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Old Log Cabin has faded into obscurity, but
Booze’s name has come into our language
as a general term for alcohol.
• The Hoocheno Indians of Alaska came up
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man flat. It became known as hooch.
• Port wine is named for the Portuguese city
that is was shipped from— Oporto.
• Bourbon comes from Bourbon County,
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• Vodka is the Russian word for “little water.”
• Whiskey comes from a Gaelic phrase
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And in the morning wake up to freshly baked croissants and a • The focal point of Irish social life is the pub.
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• At pubs, beer is served by the pint or the
quart, which are abbreviated ‘P’ and ‘Q’
on the patron’s bar tab. If a bar owner was
concerned that someone was running up too
much of a bill, he might tell the person to
“mind your Ps and Qs.”
• A tab was often called a “scot” and if the
tavern’s owner lost the scot or forgot to write
the drink down on the scot, the drinker got off
“scot-free.” (cont)

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life threatening? Will it become atrial fibrillation? evaluation, such as wearing a 24-hour EKG (a Holter
Also, I am a chocolate lover and eat dark chocolate monitor) or newer technologies that allow longer
every day. But I was told that cocoa will make my readings.
irregular heartbeat worse and I should stop eating Atrial fibrillation is a concern, because most people
dark chocolate. Is that true? -- Q.Y. will need treatment to reduce stroke risk or to return
the rhythm to normal. Nevertheless, there are many
ANSWER: Everyone has irregular heartbeats from other kinds of irregular heart rhythms, and you need a
time to time. Early beats can come from electri- diagnosis first. If no cause is found, there are medica-
cally active areas anywhere in the heart, and an tions to reduce the irregularity, but they are seldom
electrocardiogram can tell whether they are from used. My experience is that when a person knows
the atria (the top chambers) or the ventricles (the they are not dangerous, they can be lived with more
bottom chambers) of the heart. easily.
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a day -- some people have many more. Most are that can make the heart a little more irritable, but it
seldom aware of them. Having patients with this takes a lot of chocolate to have a significant effect.
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A veteran was a patient at a midwestern VA whose name is derived from the native Acolhua FREE
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medications. He wound up each day at VA and protect their fancy dresses with a lace hanky
non-VA medical facilities being loaded with IV wrapped around their neck like a bib and tucked OPEN DAILY
fluids and sent home. On Day 4, at the VA ER, into their neck. Sipping wine was called bibbing convenient drive up window
the veteran was admitted for observation. and the lacy neckerchief was called a tucker.
When he arrived at ER, the patient asked for Nowadays when you put on your best bib and All Of It
help with withdrawal symptoms and told hospi- tucker, you are referring to the olden days of Catering
tal staff about thoughts of suicide and that there bibbing tuckers.
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Since there was no room in the mental health prevent the effects of alcohol.
unit, the veteran was put in a medical unit, • According to folk medicine, when a person
where he told two more medical staff about sui- was bitten by a rabid dog, a sure cure was to
cidal thoughts. Another staff member heard the tie some hairs from that dog in a bandage over
veteran on the phone giving away possessions the bite wound. It didn’t work, and neither does
but didn’t pass on the information. having a glass of “the hair of the dog that bit
On Day 8 the patient couldn’t be found on the you” when suffering from a hangover.
unit and was paged. When there was no answer, • In the 1830s, a temperance society in Michigan
staff began to search. Forty-five minutes later was campaigning against the evils of drink.
the veteran was found dead from suicide. They offered their members two pledges:
At the request of a congressman, the Office of one was a pledge of moderate drinking, the
the Inspector General for the VA was called in to other was a pledge of total abstinence. On the
investigate. Its findings aren’t pretty. membership rolls those who had made pledges
The ER didn’t report the veteran’s talk of suicide were identified as either “O.P.” for those who
to the Suicide Prevention Coordinator. Three had taken the “Old Pledge” to drink moderately,
other staff members, who had been trained in or “T-Total” for those who embraced total
suicide prevention, did not tell anyone when the abstinence. This group eventually became
veteran talked about suicide. Two of them made known as Teetotalers. (cont)
notes but there was no indication that medi-
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2 tablespoons Health Essentials Place an oven rack in the middle position and preheat the
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¼ teaspoon red pepper ßakes skillet over medium-high heat. SautŽ for about 1 minute.
salt and freshly ground black Add the raw pasta, crushed tomatoes, 2½ cups of water, ½
pepper cup of vodka, and ½ teaspoon of salt. Stir well to combine.
1 can (28 ounces) crushed Bring to a simmer and cover. Cook at a vigorous simmer
tomatoes until ziti is tender, about 15-18 minutes, stirring frequently.
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12 ounces of ziti, about 3¾ cups half-and-half and salt and pepper to taste.
½ cup of half-and-half Sprinkle the ½ cup of grated mozzarella over the ziti in an
½ cup of grated Parmesan cheese even layer. Transfer the skillet into the preheated oven and
1/3 cup of minced fresh basil bake until the cheese melts and just starts to brown, about
leaves 10 minutes. Use this time to make a salad and/or prepare
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Small Wedding ORIGINS OF ALCOHOL (cont) 1. Who was the last Oakland
Specialists • A man named Colonel Taylor wanted to raise A’s player before Khris
Davis in 2018 to lead the
Your Special Day the popularity of his bourbon, named Old American League in home
At a Country Mansion & Winery Taylor. He hired men to collect all the old runs for a season?
www.claremontinn.com/specials-packages empty bottles of Old Taylor, and shipped three 2. How many times has a
freight car loads to New York City. Another Tampa Bay Rays pitcher won
GIVE THE GIFT OF A crew of men set up the empty bottles on mantels 20-plus games in a season?
and shelves in bars, restaurants, and clubs all 3. Who scored the first rushing touchdown in
GetawaySpend less money on toys & across town. Having rows of empties gave Super Bowl history?
take a family vacation instead! the impression that Old Taylor was the most 4. Name the last Division II men’s college
popular drink in the town, and New Yorkers basketball player to be selected in the NBA
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Your one stop for all things travel related... FREE Travel Planning Service its way to popularity. 5. Which player won the most Stanley Cups
• Rudolph Kunett bought the American rights without ever playing for the Montreal Canadiens?
to Smirnoff vodka from Vladimire Smirnoff 6. In 2019, the U.S. women’s national soccer
himself. In 1934, he set up America’s first team set a record for biggest margin of victory
vodka distillery in Connecticut— and then in a World Cup game (13 goals). Which country
faced the problem of how to get people to drink had held the mark?
the stuff. It was viewed as suspect because it 7. Of WBC heavyweight boxing champion Deontay
was from Russia, considered to be a politically Wilder’s 43 pro bouts, how many have ended
subversive country. with Wilder recording a knockout?
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he used up all his corks that said “Smirnoff
Whiskey.” They had been left over from a
doomed attempted to expand the line of liquor
into whiskey. A curious salesman sampled
this new clear kind of whiskey, and found it
good. He put up signs advertising “Smirnoff’s
White Whiskey. No taste. No smell.” Whereas
vodka didn’t sell because it was an unfamiliar
product, white whiskey sold like crazy because
everyone knew what whiskey was. Smirnoff
sales took off.

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like to keep them in their original cardboard Rinse and recycle both parts when you are finished.
boxes, be sure to reinforce corners with strong * Baking soda can be used as a mild abrasive to
clear tape BEFORE they start to crack and fall clean, but it also can help clean your teeth! Keep
apart. Use hook and loop tape to secure bags a small container in your bathroom and sprinkle
inside the box cover so that game pieces will a little bit of baking soda on your toothbrush
stay with the game. There’s nothing worse than weekly to give your pearly whites a polish between
pulling out a game to find that some pieces professional cleanings.
have slipped out. * Tuck a couple fabric softener sheets in your
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One of the Jews he saved was a man named to serve two nonconsecutive terms?
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live in New York City. Schindler had been dead for 8 years. 10. GAMES: What are the four railroad properties
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other disruptions. which is also about the Holocaust. pasta dish.
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Eve is 9 months and 5 days before that. that Universal Studios balked, thinking the cut into 1/4-inch pieces
film too risky. They struck an agreement with 1 small onion, chopped
JERRY HARREL Spielberg: if he first made a lucrative summer 5 large eggs
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unknown actor named Liam Neeson had on medium 1 minute. Add bacon and cook until
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after the play ended, there was a knock on from skillet; add onion and cook 6 minutes or
Neeson’s dressing room door. He opened the until tender. Remove skillet from heat.
door to find Steven Spielberg, offering him the 3. Reserve 1/4 cup pasta cooking water. Drain
role as Oskar Schindler. pasta; add to skillet with reserved water and
bacon. Cook on medium, stirring, until water is
• Branko Lustig became the producer after absorbed. In bowl, whisk eggs with Romano and
showing Spielberg his tattooed serial number 1/4 teaspoon coarsely ground black pepper.
from Auschwitz on his arm. 4. Remove skillet from heat; stir in egg mixture.
Add parsley and toss until pasta is well coated.
• Leopold Page was employed as a consultant. Spoon into warm pasta bowl; serve with Romano
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served not only Roast Stolen Rooster but also, for
dessert, were treated to a drink composed of rum and Revisit the Books of Our Childhood (1950), “Charlotte’s Web” (1952), “Hor-
fruit juice with a feather from the stolen chicken’s There really is something to be said for go- ton Hears a Who!” (1954), “Danny and the
tail as decoration. “More cock tails!” shouted one ing back to a simpler time, even for a little Dinosaur” (1958) and the “Brains Benton
officer, and so the cocktail was born. while. Series” (1959-61).
For those of us who work with people who To jog your memory, in 1942, Henry, Jes-
• According to legend, there was an inn in Virginia have dementia, or if we just want to take sie, Violet and Benny Alden were orphans
called the Cock and Bottle. In those days, a cock a break from the current crop of books on living in a boxcar in the woods until they
was another word for the wooden tap on a draft beer bestseller lists, here is an idea: revisit the are introduced to their grandfather, who has
barrel, so a sign that had both a picture of a cock and books of our childhood. the boxcar moved to his backyard in “The
a bottle on it would indicate that the tavern served Wikipedia can be a great place to remind Boxcar Children.”
both draft beer and wine. The “tail” was the muddy us of the titles we might have forgotten. In 1946, “Scuffy the Tugboat” ended up
dregs at the bottom of the barrel, served to patrons Put “books of the 1940s,” or whatever floating down larger and larger waterways
for a cut rate. Legend says that a customer was once decade you’d like to explore, in its search until he was rescued and was put back where
so outraged at the poor quality of the cock’s tail he box,. You’ll find hundreds of books from he was happiest -- the bathtub.
was served that he vowed he would henceforth drink our childhood, most with links to informa- In 1959, Brains Benton and his sidekick
only cock tails of his own brewing and immediately tion about the books themselves, such as: Jimmy Carson solved the mystery of “The
mixed up various ingredients in order to make a “Lassie Come Home” (1940), “Curious Case of the Missing Message,” and contin-
more palatable drink – the first cocktail. George” (1941), “Pippi Longstocking” ued solving crimes for the next five books in
(1945) and “Scuffy the Tugboat” (1946). the original Brains Benton series.
• Another theory is that in somebody’s bar in some From the 1950s we have “Henry Huggins” If you want to find the old books of your
American harbor, leftover bits of drinks that were childhood, it’s not as difficult as you might
served but not consumed were dumped together in a think. Some of the books are still in print.
container shaped like a rooster. Customers could get Check Amazon.com or AbeBooks.com.
cheap drinks from a tap set in the tail of the rooster, Some of them might be found at your
the cock’s tail. library. If you’re very lucky, a few of them
might even be on your own bookshelves.
• The story goes that a Mexican woman named Xochtil
served a mixed drink to an American general, who admaenondFtFgioent t2h0%is
enjoyed the drink but couldn’t pronounce her name.
He called her Cocktail instead, and named the drink we know how to fit shoes !!
after her.

• Or perhaps it came from an apothecary named
Peychaud (of Peychaud Bitters fame) in New
Orleans. This French pharmacist served medicinal
liquors in small egg-shaped cups called “coquetiers”
typically used for serving soft boiled eggs.Americans
could not readily pronounce “coquetiers,” calling it
a cocktail instead.

• Another claim is that when cock fights were all the
rage, the fighting roosters would often be fed bread
soaked in alcohol in order to make them a bit more
aggressive. This was known as “cock’s ale.”

• And then there were the celebratory drinks served
after a victorious cockfight. The owner of the winning
cock would be treated to a drink that contained a
number of feathers equal to the number of feathers
left in the winning cock’s tail, like swizzle sticks.

• Or perhaps it’s related to the West African word
“kaketal” meaning scorpion, because they both
have a sting.

• It may have something to do with bobbing the tail
of horses – trimming the tail short, or cocking it,
to indicate that the horse is not a thoroughbred, as
when a gentleman has a few too many to drink.

• The American Heritage Dictionary defines
“cocktail” as “an alcoholic drink consisting of a spirit
or several spirits mixed with other ingredients, such
as fruit juice, lemonade, or cream.” The dictionary
solves the conundrum of the word’s origin simply
by stating, “Origin unknown.”

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