jrhana, gents... back to the topic of Absinth, Diamonds and Hydro...
I was unfamiliar with the drink so I looked it up. absinth.com
Here's the summary: Absinthe is flavoured distilled liquor, emerald green in colour, turning to cloudy, opalescent white when mixed with water. It inspired many prominent artists, writers and poets. Just to name a few - Vincent Van Gogh, Oscar Wilde, Manet, Ernest Hemingway - in fact his masterpiece " For Whom The Bell Tolls " was written under the influence of "The Green Fairy". Absinthe was first produced commercially in 1797 by Henry-Louis Pernod, who purchased the formula from a French exile living in Switzerland.
Wormwood
Artemisia Absinthium is the chief flavouring ingredient, native to Europe and Asia.; other aromatic ingredients include aniseed, licorice, hyssop, fennel, angelica root, star aniseed... Wormwood is a long-lived plant, with greyish-green leaves and the flowers have a greenish-yellow tint, and like leaves give off a strong aromatic odor and are bitter to the taste. Thujone is a toxic chemical present in wormwood and has a similar molecular geometry with THC, the active chemical in cannabis.
Interesting info also found here:
hbd.org
It sure sounds like an interesting drink. Have you, or anyone actually tried it? Can you buy it at the LCBO?
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I'm hoping for an interesting week in the diamond stock world. More money is coming to resource stocks in the next year, and I would imagine a chunck will be coming here.
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Loss of hydro was no big deal to me - only down for 4 hours. It sure was a memorable event. I had a great time driving around town without the signal lights working. Traffic never moved more efficiently at times.
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