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[oakenguy]

I just read a rather boring paragraph about various restaurants in 19th century New Orleans.

That was not the exciting part.

It ended with a description of one particular bar-room.

Still not exciting.

The final sentence, however, ended with "...and tradition points to it as the place wherein General Andrew Jackson and the pirate Jean Lafitte planned the Battle of New Orleans over an absinthe frappe."

Oh.
My.
God.

This needs to be turned into a movie. It'd be like My Dinner With Andre, only with absinthe. And pirates. And a British spy. And two of the most macho men walking the earth in 1812 sharing a drink with a single straw.

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[prettydark.livejournal.com]

oh you just made my DAY.

[heavenscalyx.livejournal.com]

You slasher you.

... but I'd totally go see that movie. Especially if you wrote it.

[oakenguy.livejournal.com]

It's not my fault! That sentence is the history book equivalent of Kirk patting Spock's bum in the exercise room and saying, "Hey, have you been working out?" !!

[eclecticavatar.livejournal.com]

Absinthe frappe... i must now make this concoction. Did it give a recipe? ;)

[heavenscalyx.livejournal.com]

Which he practically does from time to time. (I swear, Akycha and I totally thought we'd have to look closely at classic Trek for the slash. We never expected it to leap into our living room wearing a feather boa singing, "Slashy days are here again!")

In any case, you STILL need to write the screenplay.

[tehuti.livejournal.com]

What is the name is this bar-room?

And you are right, it would make an excellent period movie. I would certainly go see it. :-)

Permission to Metaquote, please.

[kali921.livejournal.com]

Permission to Metaquote this, please.

Please?

Re: Permission to Metaquote, please.

[oakenguy.livejournal.com]

Totally granted!

[khep.livejournal.com]

LMAO. petboy too *^__^*

Re: Permission to Metaquote, please.

[kali921.livejournal.com]

Totally metaquoted!

[redfishie.livejournal.com]

dude! just dude!

[bluestocking.livejournal.com]

That's not a movie - that's totally a LARP. :-)

[kissoflife.livejournal.com]

Seconded! _Please_ write this! Also, please share what book this is, as I love New Orleans lore...

[shadowravyn.livejournal.com]

I'd love it--I could handle a third year in a row playing a pirate queen!

[oakenguy.livejournal.com]

It's 'The French Quarter', by Herbert Asbury. He has a knack for tossing little facts like that around to keep even the dryest sections of the book speeding along.

[oakenguy.livejournal.com]

I wish!

I'm picturing a hallucinogenic Shamrock Shake...which really shouldn't sound as appealing at breakfast as it does.

[spatch]

Seriously! My first thought was "To heck with the movie and LARP options, we need a recipe first!"

[bulrogue.livejournal.com]

Gotta find a way to put to that to "Battle of New Orleans"

In 1814 we took a little trip
Along with Colonel Jackson down the mighty Mississip.
We took a little bacon, and we took a little bean
And we caught the bloody British in the town of New Orlean.

We fired our guns and the British kept a comin'
There wasnt bout as many as there was a while ago
We fired once more and the began a runnin'
Down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico.

[queencallipygos.livejournal.com]

I've come in from metaquotes, and have actually had an absinthe frappe -- it's a cocktail made with Pernod or some similar licorice-flavored liqueur, called thus because it tastes like absinthe, in theory.

No absinthe is actually used, alas.

[eclecticavatar.livejournal.com]

So if one, in theory, had some actual absinthe, they could use that, right?

And is it an ice cream sort of frappe or something else?

[oakenguy.livejournal.com]

God, at first I just laughed when I saw this, but the more I think about it....do you know a very young Marie Leveau was around then? And pre-Texas Sam Houston? And...and...oh my.

[scixual.livejournal.com]

Sign me up!

...I want an absinthe frappé

[scixual.livejournal.com]

http://www.ehow.com/how_1075_make-absinthe-frappe.html

[bluestocking.livejournal.com]

Yep. It'd be *excellent*.

[katestine.livejournal.com]

Good grief! i'd actually play that LARP!