Grrl Power #1158 – SHOT
Yes, Maxima can metabolize an incredible amount of alcohol. So much for a low-key start to her evening.
Max has literally never been an adult and looked inconspicuously human. She knows how they’re supposed to act, but she’s always been the center of attention one way or another. Let’s see what happens.
If you had super strength or telekinesis, etc., the temptation to “create parking opportunities” for yourself would be real. Especially if some jackass is parked crooked or is taking up multiple spaces. You’d be morally obligated to relocate that car into a tree or next to a fire hydrant.
I actually had planned on a whole page of Max driving around until I realized I’d be condemning myself to drawing not just her car, but a whole bunch of other cars blocking her access to parking. I can draw a car if I have good reference, but I’m not one of those artists that lives for drawing cars and/or mecha. Like there’s no way Shuichi Shigeno, the artist responsible for Initial D, wasn’t super into drawing cars before he set out to create that manga. I can assure you neither this or any other comic I work on will heavily feature cars. Unless I somehow become an expert at Blender.
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That’s not quite how you blend in Max.
I wonder how she would fair against fantasy /more than alcoholic drinks? I just created one last night called “Golden Opalfire Mushroom Elixir”, it’s a dwarven brew. XD
You mean stuff like the “Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster”?
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That drink is supposed to hit you like a large gold brick. I’m not sure it would affect Maxima since she *is* a large gold brick.
Not just a large gold brick, a slice of lemon wrapped around a large gold brick.
You can’t forget the lemon.
I approve of the ambiguity in whether you were referring to the drink or Max’s similarity to it.
A PGGB is also like an alcoholic mugging because it’s bad for your head & your wallet. But Max’s personal force field would make a mugging rather difficult & the mugger is the only one who’s going to pay for it.
Too mainstream. Let her try some 307 Ale.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5K2xxgVHJE
I have made a few characters (table top) who have accidentally (seriously) become or were on the path to eldritch beings who would love that stuff.
It does raise a few questions about her biology and especially her liver at this point. Does she require alcohol poisoning levels of intake just to get anything out of it at this point or can she drink relatively normally?
Now as for that drink… Are we talking a D&D drink or an actual recipe? If it’s something you’ve actually mixed up, I want to see this thing.
How2Drink actually did a recipe fora PGGB.
Check it on YouTube.
Here’s the link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=htxUPNtdfPM&t=238s&ab_channel=HowToDrink
I forgot to come back here and check comments!
I mean I created a D&D drink (well, a fantasy book actually), not real at all. Here, let me just paste the section I wrote up when I was creating it:
The exact formula was a tightly held secret but there were a few details deliberately bragged about; the starting point was some mixture of particular deep-growth mushrooms and fungi, the water came from underground mineral springs with special properties, and there was a persistent and oft denied rumor that the blood of a specific cave-dwelling species was needed. The elixir was then aged for a very long time in a steel cask lined with opal grown on a blessed gold matrix.
The matrix required decades to create on its own, assuming you didn’t damage it before it was done, and the matrix for each cask was broken apart after it was used and the opals and gold used to seal the bottles that the elixir was transferred into. Moriko didn’t know what the going price was for the bottle in front of her but she was pretty certain she couldn’t afford it without selling some of the jewelry she’d recently been gifted with.
How about Mjod from the Warhammer 40,000 universe? It’s a drink brewed by the Space Wolves (basically Viking themed Space Marines) strong enough to get them drunk. Considering their gene enhanced 7-8 foot tall super soldiers with specific organs surgically implanted into them to defeat poisons that’s saying something. It’s also fatal to normal humans that drink it.
Probably doable, actually.
Ever look at the warnings on a medicine bottle? There are certain substances that interfere with the body’s ability to metabolize certain things. Finding one that ties up the liver, so it can’t get rid of the alcohol, is probably not only doable, it’s probably already been done. Both for science, safety, and recreation.
Oh, there is food that increases your risk of sunburn, too.
Works in the opposite direction, too: The treatment for methanol poisoning is literally, getting the patient drunk, and keeping them that way for a while while doing kidney dialysis; It’s not the methanol that kills you, it’s the metabolites, the alcohol competes for the liver enzyme, causing you to metabolize the methanol slow enough to survive while the dialysis removes it from your blood.
On the flip side, people on some expensive maintenance medications conserve the med by taking it with grapefruit juice; They don’t have to take as much, because it blocks the liver from clearing it from their systems.
And, yes, eating too much celery can give you sun sensitivity. There was actually a test of a bug resistant celery variety that had be be given up on because anybody who ate it ended up with a sunburn!
its actually not super-strong, but rather is brewed using an herb that infuses it with a potent poison. one strong enough to just barely overwhelm their body’s superhuman anti-poison filtration systems and let the alcohol effect them. drunk by a normal human, it would be instantly lethal (unless the antitoxin is taken prior). drunk by a space marine, it gets them slightly buzzed and they have to drink a lot of it rapidly to feel any level of intoxication.. which wears off quick.
I’d go with JagerBrau from Girl Genius, myself.
You mean like Scumble from the Discworld series, or Bor Brew from the Lone Wolf series?
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Scumble t-shirt
Or cthul-ade from DragonCon? It was made in one of the tubs at the Hyatt and left a ring in the tub and the creator had the room reserved for the following year’s DragonCon and when he came back the next year THE RING WAS STILL THERE.
It’s not the most alcoholic of alcoholic beverages, but there are other ways for a drink to be A Strong Drink. Cthul-ade does it with a mix of alcohol, sugar, caffeine, and taurine.
I’ll propose ‘boink’ from an ancient D&D campaign. It’s enchanted to better than 200 proof. It tastes like dying taste buds. And it’s named after the sound your face makes hitting the bar top.
As a Scot and tender at a Scottish pub, there’s definitely something about a woman that drinks good scotch and dark beer!!!
I am surprised and gratified that he knows of Bruichladdich scotch. I was introduced to them by a client/friend who owns a fantastic whiskey bar in Ballard, Washington The Ballard Cut (gotta plug a friend). He knew I like peaty scotch and he had me try, Bruichladdich’s, Octomore 8.3. World record holder for the peatiest scotch at 305 ppm. This stuff is unbelievable. It smells, pleasantly, like a clean campfire and it tastes like it too. It is so potent I drink it, literally, one drop at a time.
I was so hooked I started scouring the net to find any bottles for sale. I got extremely lucky and found a man in Germany who had two bottles for sale and got them both for about $700 apiece. I’d never spent so much on alcohol and I’m not rich, but one of them was a 50th wedding anniversary gift for my parents, ant the other, three years later, is still 80% full.
His first? At that age? What a sheltered life. Dude just watch the first alien movie prefereply befor you hit puperty. Right of passage and all that.
the first alien movie? Did you tried the first Poltergeist….. that was “Fear Boner” material
Yeah, but Alien is all “fear with sexual undertones”.
Repo! The Genetic Opera.
looks like she needs the bar run by a licensed counselor…..
hijinks to ensue:
what happens when she tries to leave mildly buzzed but having consumed enough alcohol to kill a normal human.
is she at O’Malley’s? will there be pool involved?
will the cops hassle her on the way home for being drunk? will she blow over the limit?
will the bartender cut her off because she’s ‘had enough’
will she get plastered enough to try and take someone home? (will Dabbler help?)
These and many other questions will be answered on the next episode of SOAP.
More importantly, she should already be cut off from alcohol and the bartender unwilling to sell her the dark beer she asked for. She’s already done for the night, the law says so. Remember that a lot of alcohol service related laws were written so females don’t get taken advantage of.
Either that, or she has to get rid of her costume, and she’s still not an exception to the law. If she does a breathylizer (however you spell it) so she can get more, then they’d already think she’s a super. So yeah no matter what, she’s already done.
Yeah… She’s outed herself as *A* super, just not the most famous/powerful super in America.
Yet.
She’d likely call some agents to bring her car back from the bar. Then fly home to avoid the aggravation of driving.
if DUI is bad PUI is even worse! one colud even say it stinks….
Assuming this doesn’t go sideways in hurry, I think we just found Max’s/Harper’s new not-work friends.
Nothing like a little self-deprecation to break the ice. ^_^
If that does become the case, I look forward to the future plotline where they get kidnapped for some reason completely unrelated to Max, and the hijinks that follow.
Skal!
*sadly adds another entry to list of great side plots we’ll never have time for*
Want another one?
Thoth gets caught in an energy/magic drain torture device, has to drain Xuri and her sister to stay alive.
Cue orgy ar Archon HQ to keep Dabbler alive while Max and Syndey go on the rescue mission.
That… actually sounds like a great plot. Plus arguably foreshadowed from when Tom said he has never taken mana from Dabbler outside of absolute emergencies, for which Dabbler is very appreciative and says “I know honey. Thank you.”
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It just seems like the obvious way to get a few supers off-planet and into your trap.
Google tells me this about Bruichladdich’s X4: “Aged in new oak casks to enhance flavor, the X4 can also, as proven by a pair of BBC journalists, power a sports car at speeds over 100 mph.”
It’s REAL?!
*looks it up* Damn.. it’s an Islay. Too much smoke for me.
Huh… only $115/bottle plus shipping. Not bad.
Bruichladdich generally runs un-peated.
And while this was distilled to 92% ABV, it was cut to 50% when bottled, so a mere 100 proof. This distilled, it pretty much has no flavor at all. See also https://whiskyauctioneer.com/lot/6140070/bruichladdich-x4
X4+3 is aged, a little. Original X4 is not.
I am gratified and impressed that Dave knew about, or looked up Bruichladdich. I was introduced to their Scotches a few years back and have become a huge fan. Their Octomore series are their heavily peated stuff. My intro to them was by the owner of a, beautiful, whiskey bar in Ballard, WA called The Ballard Cut (Gotta plug a great restaurant). When he found out I liked heavily peated scotch he had me try their Octomore 8.3. World record holder for peatiest scotch at 309 ppm. For reference, a heavily peated scotch has 40-60 ppm. Over that is considered excessively peaty. However, it is, extremely, smooth. It smells, and tastes, pleasantly like a clean campfire. So potent I drink it a drop at a time, no joke.
I got hooked and tried to find any bottles available. I lucked out and found two for sale by a man in Germany for $700 apiece, and that was CHEAP. One is still on my bar, 80% full, the other was a 50th anniversary gift for my parents. Mind you, I am not rich, not have I ever spend more than $100 on an bottle before, but this stuff was special.
Sorry this is a repeat of what I posted up higher. I thought it didn’t go through and tried posting it selsewhere.
I humbly request a future vote incentive be disguised Maxima because I am in love with her.
Patreon is the place to make those kind of request.
for anyone not measuring alcohol in “proof” and too lazz to google > Maxima’s drink 184 proof = 92%.
And now, because anytime proof & nerdy shit get brought up in tandem:
https://youtu.be/z5K2xxgVHJE
I probably deserve that link. I now have a better plan if only I can find the right bar….
Fear boner? Jeez… Buddy face down a 2200 lbs bull in an only slightly better mood than Max, THAT’S a “fear boner”! Me thinks he’s into something than just “fear”! Show hands if anyone else thinks he’s hoping she’s a Dom taking a break from her duties. Granted she looks the part, but I can think of a better choice for this guy’s first attempt. Like our bull… Heeeeeeeey batter hey batter batter batter SWING! (Max pulls out her checkbook to pay for damages while the guy’s still air-born and screaming, bits of glass and roof sprinkle down on the parking lot)
I should hope not. Maxima does NOT want her first ever attempt at going out incognito to end in violent assault upon random civilians.
True, but..but..but comedy!? LOL. She’s just as likely to give him “the stare of death” making him run to the bathroom leaking the whole time.
“Impress me with your silence.”
We’re obviously going to get a drunk Maxima soon. I’d ask why no one went with her,but it’s not like she could take anyone with her that wouldn’t give the game away instantly by the product of who they are.
Dabbler could do any easy disguise,but she’d undoubtedly use it as a way to sleep with her.
Anvil is just as noticeable as regular max.
Sydney would give the game away in 10 minutes.
Harem would be too tempted to pull a dabbler,plus it’s her boss.
Hiro would be too much of a temptation, for both parties.
And the rest would be also be probably feel weird about partying with their boss.
Lets see where Max’s drunken escapades take her.
Peggy. Peggy is basically the only option who isn’t immediately recognizable, and would feel comfortable getting sloshed with her nominal boss, since they were friends back in the army first.
Debating with myself whether Peggy, with her scars, (optionally) missing leg, and assertive personality, would draw more net attention to the two of them, or actually pull some away from Max. But yeah, she’s a great candidate for a drinking buddy.
Most of the normies within ArcLight etc would also fit in, but I don’t think any of them are on drinking terms with Max at this point.
Not after that bit with the fake ID, anyway.
Peggy is confident but relaxed, her personality isn’t really the kind to draw attention.
Her scars and missing leg may be noticed, but for that kind of thing people might pretend to not notice, unlike a celebrity or a very hot woman. Also there’s the option to hide them with glamour, but Peggy is probably comfortable enough with it.
Chimyriad would probably be a good drinking buddy for Max.
Chimy could be a good drinking body for anybody if she could take the role seriously long enough.
What kind of third rate Kevin Sorbo do you take me for?
*grumbles*
…anyway, being Harper’s wingman on an occasion like this is less about acting, and more about being supportive, attentive, and authentic. And knowing when to tell the barkeep to start watering down the booze, but that’s a different skill-set.
Anyway, I’m sure Leon will know as soon as her tags are run, locate her phone to within 4 meters, and assuming the Old Man deems it necessary, I’ll be dispatched. Goddess know, it won’t be the first time a Zero (that’s a commissiined Officer, for the civilians in the room, as opposed to a NonCom or a Warrant) needed to be kept out of trouble.
I just want an excuse to see more of Chimyriad in the comic.
Assuming we haven’t already seen her a lot without being aware. For all we know, she is in this page. ;)
*smokebomb*
Fear Boner is the name of my Gwar cover band.
To be fair she might have an easier time passing for normal as they might think she is a random Super rather than who she really is as the existence of super heroes, demons, and aliens have been already revealed with a few months for people to settle with the idea.
Also this is probably the first time she got to really relax since it is hard to be at ease when you are a golden Super power titan who has to give the impression they are reasonable without making people worry that what you might do if you snapped.
Yeah … she’s unlikely to pass for normal human, but may pass for normal random Super.
Fear horniness is a real thing. Why else would horror movies be best choice for dates?
Also the reason for the baby boomers.
Clingy, “scared”, girls?
Oldest trick in the book, take her to see a movie, when she got scared you’d hold her close and “try to distract her”, turn the sound down and when the widows steamed up she can’t see it anymore… Of course it only worked at the drive-ins, a little hard to get to the “distracting” part when you’re in a walk-in.
One of my favorite jobs while in college was working at a drive in theater. Block busters went to the multiplex next door. “Nice” movies went to the old single screen downtown and slasher flicks and exploitation movies showed up at the drive in.
Dave’s author’s note reminds of one of my favorite DC-Universe Fanfic author. In her universe, it is canonical that Superman and Barry Allen’s Flash compete on a regular basis to see who can return all the wayward shopping carts in the parking lot of the busiest Wal-Mart in America. Superman almost always loses, then vents his frustration by fixing bad parking jobs , including relocating assholes who double park in what should be the space reserved for loading and unloading wheelchairs next to a handicap parking space.
I’m intrigued
I’m intrigued.
I can picture this in the Snyderverse, but that’s about it.
relocating to the next time zone? the deadest Walmart in the US? the top of the tallest parking ramp? the NSA parking ramp? the flight line parking lot on an Airforce base? death valley? (with an empty tank)
*out of sheer rage and pettiness, Dave ends up creating the ‘generic parked car’ brush for his art program. Comic artists rejoice*
How would this scene translate in the setting of…ancient Gaul?!?
Reading Dave’s author’s note: But, but, but, I really wanted to see that. I now feel cheated.
Aren’t we just talking about undiluted Everclear at that point? Undiluted, it’s 190 proof. I also don’t suggest drinking it undiluted. Tastes like a** and has no business being drank like that unless you’re trying to get alcohol poisoning. The crazy part is that’s not even the strongest thing you can buy. It’s more of a specialty item but you can actually buy 200 proof pure food grade alcohol. It’s more for making extracts and other such items, but you can still technically buy and consume it.
As someone who occasionally buys various art supplies I discovered that Everclear was at one point cheaper that alcohol paint thinner of similar proof. The paint thinner is denatured with methanol but it is cheap enough that it wouldn’t make up the difference in the price. For airbrushing acrylics Everclear works well.
pretty sure that everclear is the “also counts as degreaser” stuff the bartender has.
Dave B clearly needs to win an Eisner for the first panel! And you know that an amusing time will be had when the first thing that a character says is about getting a fear boner.
But it’s also a little sad that Max has never been able to be an inconspicuous adult (well, as inconspicuous as one can be when still looking like a bombshell), given she was changed when she was just a teenager.
….how do you mean “literally never been an adult”
Keep reading.
She was diverted from awkward teenager directly to abnormal curiosity, and went from there to military special ops and international celebrity. She’s literally never had a chance to do everyday incognito grownup things like grocery shopping, taking a bus, walking her dog, or getting a drink in peace on the weekend.
She’s never been an adult who could walk, unremarkable, among the general population. She got her gold skin before she was old enough to vote, and has been conspicuous ever since.
ahhh right right that makes sense
I imagine the only reason I wouldn’t be using TK/Super-strength/etc to rearrange those jackass drivers that park like that is security cameras in the parking lot recording it all and outing me as a super-human. Even though I’m not a drinker though I’d probably occasionally abuse being invulnerable to toxins like alcohol to win bar bets for who can drink the most without passing out and similar deals.
And yes, I have often wished I had superpowers to move/take care of asshole parkers. And stupid ATV drivers racing down two-lane roads in their unlicensed/not-street-legal ATVs with no helmets or safety equipment. Especially this one asshole who thinks he can speed through school zones on his ATV and blows past school buses.
If I had superpowers, I’d be labeled a villain within a week.
If I had powers, there would be a LOT fewer people breaking traffic laws.
No, no, no. I wouldn’t hurt THEM.
Their CARS now…
“Sir, I don’t know how to explain it, but when we finally tore your engine completely apart there were dozens of ball bearings inside each of the cylinders. Not that they are cylindrical any more.”
I’ve SEEN that, not pretty. Basically scrap metal ready for the bin. Well, not ball bearings but nuts, bolts, and anything else that would fit the spark plug hole.
Heck, I had a piston break up while I was driving down I-696. For those unfamiliar with the Detroit area, think the trench on the Death Star. Absolutely nowhere to pull over. You can imagine the racket, and how fast I lost power.
Three miles later I coasted into my cousin’s driveway; Fortunately she was very close to one of the exits.
Good news story, though: I was 100 miles short of the factory warantee running out, and it was a manufacturer’s defect, the piston was a defective casting. Got a complete engine replacement out of it.
Hope you framed the repair authorization for that, usually it’s 100 miles to the bad side of the warranty expiring.
There are a wide variety of “you park like an idiot” business cards / fake tickets and bumper stickers. Most of which come in a multipack with a disclaimer saying the mfg does not condone putting them on cars you do not own, but if you do please submit pictures to their social media accounts.
I would have solved the parking page problem by usinga Pacman style maze as the parking lot.
Just give her a glass of Alcool with a lemon twist, then listen to her bitch about ‘fruity drinks’ ;)
I think she’s about to get cut off for the first time since the geode incident. She’ll probably be good to drive when she is, too.
I recommend Celebrator, its pretty much the gold standard for dark beers.
And its delish.
With her perfect skin, does Max not look like a teenager? I would think that she would get carded at every new place she went to.
In a superhero TTRPG, my gadget-building hero drove to a tech parts store/junk shop and found a guy taking up three spots in front by parking perpendicular to the line of the spaces. She proceeded to quick-build a tractor beam and move the car to the parking lot of the biker bar next door, where if he wasn’t really careful he’d knock over at least one motorcycle and possibly more. The car belonged to a “civvie” so nobody gave her trouble.
Yes, she was considered a hero. She would try to talk mad scientists around to being gonzo scientists, which are mad scientists on the side of good, and she tended to use as her first point you don’t get punched as much.
(Lots of tech-based heros and baddies shopped there, and there were two rules for them: park properly and if you think you recognized someone, no you didn’t. He broke rule 1, so she took care of it. It later kept her from getting a broken leg in a super-fight when the opponent in the power armor recognized her and used a stun-blast instead of his plasma blast to knock her out instead of disabling her.)
Warning: If you dial “91”, what often happens is that the police call you back, and if you don’t respond they may send officers who are nervous that they may be walking into a hostage situation… NOT something you want. (Been there, done that, they very correctly insisted upon searching the house to make sure.)
“Skål” indeed! Nothing like a Scandinavian drinking buddy! XD
I immediately connect these four to Denmark, Sweden, Norway, and Finland over at SATWcomic.
I’m pretty sure Fear Boner is Denmark, and Skål Gål is a more talkative Sister Finland. Big Eyes has to be Sweden, and The Big Guy is clearly Norway.
This my head canon now.
Oh great now I cant help but think all of this too.
Only 20 mins to find parking at any of Dallas’ fine bar/entertainment districts? Must be a slow night.
No baby steps, eh?
If I was outside incognito for the first time ever, I’d maybe start with… a walk around the block? During the daytime, to get a gauge on how people look at me?
I guess they don’t keep Everclear in that bar, bu tthen I don’t think I’ve ever seen a bar that does keep it.
Years ago when I was a DJ in a strip club one of the girls thought she would be “cute” and gave me a Prairie Dog. A Prairie Dog is a straight shot of Bacardi 151 rum with several dashes of Tobasco in it. Unless you were a glutton for punishment you couldn’t take more than the tiniest sip of it at a time. I don’t think I even finished it off before the end of my shift.
And if the X4 doesn’t do the trick, Maxima can try emptying her durability pool. But that would presumably make her other powers harder to control, on top of being drunk. Fun!
If you can manage, the best place to relocate a double-parked car is probably not into a tree or next to a fire hydrant. It would be between the tree and the fire hydrant, on soft turf, one bumper facing each.
Close enough that it would take, with perfect execution, a twenty-seven-step turnabout, on solid ground, to get out, before taking the soft ground, and the curb, into account.
Alternate location. For those who take up FOUR spots to protect Their Baby®, place their vehicle, gently, between a dumpster and a brick wall. Close enough that you can’t open either side door without knocking into one of them. If it has an openable rear window, door, or hatch, make sure it’s parked over a puddle of something nasty, and preferably sticky.
I particularly love the first panel.
It actually does a pretty solid amount of lifting for a stick drawing, reminds me of OOTS’s Miko Miyazaki and her barely-restrained anger at the world.
Between superspeed and superstrength, could she not readjust a crooked parking job to be perfectly within the lines fast enough that no one notices her moving?
You mean like Scumble from the Discworld series, or Bor Brew from the Lone Wolf series?
in Poland, the strongest alcohol possible to consume is rectified spirit which has 95%. it is usually drunk diluted or used to make tinctures or liqueur. but there are cases that there are people who drink clean. in general, the Slavs have the most fashionable heads when it comes to alcohol. once there was a case in Poland of a guy who had 14 per mille in his blood and survived. The official lethal dose of alcohol is about 4 per mille…
Surely a full-service bar has some Everclear 190 under the counter?
My great-grandfather was a moonshiner, he claimed you could get drunk off the fumes alone! Also ran it in his Model A truck, which I doubt but hey. I got this all from my grandfather, he did have his dad’s old still but never used it himself. Weird looking thing, all brass and weighed a ton. I was 13 at the time, so forgive me if I’m not sure on the whole story ;)
E85 is 15 % gas and the rest ethanol, so 170 proof with gasoline as the denaturant, you can definitely run a car on any high proof drinkable alcohol.
You can run on straight ethanol but you have to make some serious changes to the tuning of the car. It takes nearly twice as much fuel to get close to the same output. Plus you have to run special type of oil in the motor, regular motor oil is broke down very quickly by the alcohol. That’s why the cars setup to run E85 have a list of do’s and don’t’s. And the pumps at the gas stations say right on them “E85 cars only”.
Depends on if the car has EFI and runs in closed loop mode. Mythbusters ran a late model Camaro on E90 with no mods because it was already on closed loop from the factory, but anything using a carburettor has to be re-jetted or it runs like crap because gas runs 14.7:1 A:F while E runs 6:1, and methanol runs 3.4:1. Actually ethanol runs reliably at anywhere from 13:1 to 5:1, it’s just not a happy situation on either extreme.
I’ll have to look that up, I remember it as alcohol at 28:1, E85 at 18:1. Ethanol isn’t as explosive as gas, and it burns blue, not red, so it doesn’t produce the same amount of exhaust gases as gasoline. A 250 hp engine would lose about 35hp, and double fuel usage, if memory is right, I looked into it a lot back when E85 was first came out and I had an idea for running a still to make my own fuel. I live in Indiana,USA, WAY too many rules about stills! Hell, you couldn’t buy even beer on Sundays up until a few years ago.
It probably wouldn’t run on pure moonshine but Model A engines are pretty flexible. You could likely get away with a fairly high percentage. It’s impressive that the still was still around, I expect that Grandpa’s still went to a scrap metal drive for the war. They weren’t much for keeping stuff around. Scarsdale’s ancestor may have lived in a dry state/county which would continue to support a market for moonshine.
I actually have two bottles of Everclear 190 in my pantry. Not for drinking, god no. My neighbor gave it to me during the Covid lockdowns in case I didnt have any hand sanitizer (he was very worried for me for some reason), and I’ve since kept it in case I ever need, like…. if I need to disinfect a gunshot wound after a nuclear war or to use as ammunition to make molotov cocktails for a zombie apocalypse in the future. I dunno. I just have them still. No idea at all what to do with them.
You could make an entire bucket of Cosmopolitans for the next putluck…
Nice to hear you have some good plans for them, should the need arise. I think this makes you the survivor team medic, what’s your weapon of choice for supply raids?
Her weapon of choice is probably Imminent Domain, followed by a Mia Culpepper Spray, finished by Bring Down The Gavel on someones head.
All that, plus a crowBar.
And a Mean Deposition.
I’m letting these puns go btw. They are intelligent and well crafted ones, rather than the weapons of verbal and literary mass destruction which deserve ninja hit squads.
So you’re proposing a dopple-standard for the bar scene?
Approriwit.
Gnnnnghk!
This thread makes me happy on many levels, I’m not even going to risk upsetting the balance. :D
It’s nice to be appreciated, but I’m just going to invite Iga’s crew over for some chinese style barbaque pork and beer just to be on the safe side.
a friend of mine told me about a drink called an assassin, it uses everclear and gatorade.
a SMALL (the smallest) bottle of gatorade, and a shot of everclear.
you’re supposed to pour out a shot of gatorade, drink it, replace the shot with everclear (into the bottle of gatorade), and drink that up. They also mentioned not to drink more than one.
I feel like when a drink is called an ‘assassin’ it’s probably not a good idea to drink it. Assassins are meant to be used for taking out your enemies and people who make bad puns.
I thought the “Assassin” was with Red Bull, not Gatorade. But I’ll admit that I don’t know mixed drinks like I used to.