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Author Topic: Martini's Bob Maar (Maar stands for Maartini) Posts: 28608 From: New York City & Newport, RI Registered: Feb 2001 posted 12-07-2004 02:36 PM                        Rated G Warning Martinis don't pull punches. Never drink and drive, never promise anything to anyone after the second drink and don't try to set your martini on fire.  |  IP: Logged Bob Maar (Maar stands for Maartini) Posts: 28608 From: New York City & Newport, RI Registered: Feb 2001 posted 12-07-2004 02:40 PM                        Rated G "I think I had it in the back of my mind that I wanted to sound like a dry martini. --Paul Desmond of the Dave Brubeck Quartet when asked about the sound of his Sax.  |  IP: Logged Bob Maar (Maar stands for Maartini) Posts: 28608 From: New York City & Newport, RI Registered: Feb 2001 posted 12-07-2004 02:43 PM                        Rated G "All I ever did was supply a demand that was pretty popular." --Al capone bootlegger/gangster  |  IP: Logged Bob Maar (Maar stands for Maartini) Posts: 28608 From: New York City & Newport, RI Registered: Feb 2001 posted 12-07-2004 02:46 PM                        Rated G "Martinis......have a muting effect on the constant ringing in my ears, and as five o'clock approaches, my thoughts turn toward the elixir of quietude. Gin stops the bell from tolling." E.B. White  |  IP: Logged Bob Maar (Maar stands for Maartini) Posts: 28608 From: New York City & Newport, RI Registered: Feb 2001 posted 12-07-2004 02:49 PM                        Rated G "What hit me?" asked Nora charles "That last martini." SAYS Nick Charles From the movie The Thin Man  |  IP: Logged Bob Maar (Maar stands for Maartini) Posts: 28608 From: New York City & Newport, RI Registered: Feb 2001 posted 12-08-2004 08:54 AM                        Rated G "So, when he looked down into his martini, he was put into a trance by dancing myriads of winking eyes on the surface of his drink. The eyes were beads of lemon oil." --Kurt Vonnegut,Jr. Breakfast of Champions  |  IP: Logged Bob Maar (Maar stands for Maartini) Posts: 28608 From: New York City & Newport, RI Registered: Feb 2001 posted 12-08-2004 08:57 AM                        Rated G "The three martini lunch is the epitome of American efficency. Where else can you get an earful, a bellyful, and a snootful at the same time." Gerald Ford  |  IP: Logged Bob Maar (Maar stands for Maartini) Posts: 28608 From: New York City & Newport, RI Registered: Feb 2001 posted 12-08-2004 09:01 AM                        Rated G " Yes, but my martini is still dry. My name is James." --James Bond, in the movie Never Say Never Again.  |  IP: Logged Bob Maar (Maar stands for Maartini) Posts: 28608 From: New York City & Newport, RI Registered: Feb 2001 posted 12-09-2004 10:03 AM                        Rated G "All the charming and beautiful things, from the song of songs to bouillabaisse, and from the nine Beethoven symphonies to the martini cocktail, have been given to humanity by men who, when the hour came, turned from tap water to something with color in it, and more of it than mere oxygen and hydrogen." --H.L. Mencken  |  IP: Logged Bob Maar (Maar stands for Maartini) Posts: 28608 From: New York City & Newport, RI Registered: Feb 2001 posted 12-09-2004 10:07 AM                        Rated G "You can no more keep a martini in the refrigerator than you can keep a kiss there. The proper union of gin and vermouth is...one of the happiest marriages on earth, and one of the shortest lived." --Bernard De Voto [ 08-16-2005, 04:13 PM: Message edited by: Bob Maar ]  |  IP: Logged Bob Maar (Maar stands for Maartini) Posts: 28608 From: New York City & Newport, RI Registered: Feb 2001 posted 12-09-2004 10:10 AM                        Rated G "If the Lord hadn't intended us to have a three martini-lunch, then why do you suppose He put all those olive trees in the Holy Land?" --Former House Speaker Jim Wright  |  IP: Logged Bob Maar (Maar stands for Maartini) Posts: 28608 From: New York City & Newport, RI Registered: Feb 2001 posted 12-09-2004 10:14 AM                        Rated G McMurphy: "That's right Mr. Martini, there is an Easter Bunny." From the movie One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest  |  IP: Logged Bob Maar (Maar stands for Maartini) Posts: 28608 From: New York City & Newport, RI Registered: Feb 2001 posted 12-09-2004 10:18 AM                        Rated G "After the first glass you see things as you wish they were. After the second, you see things as they are not. Finally you see things as they really are, and that is the mosy horrible thing in the world." --Oscar Wilde, on absinthe  |  IP: Logged Bob Maar (Maar stands for Maartini) Posts: 28608 From: New York City & Newport, RI Registered: Feb 2001 posted 12-09-2004 10:37 AM                        Rated G "It is cold on the stomach." Stalin, on FDR's martini, at the 1943 Teheran Conference  |  IP: Logged Bob Maar (Maar stands for Maartini) Posts: 28608 From: New York City & Newport, RI Registered: Feb 2001 posted 12-09-2004 10:39 AM                        Rated G "....America's lethal weapon." Nikita Khrushchev, on the even stronger martini Eisenhower gave him.  |  IP: Logged

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