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Old 11-30-2014, 01:40 PM   #31
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The skill is certainly likely to come up in High School Hierarchy games (including Buffy-inspired stuff). Both the geeks and the queen bees will use forms of connoisseurship to establish social dominance.
... and I just realised that a significant part of eBay's business comes from people who now have the money to exercise the weird forms of connoisseurship they learned as teenagers.
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Actually, if so, I have to admit that it disappeared from Japan 2nd edition. It is a very Vampire-y thing, I must admit.
It is in Japan 1st edition, I just don't know if it might have originated earlier. But the only way I'm going to get a list of GURPS books in publication order is if I compile it myself.
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Old 11-30-2014, 03:26 PM   #32
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That would definitely have been the ur-instance, then. Compendium I doesn't note the fact in its index of skills.
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Old 11-30-2014, 04:10 PM   #33
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Wouldn't the Ur-instance be Connoisseur: Mesopotamian City States?
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Old 11-30-2014, 04:57 PM   #34
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Wouldn't the Ur-instance be Connoisseur: Mesopotamian City States?
Connoisseur (Flint nodules)?
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Old 11-30-2014, 07:11 PM   #35
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Wouldn't the Ur-instance be Connoisseur: Mesopotamian City States?
Ho! Ho! Ho! It is to laugh!



how long have you been waiting for a chance to unload that one?
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Old 11-30-2014, 07:36 PM   #36
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how long have you been waiting for a chance to unload that one?
Since I told it to Otzi in the Alps. I wonder what ever happened to him.
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Old 11-30-2014, 08:07 PM   #37
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I have yet to hear anyone say the Bond version was correct. It's always been how stirring is the proper best method of mixing it.
Bond also gets his with vodka. The horrible heretic.
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I have yet to hear anyone say the Bond version was correct. It's always been how stirring is the proper best method of mixing it.
I prefer Martinis shaken. The stirring thing was/is part of a fetish for avoiding their being diluted with melted ice — or with any detectable trace of vermouth. In the extreme that led to people keeping their gin in the freezer and not using ice at all. I've tried it, also very high ratios of gin. People who like it that way can keep it.

I make mine with six parts of Gordon's or Tanqueray to one part of Martini & Rossi or Marko dry vermouth, shaken with plenty of ice and a generous slice of lemon zest until the condensation freezes onto the outside of the shaker, then strained into a chilled glass and garnished with three pimento-stuffed olives well wet with brine. Not a connoisseur's Martini perhaps, but I have my fans.
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I make mine with six parts of Gordon's or Tanqueray to one part of Martini & Rossi or Marko dry vermouth, shaken with plenty of ice and a generous slice of lemon zest until the condensation freezes onto the outside of the shaker, then strained into a chilled glass and garnished with three pimento-stuffed olives well wet with brine. Not a connoisseur's Martini perhaps, but I have my fans.
Tom Lehrer would approve: Hearts full of youth! hearts full of truth! Six parts gin to one part vermouth!

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That is naturally, an important consideration.

I have a silver cocktail shaker with recipes stamped on it that my favourite aunt bought in New York in 1933 and gave me as a 21st-birthday present. The recipe that it gives for a dry Martini is "5/8 dry gin, 1/4 dry vermouth, 1/8 Italian vermouth, — Angostura bitters, ice". I have tried the recipe. It is not to my liking.
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