FUNNY BAR BOOK &ndash AND GUIDE TO MIXED DRINKS (Catlett, VA)

FUNNY BAR BOOK &ndash AND GUIDE TO MIXED DRINKS

FUNNY BAR BOOK AND GUIDE TO MIXED DRINKS Copyright 1955Local pick-up preferred but will ship at the buyer s expenseKingston Books 13 - Funny Bar Book 50.00 or Best Offer. IllustratedNote Some of the words were misspelled in the bookContentsThe Compleat Home bar Tail of the Cock Whiskeys and Their Uses Highballs and Sours It Was Gin Gin The Collins Boys That Demon Rum Brandy vs. Cognac Juleps Coolers in the suburbs Absinthe Makes the Heart Grow Etc. Wine Department Pousse-Cafes and Other Apres-Dinner Drinks The Heat s On Nogs to You Miscellany Oddments and Orphans Fizzical Culture W.C.T.U. Department The Common Household Hangover The Liquor Chart ForewordThis modest chapbook is offered not as an Easy Guide to Dipliomania you are not expected to start on page 1 and sample each of the delicious formulae in quick succession. On the contrary it is dedicated to the proposition that in the immoderate doses alcohol is not an escape to heaven but to Bellevue.For alcohol has two faces. Consumed with intent of drying up the source it has a way of causing the spirits to soar then nosedive into the Slough of Despond. Instead of decreasing the discontent and removing the roadblocks of the spirit it does the opposite. The tongue that seemed so witty and feather-tipped becomes thick and fur-coated. The eyes flashing fire after No1 and able to look the world in the eye after No7 resemble poached eggs in chili sauce. The violet-scented breath can be bottled as poison gas. The world that you seek to forget and seemingly do for a precious moment returns and conks you severely. In other words if you drink to much you get pickled-and hung over. If you do it long enough you join a dangerous ism-alcoholism.On the other hand alcohol when sipped between conversational sallies and not gulped down hippopotamus-style can be the World s Greatest De-Tensifier Fatigue-Eliminator Good-Will Instiller Spirit-Elevator and Fear-Dispeller. Theonly thing to fear is the Few Too Many. For a strategically absorbed pony cocktail or highball or two maketh the small man to speak up. It loosens the rusted tongue spreads the personal wings and makes the mind ring like a bell. It rouses the joy juices. Blondes become less opaque bills bosses and worries shed their Halloween masks.At this spirit this book of good spirits is aimed.It is dedicated to folks who value their lives friends futures homes and taste buds and likes to shake up a few for conviviality s sake. It s for people who drink to get together not vice versa.Hardcover 144 pages Library of Congress Catalog Card Number 55-11103