Belly Up To The Bar: Going Ape edition

“Take your stinking paws off me, you damned dirty ape!”

Ah, Chuck Heston… If anyone needed a nice stiff drink more than Taylor, I’d hate to be that poor bastard.

I first made this as a goof for a party, but we all decided it was so damn tasty it went into our regular rotation. And, yes, you will have to buy a bottle of Créme de Banana, but it is worth it.

The Planet of the Apes

2 oz dark rum
1 oz pineapple juice
1 oz orange juice
1/2 oz lime juice
3/4 oz créme de banana

Shake together with ice and serve up in a martini glass or over large chunks of ice in a whiskey glass. Fresh juices are highly recommended.

And avoid the temptation to go with Myers, the dark rum of many a frat boy’s nightmares. Appleton Estate VX Jamaican Rum is my go-to for any dark rum application.

 

Derpetologist’s Spot the Not: Mitch McConnell

Slightly less challenging version of Spot the Not

1. Nobody is happy about losing lives but, remember, these are not draftees.
These are full-time professional soldiers.

2. We need to strengthen and save Social Security for today’s workers.
If we don’t act now, this system, born out of the New Deal, will become a bad deal.

3. The problem with the world today is people have put away their Bibles.
They’re living by the law of the jungle and not the law of the land.

4. We all know that Social Security is one of this country’s greatest success stories in the 20th century.

5. The Patriot Act is one of the most important and overdue pieces of legislation in a generation.

6. Under ordinary circumstances, I would have opposed such a measure.
Government intervention in the marketplace cuts against all my ordinary impulses. But this was not an ordinary event.

Comments

69 responses to “Belly Up To The Bar: Going Ape edition”

  1. #3 is the not.

  2. [pedantic bastard]

    “Crème” is written with an accent grave, not an accent aigu

    [/pedantic bastard]

    1. quincy

      Live a critical bastard, diacritical bastard.

      1. *narrows gaze*

      2. ZARDOZ

        ZARDOZ SPEAKS TO YOU, HIS HUMROUS CHOSEN ONE. ZARDOZ APPROVES.

      3. straffinrun

        Excellent.

    2. SugarFree

      Dear God, how I hate you.

  3. 6.

    I think that was George W. Bush.

    1. It was the 2008 financial “crisis”, but I’m not certain who said it to get the resultant bill through Congress.

  4. Vhyrus

    Your inclusion of cupcake dog forces me to post this:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B0uh0oXktvU

  5. straffinrun

    Can I switch out the Rum for Courvoisier, or would that make it racist?

    1. Florida Man

      What do you care? You live in the land of Gods racist.

      1. straffinrun

        Only against the subhuman Chinese. That doesn’t count as racist.

        1. Uh, what about the Koreans and the Ainu?

          1. Florida Man

            Damn Garlic Eaters!

          2. straffinrun

            You can’t be racist against animals.

          3. Suthenboy

            Specieist?

          4. Trigger Hippie

            That’s what I call vegetarians who have no problem eradicating countless thousands of tons of insects to ensure the abundance of plants for their own consumption, but think killing a mammal or fish for yours is a bridge too far.

        2. The Last American Hero

          Clearly you are from Vancouver.

      2. Gustave Lytton

        I think I’ll have some peanuts and enjoy these comments.

  6. Florida Man

    I’m getting reflux just reading that recipe. Mostly because I drank Gimlets by the pool all day and got severe heartburn.

    1. straffinrun

      That’s a cute puppy. Why’d you name it Gimlets?

      1. Florida Man

        His name is Sterling thank you very much.

        1. straffinrun

          Did you get him from the pound?

          1. Florida Man

            No, my brother was being evicted and needed to get rid of a bunch of dogs, so I took him.

          2. straffinrun

            Tries again. Did you get him from the (£)?

          3. Florida Man

            Ah….lol.
            *pretends to get it*

          4. straffinrun

            So he’s not a pound Sterling?

          5. Gilmore

            STOP IT HES ALREADY DEAD

          6. quincy

            Euron’t let it go, willya?

          7. straffinrun

            Ruff room.

          8. *narrows gaze*

    2. Gilmore

      I drank Gimlets by the pool all day and got severe heartburn.

      Every time the subject of Gimlets comes up, I want to say, “great drink; however, heartburn”.

      they do a number on your guts.

    3. Playa Manhattan

      I thought you gave up drinking. Welcome back.

  7. Holy crap. That’s a tanning, smoking, reading, and drinking on the deck kind of drink if I ever saw one!

    1. Gilmore

      Its more or less just a variant of Planters Punch with banana thrown on top

      1. Sort of reminds me of a Mai Tai… but I don’t know what else to do with rum but mix it with various fruit juices. Or give it to Jesse. Either way, someone is getting laid. Or handsy.

  8. Vhyrus

    Would this work with sailor jerry? I have a big ol tub of it that my gf won’t drink cause it’s not captain morgan.

    1. CZmacure

      You should draw a hat and some naval insignia on Jerry’s uniform and tell her he got promoted when you killed off the last captain morgan.

      1. *stands to begin prolonged ovation*

    2. R C Dean

      So get a bottle of Captain Morgan, and when it’s done refill it with the Sailor Jerry (no euphemism).

      1. Vhyrus

        ohmyfuckinggodwehaveanemptybottle@homeIamtotallyfuckingdoingthis!

      2. Suthenboy

        I second this. Please let us know how far she gets into the bottle before she figures it out. I am betting she doesnt.

      3. CZmacure

        Who says Libertarians just point out problems and don’t have any solutions??

    3. The Last American Hero

      Do your girlfriend a favor and get her a bottle of Ron Zacapa

      1. R C Dean

        Roger that. You’ll be doing yourself a favor, too, IYKWIMAITYD.

  9. SIV

    Créme de Banana

    Sounds racist, almost as racist as this

  10. straffinrun

    Kudos on the Spot the Not. I have no idea.

  11. Suthenboy

    What? No coconut?

    The first thing I thought of: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5LxC3M-Yngs

  12. Playa Manhattan

    I drink beer like a real man.

    1. Gilmore

      = as something to wash down whiskey

      1. straffinrun

        George asks, “What about the Scotch?”

        1. Gilmore

          they seem like good people, but i don’t understand a goddamn word they say.

          1. straffinrun

            So wachoo need?

          2. Gilmore

            Is this open-bar?

    2. I prefer scotch. But it’s nice to have something to nurse in the sun in a bikini. I can see how that doesn’t appeal to you, in retrospect.

  13. straffinrun

    Shock-Jock Democrats
    Democrats are projecting competence by swearing.

    When that message of blanket opposition gets stale, break the emergency glass; get vulgar, project anger, and, above all, be uncompromising.

    I like the well-placed F-bomb, but it certainly is getting out of hand on the left.

    1. Gilmore

      there was another article about this …. maybe a month ago? when whatshername was doing an interview. Gillenbrand. I think Perez actually circulated a memo telling people they needed to say more dirty words.

      http://freebeacon.com/politics/dems-revealing-authentic-selves-publicly-cursing-often/

      1. straffinrun

        Both used a picture of Perez. Parallel thinking or a rehash of the same article.

    2. Suthenboy

      “In a desperate, spastic flail…”

      That sums it up nicely. They are trying everything except treating the voters like adults that deserve respect and consideration for their real world problems. Remember, this is the party that had to send a delegation to flyover country so they could try and understand how the deplorables speak, a move which I thought might be a deliberate insult; “We are going to tryyyyyy to come down to your level *eyeroll*”

      I cant tell y’all how much I am enjoying watching these despicable pinkos implode.

  14. DenverJ

    I’d hate to be that poor bastard.

    You know who else (‘s father) was a poor bastard?

    1. straffinrun

      (((Jesus)))?

    2. Suthenboy

      Three quarters of anyone born into European royalty in the last 1000 years?

      1. DenverJ

        Oh snap! (So people still do that? Should I do it in the shape of a “z”?

    3. Gustave Lytton

      Luke and Leia?

  15. Grumbletarian

    Here’s a good PotA reference.

    http://pvponline.com/comic/2017-03-23

  16. DrZaius

    Damn, how did I miss this thread.