[Party] A Clarification!

[the_eggwhite]

I think a clarification is needed about the booze rules for saturday's party...

What we're not saying
Don't bring any booze! We have enough for all of you! Drink us out of house and home!

What we are saying
We've got quite a lot of leftover party booze, much of which may well have been tapped from satan's own golden steaming stream. Feel free to bring drinks if you want to drink them, but either drink them or take them away at the end of the night. Also, in the interests of a real "prohibition" theme, consider throwing some cheap vodka into a simple cocktail just to make it go away. Same goes for Tesco's value gin.

In other words, please don't add to our booze pile. If you do, drink an equal volume of something less good than that which you leave.

What do we have?
This isn't an exhaustive list, and I hope to tidy it up and refine it later... but we definately have:
A reasonable amount of Southern Comfort.
A reasonable amount paint thinner with "vodka" written on the bottle.
A small amount of gin that makes "bathtub gin" look classy.
A certain amount of "gulpin' whisky" (for want of a better term).
Several cream liqueurs of indeterminate age and consistency.
We have some unconfirmed reports of there being plenty of wine, too.

I don't know about anybody else, but I'll certainly be staying clear of the southern comfort.

In all seriousness, most of that lot's probably pretty foul on it's own... but probably fine in some form of authentic prohibition era cocktail, or more modern cocktails if (like me) you don't care about authenticity.

Comments

[thomasvye.livejournal.com]

A reasonable amount paint thinner with "vodka" written on the bottle.

....Jif Micro Liquid, where are yoooou?!

[doris.livejournal.com]

I may bring a hipflask of gin with me, just in case, if that's alright. It'll go away with me at the end of the evening, don't worry.

Plus I'll never turn down any other kind of free drink. ;)

I shall also still bring Sutekh's Gift of Jelly to all Humankind.

xx

[urizen.livejournal.com]

As far as I can make out, there's absolutely loads of unclaimed wine... or at least wine that no-one wants to admit to having bought! ;)

There are also several bottles of mead that have been left out for general consumption.

[eggwhite.livejournal.com]

Has nuuki done his second pass of sorting his stuff out yet? Until he has, I can't be sure about what's left out being fair game...

barty suggested that we need a sticker system to say what is or isn't drinkable. I think it's a good idea, and suggest the following (which I fully suspect won't happen):

Red sticker = No! Mine! Back away!
Orange Sticker = Feel free to try a bit, but no more than that.
Green Sticker = go right ahead...
No sticker = please, dear god, make it go away!

[urizen.livejournal.com]

I'm pretty sure nuuki's looked everything over a few times now, but best to double check with him I suppose...

The sticker system is a cool idea, but as you say it's unlikely that we'll actually bother. Personally, I'd just stick the stuff we want to keep in the cupboards (as there's actually space in them now) and let the rest be fair game!