by Pa Rock
Culture Vulture
Actor and activist George Takei, best known for his portrayal of Mr. Sulu, the helmsman aboard the U.S.S. Enterprise in the original Star Trek television series, is a prolific tweeter and an eternal thorn-in-the-side of Donald Trump. Takei, who is eighty-years-old and light years smarter than Trump, often sees his witty and acerbic tweets about Trump repeated in the national press. This morning I ran across a Takei tweet that I regarded as exceptionally interesting:
I seldom sip cocktails these days, but now, thanks to a nudge from Mr. Sulu, I find myself longing to be seated on a tropical veranda, or at least my back deck, with a glass, or perhaps a pitcher, of Dark and Stormy Daniels - drinking toast-after-toast to the success of Robert Mueller and his fine team of investigators.
Not knowing how to make this awesome-sounding cocktail, however, meant that some research was in order.
The literary trope, "a dark and stormy night," was first thought to have been used by Washington Irving in his A History of New York in 1809, and was later the opening phrase that British author Edward Bulwer-Lytton used in his 1830 novel, Paul Clifford:
The melodramatic phrase - "it was a dark and stormy night" - has suffered much literary ridicule over the years and today persists as an oft-cited example of "purple prose." It has also inspired a literary competition, the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest, in which participants have to begin their stories with that line.
There is a cocktail, the Dark and Stormy, named in recognition of the infamous line. It is made by pouring two ounces of dark rum over ice in a highball glass, adding five ounces of ginger beer, and then squeezing a lime wedge into the concoction.
Apparently some bartenders and Trump critics have taken to replacing the rum with Jack Daniels and have started calling this new drink the Dark and Stormy Daniels.
It sounds intoxicatingly delicious - but don't expect to find it on the drinks' menu at Mar-a-Lago!
Culture Vulture
Actor and activist George Takei, best known for his portrayal of Mr. Sulu, the helmsman aboard the U.S.S. Enterprise in the original Star Trek television series, is a prolific tweeter and an eternal thorn-in-the-side of Donald Trump. Takei, who is eighty-years-old and light years smarter than Trump, often sees his witty and acerbic tweets about Trump repeated in the national press. This morning I ran across a Takei tweet that I regarded as exceptionally interesting:
"The FBI has conducted a raid of Michael Cohen’s office. Cohen is Trump’s personal attorney as well as general counsel for the Trump Organization. I’m going to sit back and sip a cocktail now. Perhaps a Dark and Stormy Daniels?"
I seldom sip cocktails these days, but now, thanks to a nudge from Mr. Sulu, I find myself longing to be seated on a tropical veranda, or at least my back deck, with a glass, or perhaps a pitcher, of Dark and Stormy Daniels - drinking toast-after-toast to the success of Robert Mueller and his fine team of investigators.
Not knowing how to make this awesome-sounding cocktail, however, meant that some research was in order.
The literary trope, "a dark and stormy night," was first thought to have been used by Washington Irving in his A History of New York in 1809, and was later the opening phrase that British author Edward Bulwer-Lytton used in his 1830 novel, Paul Clifford:
"It was a dark and stormy night; the rain fell in torrents — except at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent gust of wind which swept up the streets (for it is in London that our scene lies), rattling along the housetops, and fiercely agitating the scanty flame of the lamps that struggled against the darkness."
The melodramatic phrase - "it was a dark and stormy night" - has suffered much literary ridicule over the years and today persists as an oft-cited example of "purple prose." It has also inspired a literary competition, the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest, in which participants have to begin their stories with that line.
There is a cocktail, the Dark and Stormy, named in recognition of the infamous line. It is made by pouring two ounces of dark rum over ice in a highball glass, adding five ounces of ginger beer, and then squeezing a lime wedge into the concoction.
Apparently some bartenders and Trump critics have taken to replacing the rum with Jack Daniels and have started calling this new drink the Dark and Stormy Daniels.
It sounds intoxicatingly delicious - but don't expect to find it on the drinks' menu at Mar-a-Lago!
1 comment:
...haha, hoho, & hee,hee...love it, Jack.
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