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[Nabubrush]

You could try what they drink here at work when they won't to get off, as alcohol is forbidden: The Green Lizard! NyQuil and 7up. I personally think you get more bang for your buck if you do NyQuil shooters, which are half NyQuil and half Listerine.

[wombat]

Wow, revolting.

So you have internet access at work now?

[littlefallsmets]

Jager is a one-way train ticket to either Vomit Junction or Sleeping-With-Someone-Regrettable County.

I am a fan of Green Demon, vodka in which weed has been warmed and steeped for a number of weeks. Done properly, pretty much the best way to get every drip of usefulness out of your leaf and other various shake.

[Nabubrush]

Wow, revolting.

So you have internet access at work now?

Well, there's always been internet access here, it's just that sometimes I am filling in for three people at once, which cuts into my fuckin' around time. This hitch I am filling in for two people; that is to say, I am doing my job and one other. However, I am kind of feeling a little shitty toward work at present, so I decided I would take my part out in trade and access the internet when I should actually be working.

[linnea]

*sings*
NyQuil NyQuil NyQuil, big green fuck*ng Q!

I am amazed by the idea that anyone would mix anything with Red Bull. Even the idea of Red Bull and Vodka is like cough-syrup with the wrong kind of jolt. Plus, drinking is bad enough, I don't need to hallucinate while doing so!

(Also, people are right, Jäger is fuck*ng nasty! I can't decide if it was that or the vodka that tried to kill me on my friend's stag night.)

Heh.. I love Dennis Leary. "What they SHOULD put on the bottle is, 'Don't make any fuckin' plans!'"

And isn't that totally weird about the dry villages or work camps? There are some villages where you can't even get vanilla extract sent to you. But I always thought they put rubbing alcohol in Listerine so you couldn't drink it?

Incidentally, my ex used to have his friends ship him contraband while he was deployed in Iraq where alcohol was also forbidden...Playboy and plastic Mountain Dew bottles drained and filled back up with hooch.

[KeithHernandez]

I have never done the (what we call) Green Dragon.  It seems like a good idea, but I like to get stoned, then get really drunk, then get high again after I quit drinking.

[Nabubrush]

I have never done the (what we call) Green Dragon.  It seems like a good idea, but I like to get stoned, then get really drunk, then get high again after I quit drinking.

I like a man with his priorities in order.

[KeithHernandez]

I am more a man who has been drunk, smoked, and got the spins one too many times.

[iron_felix]

Absinthe is the absolute worst concoction on the planet. All horrible tasting with no drug effects and a horrible hangover.

That is simply not true.  A good absinthe has as complex a bouquet as a fine wine.  Provided you like aniseed drinks, it is heavenly.  The problem is that a great many "absinthe" products (often spelled without the "-e") are really no more than 140-proof Scope with wormwood extract mixed in.  There's no difference in price between the two, either - you have to do your homework before you buy anything.

Absinthe is pretty strong for writing, but if it's properly diluted and you drink it sip-by-sip (and I doubt you would be tempted to do otherwise) it could be good if you need inspiration.  You could substitute it for pastis where Muse recommends drinking that, as they are very similar drinks.  The only thing to watch out for is that the lucid feeling it produces masks the effects of the alcohol, but wears off much sooner, making it easy to have too much by mistake and become ridiculously drunk very suddenly.

Also, please never do that thing where they set fire to the sugar and/or absinthe before drinking it - that's just a gimmick invented by some dudes in Czechoslovakia back in the '80s.  It is about the closest thing possible to a Hunt's move that would have existed during the Belle Époque.

[AugustWest]

I planted some wormwood (a.k.a. artemesia, in my opinion a much prettier name) early last spring.  It's doing well (or was as of last fall) and is a pretty plant.  I suppose I could steep it in some Everclear and make my own, but I don't have much interest in that.  I like the plant and I doubt the buzz would compare to some I've had.

[Arachno-capitalist]

I have had both the homemade and the real deal from a friend's trip to europe. Both tasted equally disgusting but the homemade version was stronger because it was basically everclear with hell of herbs and wormwood. The real deal tasted so bitter that I had to chase it with super-strength sugary Gatorade. With both events there were Zero non-alcohol effects and gave me a hangover Id rather have never had.

Maybe it effects different people in different ways but this dude does not miss absinthe.

[pmcd9]

I am a fan of Green Demon, vodka in which weed has been warmed and steeped for a number of weeks. Done properly, pretty much the best way to get every drip of usefulness out of your leaf and other various shake.

Oh I don't know about that.  I was toasted for three days and all I did was lick the spoon.

[KeithHernandez]

Are those pot fruity pebble crisps? 

wow.

[Nabubrush]

But I always thought they put rubbing alcohol in Listerine so you couldn't drink it?

There are a lot of places up here where you can only get mouthwash that is denatured (I believe that's the word). But real Listerine just has regular old alcohol in it. In Anchorage most places won't sell you mouthwash in quantity - even if you tell them you have a bad case of Yuck Mouth.

[iron_felix]

The internet ate my first post about this, and I don't want to type everything out all over again, but this FAQ should explain everything re: absinthe better than I can anyway.  I hope this will clear things up somewhat.

That is all.