[SOC] On the subject of the Green Fairy

S.Nordenstroem sm3dyu at ji-net.com
Tue Oct 4 02:59:00 EDT 2011


Push, push push!!!


On 04/10/2011 13:52, G4IPZ.COM wrote:
> Absinthe aka the Green Fairy went into almost total invivibility in the UK up to a few years back when it became the 'in' drink for the booze swilling, pill popping club dance scene.
> It most certainly is still widely drunk admittedly by a minority group of almost 100% young people.
> I always have a couple of bottles of the green stuff in my booze cupboard for those visitors who are probably going to out stay their welcome anyway so sod 'em Hi.
> This is an interesting snippet about the re-legalisation of the stuff in France.
> http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-13159863
> Not forgetting the film Moulin Rough where Kylie Minogue's character was called the green fairy as a tip of the hat to absinthe.
>
> There is a really bad joke about absinthe which - if pushed - I may just submit to the group....
>
> Slim G4IPZ
>


More information about the SOC mailing list