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elfenix

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  1. The Royal palace is nice. As is the thyssen museum. CaixaForum has something going on all the time. 

     

    But yeah, drink and eat pork. Don't know if La Latina is still the area to congregate after dark, but you may be a bit olds for that anyway. Plenty around Puerto del Sol after dark for the olds.

  2. when i was a kid i remember the lizards turning from green to brown and back.  we called them chameleons, though they weren't actually chameleons. 

    now the lizards are all just brown. 

    apparently the color changes lizards were Carolina Anoles, native to the southern US.  the brown-only lizards are Brown Anoles, native to Cuba and the Bahamas.  they got to Florida about 130 years ago, got to Houston about 30 years ago, and have been out-competing the color change lizards.

  3. Time was when the affable and sympathetic bartender moistened a lump of sugar with Angostura bitters, dropped in a lump of ice, neither too large nor too small, stuck in a miniature bar spoon and passed the glass to the client with a bottle of good bourbon from which said client was privileged to pour his own drink. In most places the price was 15 cents or two for quarter.

    Nowadays the modern or ex-speakeasy bartender drops a spoonful of powdered sugar into a glass, adds a squirt of carbonic to aid dissolution, adds to that a dash or two of some kind of alleged bitters and a lump of ice, regardless of size. Then he proceeds to build up a fruit compote of orange, lemon, pineapple and cherry, and himself pours in a carefully measured ounce and a half of bar whisky, usually a blend, and gives one a glass rod to stir it with. Price, 35 to 50 cents. Profanation and extortion.

  4. 4 hours ago, UTHornFan014 said:

    I had about 400 posts in 8 years on Shaggy, so it should only take me a year or so to get to 50 posts. 

    sometimes the journey is itself the reward.

     

     

    this is not one of those times.

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