Sundowner...

[Jock Scot]

...a hotel where there is no room service after midnight.

Growing up, a "sundowner" was usually a Gin and Indian Tonic during the summer, and a whisky in the winter. Ladies, quite often, would have a chilled sherry if they didn't care for the taste of gin or whisky. These drinks were usually served around 5PM.

As I seem to recall, proper "mixed drinks" were served, along with chilled champagne, at about 7:30, just before we went in for dinner.

That is how I remember it too, although my father being a Royal Navy man preferred a pink gin and my mother was very partial to a "gimlet"(gin and Roses lime juice).

[Andy Proffitt]

If you read Capstick's Maneaters (in the lion section), it could be darn near anything. In differing contexts, it has seemed either to be gin drinks, or whiskies. Everything is better at sundown.

[BoldHighlander]

If you read Capstick's Maneaters (in the lion section), it could be darn near anything.

I'm just starting Capstick's "Death in the Long Grass" this evening...

In differing contexts, it has seemed either to be gin drinks, or whiskies. Everything is better at sundown.

Indeed!

[Jock Scot]

Speak up laddie, don't mumble, speak up!

[Old Hippie]

Speak up laddie, don't mumble, speak up!

Which would explain the classic muddle that turns "Send reinforcements. We are going to advance" into "Send three-and-fourpence. We are going to a dance."

[MacMillan of Rathdown]

DDT... Drop Dead Twice?

[Jock Scot]

DDT... Drop Dead Twice?

[Lallans]

DDT... Drop Dead Twice?

Or Drop Dead Tweetiebird?

[BoldHighlander]

Don'tchya just love how these threads take a life of their own?

(...and I'm just as guilty! :mrgreen

[Lallans]

On the one hand, DDT does a lot of second hand damage in the environment but I do see the original point that was being made about it, which I assume was a reference to the fact that people are dying of malaria that could be prevented by the use of DDT. DDT however is not a long term solution because, if we can all remember, insects in North America were virtually immune to it by the time it was banned.

And to continue the off topicness going on, last week there were news items that the breakdown byproduct of DDT, DDA, which allegedly acts as a fake hormone in the human body, is becoming suspect in the western obesity epidemic. And there they were blaming McDonalds! (I hasten to add that I'm jokingly referring to the notorious chain of fast food restaurants).