Recommend me a short drink

[General Dryness]

I rarely use the word but will try to remember.

 

Why is it called a pet hate or a pet peeve? That one has always irked me...

 

Found this online (there was lots of other stuff with it, but this seems to be the important part) :

 

"Pet peeve," meaning the one thing that annoys you more than anything else, first appeared around 1919. The "pet" (in the sense of "favorite") formulation probably owes its popularity and longevity to its mild perversity ("favorite annoyance" is a bit oxymoronic) as well as its snappy alliteration.

 

Makes some sense, I suppose.

[Joe Le Taxi]

The last time I had absinthe was at a funeral wake last year. I ended up setting fire to a table in The Golden Lion.

 

My niece and nephew were looking on and both said it was the greatest thing they'd ever seen.

 

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