No one ever expects to laugh at a pirate joke, so getting a free drink out of one really isn’t that hard.  The second drink is an entirely different matter.   I failed once before and again last night:  Josh saw me before I could think of a good pirate drink to order.

Next time I’ll order an R&R.

(Wait for it)

(Wait for it)

Moving right along.

Josh made me some cucumber concoction that he calls a Kozak <sp?>, named after his friend, the inventor. It was great. I’ll post the recipe as soon as I get it (Something to do with Cucumbers, Pimm’s, and simple syrup). By then the bar was lousy with martini glasses so I ordered Johnny Walker black, on the rocks, to stodge the place up a bit.

Not only did Josh double take on the order, but Don, a Woodford sales rep sitting to my right, offered me a free libation instead, which I accepted, after the JW.

All of this explains why I was two hours late for work this morning. If you find yourself in a bar, after a wine tasting, telling pirate jokes with a whiskey sales rep and two girls with “Grey Goose Vodka” stenciled across the front of their dresses, you’re going to be late for work the next morning.

We all ended up at the Lions Pub. Well, not all of us: We traded Don for a Chilean Actor we met on the street. So now I’m eating gobs of free cheese, drinking a Fat Tire, trying to invent a new color, while  “Kim Possible” prances around in a  blouse and cape she made out of paperclips and scarves.

Then it was 1:30A.M and I was back in the Hovel trying to write this.

Man that story tails off at the end, doesn't it?

Some administrative notes:

Yes Chris, COMPED is a word.   STODGE, on the other hand, I just came up with. It means, “to make stodgier”. 

Don,  Frascati is on the Corner of Hyde and Green.  A16 is in the marina, on the west end of chesnut. Sushi Groove South is on 11th and filmore. Enjoy the rest of your stay and thanks for the drink!

It is well known that Ripley Andrews was the last person to discover a new color. He called it 'Flicka'.