#Dorado Krueger

[demonlattee]

Meanwhile Chimera operators in their spare time:

[mugenfinder]

Abridged from the original upload on Newgrounds

SO HEY WHO WANTS TO WATCH A BUNCH OF RANDOM CHARACTERS PLAY DDR

I KNOW I SURE DO

This video says so much about me. Pretty much every fandom or character I've loved appears in this at some point or another. Which adds up to some EIGHTY CHARACTERS last I counted jesus christ. Almost all frame-by-frame again aaaaagh my eeeeeeyes why do I keep doing this to myself.

Here's the full cast list:

Metal Gear Solid: Solid Snake, Otacon, Sunny, Liquid Snake, Revolver Ocelot, Raiden, Solidus, The Joy/Boss, The Sorrow

Star Control 2: Admiral ZEX, The Captain, Talana, an Utwig, a Supox, an Arilou, Subcommander DAX, Fwiffo

Phoenix Wright: Yanni Yogi, Damon Gant, Matt Engarde, Juan Corrida

Pikmin: Olimar, Pikmin

Johnny the Homicidal Maniac: Nny, Edgar

Mother 3: Duster, Kumatora, Lucas, Boney, Ionia

Pokemon (these are original characters of mine): Radic, Farnsworth the Lucario, Nova the Raichu, Callima the Parasect

Megaman Legends: Teisel Bonne, Glyde

Mario: Luigi, Prince Peasley (from Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga)

Silent Hill: Harry Mason, Dahlia Gillespie, Pyramid Head, James Sunderland, Heather Mason, Father Vincent

Final Fantasy 7: Cid Highwind, Vincent Valentine

Slayers: Vrumugun, Zangulus

Final Fantasy 9: Zorn and Thorn

Magic Knights Rayearth: Ascot

Road to El Dorado: Miguel, Tulio

EarthBound: Ness, Paula, Jeff, Poo

Final Fantasy 6: Strago Magus, Kefka

Secret of Mana: Sprite, Boy

Captain Jack (Franky Gee), the Eurodance artist

Cleo, my dead dog

Slasher Movies: Freddy Krueger, Jason Voorhees, Michael Myers

Final Fantasy 8: Zell Dincht, Irvine Kinneas

Snatcher: Gillian Seed, Random Hajile, Metal Gear Mk. II

Quest for Glory: The Hero

Metroid: Samus Aran

Wilhelm and Zee (from NeonPteranodon's videos on youtube)

Lazytown: Sportacus

Chrono Trigger: Ayla

Space Quest: Roger Wilco

Day of the Tentacle: Green

Original Characters: Tsukiyo, Girl, Triangle, Scriabin, Dr. Dowasure, Zarla, Alix, Sheena (my, my brother's, and my cousin's avatars)

I shall dive into the pits of hell for knowledge…who are these characters?!

[monstrouspegasister]

Marvel: Infinity War is the most ambitious crossover event in history.

Me:

I wanted to add a lot more tags than thirty, so here's the rest.

Mario

Final Fantasy 9

Pikmin

Star Control 2

Johnny the Homicidal Maniac

Inhuman

Day of the Tentacle

DDR

Dance Dance Revolution

Here's the artist's site http://www.ashido.com/

And their dA: https://www.deviantart.com/zarla/gallery/

I didn't find this out until now, but they have a Tumblr, too. https://zarla-s.tumblr.com/

[alex20191]

Undergamebot AU theme

AU theme for Undergamebot AU

Heartache:

Undergamebot(normal):Headache(Joline)

Undergambot(future):Heart Breaker(Alice)

Gameswap:Disaster in the Show(Alan)

Gamefell:Cheated(Fell!Alice)

Outergame:Black Hole(Kyu!Alice)

Altergame:Pain in Blue(Blue Pain)(Kevin)

Storygame:One Pain(Alex the 2nd)

Spingame:Broken Hand(Heart)

Horrorgame:Nightmare(Horror!Alice)

Gametwist:Muscle Pain(Ted)

Twistedgame:Shredded Manga(Grave)

Bonetrousle:

Undergamebot(normal):Radtrouble(Tobias)

Undergambot(future):Onelovania(We are number One)(Alex the 2nd)

Gameswap:Happy Blue(Kevin)

Gamefell:One Strike Back(Fell!Alex the 2nd)

Outergame:We are Lucky One(Kyu!Alex the 2nd)

Altergame:Magic and Hapiness(Alan and Alice)

Storygame:His Food(Dorado)

Spingame:Good Time(Alice)

Horrorgame:Hungry One(Horror!Alex the 2nd)

Gametwist:Happy Fist(Heart)

Twistedgame:Muscle Man(Ted)

Spear of Justice:

Undergamebot(normal):Mother of Injustice(Nicole)

Undergambot(future):Fist of Strategy(Heart)

Gameswap:Lovania of Brave(Grave)

Gamefell:Fist of Corruption(Fell!Heart)

Outergame:Claw of Nova(Kyu!Heart)

Altergame:Gun of Shadow(Zed)

Storygame:Puzzle of Sweet(Alice)

Spingame:Belt of Worship(Ted)

Horrorgame:Hunter of Trophy(Horror!Heart)

Gametwist:Dagger of Truth(Psycho)

Twistedgame:Hope of Rich(Dorado)

Metal Crusher and Death by Glamour:

Undergamebot(normal):Cheating Crusher,Death by Handsome(Gumball)

Undergambot(future):Heel Smasher,Smashed by Champion(Ted)

Gameswap:Metal Splasher,Splatted by Inker(Tsunami)

Gamefell:Head Smasher,Lose by Heel Fighter(Fell!Ted)

Outergame:Star Smasher,Champion Star!(Kyu!Ted)

Altergame:Metal Splasher,Splatted by Inker(Tsunami)

Storygame:Yandare Puncher,Death by Love(Heart)

Spingame:Metal Stabber,Death by Ban(Psycho

Horrorgame:Broken Smasher,Smashed by Scrap(Horror!Ted)

Gametwist:Steellovania,Steel Strike Back(Kevin)

Twistedgame:Dinosaur,Chomped by Dino(Raptor)

Spider Dance:

Undergamebot(normal):Squid Dance(Teacher)

Undergambot(future):Dino Dance(Raptor)

Gameswap:Moon Dance(Gin)

Gamefell:Black Dinozaur(Raptor)

Outergame:Flying Dinosaur(Raptor)

Altergame:Manga Dance(Grave)

Horrorgame:Scary Monster(Horror!Raptor)

Bergentrückung and ASGORE:

Undergamebot(normal):King of Storm,OMEGA DRAGON(Alex the 1st)

Undergambot(future):Racha hang Medmon(King of Magic),ALAIN(Alan)

Gameswap:Rachani hang kram Ging(Queen of Truth),XANDRA(Alice)

Gamefell:Black Magic,iVLAIN!(Fell!Alan)

Outergame:Creation,SUPERNOVA(Kyu!Alan)

Altergame:Sekai no Akuma(World of Demon)(Auferstehen),ARNOLD(Alex the 2nd)

Storygame:Captain of Blue(who you callin konig?),K.E.V.I.N(Kevin)

Spingame:Creator of Manga,BRAVE(Grave)

Horrorgame:Missing King,LOST KING(Horror!Alan)

Gametwist:King of Muscle,G LATO(Ted)

Twistedgame:Queen of Amazon,HEART(Heart)

Hope and Dreams and SAVE THE WORLD:

Undergamebot(normal):7 Deadly Hope,DESTROY THE WORLD(Grim)

Undergambot(future):Food and Rich,GIVE THE WORLD(Reach the Star)(Dorado)

Gameswap:Mix and Nix,WIPE THE WORLD(Nixel)

Gamefell:Hope and Kindness,PEACE THE WORLD(Fell!Dorado)

Outergame:Star and Animal,MEGANOVA(Kyu!Dorado)

Altergame:Hope and Wish,STOP THE WORLD(Zach)

Storygame:Sea and River,SAVE THE SEA(Tsunami)

Spingame:Sin and One shall tell,TELL THE WORLD(Alex the 2nd)

Horrorgame:Blood and Knife,RESET THE WORLD(Horror!Dorado)

Twistedgame: Sin and One shall tell,TELL THE WORLD(Alex the 2nd)

Megalovania:

Undergamebot(normal):IKARINOJYU(GUN OF RAGE)(Thomas)

Undergambot(future):Bluelovania(Planktolovania)(Kevin)

Gameswap:One Strike Back(Alex the 2nd)

Gamefell:B.L.U.E.L.O.V.A.N.I.A(Fell!Kevin)

Outergame:Ao no Uchu(Blue of Space)(Kyu!Kevin)

Altergame:Freddo nello Stomaco(Cold in Stomach)(Dorado)

Storygame:Psycholovania(Psycho)

Spingame:Magicvolania(Alan)

Horrorgame:Horror Blue(Horror!Kevin)

Gametwist:Ikarinomanga(Manga of Rage)(Grave)

Twistedgame:Drylowamia(Tsunami)

[bicha-rara]

Macho alfa...

Solo un macho alfa, lomo dorado, barba de guardabosques, voz de espartano, nieto de Zeus, espalda de gladiador, furia de titan, que mide dos metros, manos de lija, pecho de peluche, zobaco con zacate, brazos de hulk, pelos de tuza, hambre de náufrago, sed de vikingo, pito cabeza de galápago de 100 años forrado en adamantium, heteropatriarcal, falocentrico, nazi-comunista, de raza reptiliano, annunaki, iluminati, penegobernante y masonico, que tumba a Chuck Norris con el aliento de borracho, que invoca a Shenlong con las dos bolas que le cuelgan, que voltea diez tazos de un putazo, mata a Zombies, que se sabe todos los combos y ultras, mata a Rugal con una vida, que folla más que toro semental de la India que convence a su novia, a la cuñada y a la suegra de darles por detroit, que le hace trenzas a los calvos, pito con chanfle a la izquierda, que traga clavos y caga balines, brinca edificios, que le da pesadillas a Freddy Krueger Chuky y Jason, Caza Godzillas, trabaja cuidando el panteón de noche y juega la Guija a la hora de la bestia, para ponerlo de rodillas y darle su lechita... Pone a trapear y a cocinar diariamente a su Hembra Ultra Omega Cabello sedoso de oro Nivel Maryln Monroe, Labios Carnosos de Angelina, tetas de acero de Mia Kalifa, Nalgas bronceadas de J-LO, piernas torneadas de Beyonce y Trasero sompopo platinado que con solo moverlo da derrame a las otras hembras

[alextsukinowriting]

Okay, rough idea is that you follow two teams.

The loose sucessors of the Galaxy team which are Leo Red Ren Corbett, Lupus Blue Nubu Krueger, Taurus Black Ziv, Dorado Yellow Gad, and Aquila Pink Claire Chen.

And the loose sucessors of the Space team: Scoripus Orange Cor, Aqua Ursa Minor TJ Johnson, Chameleon Green Elio, Libra Gold Prince Travis of Triforia, and Silver Ophiuchus Jace.

They would later be joined by the Purple Dracos ranger and crimson Phoenix Ranger.

But the man focus would be the first ranger team trying to find and resuce the kidnapped of galaxy rangers while planet hopping. the 2nd team would be focused on protecting earth and trying to work on ways to find the kidnapped space rangers.

Eventually the team would meet and fully become one team to stop the Shadow Alliance that had kidnapped the rangers teams.

I came up with a fanfic idea at work of adapting Kyuranger (an unadapted sentai) into a sequel for Power Rangers in Space and Power Rangers Lost Galaxy. Not sure if Ill write it any time soon but because It has 12 rangers I could have two separate teams for a while so it might be fun.

[wineanddinosaur]

An Ode to Bartender’s Handshake Shots

Newport, R.I., is a seasonal town, which means it’s going to be suffering even more than most places as Covid-19 quarantine lingers. Newport is traditionally New England’s summer spot for yachtsmen, youthful partiers, and urbanites who cram the inns and resorts between early June and Labor Day. But many of those people won’t be able to make the pilgrimage this year and, likewise, many of the local bars and restaurants might not be able to reopen, either.

“Newport has over 80 bars and restaurants; so the workers form a tight little community,” explains Tyler Bernadyn, a longtime resident and bartender at Midtown Oyster Bar and Caleb & Broad. The latter spot is mostly only frequented by true locals, who know the thing to order upon their arrival: a half-shot of Grand Marnier. A “GrandMa” shot in Newport, says Bernadyn, “is almost like a friendly handshake.”

Unfortunately, just like literal handshakes, in this strange age of social distancing, “bartender’s handshakes” might not exist for awhile, either. That doesn’t mean they should be forgotten. You see, no matter where you are in the country, industry workers share a special bond formed and fueled by working long and odd hours, living cash-heavy existences, and a tendency to hit the same dives post-shift. Now more than ever, with many of them furloughed, they are depending on their communities to survive. Many bartenders and servers would love nothing better than to get back to their bars to enjoy these secret shots, typically unknown to the general public, that form a unique connection among them.

“I believe the resurgence in craft cocktails helped cultivate the bartender’s handshakes over the past 10 to 20 years,” Brian Bartels, author of “The United States of Cocktails: Recipes, Tales, and Traditions from All 50 States (and the District of Columbia),” says. “We developed all these new cells through the camaraderie of shared education and celebration — the benchmarks of taverns, bars, and watering holes — which enabled staffs who didn’t even work together to become more connected.”

The most famous “bartender’s handshake” is, by now, pretty well known: Fernet-Branca, the mid-19th-century Italian liqueur. Rarely ordered in mainstream America for much of the 20th century, by the mid-2000s it began to drum up an industry following in San Francisco, especially at bars in the North Beach neighborhood, an area that, fittingly, has an Italian lineage.

Soon, bartenders in other major cities were likewise ordering it. By 2017 the cat was out of the bag and mainstream publications had begun reporting on this phenomenon; it’s now a fairly ubiquitous shot ordered across planet Earth.

Fernet almost certainly achieved handshake status due to its aggressively bitter flavor profile — no way a civilian would ever order that.

“Bartenders can be pretty sadistic with each other,” explains Bartels. “Which is why the handshake can occasionally be a punch to the palate, served with a sideways grin. By that, I mean, some people take pleasure in the facial responses caused by imbibing certain spirits.”

Similar to Fernet in that fraternity-hazing vein is Jeppson’s Malört, a wince-inducing spiced wormwood liquor popular in Chicago. In certain parts of Wisconsin, an entire shot of Angostura bitters is the handshake. While in Pittsburgh, the sadistic shot of choice is Jannamico Super Punch, described by Bartels and many others as tasting like an Italian version of Jägermeister.

“The Italian-American population in Pittsburgh single-handedly kept it alive for decades, and now the young bartenders around the city have embraced it as a go-to shot,” says Bartels, who notes that “it’s sweeter than most amari, and is not unlike wrestling an alligator-sized octopus.”

But a lack of mainstream drinkability isn’t always the reason something gains insider approval. Grand Marnier is hardly a challenging tipple — the challenge in shooting the sugary, Cognac-based cordial, if anything, is how syrupy and cloying it is in large doses (why Newport denizens call for ���shorties”). But, because it comes in a dark bottle it’s near impossible to tell how much is left in it. Thus, it became popular among the service industry as a way to conceal on-shift imbibing from the boss; you could always blame the kitchen, anyhow, as Grand Marnier is used in desserts like crepes and soufflés.

“It was a great way to kinda hide what you’re drinking,” adds Bernadyn.

Like shorties of GrandMa, small shots of Daiquiri became a bartender staple in New York circa 2010, with credit most often going to Karin Stanley, then a bartender and partner at Dutch Kills, a popular cocktail bar in Long Island City, Queens. Later, however, it evolved: Due to the 2012 San Antonio Cocktail Conference, the “Snaquiri” (a.k.a. “Snaq”) immediately began circulating in central Texas and became a bartender handshake in nearby Austin, where it prevails today.

“Typically, the bartender will make a full Daiquiri and split it into two shots, and you will take it together with them,” explains Bruce Smith, bar manager at Eberly’s in South Austin. Smith likes to gussy his up by using a housemade pineapple-jalapeño cordial as opposed to simple syrup. Meanwhile, at Watertrade, a Japanese whisky cocktail bar at Austin’s South Congress Hotel, their DTO (“daiquiri timeout”) variant uses shochu and sake as well as orgeat, the almond-based sweetener more often seen in tiki drinks.

Stanley claims she had completely improvised the Snaquiri while out drinking one afternoon, and that’s typical of bartender’s handshakes — they’re usually invented on the fly. Such was the case at Saison in Richmond, Va., where, in the fall of 2018, bartender Sophia Kim had put an Old-Fashioned riff on the menu featuring a toasted coconut fat-washed Plantation 3 Stars rum. On one slow night, as is bound to happen when bartenders drink with each other, a friend asked her to make something new using the coconut rum. “I can’t remember exactly, but it’s likely that someone may have asked for a new 50/50 [shot] and since we had this neat ingredient to play with, it was bound to be used,” Kim recalls.

While it’s typical to split an amaro with a spirit, half and half, when creating a 50/50, Kim found that wasn’t quite working for her. Eventually she found flavors opened up when she added El Dorado 5-Year-Old rum to Averna, a Sicilian amaro, and the coconut fat-washed rum.

Though this 50/50/50 (if you will) was briefly on the bar’s dessert menu, it quickly found its way to being an off-menu handshake fittingly known as “Little Secrets.”

“When someone calls for a Little Secrets, it definitely makes me smile,” Kim says. “It isn’t ordered that often, but I make sure we always have a bottle of fat-washed coconut rum for the people who love it and come back for it.”

In fact, one way to ID an industry shot is when it features more than one unusual ingredient. As Fernet was becoming played out by 2016, “50/50” alterations of it were beginning to boom. Most notable was the Hard Start, a half-and-half combination of Fernet-Branca and Branca Menta, devised by Brooklyn bartender Damon Boelte, who began unleashing it at Prime Meats (now closed) and later his own bar, Grand Army. The Hard Start quickly spread throughout New York — as did the M&M Shot, an offbeat combo of Amaro Montenegro and mezcal that was popularized by Robert Krueger, then of Employees Only and Extra Fancy in New York, around 2012. In Washington, D.C., a popular handshake became a 50/50 of green and yellow chartreuse.

Then there are some bartender’s handshakes that don’t involve a shake, a hello, or even a wave. In Memphis, Tenn., the notorious Batman shot is prepared as follows: Fill half a pint glass with Sailor Jerry Rum and Coke; fill a shot glass 50/50 with Bailey’s Irish Cream and vanilla vodka. Drinker drops the shot into the pint glass, and chugs. The tricky part is, like Batman, this one is extra-stealthy, ordered by pressing your hands together and silently nodding to the bartender, as Batman might order it, according to local lore.

As for its flavor…?

“The shot is truly vile,” says Morgan McKinney, bartender at Memphis’s Dodici at Bari. “But it’s a Memphis staple in some of the industry bars.”

And, hopefully, it will be enjoyed — or not! — in those bars again very soon.

The article An Ode to Bartender’s Handshake Shots appeared first on VinePair.

source https://vinepair.com/articles/bartenders-handshake-shots/

[isaiahrippinus]

An Ode to Bartender’s Handshake Shots

Newport, R.I., is a seasonal town, which means it’s going to be suffering even more than most places as Covid-19 quarantine lingers. Newport is traditionally New England’s summer spot for yachtsmen, youthful partiers, and urbanites who cram the inns and resorts between early June and Labor Day. But many of those people won’t be able to make the pilgrimage this year and, likewise, many of the local bars and restaurants might not be able to reopen, either.

“Newport has over 80 bars and restaurants; so the workers form a tight little community,” explains Tyler Bernadyn, a longtime resident and bartender at Midtown Oyster Bar and Caleb & Broad. The latter spot is mostly only frequented by true locals, who know the thing to order upon their arrival: a half-shot of Grand Marnier. A “GrandMa” shot in Newport, says Bernadyn, “is almost like a friendly handshake.”

Unfortunately, just like literal handshakes, in this strange age of social distancing, “bartender’s handshakes” might not exist for awhile, either. That doesn’t mean they should be forgotten. You see, no matter where you are in the country, industry workers share a special bond formed and fueled by working long and odd hours, living cash-heavy existences, and a tendency to hit the same dives post-shift. Now more than ever, with many of them furloughed, they are depending on their communities to survive. Many bartenders and servers would love nothing better than to get back to their bars to enjoy these secret shots, typically unknown to the general public, that form a unique connection among them.

“I believe the resurgence in craft cocktails helped cultivate the bartender’s handshakes over the past 10 to 20 years,” Brian Bartels, author of “The United States of Cocktails: Recipes, Tales, and Traditions from All 50 States (and the District of Columbia),” says. “We developed all these new cells through the camaraderie of shared education and celebration — the benchmarks of taverns, bars, and watering holes — which enabled staffs who didn’t even work together to become more connected.”

The most famous “bartender’s handshake” is, by now, pretty well known: Fernet-Branca, the mid-19th-century Italian liqueur. Rarely ordered in mainstream America for much of the 20th century, by the mid-2000s it began to drum up an industry following in San Francisco, especially at bars in the North Beach neighborhood, an area that, fittingly, has an Italian lineage.

Soon, bartenders in other major cities were likewise ordering it. By 2017 the cat was out of the bag and mainstream publications had begun reporting on this phenomenon; it’s now a fairly ubiquitous shot ordered across planet Earth.

Fernet almost certainly achieved handshake status due to its aggressively bitter flavor profile — no way a civilian would ever order that.

“Bartenders can be pretty sadistic with each other,” explains Bartels. “Which is why the handshake can occasionally be a punch to the palate, served with a sideways grin. By that, I mean, some people take pleasure in the facial responses caused by imbibing certain spirits.”

Similar to Fernet in that fraternity-hazing vein is Jeppson’s Malört, a wince-inducing spiced wormwood liquor popular in Chicago. In certain parts of Wisconsin, an entire shot of Angostura bitters is the handshake. While in Pittsburgh, the sadistic shot of choice is Jannamico Super Punch, described by Bartels and many others as tasting like an Italian version of Jägermeister.

“The Italian-American population in Pittsburgh single-handedly kept it alive for decades, and now the young bartenders around the city have embraced it as a go-to shot,” says Bartels, who notes that “it’s sweeter than most amari, and is not unlike wrestling an alligator-sized octopus.”

But a lack of mainstream drinkability isn’t always the reason something gains insider approval. Grand Marnier is hardly a challenging tipple — the challenge in shooting the sugary, Cognac-based cordial, if anything, is how syrupy and cloying it is in large doses (why Newport denizens call for “shorties”). But, because it comes in a dark bottle it’s near impossible to tell how much is left in it. Thus, it became popular among the service industry as a way to conceal on-shift imbibing from the boss; you could always blame the kitchen, anyhow, as Grand Marnier is used in desserts like crepes and soufflés.

“It was a great way to kinda hide what you’re drinking,” adds Bernadyn.

Like shorties of GrandMa, small shots of Daiquiri became a bartender staple in New York circa 2010, with credit most often going to Karin Stanley, then a bartender and partner at Dutch Kills, a popular cocktail bar in Long Island City, Queens. Later, however, it evolved: Due to the 2012 San Antonio Cocktail Conference, the “Snaquiri” (a.k.a. “Snaq”) immediately began circulating in central Texas and became a bartender handshake in nearby Austin, where it prevails today.

“Typically, the bartender will make a full Daiquiri and split it into two shots, and you will take it together with them,” explains Bruce Smith, bar manager at Eberly’s in South Austin. Smith likes to gussy his up by using a housemade pineapple-jalapeño cordial as opposed to simple syrup. Meanwhile, at Watertrade, a Japanese whisky cocktail bar at Austin’s South Congress Hotel, their DTO (“daiquiri timeout”) variant uses shochu and sake as well as orgeat, the almond-based sweetener more often seen in tiki drinks.

Stanley claims she had completely improvised the Snaquiri while out drinking one afternoon, and that’s typical of bartender’s handshakes — they’re usually invented on the fly. Such was the case at Saison in Richmond, Va., where, in the fall of 2018, bartender Sophia Kim had put an Old-Fashioned riff on the menu featuring a toasted coconut fat-washed Plantation 3 Stars rum. On one slow night, as is bound to happen when bartenders drink with each other, a friend asked her to make something new using the coconut rum. “I can’t remember exactly, but it’s likely that someone may have asked for a new 50/50 [shot] and since we had this neat ingredient to play with, it was bound to be used,” Kim recalls.

While it’s typical to split an amaro with a spirit, half and half, when creating a 50/50, Kim found that wasn’t quite working for her. Eventually she found flavors opened up when she added El Dorado 5-Year-Old rum to Averna, a Sicilian amaro, and the coconut fat-washed rum.

Though this 50/50/50 (if you will) was briefly on the bar’s dessert menu, it quickly found its way to being an off-menu handshake fittingly known as “Little Secrets.”

“When someone calls for a Little Secrets, it definitely makes me smile,” Kim says. “It isn’t ordered that often, but I make sure we always have a bottle of fat-washed coconut rum for the people who love it and come back for it.”

In fact, one way to ID an industry shot is when it features more than one unusual ingredient. As Fernet was becoming played out by 2016, “50/50” alterations of it were beginning to boom. Most notable was the Hard Start, a half-and-half combination of Fernet-Branca and Branca Menta, devised by Brooklyn bartender Damon Boelte, who began unleashing it at Prime Meats (now closed) and later his own bar, Grand Army. The Hard Start quickly spread throughout New York — as did the M&M Shot, an offbeat combo of Amaro Montenegro and mezcal that was popularized by Robert Krueger, then of Employees Only and Extra Fancy in New York, around 2012. In Washington, D.C., a popular handshake became a 50/50 of green and yellow chartreuse.

Then there are some bartender’s handshakes that don’t involve a shake, a hello, or even a wave. In Memphis, Tenn., the notorious Batman shot is prepared as follows: Fill half a pint glass with Sailor Jerry Rum and Coke; fill a shot glass 50/50 with Bailey’s Irish Cream and vanilla vodka. Drinker drops the shot into the pint glass, and chugs. The tricky part is, like Batman, this one is extra-stealthy, ordered by pressing your hands together and silently nodding to the bartender, as Batman might order it, according to local lore.

As for its flavor…?

“The shot is truly vile,” says Morgan McKinney, bartender at Memphis’s Dodici at Bari. “But it’s a Memphis staple in some of the industry bars.”

And, hopefully, it will be enjoyed — or not! — in those bars again very soon.

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[johnboothus]

An Ode to Bartenders Handshake Shots

Newport, R.I., is a seasonal town, which means it’s going to be suffering even more than most places as Covid-19 quarantine lingers. Newport is traditionally New England’s summer spot for yachtsmen, youthful partiers, and urbanites who cram the inns and resorts between early June and Labor Day. But many of those people won’t be able to make the pilgrimage this year and, likewise, many of the local bars and restaurants might not be able to reopen, either.

“Newport has over 80 bars and restaurants; so the workers form a tight little community,” explains Tyler Bernadyn, a longtime resident and bartender at Midtown Oyster Bar and Caleb & Broad. The latter spot is mostly only frequented by true locals, who know the thing to order upon their arrival: a half-shot of Grand Marnier. A “GrandMa” shot in Newport, says Bernadyn, “is almost like a friendly handshake.”

Unfortunately, just like literal handshakes, in this strange age of social distancing, “bartender’s handshakes” might not exist for awhile, either. That doesn’t mean they should be forgotten. You see, no matter where you are in the country, industry workers share a special bond formed and fueled by working long and odd hours, living cash-heavy existences, and a tendency to hit the same dives post-shift. Now more than ever, with many of them furloughed, they are depending on their communities to survive. Many bartenders and servers would love nothing better than to get back to their bars to enjoy these secret shots, typically unknown to the general public, that form a unique connection among them.

“I believe the resurgence in craft cocktails helped cultivate the bartender’s handshakes over the past 10 to 20 years,” Brian Bartels, author of “The United States of Cocktails: Recipes, Tales, and Traditions from All 50 States (and the District of Columbia),” says. “We developed all these new cells through the camaraderie of shared education and celebration — the benchmarks of taverns, bars, and watering holes — which enabled staffs who didn’t even work together to become more connected.”

The most famous “bartender’s handshake” is, by now, pretty well known: Fernet-Branca, the mid-19th-century Italian liqueur. Rarely ordered in mainstream America for much of the 20th century, by the mid-2000s it began to drum up an industry following in San Francisco, especially at bars in the North Beach neighborhood, an area that, fittingly, has an Italian lineage.

Soon, bartenders in other major cities were likewise ordering it. By 2017 the cat was out of the bag and mainstream publications had begun reporting on this phenomenon; it’s now a fairly ubiquitous shot ordered across planet Earth.

Fernet almost certainly achieved handshake status due to its aggressively bitter flavor profile — no way a civilian would ever order that.

“Bartenders can be pretty sadistic with each other,” explains Bartels. “Which is why the handshake can occasionally be a punch to the palate, served with a sideways grin. By that, I mean, some people take pleasure in the facial responses caused by imbibing certain spirits.”

Similar to Fernet in that fraternity-hazing vein is Jeppson’s Malört, a wince-inducing spiced wormwood liquor popular in Chicago. In certain parts of Wisconsin, an entire shot of Angostura bitters is the handshake. While in Pittsburgh, the sadistic shot of choice is Jannamico Super Punch, described by Bartels and many others as tasting like an Italian version of Jägermeister.

“The Italian-American population in Pittsburgh single-handedly kept it alive for decades, and now the young bartenders around the city have embraced it as a go-to shot,” says Bartels, who notes that “it’s sweeter than most amari, and is not unlike wrestling an alligator-sized octopus.”

But a lack of mainstream drinkability isn’t always the reason something gains insider approval. Grand Marnier is hardly a challenging tipple — the challenge in shooting the sugary, Cognac-based cordial, if anything, is how syrupy and cloying it is in large doses (why Newport denizens call for “shorties”). But, because it comes in a dark bottle it’s near impossible to tell how much is left in it. Thus, it became popular among the service industry as a way to conceal on-shift imbibing from the boss; you could always blame the kitchen, anyhow, as Grand Marnier is used in desserts like crepes and soufflés.

“It was a great way to kinda hide what you’re drinking,” adds Bernadyn.

Like shorties of GrandMa, small shots of Daiquiri became a bartender staple in New York circa 2010, with credit most often going to Karin Stanley, then a bartender and partner at Dutch Kills, a popular cocktail bar in Long Island City, Queens. Later, however, it evolved: Due to the 2012 San Antonio Cocktail Conference, the “Snaquiri” (a.k.a. “Snaq”) immediately began circulating in central Texas and became a bartender handshake in nearby Austin, where it prevails today.

“Typically, the bartender will make a full Daiquiri and split it into two shots, and you will take it together with them,” explains Bruce Smith, bar manager at Eberly’s in South Austin. Smith likes to gussy his up by using a housemade pineapple-jalapeño cordial as opposed to simple syrup. Meanwhile, at Watertrade, a Japanese whisky cocktail bar at Austin’s South Congress Hotel, their DTO (“daiquiri timeout”) variant uses shochu and sake as well as orgeat, the almond-based sweetener more often seen in tiki drinks.

Stanley claims she had completely improvised the Snaquiri while out drinking one afternoon, and that’s typical of bartender’s handshakes — they’re usually invented on the fly. Such was the case at Saison in Richmond, Va., where, in the fall of 2018, bartender Sophia Kim had put an Old-Fashioned riff on the menu featuring a toasted coconut fat-washed Plantation 3 Stars rum. On one slow night, as is bound to happen when bartenders drink with each other, a friend asked her to make something new using the coconut rum. “I can’t remember exactly, but it’s likely that someone may have asked for a new 50/50 [shot] and since we had this neat ingredient to play with, it was bound to be used,” Kim recalls.

While it’s typical to split an amaro with a spirit, half and half, when creating a 50/50, Kim found that wasn’t quite working for her. Eventually she found flavors opened up when she added El Dorado 5-Year-Old rum to Averna, a Sicilian amaro, and the coconut fat-washed rum.

Though this 50/50/50 (if you will) was briefly on the bar’s dessert menu, it quickly found its way to being an off-menu handshake fittingly known as “Little Secrets.”

“When someone calls for a Little Secrets, it definitely makes me smile,” Kim says. “It isn’t ordered that often, but I make sure we always have a bottle of fat-washed coconut rum for the people who love it and come back for it.���

In fact, one way to ID an industry shot is when it features more than one unusual ingredient. As Fernet was becoming played out by 2016, “50/50” alterations of it were beginning to boom. Most notable was the Hard Start, a half-and-half combination of Fernet-Branca and Branca Menta, devised by Brooklyn bartender Damon Boelte, who began unleashing it at Prime Meats (now closed) and later his own bar, Grand Army. The Hard Start quickly spread throughout New York — as did the M&M Shot, an offbeat combo of Amaro Montenegro and mezcal that was popularized by Robert Krueger, then of Employees Only and Extra Fancy in New York, around 2012. In Washington, D.C., a popular handshake became a 50/50 of green and yellow chartreuse.

Then there are some bartender’s handshakes that don’t involve a shake, a hello, or even a wave. In Memphis, Tenn., the notorious Batman shot is prepared as follows: Fill half a pint glass with Sailor Jerry Rum and Coke; fill a shot glass 50/50 with Bailey’s Irish Cream and vanilla vodka. Drinker drops the shot into the pint glass, and chugs. The tricky part is, like Batman, this one is extra-stealthy, ordered by pressing your hands together and silently nodding to the bartender, as Batman might order it, according to local lore.

As for its flavor…?

“The shot is truly vile,” says Morgan McKinney, bartender at Memphis’s Dodici at Bari. “But it’s a Memphis staple in some of the industry bars.”

And, hopefully, it will be enjoyed — or not! — in those bars again very soon.

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Cincuenta sombras de François Ozon

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Ayer, en Cannes, dos mujeres en crisis se peleaban por sus seres queridos. Una, con motivo: a Diane Krüger los neonazis le matan a su marido y a su hijo en «In the Fade», de Fatih Akin. La otra, con la cabeza en otra parte: cuando Marine Vacth descubre que su marido, terapeuta que le ha curado el dolor de estómago, tiene un hermano gemelo en «L’amant double», de François Ozon, pierde el norte. En todo caso, el error que cometen ambas películas es el mismo: no volverse locas como sus protagonistas, no lanzarse a la piscina de fango del género sin el traje de látex del cine de autor. Dice Fatih Akin que ha querido hacer una película a lo Costa-Gavras. Partir de una tragedia personal para hacer visible una cuestión global: los asesinatos cometidos a ciudadanos de origen turco por parte de los miembros del grupúsculo neonazi NSU (Clandestinidad Nacional-Socialismo) son una pequeña muestra del auge de los nacionalismos de extrema derecha en la Europa del siglo XXI (lo deja claro la alusión al partido griego «Amanecer Dorado»).

Krueger, sin glamour

Akin explica el duelo de Katja (Kruger, despojada del glamour habitual del que hace gala) y dedica la parte central de la película al juicio a los culpables, excomulgando a los alemanes responsables y escupiendo ante la justicia, que, por defecto (o por falta de pruebas, o por prejuicios contra los que toman drogas o contra los turcos), ejercerán otra manera de terrorismo, el de Estado.

Hasta entonces, nada que no hayamos visto cien veces. Luego, llega la venganza, que es un poco torpe, porque así somos los humanos. Katja tiene la oportunidad de apelar o de seguir con su plan, pero un pajarillo se cruza en su camino. No es la paloma de la paz, pero casi. La sutileza no es el fuerte del cine de Akin, pero el director de «Soul Kitchen» es incapaz de reconocerlo en público. Sus películas se sitúan en esa zona de confort del autor comercial, mercurial, en busca de una tesis que defina sus derivas. Es curioso que Akin cite como referencia las películas de vengadores coreanas, a las que podríamos añadir «Kill Bill», de Tarantino, o el cine de justicieros urbanos de los setenta, que no era precisamente progresista. Es curioso porque el gran defecto de la película es reprimir su peligroso sustrato ideológico, y convertirlo en aun producto digerible para ser consumido en la sección oficial del Festival de Cannes.

Siendo justos, Ozon se desmelena un poco más. «L’amant double» empieza con una vagina en primer plano que se funde con el ojo de la protagonista. Sexo y mirada, una de las múltiples duplas que vertebran la película. Habrá más, por supuesto: más espejos que en el camerino de Liz Taylor, más encuadres divididos que en la serie «24», más confusiones de identidad que en «Zelig». Los excesos formales de Ozon son tan redundantes que parecen involuntariamente autoparódicos, y es obvio que la película está organizada como un homenaje monumental al Brian de Palma más «trash» (el de «Hermanas» y «En nombre de Caín»), pasado por el filtro del Cronenberg de «Inseparables» (en una enfermiza escena de sexo de incesto gemelar que sublima el «ménage a quatre») y del Polanski de «La semilla del diablo» (el corte de pelo, la palidez y las ojeras de Marine Vacht son los de Mia Farrow). La protagonista no sabe si quiere a su esposo, todo modales, o a su gemelo diabólico, un sosias del macho alfa de «50 sombras de Grey». Los alambicados requiebros de la trama se topan con un problema de tono. Da la impresión de que el director galo no sabe exactamente la película que quiere hacer, y que a veces la circunspección de sus imágenes no termina de fundirse con el delirio que engendran. En el tránsito, acaba pareciéndose demasiado a esos thrillers eróticos que Phil Joanou o Adrian Lyne dirigían en los años noventa.

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just a doodle

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another Future Gamebotz:

Donnie”Dorado” Krueger(14) son of Jason Krueger,

Dorado was a rich child to ever raised since he’s the future leader of Elite Leader Force,he always eat spaghetti and pizza but hates spicy/nasty food and only eat with cheese and tomato,he was a Chef and can cook anything(mainly spaghetti and stromboli) but with meatball,anchovy and lamb meat.

Punk Keane(13) son of Alan Keane and Carmen,

Punk was a hotheaded balloon with nail for mohawk who is completely stubborn and mainly hates emo,he can easily get angry over the accident and being blamed for nothing which is his problem,instead of punching or kicking he ram his enemies to pain.

Gilbert Fang(12) son of Lesile,

Fang is a derpy looking student who is Artist,many cafeteria gave him a meat because if he eat plant it’s cannibal for him(he only eat it when his dad aren’t around),he was badly bullied by many big kids but thanks to Punk saving him he can live freely.

Striker(13) son of Ocho,

Striker is hydrophobic and panic anywhere and jump anywhere he scared,he never eat real world food instead he eat power up since he’s a 8 bit character,he can shoot fireball/iceball out his hand to protect or use to against his enemies.

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le Doodle le Doodle

LORE

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Macho Alfa:

Solo un macho alfa, lomo dorado, barba de guardabosques, voz de espartano, nieto de Zeus, espalda de gladiador, furia de titan, que mide dos metros, manos de lija, pecho de peluche, zobaco con zacate, brazos de hulk, pelos de tuza, hambre de náufrago, sed de vikingo, pito cabeza de galápago de 100 años forrado en adamantium, heteropatriarcal, falocentrico, nazi-comunista, de raza reptiliano, annunaki, iluminati, penegobernante y masonico, que tumba a Chuck Norris con el aliento de borracho, que invoca a Shenlong con las dos bolas que le cuelgan, que voltea diez tazos de un putazo, mata a Zombies, que se sabe todos los combos y ultras, mata a Rugal con una vida, que folla más que toro semental de la India que convence a su novia, a la cuñada y a la suegra de darles por detroit, que le hace trenzas a los calvos, pito con chanfle a la izquierda, que traga clavos y caga balines, brinca edificios, que le da pesadillas a Freddy Krueger Chuky y Jason, Caza Godzillas, trabaja cuidando el panteón de noche y juega la Guija a la hora de la bestia, para ponerlo de rodillas y darle su lechita... Pone a trapear y a cocinar diariamente a su Hembra Ultra Omega Cabello sedoso de oro Nivel Maryln Monroe, Labios Carnosos de Angelina, tetas de acero de Mia Kalifa, Nalgas bronceadas de J-LO, piernas torneadas de Beyonce y Trasero sompopo platinado que con solo moverlo da derrame a las otras hembras Ah Chinga Su Pta Madre Ya Se Me Olvido Lo Que Iba A Decir :v