I'll drink to that!

[dizzydean]

I wanna name a drink after Mr. King, a cocktail specifically. My big question is, Does anyone know of a transparent alcohol that has a special significance to Stephen King or any of his stories? I take it lots of you are familiar with the Poe toaster and his bottle of Cognac?

 

[Dana Jean]

Hi!

 

[Spideyman]

Hi and welcome.

 

[Bryan James]

I'm sorta absintheminded lately, otherwise I'd try to help.

 

[king family fan]

Welcome.

 

[not_nadine]

Martians from The Shining

 

[GNTLGNT]

...I welcome you with a warm heart, but also with a bit of advice...I would avoid such a topic, given Steve's past struggles with alcohol addiction...

 

[Walter Oobleck]

What was that liquid in Tommyknockers...in the shed? Maybe not...don't believe it was alcohol...just some liquid. Then, too, King borrowed/tip-of-the-hat from/to Twain's Huck Finn in that one, that line about a rotting body floating to the surface in response to cannon-fire. A Tommyknocker Body-Floater. Green. The liquid was green. Or maybe go with a blue theme and call it The Pulse. There's that water in the short story...Texas...near Waco was it? Don't recall the name of the story. Too, reading Lawrence Block, Out on the Cutting Edge...story includes some of the nuts & bolts of AA...meetings, steps, confession and such. One thing that struck me is how one character, not in AA, asks Scudder about the meetings, what they do there...because she is a drinker, drinks/drank in front of him...kissed him afterward, alcohol on her breath...anyway, they're engaged in conversation and he replies to one of her concerns about her sensitivity to the issue that that's all they talk about at AA. I'm not aware of a transparent alcohol of any significance in any King story...beer, water, the liquid in Tommyknockers...the water under Big Pink...that short I mentioned. Welcome aboard. What say otherwise?

 

[Out of Order]

Grey Matter

 

[VultureLvr45]

...I welcome you with a warm heart, but also with a bit of advice...I would avoid such a topic, given Steve's past struggles with alcohol addiction...

Thank you GG. You have answered this gracefully. Welcome dizzydean.

 

[Haunted]

 

[Sundrop]

All that comes to mind is Meteor Sh!t......I'm twisted, I know.....I'll see myself out

 

[Out of Order]

All that comes to mind is Meteor Sh!t......I'm twisted, I know.....I'll see myself out

On the rocks?

 

[Sundrop]

On the rocks?

Naturally

 

[Moderator]

...I welcome you with a warm heart, but also with a bit of advice...I would avoid such a topic, given Steve's past struggles with alcohol addiction...

That was my first thought as well but thought I might have been being overprotective.

 

[Neesy]

I'm sorta absintheminded lately, otherwise I'd try to help.

...I welcome you with a warm heart, but also with a bit of advice...I would avoid such a topic, given Steve's past struggles with alcohol addiction...

That was my first thought as well but thought I might have been being overprotective.

What Moderator and GG said (and I quoted Bryan James simply because I do love a great pun!)
Apart from that Welcome to SKMB!

 

[dizzydean]

Oh, @@^&&@, I had no idea. I guess know the question is, should I abandon the idea entirely, or switch to something non-alcoholic, like a mixture of orange and cranberry juice (it looks somewhat like blood)?

 

[Neesy]

Oh, @@^&&@, I had no idea. I guess know the question is, should I abandon the idea entirely, or switch to something non-alcoholic, like a mixture of orange and cranberry juice (it looks somewhat like blood)?

The cranberry juice is good for urinary tract infections and the orange juice has vitamin C, but apart from that I think you should abandon the idea of naming a drink after Mr. King!