About Me
In life we don’t get what we want, we get in life what we are. If we want more, we have to be able to be more, in order to be more you have to face rejection.
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9 Drinks Named After People
1. ALEXANDER
Made with crème de cacao, gin, or brandy, and cream, this cocktail was named for Alexander the Great, centuries after his death.
2. BLOODY MARY
Ferdinand L. Petiot, bartender at Harry's New York Bar in Paris, mixed vodka and tomato juice in 1920; American entertainer Roy Barton gave it the name `bucket of blood' after the club in Chicago. The drink was renamed `the red snapper' when Petiot spiced it up with salt, pepper, lemon and Worcestershire sauce. Though it has been said that this `queen among drinks' was named after Mary, Queen of Scots, it was Queen Mary I of England who was known as `Bloody Mary'.
3. DOM PÉRIGNON
Dom Pérignon (1638-1715) entered the religious life at the age of 15. A blind man, his acute senses of taste and smell aided him in making and improving the wines of the Benedictine monastery near Épernay, where he was a cellarmaster. It was Dom Pérignon who perfected the process of fermenting champagne in the bottle - he literally put in the all-important bubbles. Moët et Chandon vineyards later honoured Pérignon's accomplishments by naming its finest vintage after him.
4. PIMM'S
The typical summer drink of the English upper middle classes was created by James Pimm, nineteenth-century owner of an oyster bar in the City of London. Originally Pimm intended his drink, flavoured with herbs and quinine, to be a digestive tonic but it was soon being drunk as a cocktail by fashionable Victorian society.
5. HARVEY WALLBANGER
California surfer Tom Harvey (c. 1970) had a great passion for the `Italian screwdriver' (orange juice, vodka, Galliano). After a day of surfing, Harvey still couldn't stay off the waves. He would rush to his favourite bar, overindulge himself - and then walk into a wall when it came time to go home.
6. MICKEY FINN
Mickey Finn was apparently the name of a bartender who worked in Chicago around 1896-1906. He served knockout drinks (which probably contained chloral hydrate) to his customers so that they could be robbed.
7. ROB ROY
This concoction of Scotch whisky, sweet vermouth and bitters, topped with a maraschino cherry, bears the nickname of the legendary eighteenth-century Scottish cattle rustler Robert Macgregor.
8. TOM COLLINS
This drink was named after a nineteenth-century bartender at Limmer's Old House in London who was famous for his gin slings - a tall drink that resembles the Collins mixture of gin, lemon, sugar and soda water.
9. MARGARITA
There are at least eight different stories relating to the creation of the tequila-based margarita. The most commonly accepted one is that the drink was concocted in 1938 or 1939 by Carlos Herrera, a Mexican bartender who named the drink in honour of a showgirl named Marjorie King, who was allergic to all hard liquor except tequila.
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ACTUAL ENGLISH SUBTITLES USED IN FILMS MADE IN HONG KONG
1. I am damn unsatisfied to be killed in this way.
2. Fatty, you with your thick face have hurt my instep.
3. Gun wounds again?
4. Same old rules: no eyes, no groin.
5. A normal person wouldn't steal pituitaries.
6. Damn, I'll burn you into a BBQ chicken!
7. Take my advice, or I'll spank you without pants.
8. Who gave you the nerve to get killed here?
9. Quiet or I'll blow your throat up.
10. You always use violence. I should've ordered glutinous rice chicken.
11. I'll fire aimlessly if you don't come out!
12. You daring lousy guy.
13. Beat him out of recognizable shape!
14. I have been scared shitless too much lately.
15. I got knife scars more than the number of your leg's hair!
16. Beware! Your bones are going to be disconnected.
17. The bullets inside are very hot. Why do I feel so cold?
18. How can you use my intestines as a gift?
19. This will be of fine service for you, you bag of the scum. I am sure you will not mind that I remove your manhoods and leave them out on the dessert flour for your aunts to eat.
20. Yah-hah, evil spider woman! I have captured you by the short rabbits and can now deliver you violently to your gynecologist for a thorough examination.
21. Greetings, large black person. Let us not forget to form a team up together and go into the country to inflict the pain of our karate feets on some ass of the giant lizard person.
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Useless facts (Part 1):
The word "queue" is the only word in the English language that is still pronounced the same way when the last four letters are removed.
Beetles taste like apples, wasps like pine nuts, and worms like fried bacon.
Of all the words in the English language, the word 'set' has the most definitions!
What is called a "French kiss" in the English speaking world is known as an "English kiss" in France.
"Almost" is the longest word in the English language with all the letters in alphabetical order.
"Rhythm" is the longest English word without a vowel.
In 1386, a pig in France was executed by public hanging for the murder of a child
A cockroach can live several weeks with its head cut off!
Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete.
You can't kill yourself by holding your breath
There is a city called Rome on every continent.
Your heart beats over 100,000 times a day!
Horatio Nelson, one of England's most illustrious admirals was throughout his life, never able to find a cure for his sea-sickness.
The skeleton of Jeremy Bentham is present at all important meetings of the University of London
Right handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people
Your ribs move about 5 million times a year, every time you breathe!
The elephant is the only mammal that can't jump!
One quarter of the bones in your body, are in your feet!
Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different!
The first known transfusion of blood was performed as early as 1667, when Jean-Baptiste, transfused two pints of blood from a sheep to a young man.
Fingernails grow nearly 4 times faster than toenails!
Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin!
The present population of 5 billion plus people of the world is predicted to become 15 billion by 2080.
Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
Adolf Hitler was a vegetarian, and had only ONE testicle
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I went to a pizzeria, I ordered a slice of pizza, the fucker gave me the smallest slice possible. If the pizza was a pie chart for what people would do if they found a million dollars, the fucker gave me the "donate it to charity" slice.
p.s. this is what part of the alphabet would look like if q and r were eliminated.
When I get home from work, sometimes I put a potato in the oven. I don't even really want a baked potato, but by the time it's done.... Who knows?
I order the club sandwich all the time, but I'm not even a member, man. I don't know how I get away with it
I saw this wino, he was eating grapes. I was like, "Dude, you have to wait."
People who smoke cigarettes, they say "You don't know how hard it is to quit smoking." Yes I do. It's as hard as it is to start flossing.
When I was a boy, I laid in my twin-size bed, wondering where my brother was.
I went camping once, and got into an argument with a girl friend in the tent. How are you supossed to show that you are mad? Zip the tent up really fast?
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The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything.
- Mark Twain
Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.
Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.
- Henry David Thoreau
Nothing inspires forgiveness quite like revenge.
- Scott Adams
One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.
- Rita Mae Brown
Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.
- Ernest Hemingway
Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; but remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.
- Epicurus
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1. Want to holiday in Lake Tahoe? Try their brochure website at www.gotahoe.com
2. Therapists in the US merely wanted to offer troubled souls a shoulder to cry on. Let's hope their advice is not as short-sighted as whoever registered the URL www.therapistfinder.com
3. Welcome to the First Cumming Methodist Church. Their website is www.cummingfirst.com
4. There is one betting site that is way out in front as our favorite. With their name they are bound to attract a lot of people looking for each-way wagers: www.oddsexchange.com
5. "We're not just a printer," claims the American firm Tri-Plex. And they guarantee: "Short runs or long, we can handle both equally well." But it makes you wonder what kind of service they are offering from their website with a name like this: www.triplexbusiness.com
6. If you are looking for a place to download the latest songs you might think this one is a homage to bad digital music. Mind you, the site is flagging up the new Michael Bolton album, so maybe it does what is says on the tin after all: www.mp3shits.com
7. Law firm Morrison & Foerster have more than 1,000 legal eagles worldwide. Surely you would have thought one would have spotted the clanger in their site. They couldn't have been briefed properly that it contains a slang abbreviation for a rather strong swear word that would leave them in contempt in the courtroom: www.mofo.com
8. This drinks franchise has spawned a host of copycat stores around the US as it attracts customers by the barrel-load desperate for a schoolboy giggle and quick slurp: www.beaverliquors.com
9. Some say Americans don't understand irony and a site set up by Ingleside Vineyards of Virginia bears that out. They must be flushed with success if the name they chose is anything to go by: www.ipwine.com
10. The plant-growers of Mole Station Nursery in New South Wales claim to specialise in the production of frost- hardy native shrubs and farm trees. Sounds like they are more into deflowering: www.molestationnursery.com
11. If you need an IT professional to fix your broken PC this could be a great place to start, especially if you are having a problem with your hard drive or interruptions to your AC/DC supply: www.expertsexchange.com
12. Looking for an actor and want to get in touch with his or her agent? Then Who Represents is a database of contact names and numbers. But the site owners may well become brassed off by some of the unsavoury clients it attracts: www.whorepresents.com
13. The official site for Barnet Copthall Masters Swimming Club says it has a 12A rating to warn off young kids. It has all the club?s latest news. So why not a section on how to improve your breaststroke? www.upthebeavers.com
14. A building firm based in Ontario, Canada, promises: "No job too small, or too tall." They have even helpfully included some handy pictures showing exactly how they manage to get it up: www.mammotherection.com
15. Then of course, there’s the Italian Power Generator company… www.powergenitalia.com
16. And then there’s these brainless art designers, and their whacky website: www.speedofart.com
