I have created a new beverage for Christmas, consisting of the usual ciders, teas, nutmegs, cloves, cinnamons, sugared zests, and just about the entire Gross Domestic Product of the Seychelles Islands.
My visitors are easy: they drink, so one can pop a tab, or withdraw a cork, or unscrew a top and mix the Clear with the Brown with the Transparent Blue Agave with the Bubblicious, and all is well.
But the ambrosia of the abstemious can be tricky. It's takes forever as you mull over the spices.
So I have a new Christmas elixir.
Since it is the best elixir ever, I call it Elixior.
If this is unclear, I leave it to The Periodic Englishman to explain it to the rest of the young Neros and Agrippinas in class.
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Funny you should mention Stallion McTPE, for he has just been over at my house - and scuppered your last-comment-persona ambitions, Montabulous, as you will see.
I have an ambrosia for the abstemious. It is made with apple juice, ginger (lots) and all the usual spice things - with the addition of some fruit teabags. The artificial flavourings give it that extra zing, is what I find.
Gadfrey Daniels!
That Latin crack doesn't apply to you, Signs!
I just hate making snide remarks, and then apologizing to everyone. One would think I would have learned by now.
Enviably understated, immediately recognisable, slightly painful and perfect. I should learn from this. Thank you, Montag.
Signs - watch it. We've (I'm trying to enlist Montag in this particularly raggedy army) got your number. You would set the guests in your own blog to war? What a thing. I've never seen the likes. Exciting.
Kind regards to both,
TPE
At war not as Achilles and Hector, but rather as Achilles and Ajax...to set to war side by side...or, a more modern simile, like Legolas and Gimli.
I warned Signs at her place what could happen. Unfortunately, I did it in a bombastic manner more redolent of Great Ajax than Brave Achilles.
So the admonition becomes a premonition...which isn't all bad, but often it is too easy for the brave to fall in love with war's tearful strife...
Come to think of it, this is awfully mock-heroic, considering we were talking about comments to blog posts.
Welcome, tpe, and best regards to you, indeed, for who - to quote Simonides - among those of our time ever bound upon himself so many victories...in a contest of the men of those parts ?
(this was originally for a runner - Astylus actually - so I think of the match in which you injured your leg - real or imagined...the match, not the leg - and that reminds me to hope you are healing well.)
Oh, and I am very sorry to all about that Nero and Agrippina crack, but I sort of got carried away...if you don't know what it means, you are among the happy.
...however, I do intend to use it in my spoken idiom.
For instance, when I hit my finger with a hammer, I'll yell
"Nero and Agrippina! Blast yer eyes!" and so on.
"Agrippina" is sort of a fellow-traveler modifier, who lets us know which characteristics of Nero we wish to emphasize.
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