Tag: Howie Surd

• A Fifth of Old Stagg

  

  In Chapter 13 of V. (in which the yo-yo string is revealed as a state of mind) Profane has occasion to call in a favour Pig owes him. This sends our narrator digressing away on how the favour came to be owed, a tale involving Profane saving Pig’s own mortal bacon via a radar antenna…

  mjhorn

  May 6, 2021

  V, Whisk(e)y

  Bourbon, extinct drinks, Howie Surd, Pig Bodine, Profane

• Torpedo Juice

  

  During WWII, US Navy torpedos were fuelled on 180 proof grain alcohol. So were the sailors.  The torpedos had an easier time stomaching the stuff. Alcohol was (and is) more-or-less banned on Navy ships, and the higher-ups employed dastardly stratagems to keep the high-proof fuel out of the sailors’ bloodstreams. Early on, They spiked the…

  mjhorn

  January 4, 2018

  Cocktail/mixed, V

  Grain alcohol, Howie Surd, Navy, Torpedo