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Wednesday, February 20, 2008

Confidential to the Argus Lounge in San Francisco

posted by on February 20 at 14:29 PM

Calling a cocktail of Stoli vanilla, ginger ale, and “a crushed cherry” a JonBenet Ramsey is not funny.

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1

Yes.

Yes, it is.

Posted by NapoleonXIV | February 20, 2008 2:27 PM
2

but broadcasting it on Slog is.

Posted by bing | February 20, 2008 2:28 PM
3

yeah, i'm kind of fine with the drink name myself

Posted by kinkos | February 20, 2008 2:29 PM
4

I'm not going to lie. That's pretty goddamn funny.

Posted by Mr. Poe | February 20, 2008 2:30 PM
5

not funny, hilarious!

Posted by kyleen | February 20, 2008 2:30 PM
6

I laughed. And now I hate myself.

Posted by Michigan Matt | February 20, 2008 2:32 PM
7

Bethany, could you post some pics of Ramsey? We'll laugh harder with something to work with.

Posted by pencil riot | February 20, 2008 2:32 PM
8

Ewww to the power of Ewww

Posted by Westside forever | February 20, 2008 2:32 PM
9

That reminds me: I still owe Mr. Poe an Abortion.

Posted by NapoleonXIV | February 20, 2008 2:34 PM
10

Other places are just mad they didn't think of it first.

Wow.

Reality Check

Posted by Reality Check | February 20, 2008 2:34 PM
11

Is it served stiff?

Posted by NapoleonXIV | February 20, 2008 2:37 PM
12

that's my favorite drink!! and actually, it's TWO crushed cherries.

and yes, it's fucking hilarious.

Posted by brandon | February 20, 2008 2:38 PM
13

I'm in agreement with all of these other sick fucks. Its fucking hilarious and I so wish I had thought of it. But since I didn't, the least I can do is go home and make one.

And you better believe I'm ordering one next time I'm out and about!

Posted by Queen_of_Sleaze | February 20, 2008 2:38 PM
14

I'm all for black humor, but yuck.....

Posted by boxofbirds | February 20, 2008 2:42 PM
15

It's funny to everyone except JonBenet.

Posted by Sargon Bighorn | February 20, 2008 2:50 PM
16

I wonder if it tastes like pull-ups.

Posted by six shooter | February 20, 2008 2:57 PM
17

I'm laughing, but keep in mind that my instinctive reaction to awkward and/or disturbing things is laughter.

It is clever, in an evil kind of way.

Posted by Hernandez | February 20, 2008 2:58 PM
18

Wow Bethany, you don't find this to be totally awesome? You must not get along with the rest of the Stranger staff.

Posted by mrhands | February 20, 2008 3:04 PM
19

Not funny in the least. What's next genocide and aids jokes?

Posted by Zander | February 20, 2008 3:17 PM
20

It's funny, and you agree that it is!

They also have a bacon bloody mary.

They should get rid of the pool table though. Pool tables aren't funny. Their annoying.

Posted by Dougsf | February 20, 2008 3:19 PM
21

THEY'RE

Posted by Dougsf | February 20, 2008 3:20 PM
22

LOL.

Man, that was funny.

I'd never buy one, mind you. But I would buy a "Red" HIV cocktail, where 10 percent of the cost is used to buy anti-retroviral meds for Africa.

Posted by Will in Seattle | February 20, 2008 3:23 PM
23

@19: You're kidding, right? I named my mom's African cichlids "Hutu" and "Tutsi". Everything is funny.

Posted by Aislinn | February 20, 2008 3:24 PM
24

@23, the way mbuna (African cichlids to the rest of you) fight with each other, that's actually quite appropriate.

Posted by Fifty-Two-Eighty | February 20, 2008 3:29 PM
25

I've heard the same drink (minus cherry abuse) referred to in Boston as a vaginger.

Posted by Nat | February 20, 2008 3:31 PM
26

@24: That's what I said! Her boyfriend thought it was in poor taste, but I won.

Posted by Aislinn | February 20, 2008 3:36 PM
27

it's not funny, it's hilarious! thanks for the laugh.

Posted by rofl | February 20, 2008 3:40 PM
28

It's not funny in the slightest.

Ugh.

Posted by als | February 20, 2008 3:43 PM
29

A little bit of trivia for you, Aislinn: Konrad Lorenz came up with the idea for his landmark book, "On Agression," while watching mbuna interact. Which means fight, of course.

Posted by Fifty-Two-Eighty | February 20, 2008 3:44 PM
30

Everything is funny.

i'm going to have to remember that one...

Posted by infrequent | February 20, 2008 3:45 PM
31

there are a lot of funny politically incorrect things in the world. but naming a crushed cherry cocktail about a raped exploited child really isn't that funny.

Posted by Judith | February 20, 2008 3:46 PM
32

My only beef is that the name of the drink is a mile long, a la 'Rooti-Tooti-Fresh-n-Rapey.'

Posted by Nick | February 20, 2008 3:53 PM
33

God, Judith, why do you have to be such a downer? :p

Posted by Sam | February 20, 2008 3:55 PM
34

Sounds like San Fran is slipping in its old age...

Posted by Cale | February 20, 2008 3:56 PM
35

No one ever complained about Shirley Temples.....

Posted by NapoleonXIV | February 20, 2008 3:58 PM
36

Why is this posted under "Housekeeping"?
As "funny" (?) as that is, why not create a new, more aptly named category for posts like these?
My vote goes to "Plucking Random Shit Out of the Air and Moralizing About It."

Posted by cheston | February 20, 2008 4:05 PM
37

Ah, Nappy, but Shirley Temples don't have a crushed cherry. Get it?

Posted by Fifty-Two-Eighty | February 20, 2008 4:09 PM
38

So... is this funny?

THE KATRINA:
Place a handful of raisins in the bottom of a pint glass. Drown in Wild Turkey and diet grape soda.

Posted by Matty Worth | February 20, 2008 4:22 PM
39

link please BJC?

Posted by from east of miss | February 20, 2008 4:25 PM
40

i cant imagine ordering one for myself. but everyone in my group would be slurping down some jon benets.

Posted by Bellevue Ave | February 20, 2008 4:31 PM
41

@38: The Katrina should properly be a variation on a Hurricane. With little raisins drowned in it.

Posted by NapoleonXIV | February 20, 2008 4:34 PM
42

Wild Turkey and diet grape soda is just gross.

Posted by NapoleonXIV | February 20, 2008 4:35 PM
43

@38: I thought the JonBenet Ramsey was funny; this actually made me laugh out loud.

Posted by Aislinn | February 20, 2008 5:04 PM
44

woulding it make more sense to have a light rum and grape soda, perhaps some kind of grape and or watermelon flavored vodka to boot?

Posted by Bellevue Ave | February 20, 2008 5:05 PM
45

this drink has been around for a while...most people only call it a jonbenet though, not the whole thing

Posted by Cook | February 20, 2008 5:07 PM
46

The world really is divided into those who have kids and those who don't. Any parents find this one funny? No? Thought not.

Which is NOT to say that those of you who don't have kids *shouldn't* find it funny. I have no problem if you do. I just think that experience colors what was find funny, and no where more so than with humor based on child abuse.

Posted by Big Sven | February 20, 2008 5:32 PM
47

I'm a parent. I have a cat. I'd save her over a minor any day of the week.

Posted by Mr. Poe | February 20, 2008 6:17 PM
48

"In Soviet Russia, Cherry crushes YOU!"

I have no idea what I'm talking about.

Posted by Dr_Awesome | February 20, 2008 6:26 PM
49

I'm not that heartless. I'd never name a drink after my own dead, raped and exploited child...

And if I did, I cetainly wouldn't drink it.

That often.

Posted by NapoleonXIV | February 20, 2008 6:28 PM
50

Why do I have the sneaking suspicion, though, that Daddy Dearest would have no problem drinking one...and maybe even laughing about it?

Posted by Fifty-Two-Eighty | February 20, 2008 7:09 PM
51

"Yes.

Yes, it is.

Posted by NapoleonXIV | February 20, 2008 2:27 PM"

THIS. I came here to say that.

Posted by CITIZENDANGERX | February 20, 2008 8:11 PM

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