Subj : Re: A Crappy Sales Call To : Mike Powell From : Daryl Stout Date : Tue Jun 29 2021 22:58:00 Mike, > First Day as a Bartender > Customer: I.ll have a martini, dry. > Me, staring at all the liquid ingredients: I don.t know how to tell you > this... MP> That one always used to throw me, too. How can a liquid be "dry"? :D If I'm not mistaken, in this case, dry means "bitter". I think of what Groucho Marx would say "Pardon me while I slip out of these wet clothes, and into a dry martini". I think the Looney Tunes used this quite a bit with their cartoons...one had Bugs Bunny as Groucho, and Elmer Fudd as Harpo. Daryl .... "Somebody left the cork out of my lunch." -W.C. Fields === MultiMail/Win v0.52 --- SBBSecho 3.14-Win32 * Origin: The Thunderbolt BBS - Little Rock, Arkansas (1:19/33) .