The most recent 20 comments posted to Making Light by Tiff:

I've been offered all kinds of drinks that people have told me 'you can't taste the alcohol in'. They can't but I can. I also hate being told that the reason I don't like $drink is because I haven't had good $drink yet. I have had good beer and good wine and good whiskey and I didn't like them either.

Currently the only drink I find palatable is mead (and it's got to be the right brand of mead as well) but when I was a student my drink of choice when I could afford it was Baileys and coke.

If anyone wants to try this bizarre concoction you'll need to be in a bar because the coke has to come out of a hose. One measure of Baileys in a half-pint glass, then add coke until it's half-full and wait while it expands. Top up if necessary. Add a spoon.

I must have confused half the bar staff in Durham with that one. :-) I never did think of a name for it though.

Kill Without Joy. Because carrying a thermos of liquid hydrogen around with you in case your target happens to walk past underneath is such a sensible idea.

That said, it's an entertaining read. If you ever needed a really convoluted way for a Bond-style villain to fail to do away with someone...

I have a four volume set of books called The World of the Children, published in 1950 (I think) which contains instructions on how to make your own gunpowder. I also have a book of magic tricks, demonstrating some of the many exiting things that can be done with concentrated sulphuric acid and ammonia.

I'm sure the only reason I survived completely intact is that you can't buy all this stuff from the local chemist any more.

My mum makes a good fruit cake. The only thing she gets wrong (in my opinion) is putting marzipan and icing on it. Try it with thin slices of wenslydale cheese. It's cakey heaven.

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