"Melissa": a drink

[Douglas G. Wilson]

>Melissa: A drink composed of ?equal measures? of champagne and (diet) Coke.
>
>This is new to me. Needless to say, what with "Melissa" being a
>personal name and all, Google yields ca.1,800,000 hits. While fooling
>around among the hits, I ran across another new-to-me drink - recipe
>submitted by Melissa Lewis - made of equal measures of Midori and
>Bailey's Irish Cream. This concoction is called a "Fuck Me."
>Unfortunately, it's not possible to tell whether the intonation
>pattern is "FUCK me!" or "fuck ME!"

I vote for #2.

>BTW, everybody knows that "midori" is the Japanese word for "green," right?

I'm sure everyone does ... at least in Japan. But there's more ...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midori

Apparently there is also a manga character who has the given name Midori
written with kanji for "beautiful bird" or so rather than "green".

-- Doug Wilson

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