Friday Night Gin and Tonic Buzz. Ask me anything.

[Aristus]

I love you all...



You wouldn’t believe the day I had...

[Ocelot II]

1. It's G&T season!

I have some Hendricks gin and Fever Tree tonic; tomorrow it will be 87, so...

And how was your day?

[cilla4progress]

3. You're killing me -

pounding down Titos and Fever tree - I'll up you one elderflower essence -!

Feeling good tonight. Time for some TUNES!!

[Aristus]

5. Had the clinical medicine equivalent of an emergency room mass casualty situation

A family of eight came to the clinic reporting exposure to COVID-19. Tested them all. Three positives and five negatives.

Pushed the patient count for the day to twenty-six...

[Ocelot II]

13. Yikes. That's a lot of patients for one day.

[soothsayer]

10. Hendricks Lunar and fever tree! And lime

[many a good man]

2. I'd believe anything

Do you have any evidence?

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

4. I hope you are using a better gin than Hendricks.

I recently discovered one from Scotland called Raffles, and it's amazing. I always use either Q or Fever Tree for the tonic.

I make WONDERFUL gin and tonics. My secret is I put the ice in the glass, then squeeze the lime onto the ice. Then the gin, then the tonic. I'm famous with a very small group of people for my gin&tonics.

[Aristus]

6. Beefeaters.

[Ocelot II]

7. I like Hendricks. Try Death's Door sometime.

[soothsayer]

11. Kew Gardens gin and Q would be an excellent combo

It’s amazing

[Goonch]

8. ;-{)

[NNadir]

9. Would you agree that Seleucid's agreement with Chandragupta to have is daughter marry...

...Chandragupta in exchange for 500 war elephants was preferable to continuing the Seleucid–Mauryan War?

Do you think that Seleucid should have at least asked his daughter first?

Finally, is it ethical, do you think, to trade one daughter for 500 war elephants?

Do these three questions qualify as asking you "anything?" Do they distract you from the day you had?

[Irish_Dem]

15. How many lives were at stake in the S-M war?

[NNadir]

23. Seleucid was one of the successors to Alexander "the Great" and controlled roughly the Persian...

...portion of the Macedonian Empire, plus much of Anatolia, modern Turkey . Chandragupta controlled what is now modern Pakistan/Afghanistan/Western India.

It is said that Chandragupta was able to conscript 600,000 soldiers, but it's difficult to know if this is accurate.

It could have been a very messy affair. On the other hand, it is said that Alexander himself had a breakdown after meeting a naked Jain, for whom possessions didn't matter, causing Alexander to realize he didn't matter.

It's hard to say how many of Chandragupta's soldiers might have been pacifists.

In any case, Chandragupta did marry Seleucid's daughter and consequently got along with his new father-in-law. I don't know how she felt about it though. Maybe she was happy with the whole thing. On the other hand, maybe she wished she was a war elephant.

I have no idea how the 500 war elephants felt about all of this. It's a pretty tough job, war elephant. Hannibal made those poor elephants cross the Alps, and it's cold up there.

[Irish_Dem]

27. That is a long time norm. High-born women being sold into marriage for political or financial gain.

So she most likely did not see the arrangement as unusual. She may have been pleased to have stopped a war.
And 500 war elephants is a good bride price, she may have liked that.

She may have been content if her husband was a good, kind man. And she had a decent home to raise her children.

The concept of marrying for love is a modern invention.

Most of us Americans don't realize that even today, many people around the globe still have arranged marriages.
And studies show that these marriages are just as happy as love matches.

[NNadir]

29. Oh, well I know. I work with a lot of people born in India. Their marriages are mostly arranged.

They don't, in general, seem to have much problem with it.

For some of them; real love actually develops.

This said, I prefer the modern approach. My wife's parents would have never consented for her to marry me if they had veto power; and they would have never chosen me, since my family was of a lower class than hers.

My marriage is the most magnificent thing in my life; I can't imagine I would have survived without my wife.

[Irish_Dem]

31. I am so happy for you to have found what so many look for.

A magnificent marriage. It is a true love match, and soul mate.

[chillfactor]

12. so sorry you had a rough day.....

happy to be retired and out of the rat-race of working life.
quiet evening.....reading mysteries and enjoying my Franzia Chillable Red wine.

[Aristus]

30. I think we talked about boxed wine before.

Back in my boxed wine days, I just had one wine glass to drink it from. Now I’ve got a whole cupboard full of good wine glasses. But I still have some nostalgia for some Franzia in my “favorite” (only) wine glass.

[Irish_Dem]

14. I need a male opinion: Which do you like better, blue paper masks? Or masks color co-ordinated with

the outfit being worn?

Thanks in advance.

[Aristus]

16. Preferably color-coordinated, if possible.

I know how to accessorize.

[Irish_Dem]

17. Yes I can see that you have an eye for fashion.

It is the small, nicely co-ordinated accessories that make the outfit.

Thank you for the fashion advice!

[Aristus]

20. My personal favorite:

An antique silver stick pin with topaz stone.

[Irish_Dem]

24. Oh my, that sounds beautiful. Something like the Queen of England would wear.

[Aristus]

25. I wear it in the lapel of a suit on special occasions.

It adds a bit of snap to an evening outfit.

[Irish_Dem]

28. Yes, it would be quite striking.

[TomSlick]

22. Herself has quite the collection of masks, of various colors in solid colors and patterns,

to coordinate with the day's outfit. I have three black masks which I rotate through the wear/washing cycle. Herself is ever the professional and much more classy than I.

[Irish_Dem]

26. I admire women who do that. It is a polished and professional look.

Since I am retired now, I don't dress up much.

I figure that my blue paper masks go quite well with sweat pants.

[bahboo]

18. so whaddya drinking....oh, never mind....

[niyad]

19. And we love you back.

How many angels can dance on the head of a pin?

[Aristus]

21. I'm still counting...

I'll let you know...