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Post by inger on Jun 22, 2024 18:02:36 GMT -5
Fantastic news, Matt! Consider me raising an Old Fashioned glass in your honor! (Bulleit rye, my new favorite) 😎 Hey Rizz -- always glad to see the quintessentialy American spirit Rye being touted. Its comeback over the last 20 or so years has been a bright spot for those of us who cherish the history of well-tempered cocktails. Although I lean toward Bourbon for Old Fashioneds and Rye for Manhattans, there is much to be said for either. One of the greatest of Rye drinks is the New Orleans-based Sazerac, with which I am sure you are familiar. Bulleit makes a lot of good products. Other good Ryes are Michter's, Rittenhouse and one from Desousa's neck of the woods in Vermont, Whistle Pig. If you ever want to taste 100 percent pure Rye, try Canada's Lot 40. It will get your attention. I had an unsweetened tea with no lemon in your honor today. My wife partook in it as well… |
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Post by inger on Jun 22, 2024 18:04:35 GMT -5
Hey Rizzuto: I switched my MJ from a gummy to a tincture to day…they say it’s faster acting and that I may not notice a lingering effect the next morning… rizzuto |
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Post by pippsheadache on Jun 22, 2024 18:09:45 GMT -5
Hey Rizz -- always glad to see the quintessentialy American spirit Rye being touted. Its comeback over the last 20 or so years has been a bright spot for those of us who cherish the history of well-tempered cocktails. Although I lean toward Bourbon for Old Fashioneds and Rye for Manhattans, there is much to be said for either. One of the greatest of Rye drinks is the New Orleans-based Sazerac, with which I am sure you are familiar. Bulleit makes a lot of good products. Other good Ryes are Michter's, Rittenhouse and one from Desousa's neck of the woods in Vermont, Whistle Pig. If you ever want to taste 100 percent pure Rye, try Canada's Lot 40. It will get your attention. I had an unsweetened tea with no lemon in your honor today. My wife partook in it as well… You have to lay off that stuff Inger. It's bad for your liver. |
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Post by inger on Jun 22, 2024 18:12:28 GMT -5
I had an unsweetened tea with no lemon in your honor today. My wife partook in it as well… You have to lay off that stuff Inger. It's bad for your liver. It is extra caffeine that I don’t need, but the intro to MJ is now driving my sleep until the doctors come up with a better solution. I’ve been referred for medicinal advice for the sleep. The only thing I don’t like about the MJ is that it’s coming out of my pocket. Give me a script and I’m in… 🤓 |
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Post by desousa on Jun 22, 2024 19:06:56 GMT -5
Hey Rizzuto: I switched my MJ from a gummy to a tincture to day…they say it’s faster acting and that I may not notice a lingering effect the next morning… rizzuto Welcome to my world, inger. |
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Post by inger on Jun 22, 2024 19:11:00 GMT -5
Hey Rizzuto: I switched my MJ from a gummy to a tincture to day…they say it’s faster acting and that I may not notice a lingering effect the next morning… rizzuto Welcome to my world, inger. I’m not minding it… |
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Post by rizzuto on Jun 22, 2024 21:04:27 GMT -5
Hey Rizzuto: I switched my MJ from a gummy to a tincture to day…they say it’s faster acting and that I may not notice a lingering effect the next morning… rizzuto Welcome to my world, inger. I remember that line differently from the Jim Reeves album.  |
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Post by inger on Jun 22, 2024 22:37:35 GMT -5
Welcome to my world, inger. I remember that line differently from the Jim Reeves album. I associate Welcome to My World with Dean Martin, who certainly did perform it beautifully… |
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Post by inger on Jun 23, 2024 7:52:07 GMT -5
Hey Rizzuto: I switched my MJ from a gummy to a tincture to day…they say it’s faster acting and that I may not notice a lingering effect the next morning… rizzuto Welcome to my world, inger. Night one with the stuff was a disappointment. 1. To say it doesn’t taste great is being kind. 2. It was hours before I got to sleep. 3. At least I don’t seem to have a hangover effect. 4. I feel well rested. Assume the sleep was a short but deep one… |
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Post by inger on Jun 23, 2024 7:53:02 GMT -5
Hey Rizzuto: I switched my MJ from a gummy to a tincture to day…they say it’s faster acting and that I may not notice a lingering effect the next morning… rizzuto Welcome to my world, inger. Was your usage for pain management, or sleep? Or what? I don’t recall… |
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Post by pippsheadache on Jun 23, 2024 9:51:53 GMT -5
Welcome to my world, inger. I remember that line differently from the Jim Reeves album. Love the old school Jim Reeves reference Rizz. I know this should more properly be in the music thread, but I am constitutionally incapable of resisting when the subject is music. Jim Reeves, who died in a plane crash 60 years ago, was in my father's Mount Rushmore of C&W singers when I was a kid -- Hank Williams, Patsy Cline, Jim Reeves, Eddy Arnold -- so I heard "Welcome To My World" and "He'll Have To Go" and "Four Walls" and "Adios Amigo" far more than I would have liked. My father went well out of his way on a driving trip to Austin to visit Reeves' grave in Carthage, Texas. (I come honestly by the compulsion to have to personally see things that are important to me.) As popular as Reeves was in the US, he was far more popular in the UK, Germany, South Africa and -- hard to believe -- India. Lots of Indians of a certain age love old C&W music. Drifting a bit here, but I have been astonished by how many black Africans love that same music. One of my friends of longest-standing worked for the Associated Press in the late 70s-early 80s covering what was then the Rhodesian War. Eventually he married a black Shona Zimbabwean woman named Sarah. I finally got to meet her when they returned to live in PA in the 80s. My parents had us all over for lunch one day when my wife and I were visiting back home. It was rather jaw-dropping to see her bonding with my father over his collection of Eddy Arnold records! "Cattle Call"! She grew up with that. Not a scene I would ever have expected to see. BTW Jim Reeves was piloting his own single-engine plane when it crashed in a thunderstorm. It's not a great track record for celebrities piloting their own small aircraft. |
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Post by pippsheadache on Jun 23, 2024 9:58:05 GMT -5
I remember that line differently from the Jim Reeves album. I associate Welcome to My World with Dean Martin, who certainly did perform it beautifully… Yep, Dino did a creditable job with it Inger. The song was actually written in the late 40s and had been recorded by people like Peggy Lee and Frank Sinatra, but Jim Reeves' version, recorded in 1962, and Dean Martin's, recorded in 1964, are the two most famous versions. And speaking of Dino -- it was just about exactly this time sixty years ago that his biggest hit, "Everybody Loves Somebody Sometime" was hitting the charts. It was his first Billboard chart record in six years and helped rejuvenate his popularity. It actually displaced "A Hard Days Night" as Number One on August 14, 1964. |
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Post by inger on Jun 23, 2024 12:45:56 GMT -5
I associate Welcome to My World with Dean Martin, who certainly did perform it beautifully… Yep, Dino did a creditable job with it Inger. The song was actually written in the late 40s and had been recorded by people like Peggy Lee and Frank Sinatra, but Jim Reeves' version, recorded in 1962, and Dean Martin's, recorded in 1964, are the two most famous versions. And speaking of Dino -- it was just about exactly this time sixty years ago that his biggest hit, "Everybody Loves Somebody Sometime" was hitting the charts. It was his first Billboard chart record in six years and helped rejuvenate his popularity. It actually displaced "A Hard Days Night" as Number One on August 14, 1964. I used to love his TV show…I actually have one of his albums that I bought when I got my first record player… |
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Post by pippsheadache on Jun 23, 2024 13:10:40 GMT -5
Yep, Dino did a creditable job with it Inger. The song was actually written in the late 40s and had been recorded by people like Peggy Lee and Frank Sinatra, but Jim Reeves' version, recorded in 1962, and Dean Martin's, recorded in 1964, are the two most famous versions. And speaking of Dino -- it was just about exactly this time sixty years ago that his biggest hit, "Everybody Loves Somebody Sometime" was hitting the charts. It was his first Billboard chart record in six years and helped rejuvenate his popularity. It actually displaced "A Hard Days Night" as Number One on August 14, 1964. I used to love his TV show…I actually have one of his albums that I bought when I got my first record player… Loved Dino's show. Sliding down the firepole while Kenny Lane would tickle the ivories. The Golddiggers so yummy. And he gave us Foster Brooks on his roasts. All that plus being Matt Helm. The Little Old Winemaker and sponsor of the Tucson Open. Pretty good for a guy from Steubenville Ohio. |
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Post by azbob643 on Jun 23, 2024 13:17:42 GMT -5
I used to love his TV show…I actually have one of his albums that I bought when I got my first record player… Loved Dino's show. Sliding down the firepole while Kenny Lane would tickle the ivories. The Golddiggers so yummy. And he gave us Foster Brooks on his roasts. All that plus being Matt Helm. The Little Old Winemaker and sponsor of the Tucson Open. Pretty good for a guy from Steubenville Ohio. Many believe Martin & Perry Como were quintessential Italian-American NYers. Both from the same general area. |
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