"I couldn't possibly fail to disagree with you less."
18 November 2005With just a hint of freonNormally, I pay no attention to vodka. (Well, there was that time I blended it with milk of magnesia, thereby producing a Phillips screwdriver, but you don't want to hear about that.) Vodka used to be something you thought of as Russian. Nowadays, you buy a bottle labeled "Old Russia" and it comes from Oklahoma. So I'm not surprised that the Kiwis would get into the act, but this ad for New Zealand's 42Below vodka [link includes Flash video] is completely wack. Not that there's anything wrong with that. (Title poached from Lileks, who once characterized one of those superpremium vodkas as "a lovely marriage of velvet and freon.") Posted at 6:16 AM to Say What?Britain and New Zealand, sitting in a tree... Posted by: McGehee at 8:16 AM on 18 November 2005You should have stuck to Jack Daniels and prune juice, Charles. "There was that time I blended it with milk of magnesia, thereby producing a Phillips screwdriver, but you don't want to hear about that." But... but that's exactly what I DO want to hear about. Waaaaaah! All right, I'm over it. Jack Daniels and prune juice, you say? Posted by: Mister Snitch! at 12:48 AM on 20 November 2005 |