainig your sight ever!
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Don Malvado, so bitter my cat won't even lick me Posted Apr 20, 2002
and/or puking your guts into the hedge!
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- 1: Researcher 186176 (Oct 19, 2001)
- 2: Peet (the Pedantic Punctuation Policeman, Muse of Lateral Programming Ideas, Eggcups-Spurtle-and-Spoonswinner, BBC Cheese Namer & Zaphodista) (Oct 20, 2001)
- 3: Don Malvado, so bitter my cat won't even lick me (Feb 7, 2002)
- 4: 2SHY ("The most fun you can have without laughing") (Apr 11, 2002)
- 5: Peet (the Pedantic Punctuation Policeman, Muse of Lateral Programming Ideas, Eggcups-Spurtle-and-Spoonswinner, BBC Cheese Namer & Zaphodista) (Apr 11, 2002)
- 6: 2SHY ("The most fun you can have without laughing") (Apr 11, 2002)
- 7: Peet (the Pedantic Punctuation Policeman, Muse of Lateral Programming Ideas, Eggcups-Spurtle-and-Spoonswinner, BBC Cheese Namer & Zaphodista) (Apr 12, 2002)
- 8: Don Malvado, so bitter my cat won't even lick me (Apr 12, 2002)
- 9: Peet (the Pedantic Punctuation Policeman, Muse of Lateral Programming Ideas, Eggcups-Spurtle-and-Spoonswinner, BBC Cheese Namer & Zaphodista) (Apr 12, 2002)
- 10: 2SHY ("The most fun you can have without laughing") (Apr 12, 2002)
- 11: Don Malvado, so bitter my cat won't even lick me (Apr 20, 2002)
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