Great blog, Les, and glad I could contribute to your enjoyment.  I kinda liked that “verbal acuity” comment myself.  Sure wished to get some mileage out of the “Life of Reilly” take-off as well, but that may have been too far a reach. 

Tanqueray isn’t the cheap stuff...more on the order of a high medium level...a top-shelf brand.  It is large production and still good, but really can’t compare to the small-batch stuff.

As far as leaving psychoanalysis to the professionals...what did I say to indicate I wasn’t professional?  If you’ll review, my comments were written primarily about those ‘responding’ to your original missive, some of which certainly went over the top. And my considered opinion about those responses hasn’t changed. 

And I wouldn’t consider it “judgment”...more like “commenting” on someone’s apparent ‘blog-published’ issues...I am certainly not one to judge, just to observe and comment and it isn’t always pretty, but can get pretty funny.  As far as psychoanalysis goes, sometimes reviewing comments on a message board is as good as you can get...usually more revealing than a face-to-face conversation.  The anonymity of the web seems to allow the words to flow with more candor and those same words can convey both their literal message along with the emotion and mental state of the writer.  And the broadcast of those words, stated without responsibility, can provide a very compelling venue to those who have no other audience.

Now it’s time for a Tanqueray martini...it’s a balmy 78 degrees with clear blue skies here in Florida, and a nice, backyard lounge chair is calling my name. 

I appreciated your comments.

“What I find really amazing is the bile and invective directed toward an actor playing a part”

Oh, great. Another socially inept academic who fancies themselves to be V from V for Vendetta and thinks that they have decended from the heavens in their chariot to shed their intellectual grace upon us mortals.
Juuust ducky.
Well folks, get ready for pages upon pages of lengthy dissertations filled with tons of pop psychology buzz phrazes like cognitive dissonance and groupthink, etc. coupled with an inability to communicate in written form without waxing prosaic.

Well, I guess everyone needs something to do on a Friday night…

Oh, great. Another socially inept academic who fancies themselves to be V from V for Vendetta and thinks that they have decended from the heavens in their chariot to shed their intellectual grace upon us mortals.
Juuust ducky.
Well folks, get ready for pages upon pages of lengthy dissertations filled with tons of pop psychology buzz phrazes like cognitive dissonance and groupthink, etc. coupled with an inability to communicate in written form without waxing prosaic.

What’s your point?

bennyb… I think he is expecting pages filled with cognitive dissonance and groupthink shed with prosaically waxed intellectual grace...and he wants it all by Friday night.  Better get busy!

bennyb… I think he is expecting pages filled with cognitive dissonance and groupthink shed with prosaically waxed intellectual grace...and he wants it all by Friday night.  Better get busy!

ha!ha!
I’ll do that ... as soon as I finish downloading the internet.

“...and that internet downloading goes really well with Tanqueray gin.  Ready to Tanqueray?  AH,ha,ha,ha!”

Great site and great comments!  Cheers!

...and now we have the latest Tony Sinclaire episode...new Tanqueray Rangpur.  A gin infused with an indian lime… good stuff, although Tony seems to have lost a little elan.  He seems to be trying too hard, or maybe the subcontinent doesn’t agree with him…

Tony Sinclair is cool. You clowns who don’t like him are just jealous. He has something good going for him, and I hope we see more of him. J.

A gin that goes with anything?

Maybe they are trying to reinvent the character - lets see how the next commercial turns out.

Fav: You wouldn’t put a donkey in the Kentucky Derby?

tony sinclair is a fictional character the company made up as a joke for an ad campaign for their gin. his real name is rodney mason and hes from philadelphia. so ya, hes a fucking actor in a series of funny commercials… get the fuck over it.

Reading this reminds me of a quote by Groucho Marx “I find television to be very educating.  Every time somebody turns on the set, I go in the other room and read a book”. Most tv shows are tripe and the ads are even worse.

so one of those commercials came on a minute ago and we were just having the exact conversation as your blog here. wtf is up with that guy? i want to break that fucking tanqueray bottle over his head. we googled him and it sent us to you. thanks for being awesome. and right.

One old-fashioned glass, filled with ice to the rim; add Tanqueray Rangpur to the halfway point in the glass; add tonic water to the rim; result is a lime-less gin and tonic with an excessively clean refreshing taste.  No I’m not sellin’, just tellin’.  All with the added benefit of preventing malaria (quinine in the tonic water).  Enjoy!

I think the scrub brush beard DOES compensate for the peach fuzz on your scalp

Honestly I think the dud’e a faggot,my god listen to him talk and watch his actions.What now a fuckin ice cube that doesn’t melt???.I don’t know who he is or who he is trying to persuade everyone that he’s some billionaire faggot,screw Tanguray man! Just give me my Tequila,or Mesquale and my lemon. salt and some hot babe I can drink out of her voluptous navel.Now that’s a luscious drink,even if I am from the SOUTH!! it’s not always Jim Beam

You guys are just pissed because Tony Sinclair found the forbidden grove of Rangpur limes and all you found was your ugly wives caking on their mascara in the bahtroom of your studio apartments.

I am ready to Tanqueray, RANGPUR STYLE!
LONG LIVE TONY SINCLAIR!

Where does one go about getting masquale?  It is for my religion?  But I"m have a difficult time finding it and getting it.  Can anyone please help?

Steph

Steve/Steph, what the hell makes you think this would be a good place to ask that question?

I bet he means mezcal, which is just any agave-based alcohol beverage made in Mexico that isn’t tequila. Easy way to tell the difference, look on the label. It says if it’s made in the state of Tequila or Oaxaca. Also, if it has the worm, it’s mezcal since it’s illegal to put the worm in tequila.

This educational bit brought to you by a really bored guy who works in a liquor store.

I like Tony Sinclair. Can’t wait for the next one.

he da bomb.  Can’t wait till the next one!

“you wouldn’t put a donkey in the Kentucky derby.” You wouldn’t put a gap toothed idiot on a commercial would you?  I loved the comment about eating corn through the chain link fence… made me laugh like hell because I could picture it.  These commercials suck and Tanqueray is no where near as good as bombay.  I’ll stick to my bourbon though.  I don’t know whats worse the fact that he is on a commercial or the fact that socialite wannabes buy Tanqueray because it makes them think they are “happening” people with no apparent source of income like TS, you know just party all the time in lavished atmosphere without ever being seen working a day in their life. I could do without the racist shit though… stupidity knows no color.

@whiskey_rules
you sound like a bourbon kinda guy. Why call yourself whiskey? even better yet, are you also a gin expert?

Ready to Tanqueray?  AH,ha,ha,ha!

Well at least the fool finally figured out how to pronounce Tanqueray. He went through several generations of commercials pronouncing the q like it was a g: “Ready to TanGERay?” Maybe the gap-toothed fool is dyslexic.

@bennyb

I do not claim to be an expert but I am a connoisseur of sorts.  My fav Irish whiskey would have to be bush mills black, my favorite borbon is a close match between wild turkey and makers mark.  My fav scotch would be talisker.  Not too big on the Canadian whisky. As far as gin goes my fav would be Citadelle or Bombay.  My point being that I make my own assesments on what I like, I don’t let flavor of the day commercials or other peoples taste cloud my judgment as to what I like I judge that based on flavor.  I don’t understand what you were implying about why my name is whiskey.... you are aware that bourbon is a whiskey right?  I don’t drink only bourbon but it is my staple.