- 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!!)

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.

And I thought it was something that you bore holes in wood with, oh dear :-|

Deep Purple for me JeffMack - got to be "black night, black night..."
50 e/w please

Gd!! Hey!! Moans from the bun...what's all this favouritism on those
who can play more regularly then that rest of us??? Where's our 700???
;>)

Jeffie - not watched much on the Olympics except the gymnastics, used to
like doing that when I was a kid and it was a great competition.

Thats what I said, keep up

Ah I'm not as dim as I first thought I was :-))

bunny
did you not get the joke, I will repeat

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

It's Friday..I'm a bunny...Make allowances ;>)

Afternoon all - FUNDYS BACK!!!!!!!!!

Toshiba have delivered me a brand spanking new upgraded laptop with an extended warranty and i as happy as a bee in a honey pot. Currently transferring files across and get my configuration right - could do with a guiness to ease the process

Thats great news Fundy! not too many Guiness while sorting it out, I found it not to be a good combination. Tends to make me forget what I have altered :-)

Hello Fundy!! Just don't spill the Guinness on the lap-top!!!!

See Poochy has disappeared..hmmm...well I'm still after my 700
Pooch, and being pursued by a bunny armed with a soda syphon is not funny!!!
lol!!

It has been SO quiet in here this week - have they all gone on holiday?

Well that started something didn't it. Do you know, I always thought a gimlet was a small gim. It just goes to show.................

stockbunny
Don't worry about GD, you can play with my soda fountain any day. Shall I put the kettle on?

Socco - please would you help the bunny??

Helping bunnies is my mission in life.

Socco - thanks! On the team game we had 100,000 banked funds and
unless I'm being extremely dim - which is possible - it seems to have
disappeared, GD is offline, so can't ask him...but would you look and
just tell me if it's there - I've a nasty feeling our 'cash' got
invested (wrongly) last week in a share..

stockbunny
The GOT are showing 986,074.02 banked funds, is that what you want? Can you not see the spreadsheet?

I have looked at the spread-sheet,well that's not right anyway,
as we have kept 100,000 unallocated right from the start - thanks
spread-sheets are not my 'thing' at all and I didn't want to take GD
to task for nothing - thanks

looks like too much was invested last week....will have to see GD
Thanks again socco and have a slice of chocolate cake on me!

stockbunny
Can you not see the spreadsheet? What's up?