It does not speak well for me that I got that without the footnote...

By Don_Walsh on Saturday, December 22, 2001 - 04:13 am: Edit

Anyway, what's the exchange rate between quaters and kwatloos*?

(* medium of exchange among the Gamesters of Triskillion, on an old Star Trek episode)

Or Erous, for that matter.

By Don_Walsh on Saturday, December 22, 2001 - 04:04 am: Edit

This chap could have lifted that, albeit somewhat inaccurately, from the Oxford University Chemistry Dept. Absinthe & Thujone webpage I rewrote for them last year.

By Artist on Friday, December 21, 2001 - 01:43 pm: Edit

I thought it might be a middle eastern country...

By _Blackjack on Friday, December 21, 2001 - 01:08 pm: Edit

I thought the quater was the big line going around the earth...

By Verawench on Friday, December 21, 2001 - 10:31 am: Edit

Some guy named "Ted" making "real absinthe" in "New Orleans" My God, will they ever stop with the lies?

By Petermarc on Friday, December 21, 2001 - 10:08 am: Edit

yeah, ok , but who is this ted guy?

By Cheri on Thursday, December 20, 2001 - 06:26 pm: Edit

It's the equater down south..

By Zman7 on Thursday, December 20, 2001 - 06:25 pm: Edit

Spell Check, take me away!

By Artist on Thursday, December 20, 2001 - 06:11 pm: Edit

HeeHee.

By Mr_Rabid on Thursday, December 20, 2001 - 06:10 pm: Edit

Twenny five cents.

By Artist on Thursday, December 20, 2001 - 06:08 pm: Edit

What's a quater?

By Zman7 on Thursday, December 20, 2001 - 05:49 pm: Edit

....A New Orleans chemist and biologist named Ted Breaux has spent several years studying absinthe and has recreated the recipe for Belle Epoch Pernod, aided in his research by a couple of scarce century-old bottles of the real thing. Breaux is reportedly soon to launch his own brand commercially, for distribution outside of the USA. This is eagerly awaited in some quaters.
Phil Barker, "The Dedalus Book of Absinthe."