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[Winterwalker]

Fortified Madeira

Barley Wine, Cask, Stout, Stock, Fruit, Lager, Pilsener, Schwarzbier
Cider, Perry, Plum, Huangjiu, Mead, Sake, Sonti.
Sangria, Champagne, Fortified, Madeira, Sherry, Vermouth.

"Once drunk," Yin claims, "a cup of wine can bring 100 stanzas," the drunker the bard, the more the words flow.
I quietly drop another "no 'chol" tab, pouring two drinks, one for me one, for Yin, and we're starting on the whiskeys.

Finally he forgets me and stands, obviously spinning, leaving his pad on the table, staggering for the rotating floor.
The pad, unguarded holds a start sequence, code to Yin's Cobra, that I memorise with interest.

 

[psykokow]

...Isn't it bleedin' obvious!....I'm Drunk!
.....Murder."

obvious!....I'm = 1 word not 2.. just needs a space

 

[Yaffle]

That's odd, as I have checked it out 4 times (Finger counting, lining up 10 words a line into 10 lines, accurate word counter tool) and every time it comes up as 100 words .. With the word 'Space-station' as it is ... I think MS word is counting it wrong .. I'll check 1 more time

*Edit - re-checked and it's 100 words ... how odd !?!

If you're going to the trouble of ten words per line, why not go the next step to syllables and write in iambic pentamer?

I'd vote for that based on effort alone!

 

[Luniticisi]

obvious!....I'm = 1 word not 2.. just needs a space

Well spotted ... I'll edit that now ... Cheers

 

[cassius]

Well spotted ... I'll edit that now ... Cheers

Eyes of the Hawk
...the Hawk
...the Hawk




Ah memories

 

[azdour]

A Route to Drink

Drink was Peter's mistress, and as a trader he seen and experimented with many types.

He would travel to the edges of the known systems and beyond to get his hands on new ones.

But age forced him to settle down.

He opened a large bar with exotic drinks shipped in from every known systems so that people could try them.

So popular did his bar become that he soon offered his services to ferry people to and fro. He even changed the bars name to Drink. All so his happy customers could say that he 'drove them to Drink'...

 

[Yaffle]

go on, I'll do it, for my birthday (tomorrow)

Poll will go up tonight at tea-eh-timeh (for those pratchett fans )

to give me time to go through them at lunch etc.

Happy Birthday Bikki

Here's the Jacket of Doom. I had it cleaned, but still stay away from the left pocket.

 

[AlexGS]

To Drink, or Not to Drink

Through clouds of breath in the flickering gloom, Brian watched the drips. Every ten seconds, plik!, a drop into the jar.

Water, stale-tasting and yellowish, from the silent engines far above? Hydrogen-burning drives could certainly produce water. Or was it some other, more harmful substance? Engines teemed with those.

The dripping was painfully slow... but in another way much too fast, because once he returned to where the kids were hiding, huddled, freezing and dehydrated in the dark, he’d have to make the decision.

This stuff might keep them alive for a few more hours. Or it might kill them.

 

[Gibbonici]

I was really wanting to get a drabble done but somehow it's 10pm on Thursday and I've got nowt. Unless 100 words fall out of my brain in the right order in the next half hour, I guess I'll be missing this week

 

[Ian Phillips]

They have to make some sort of sense as well !

 

[Gibbonici]

They have to make some sort of sense as well !

I've got no chance then

I know, instead of writing about drink I think I might have one. Got a bottle of 30-year old special reserve Caol Isla downstairs.

Chin chin!

 

[Darren Grey]

Last Drink

My last hit was a funny one – a Federal politician, alcoholic, racist and hopelessly corrupt. Directive: make it look like an accident.

My chance came on a Beluga cruise. He got drunk on the free alcohol, eventually slipping asleep. The bottle floated near his face. My gloved hand grabbed it, steadied it, and then squeezed. The clear liquid flowed out, forming a small sphere in the air. I gently, ever so slowly, pushed his face forwards. The liquid seeped into his open mouth and up his nostrils, forming a film over his face.

Glug glug, senator. Last drink.

Funny, eh?

 

[Darkoba]

Choosing the best three is gonna be difficult again :S
It's always nice to read a drabble that has an unexpected twist on an apparently simple theme.

 

[Ian Phillips]

Is the Poll up?

If not - and Bikky is too busy celebrating his birthday (happy brithday by the way) I can do it this evening.

 

[Bikky]

http://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=15710Apologies for poll being up late, I went to the pub for pre-birthday celebrations

here it is

 

[azdour]

Hmmm... not sure why my drabble is 101 words. My LibreOffice which I have used on all my other drabbles has been correct and it told me I had 100 words.

Sticking to the 100 is something I check vigorously for otherwise there is no point in posting it.

A visual count of the words also seems to come to 100 words.

 

[Sir.Tj]

1st post updated with latest poll DRINK

 

[Frank]

Thanks for the new Avatar T.j

 

[Sir.Tj]

Thanks for the new Avatar T.j

Fantastic, Do you want your forum name changed as well?

Sadly I cannot rep you for that the no reppy rep limit has been reached for today.

That would really make my day.

 

[Darkoba]

1st post updated with latest poll DRINK

What's me dad doin' there with Tj???? :S