Yeah, maybe this is Seth's first martini, as you don't really shake them (unless the Gin's too strong for you)

Umm... so... you do stir Martini's.

Sidecar
1 part brandy/cognac
1 part triple sec
juice of one lemon
sugared rim
rocks or martini glass

Pink Martini's Amado Mio playing in the background = Upvote.

>> ^kymbos:

I heard a rumour that through a branding agreement, Bond will be drinking Heineken in this film rather than his customary Martini.
I shit you not.


Down with that kinda thing.

Trailer looks awesome, but Skyfall isn't a very "Bondy" title, is it?

>> ^kymbos:

I heard a rumour that through a branding agreement, Bond will be drinking Heineken in this film rather than his customary Martini.
I shit you not.

Damnit. That girly drink he ordered in the last movie was bad enough. :-/

I heard a rumour that through a branding agreement, Bond will be drinking Heineken in this film rather than his customary Martini.

I shit you not.

Look, Casino Royale showed up twenty years of Bond films to be the mindless derivative drivel that they were.

The film reintroduced the darkness that was at the heart of Bond that hasn't been seen, arguably, since the death of Bond's just-married wife at the end of the highly underrated "On Her Majesty's Secret Service" (which coincidentally had the best soundtrack of all Bond films). That was in 1969.

Some would contend that Timothy Dalton captured the true essence of Bond's dark moodiness in his too-short stint as Bond in The Living Daylights and Licence to Kill - but he had the advantage of actually being able to act, a skill no one could accuse Pierce Brosnan of bringing to the franchise.

I believe that the Bourne films effectively modernised Bond and the franchise was forced to follow, after years of meandering aimlessly with Brosnan whose films retained a misplaced focus on gadgets and 'witty' lines. There is a place for these, but they superseded plot, character and genuine style. Product placement became too much of a cash cow as well (although I hear an agreement has been made to replace Bond's signature martini with Heineken in Skyfall).

Casino Royale returned Bond to his rightful place. Bourne is great, but he's no Bond. Compared to CR, Quantum of Solace was indeed inferior. But Yogi is right - it was way better than every Brosnan Bond film, which were total disappointments to genuine fans.

So there.

martini-cue? roflmao.

Shake it like a martini.

All she needs is a dirty martini and a cigarette to match that voice...

Man, I just had a martini and didn't think about it until the glass showed up.

I'll have to order my martinis in a different glass from now on!

1. I can dance the tango, amongst other ballroom dances, and have won dance contests.

2. My father is a major part of space history – he was a range safety officer, blowing up missiles that went off course in the early days of the missile program – has destroyed more missiles than anyone else and no one is likely to ever catch up to him, since they know what they are doing now.

3. I love to tell stories, and when I travel, I write stories in my head to tell when I get home (did I ever tell you about spending an hour – at 10 pm in the winter night -- talking to the lone Scottish soldier guarding Edinburgh Castle and what he told me about kilts and Scottish pride?)

4. I am vain about my ears.

5. The only thing I have ever given birth to is a theater company, now defunct for ten years, and I am very proud that folks still mourn its passing. We did GREAT STUFF.

6. I am hypercritical and judgmental of others, but I am hardest of all on myself.

7. Once I moved to hippy haven Port Townsend, I grew out my armpit hair to see if I could blend in with the natives – and then scared myself in the shower because I thought it was a spider.

8. One of my best friends is my Oklahoma cousin, which is remarkable because we have never spent more than a week in each others company in five decades.

9. The precept I try to live by: “Everyone is doing the best they can in any given moment. Their best may stink, and you may need to avoid them, but it is indeed the best they can do.” I’m still hypercritical and judgmental. Even though I believe this to the core of my being.

10. I have cheated at Scrabble online.

11. I have had eight teeth pulled and braces, but my teeth are still crowded.

12. I am vain about my eyebrows.

13. I love telling jokes.

14. I was born in Alaska.

15. My mother died in 1988 and I still miss her terribly. She was funny and caring and smart.

16. Typing number 15 made me cry, which surprised me.

17. I paid $1,500 for a lifetime pass to the local arts cinema 14 years ago, which turned out to be a great investment – they recently sold some more and wanted $5,000 (that did include popcorn for life, but still).

18. I didn’t talk to my father for two years because he was an asshole when I was growing up, and now I call him every single day because he lives in a nursing home. He’s also not an asshole any more – or at least, I can walk him out of being an asshole. This transformation in our relationship is a great blessing in my life.

19. I am very very good at my job.

20. I am quick to anger.

21. I am very generous.

22. The librarians have a nickname for me. They call me The Gale, to differentiate me from all the other mere Gales, Gayles and Gails in town.

23. I have never lived anyplace with so many people named Gale/Gayle/Gail.

24. I am happy on the first day of winter and sad on the first day of summer – because the days are so frigging short in winter and they start to get longer on the Winter Solstice. And verse visa for Summer – it means the days are getting quickly shorter.

25. This list was interrupted by my friend Deb, and we went across the street for lemon drop martinis and baked poblana peppers and cheese. My friend Deb says that #25 should be: Once upon a time, I kissed too many boys.

>> ^dhdigital:

most martinis/manhattens are only suppose to be 4oz. Beer is suppose to have head. I have a general rule to keep a distance from the top so I can move quickly. It is also there so people (bartenders, wait staff, & unsteady hand of the customer) don't have to move so very carefully due to a threat of spillage a vertically challenged 'person' would appear & club them at the knees.
Actually the jackasses that ask for the drink to be topped off deserve that. Typically they spill the second they get the drink.


The point is not that they should top the glass off no matter what, it's that if it were a 5" tall cylindrical glass, you could leave, say, 1" of empty and it would be 1/5 of the glass whereas it comes out to 1/2 in a cone.