Scola, I meant to say this yesterday. Thank you for linking to that article.

Who wants some msbelle hilarity from Bureau 1?

ok ok - I will support Natter V. Natter, but Cheese better NOT become another Monkeypants.

I snapped. I sent an email to Annalee about the Buffista paragraph. Apparently I can't let things go at all.

Don't expire from surprise.

b.org has (mostly) been more stable than TT.

I like to err on the side of duplicate posts, when I can.

Did we have a Bureau at TT? Okay, *that's* annoying.

I was totally anti-Natter too. That historical stance I'll back off of. All the rest I was completely right about.

Didn't we start Bureau as Building a Better Board?

Did we have a Bureau at TT?

I don't think so. At WX, definitely.

Complications from the monkey bite, IIRC.

Yeah, I though "complications from monkey bite" was the cause of death stated. And I may be misremembering, but I don't recall Gus ever saying he had MS. Between Deb G and Jen K, I'm taking that one a little personally. Although, while it is a personal thing for me (and most of us, really), I just can't get all het up about the Gus incident (the article is a mildly different matter). I've got too much real life stuff to worry about.

Tommy, can you send me that address to my email addy?

Argh. Thought I had it in gmail, but I don't. But I do have the address stored in a text file, and I'm 99% sure that's correct. I'll send you that in a minute.

Thanks. It's a just-in-case. Not planning on going up there tomorrow or anything.

So his name actually was "Guy Straley", or what?

Cash, insent.

I agree with the first part and take exception to the second. I consider my husband a serious mixologist (He's been doing it nearly 2 decades now) and Sapphire is one of his favorites.

Fair point. Some mixologists, perhaps reacting to Bombay's longstanding reputation as the pinnacle of gins, have backlashed against it and all it stands for. Which is what? I don't know exactly. I remember Alberta railing that it was "gin flavored vodka" but really, that's what gin is: vodka plus juniper plus a mix of botanicals. But it had something to do with its distilling methods which was considered to be some kind of shortcut with Flavor Enhancement or I really don't know.

I do know that serious mixologists love working with gin, and take it seriously and I never hear them excited about Bombay Sapphire. They'd rather go back to a classic old style like Plymouth (the favored gin of Bruno at The Zam Zam, incidentally) or some weird ass variation like Old Raj, or the latest thing.

There is a three part video tour on Alberta's website about going through a gin distillery from start to finish (I think it might be 209). It's fascinating.