Posts Tagged drinking

Places to avoid when you’ve been drinking

Posted by Blanca in Everything else on June 5th, 2009

So, it’s finally Friday evening and you are enjoying Happy Hour at your favorite place with a couple of friends. Before you know, the time is almost midnight and you are still sitting at the bar enjoying the company. Not difficult after one too many drinks!

Time to decide where to go next.

You might not know where to go, but whatever you do regardless of the state of your mind (probably very liquid), make sure you avoid any of these three places:

  1. Anywhere close to a police station
  2. Your boss’ favorite hangout
  3. The zoo

Yes, the zoo. Think about it. You might end up in jail for drunk-driving or lose your job for making a fool out of yourself, but nothing beats being savaged by a tiger!

Tigers, I am told, cannot stand the smell of alcohol and will devour anyone who has been drinking.

I have also heard that you can buy a tiger cub in the USA for a mere $1,000 and that this is why Texas has the largest population of tigers in the world.

So, if you live in Texas or are planning to visit Texas anytime soon you might want to consider sticking to Diet Coke!

Whatever you do … cheers to the week-end!

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Is James Bond an alcoholic?

Posted by Blanca in Everything else on May 16th, 2009

Someone, with obviously not much to do, decided to count every single drink that the famous spy drinks in the entire James Bond books’ collection. The result is 317 drinks, meaning one drink every seven pages.

And if you thought that they are all Vodka Martinis, let me tell you that you are wrong. He actually drinks 101 glasses of whiskey (58 bourbons and 38 Scotches to be precise), 38 glasses of Champagne, 37 of Japanese sake, leaving the famous “shaken, not stirred” Martinis at only nineteen.

And this reminds me that I read somewhere that astronomers have recently discovered a great amount of alcohol in our region of the Milky Way. And no, I am not talking about Ireland, but about a giant cloud of methanol that measures almost 470billion kms across! Yes, I know that methanol can poison you, but still, that’s a heck of a lot of alcohol floating about.

So going back to James Bond. Is he, or is he not? Truth is, I don’t know and I really don’t care. As long as they keep casting hunks like Daniel Craig for the movie versions, he can drink the entire Milky Way and I am absolutely fine with it!

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Let’s go for a drink

Posted by Blanca in 40 on January 18th, 2009

Eighty days after starting a debate with myself – and my friends – on the positives (and not) of turning 40, the day finally arrived yesterday. D-day came and left … and now I am stuck being a forty-something for the next ten years.

Now I am anxiously looking forward to that life that started not even 24 hours ago. You know, that ‘life starts at 40′ thingy!

And while I settle into my new midage woman personality, here is something that a male friend sent and that really made me laugh … one of those ‘I-know-exactly-what-you-are-talking-about’ sort of laughs.

The question is: “WHAT GOES THROUGH YOUR MIND WHEN SOMEONE SAYS LET’S GO FOR A DRINK??”

Forty-something or not, this is one answer where most women fit in. Or not?

Cheers!

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