h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

I wuz acksing yew...

My favourite drink is a Gibson...do you know what that is?

RF

Oooh, and he's going for box number 3!

Actually, onion juice with sugar is good when you've got a cough

You've liquidised Mel Gibson? Why didn't you tell me earlier? I would have helped.

Gin?

Nah...

A Gibson:

Put some ice in a cocktail swirler (not shaker, forget that James Bondery, he's just plain wrong)...

Pour in some Martini Dry, then pour it away (it coats the ice...)

Pour in a hefty amount of good vodka. Swirl it around.

Strain it through a cocktail strainer (i.e. to keep the ice out) into a Martini glass, with two silverskin onoins on a cockktail stick in it.

Drink...but...very carefully!

RF,evilgrin>

Pour some

And now, the typo-free version!

A Gibson:

Put some ice in a cocktail swirler (not shaker, forget that James Bondery, he's just plain wrong)...

Pour in some Martini Dry, then pour it away (it coats the ice...)

Pour in a hefty amount of good vodka. Swirl it around.

Strain it through a cocktail strainer (i.e. to keep the ice out) into a Martini glass, with two silverskin onions on a cocktail stick in it.

Drink...but...very carefully!

RF

"Why does he think I won't know that? Why don't I know that? Google it, quickly! Gin. Ha! An answer! Does everyone presume I don't know what some things are? Maybe I should go on one of those life courses. But while I'm on the course, I'll not be paying attention to what's happening now. So will I have to go on another kind of course to find out what's happened?"



Oh, it's an obscure drink, no wonder I didn't know it.



Phew!

Now go and make yourself a Gibson as punishment/reward*

RF

* *You* decide!

But I don't have a cocktail swirler or Martini Dry.

I have a tea sieve, vodka, onions and ice.

Don't think it'll be quite the same.

Amongst connoisseurs of Martinis, some say that you should merely show the bottle to the glass, so perhaps a picture of a bottle will do? Of t'interweb, maybe?

RF

A picture of the internet? Will Google do?

I don't have a cocktail swirler, Martini, ice, onions or cocktail sticks. But I do have vodka. Will that do?

If you stick it in the freezer for half an hour, you can probably get by with imagining the rest of the ingredients.

The trick is to drink it with style (this will involve a glass).

RF

Glass bottle do?

Glass, bottle, bottle, glass. Uh-huh-huh-huh.

NO!

Honestly, you people have no style.

First, transfer cold vodka from bottle to glass. Then apply glass to mouth. Repeat as necessary.

Do *NOT* apply bottle to mouth. This displays lack of class. And glass.

RF

I've smashed all my glasses. May I use a mug?

A big boy broke my glasses and ran away.

That's a good idea - I have a shiny new mug , my son gave to me for xmas

No.

You'll just have to gaze longingly at the vodka until you can procure a new glass.

Im sorry, but standards is standards.

RF