Pernod pastis is definitely brash, but it's tasty in cola or coffee. It used to be one of my standard summertime beverages before I stumbled onto its more charming older brother. However, the other was Campari & orange, which many folks find offensive, too.

I bought a bottle of Pernod pastis a few years ago and it is still in my cabinet, that is unheard of.

I ordered a few Le Fee several days ago. Never tasted it before, but they may be better than other mixes, hopefully. Better be. Ass!

I like La Fee w/o sugar or in coffee. It has a nice minty taste, for what it is. Add sugar and I can't stand it.

I wouldn't consider it good absinthe though. It's just a refreshingly minty, high alcohol drink. I also recommend lots of ice.

I got my Le Fee and I like the shit. I decided to sample all day, rather than work.

Good call.

I quit using sugar. I like Abasinthe without it. Or, I'm just lazy and dont' give a shit .


Hey Randingo, Did you ever move back to WNC?

I do too .... I thought "Dancing Queen" was a great song.

DG

Ha!

Hmmm.I thought I had answered this topic, but in scrolling back I couldn't find a response. So, ..

After starting to drink absinthe, first I get a slight buz, kind of like pot. This normally happens within about two or three minutes, and two sips.

Around sip number four and five minutes, I start to get a tighness in the face, like my skin is being pulled tight. This is closely followed by a flushing of the face and a feeling of warmth in my face and on my head (shaved, don't know if this has any thing to do with it). Finally, I get a sense that the lights have been turned up about 10-20%. More intense whiter light. If outside, the colors seem more saturated. On rare occasions, I get an uneasy edgy feeling (I get this same feeling from decongestants).

The effects seem to last much longer for me than most people state. I have timed it at over 50 minutes for the effect to start fading.

What the fuck are you drinkin' Spuck?

Methanol?

They said whacking off would make me blind too, but I'm not blind yet. Just need more light to read, that's all.

At your age I wouldn't go into the white light.

Ha!

I suggest doing it until you need glasses.

DG

FUCK! HAND ME A GUN!

I can't hand anyone anything, my hand is busy.
And I'm squinting.

"What is a secondary?" 1/60th of a minute, you fool!

Incidentally, what you are describing is the exact symptoms of the onset of a migraine, which is caused by rapid overdialation of blood vessels. Perhaps you're mildly allergic to some ingredient in absinthe.

I get that same feeling if I drink coffee or eat something w/ MSG in it. Except that it's followed by fuzzy vision and nausea.

I get the usual clear-headed buzz as others have described. It gives a new meaning to the term "functioning alcoholic." I feel like I can still do work, I'm not sloppy or slurring words, etc. Of course, there have been many studies that drunks THINK they are still functioning...

Incidently, something rather strange has been happening to me lately that is very similar to having an absinthe buzz. About 3-4 weeks ago I stopped taking Paxil. I was taking it for generalized depression and antisocial disorder for a few months. It didn't do jack for either one. All it did was make me really tired and sexually frustrated.

But anyway, the point is that now I'm apparently having withdrawals from it. About a week and a half or two weeks ago, I started feeling a little dizzy, little head rushes. It has progressively gotten worse... now I feel like I have an absinthe buzz 24/7. Of course, this is fine when I feel like having an absinthe buzz, but when I feel like doing something else, like say, sleeping, it sucks.

Apparently many people suffer from this, sometimes for months or years after they stop taking paxil. Sometimes it is referred to as "brain shivers." GlaxoSmithKline is being sued over it as a very serious, undisclosed side effect. Indeed, it is extremely annoying after awhile. If this doesn't get better in a month or two, I may just seriously consider killing someone at that company.

Now before someone runs off and says that absinthe makes you insane, because I described this feeling as like an absinthe buzz, let me say this: I LIKE absinthe buzzes. Make me feel all warm and fuzzy. This doesn't. And it is constant. And it is annoying. And yes, I am venting.

Assuming I've misdiagnosed myself, and I keel over dead from a brain tumor or something...
I faustus, being of sound mind and body, do make this my last will and testament:
That my entire absinthe collection shall be divided equally between the mayor,
Digits, and Smutty.
That my computer should go to my brother, because his is a pos.
That my networking hardware should go to my roommates to maintain Castle Greyskull. Should one or all of them leave Greyskull, the hardware may be divided as they see fit.
That the rest of my personal possessions, including my money in all bank accounts,
should go to my parents.

This day of Novemeber 24, 2003,
written entirely in my own hand, and at my own free will, without any undue influence, and witnessed by all those who view this thread.
Signed /s/ Faustus

"Sometimes it is referred to as "brain shivers." "

You've got the clanks.

What exactly is "the clanks?"

They used the term in Carnivale to describe the DT's.

Festus, I also noticed that the Paxil gave you a "split personality."

Ahh, that's what I thought, but never watched Carnivale.

I've been a good alcoholic since college, and I don't think I've ever had DT. I wondered at first if that was it, but if anything I have cut back recently. Maybe I should drink more and see if it goes away.

W.C. Fields called it: "The Fellow in the Bright Niteshirt, Coming for Me"

Run, it's Michael Jackson.

I forgot, you're too old for him.

Double ha!

I was on Paxil once, for like...a day. It did not agree with me, nor I with it. Me and the 'Zac™ get along just fine, though...