[Magdalen] Snake juice.

[James Oppenheimer]

Better a dead cobra than a live one.

James W. Oppenheimer
*“If you have a chance to accomplish something that will make things better
for people coming behind you, and you don’t do it, you're wasting your time
on this Earth.”  -- *Roberto Clemente

On Sat, Oct 25, 2014 at 11:58 PM, M J [Mike] Logsdon <mjl at ix.netcom.com>
wrote:

> Today, in Oakland, CA, at a(n upscale) Vietnamese restaurant, I had a
> generous shot of a hard liquor consisting of liquor, various herbs and
> berries, and a dead cobra.  Had I not seen what it was, I would have just
> thought it a mildly flavored vodka.  As it is, I gagged it down, and later
> had the benefit of a taste of high-end rum to blunt the residual taste.
>
> Dinner at a Chinese restaurant earlier was heavenly.  The stir-fried lamb
> and jalapeno was wildly incredible.
> _________________________________________
> "O perplexed discomposition, O riddling
> distemper, O miserable condition of man!"
> - The Rev Mr John Donne
> (in a not-so-chipper moment)
>