(Ugly/Crazy) for the rest of your life
Bapopik at AOL.COM
Bapopik at AOL.COM
Tue Aug 31 19:07:01 UTC 1999
OLD WALDORF-ASTORIA BAR BOOK (continued)
It appears I left off the date. There were two copyright dates on it--1931 and 1934. However, it appears that all of the drinks were mixed before the prohibition years. This would antedate "daiquiri"--OED has an F. Scott Fitzgerald novel from 1920. Fitzgerald may very well have picked "daiquiri" up from the Waldorf bar--which got it from Cuba.
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(UGLY/CRAZY) FOR THE REST OF YOUR LIFE
My tour guide in Turkey was a tall, blonde woman who was quite attractive, but she had a dark secret. I wondered about the "beauty marks" on her face.
"A dog ripped my face," she told me. "When I was young, my parents bought a dog. And it was the wrong kind of dog..."
The other kids teased her, but she said she got back at them with this line:
"My face will heal, but you'll be ugly for the rest of your life!"
I haven't tracked down that exact quote, but this comes from my research on W. C. Fields, in the classic film IT'S A GIFT (1934):
"I'll be sober tomorrow, but you'll be crazy the rest of your life."
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