- Welcome to the unofficial dark side of the Bar -

GD's Night Club

- Refreshment for Naughty Goodsouls -

We serve filthy booze in the midnight hour It's a bit Gorgeous  

Come inside, be wild and free, drink yourself silly!

-Feel the spirit of the lost one inside your head?-

Through the locked door behold the secret cavern that holds the stored booze - anyone seen the damn key?

- The Booze Bar Wine & Beer list -

The Beer selection:- (hic)We are always fully stocked with the finest boozePoochies BoddingtonsHoltsMarston Pedigree - Better Brewed in WoodBank's dark mildStormC Guinness Visit Realbeer.comThe Wine selection:-Lilac wine (from the Cafe lilac tree)Chateau Smith Haut Lafitte 2000DP VIN '96 Mighty Micro specialityMumm Napa Blanc de Noirs Vintage 1996 Sterling Vinyards Three Palms Vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon (purple velvet!!) Ridge Vineyard's Cabernet, from their ramshackle winery high in the hills above Palo Alto.Niebaum-Coppola's Diamond Zinfandel, goes well with the bread and cheese

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The Bunny food menu- we love Bun buns    | | GD's Club Photo Gallery   Ye Ol'Fish and Chips - cod, haddock and plaice available Mushy peas for those so inclined Ditto baked beans Followed by: Ye Ol'Apple pie and cream For those anti-fish either baked beans or mushy peas on toast can be whipped up for you ;>) Lastly NO requests for chip butties, let's try and be a bit healthy! (Service not included - so serve yourself!!)

Morning the few! I've been out shopping this AM, doesn't look like I've missed much. Awfull day up here...rain...rain and more rain!!

Good, nice and bright in London

Lucky London!

But how long for JeffMack? It's getting darker by the minute out there.

Opto - See VOD needs watering...got a feeling it's not going to be
a great afternoon. Hope your day went well yesterday.

no rain yet bunny, bit of cloud but hey, feels like summer.

BTW, did you see that guy from Cornwall won a gold medal at the Olympics for white water van riding.

Tomorrow we will have a Gee Gee competition race, so please place your bets for the 2:50pm Sandown. No bets accepted after 1:00pm tomorrow.

2:50 14 run, William Hill Handicap (Class C) (3yo+,0-90)
Winner 12,644.00 1m2f (1m2f7y)
GD-SFT
No. Form Horse Trainer Wgt Jockey RPR
1(2) 1-14 Faayej 71 Sir Michael Stoute 4 9-10 R Hills
2(6) 1830 Silvaline 14 T Keddy 5 9-7 J P Murtagh
3(12) 8800 Telemachus 14 J G Given 4 9-7b M Fenton
4(8) 0-20 Golano 56 P R Webber 4 9-7 R Hughes
5(1) 4104 Silent Hawk 45 Saeed Bin Suroor 3 9-6t L Dettori
6(10) 1 Deep Purple 38 M P Tregoning 3 9-4 A Daly
7(9) 8641 Barry Island 21 D R C Elsworth 5 9-4 K Fallon
8(4) 0032 Dream Magic 5 M J Ryan 6 9-2 D Holland
9(5) 1511 Desert Island Disc 18 J J Bridger 7 9-2 T P Queally
10(13) -006 Travelling Band 37 A M Balding 6 9-2 L P Keniry(3)
11(11) 8952 Ryans Future 9 J Akehurst 4 9-2 S Hitchcott(3)
12(3) 5125 Miss Pebbles 7 S C Williams 4 9-1v N Pollard
13(7) 0093 Breathing Sun 13 W J Musson 3 8-8t R Mullen
14(14) 7530 Sir Haydn 26 J R Jenkins 4 8-5b R L Moore

Jeffmacks Gee Gee Game: Have a flutter - anyone can play
Another session in progress .....all new players start with a 1000 pot

Current leaderboard of players funds

little willie pot= 8,500.00
hightone pot= 4,025.00
Dazzling Dave pot= 4,000.00
dotel pot= 3,875.00
optomistic pot= 3,300.00
jj50 pot= 3,000.00
jeffmack pot= 2,175.00
Uncle socks pot= 2,100.00
amberjane pot= 1,800.00
vasey pot= 1,762.50
abbie2u pot= 1,750.00
hilary pot= 1,300.00
bunny pot= 1,300.00
little woman pot= 1,200.00
stormcaller pot= 1,125.00
snoball pot= 800.00
poochy pot= 575.00
martini pot= 500.00
Fundamentalist pot= 0.00

All players welcome to join in.
max of 2 bets, either a straight win and/or E/W

Now where's that lucky pin gone!!
Fair day yesterday Bunny but not the sort of day for Poochie to have his first flight on.....very rough.

Bit wet here - end of the world with the weather!

Any expert like to inform me as to how to pick the winner out of that lot, or is it a closely guarded secret??????
Large pot of tea please while you consider my question:-)

All those that have played in the last 2 gee gee races plus tomorrow will recieve an additional 700 to thier pot.

Can't lose then GD, do Ladbrokes do that as well?

Bloody generous the gaffer of this tea room. If I was that way inclined I might kiss you

A bit like the Carling adverts!

If Poochy did Horse racing...........

anyway the 700 will not be added until after tomorrows race!

Drinks all round.


Ghosty: Great, time to get slosshed

jeffers, i will have 100 e/w on Deep Purple please

and 100 win on the gee gee boys recorded at 6/1 (well it's only money)
:-)

We will try our best

money down the drain betting on the gee gee boys jeffers! but i think you may just pull something out of the hat week 6?


anyway must dash, have a chicken to fight with!

And the next object is a gimlet, a gimlet!

Gimlet

We haven't always been gracious to the Gimlet. In fact, we once called this cocktail a misdirected Daiquiri. But its diehard following has persuaded us otherwise.

Our initial, insolent bent toward the Gimlet came from misguided expectations. After hearing the drink's simple recipe of 2 1/4 ounces gin and 3/4 ounces Rose's lime juice, we expected the citrus tang of fresh fruit, and then judged the Gimlet accordingly. The drink's dubious reputation as the king of well drinks didn't help its standing either. But now that our taste buds know what to expect, we've come to appreciate the Gimlet, especially at bars certain not to stock fresh fruit.

The Gimlet's sharp taste starts sour and finishes sweet, never suffering from the gin's juniper bite. It's the cocktail's syrupy lime juice that keeps the drink on an even keel. In fact, as far as we're concerned, Rose's - the essence of the Gimlet - is one of the world's great man-made inventions, ranking just under polyester. We credit the English for inventing both Rose's and the Gimlet. According to cocktail lore, this drink, like the Gin and Tonic, was the creation of crafty recruits in the Royal Navy. The men keenly combined their daily rations of gin, lime juice, and - in the case of the Gin and Tonic - quinine to make a soothing tipple to ward off scurvy. There's also a good chance these fellows used the word "gimlet," because the tool of the same name - a small boring device like a corkscrew - was reportedly sent with lime juice containers to British colonies during the late 18th century. Of course, the drink's name could come from Sir T. O. Gimlette, a Royal Navy officer and surgeon from 1879 until 1917. According to the Dictionary of Eponyms, the good doctor created the Gimlet as a medicinal tonic and as a dilution to gin, which he believed clouded the minds of the recruits when sipped neat.

Although popular enough in the UK, the Gimlet was rarely ordered elsewhere, and when spotted, was considered more an affectation of Anglophiles than a refreshing drink. Fortunately, Raymond Chandler did for the Gimlet what Ian Fleming did for the Martini. Chandler's chauvinistic American sleuth, Philip Marlowe, sipped Gimlets as smoothly as James Bond seduced double agents. Marlowe, who never went by "Mr.," picked up a penchant for Gimlets from the war-scarred sot Terry Lennox in the 1953 novel The Long Goodbye. "What they call a Gimlet is just some lime or lemon juice and gin," says Mr. Lennox, letting us wonder if "they" was a reference to those of Los Angeles or those of any American bar. "A real Gimlet is half gin and half Rose's lime juice, and nothing else. It beats Martinis hollow."

We're not so fast to compare the Gimlet to the Martini, since we really can't imagine choosing one over the other. When we want the Everyman grounding that ensures ease in any neighborhood bar, we order the Gimlet, but if that's the last thing on our mind, we take the Martini. We do concede, however, that serious imbibers of Gimlets are generally more interesting than devotees of the Martini: "On a bar stool a woman in a black tailor-made ... was sitting alone with a cigarette in a long jade holder. She had that fine-drawn intense look that is sometimes neurotic, sometimes sex-hungry, and sometimes just the result of drastic dieting," notes Marlowe before ordering a Gimlet. "So few people drink them around here ... Gimlets, I mean," the woman whispers to Marlowe. "A fellow taught me to like them," he replies, before the bartender sets the drink in front of him. "With the lime juice it has a sort of pale greenish yellowish misty look. I tasted it. It was both sweet and sharp at the same time. The woman in black watched me. Then she lifted her own glass towards me. We both drank. Then I knew hers was the same drink." We can't help but think that even Mr. Bond would want a sip.

Gimlet
A gimlet, according to its original meaning, is a kind of tool for boring holes. It was defined in Gwilt's Architecture (1859) as "a piece of steel of a semi-cylindrical form, hollow on one side, having a cross handle at one end and a worm or screw at the other".
The term is also used figuratively to describe something as sharp or piercing, and also to describe the twisting, boring motion of using a gimlet. The term gimlet-eyed can mean sharp-eyed or squint-eyed.