I caught this on Amazon and thought it worth reposting here:
For those of you out there who are neither drug-addled hipsters nor ill-bred morons, here are a few choice sips of Amis:
* On the necessity of having a refrigerator to oneself: “Wives and such are constantly filling up any refrigerator they have a claim on, even its ice compartment, with irrelevant rubbish like food.”
* On being a cheapskate of a host: “In preparing a gin and tonic, for instance, put the tonic and the ice and a thick slice of lemon in first and pour on them a thimbleful of gin *over the back of a spoon*, so it will linger near the surface and give a strong-tasting first sip, which is the one that counts.”
* On the claim that the Irish taught the Scots the process of distillation: “The idea of a medieval Irishman inventing a rather complicated technique like that of distilling, or anything at all for that matter, is hard to credit.”
* On Galliano: “Another Italian liqueur, Galliano, has gained a good deal of ground over the last few years, not as a drink on its own but as a constituent of the famous or infamous cocktail the Harvey Wallbanger, named after some reeling idiot in California.”
* On drinking with wine snobs: “If asked what you think [about the wine], say breezily, ‘Jolly good,’ as though you always say that whatever it’s like. This may suggest that your mind’s on higher things than wine, like gin or sex.”
