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47. Fly's Time

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Here we introduce amarguinha…a sweet, pleasantly nectar-like, shockingly affordable (…about $15 per bottle…) Portuguese almond liqueur that has become a staple in D2D cocktail creations.  The Ginetto becomes the AmarGINha with a simple substitution for the amaretto, and the Bittersweet Portuguese Coffee Cocktail (BPC) is born.  (Please click over to the Cocktails, etc. page to find recipes for all of these.)

Here we discuss “grit,” passionate perseverance in the face of seemingly endless obstacles, discomfort, even failure…for the sake of a longer-term objective.

Here we discuss Chuck Shepherd’s News of the Weird, including:

  1. The Happy Birthday judgement. There is no longer a copyright on the song. Did you know there had been?  Did you know that’s why national restaurant chains started creating birthday songs?  Well, no more lawsuits, and no more shitty made-up birthday ditties.  Unless you like that sort of thing.  You’re not into that sort of thing, are you?
  2. Fetish parties and scrotal inflation. Yep, some dudes dig on having fluids and/or gasses pumped into their testicles. A niche for everyone.  Careful though, one of the complications of this behavior is Fournier gangrene.  I’m not linking it.  You look it up.  I get a little woozy just thinking about the image that assaulted my eyes a few minutes back.
  3. The goings on of an amateur serial tooth puller. I’m entirely unsure how this happens. Is this torture or fetish?  Or both?  Or something entirely different?!  I don’t want to venture too deep into hackneyed and potentially insensitive jokes related to the erotic potential of dentureless gums.
  4. A carnivorous clock powered by dead flies. THIS…this intrigued and excited Jen, as we’ve been plagued by flies for months. Imagine…robots turning biomass (e.g. dead things) into electricity.  How about that for science NON fiction!?

    5. Our music today comes from Portugal (Just Girls with “Amarguinhas”) and Great Britain (Pink Floyd with “Time”).

    Alright people, we present to you, “Fly’s Time.”

    (The Persistence of Memory, by Salvador Dali.)

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