How to Make Decisions
Issue 72

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Mixing Sleepy Juice and Wakey Juice

There are numerous ways to mix wakey juice (i.e. coffee) with sleepy juice (i.e. alcohol), though most methods are indicative of alcoholism.

Such is life.

Amaretto Coffee

1. Pour 1 cup hot coffee into a mug.

2 Add 1 shot of amaretto.

3. Top with whipped cream.

4. Sprinkle with ground coriander.

Anatole Coffee

In a blender with cracked ice, mix:

1 part Cognac
1 part coffee liqueur (kahlua)
1 part Frangelico
and 12 parts cold coffee.

Pour into a chilled white wine glass.

Top with whipped cream.

Sprinkle with chocolate shavings.

The Black Maria

In a large bandy snifter mix:

4 parts coffee liqueur (Kahlua)
4 parts light rum
8 parts cold black coffee
and 1 teaspoon sugar.

Add cracked ice.

Irish Coffee

1. Rim a glass coffee mug with sugar.

2. Add 2 oz. of Irish Whiskey

3. Fill the cup with coffee stopping 1/2 inch from the top.

4. Stir.

5. Top with whipped cream.

And we have saved the dangerous one for last:

Café Royale

1. Pour 1 cup hot black coffee into a coffee mug.

2. Rest a tablespoon on top of the mug.

3. Place a sugar cube in the spoon.

4. Soak the sugar in brandy, pouring in about 2 oz, letting the excess flow into the mug.

5. Wait for the spoon to heat.

6. Light the brandy soaked sugar ON FIRE!

7. Wait for the fire to go out.

8. Turn the spoon over, pouring the mixture into the mug.

9. Float half and half on top.

Word of the Week

zymology – the science or study of fermentation
(Source- There’s a Word for it by Charles Harrington Elster)

This Week’s Puzzle

What do the following words have in common?

Barrymore
batwing
Bermuda
bishop
Buster Brown
Chinese
crew
Dutch
macaroni
Medici

Last Week’s Puzzle

What do the following words have in common?

colonial
modern
vernacular
T-type

Though BROKEN DIAL’s Greg Wind was the first to say architecture, IP’s renaissance man Danny Cox knew exactly what I was seeking:
Being a former architecture major for all of one semester, the words “colonial, vernacular, modern, and T-type” are all architectural terms usually associated when dealing with the building of mosques.

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