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Elf Proof
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fleurdelis28 and no apologies to the Silmarillion.)
fleurdelis28: I like the fact that Elrond is known as the Halfelven, though in fact he's something like one-quarter plus one-eighth elven.
Me: That website I sent you had figured out the precise percentage: I believe it was nine-sixteenths. This is when you have far too much time on your hands.
fleurdelis28: Yeah. I sometimes wonder what such energy could do invested in something more practical. Of course, I suppose statistically it could be spent on something practical and evil. Wouldn't the Puritans be surprised to find that, in fact, idle hands translate Sindarin?
(Cut for alcoholic elf musing.)
. . . Thinking irrelevantly of those LOTR genealogies—someone should develop an elf proof, like they have with alcohol.
Me: Elrond the Eighty Proof?
fleurdelis28: lol.
Hmm.
Elrond the Hundred and Twelve Point Five Proof, actually.
Me: I think I am going to have to put Elrond the Hundred and Twelve Point Five Proof up on my livejournal somewhere.
fleurdelis28: Yay! With context, though, so people know it’s not a drink.
Me: I don’t know: I like the idea of walking into a bar and ordering an Elrond.
fleurdelis28: But it would have to be a sufficiently worthy drink.
Me: Of course. What would go into one?
fleurdelis28: Hey, imagine the small fortune we could make selling this to LOTR fans...
Hmm, I don’t know enough about drinks. But it would probably be on the wine end of things, probably white or rosé. Though who knows, I’m mainly going on appearance here, and vodka is clear.
Definitely a mixed drink.
Me: With very old liquor.
Now, I am uninitiate in the ways of most mixed drinks. But if we can have drinks with names like Irish Car Bomb, Big Lemon Nazi, and Long Hard Screw Against The Wall, I'm sure someone out there can come up with an Elrond the Hundred and Twelve Point Five Proof. Any takers?
fleurdelis28 and no apologies to the Silmarillion.)fleurdelis28: I like the fact that Elrond is known as the Halfelven, though in fact he's something like one-quarter plus one-eighth elven.
Me: That website I sent you had figured out the precise percentage: I believe it was nine-sixteenths. This is when you have far too much time on your hands.
fleurdelis28: Yeah. I sometimes wonder what such energy could do invested in something more practical. Of course, I suppose statistically it could be spent on something practical and evil. Wouldn't the Puritans be surprised to find that, in fact, idle hands translate Sindarin?
(Cut for alcoholic elf musing.)
. . . Thinking irrelevantly of those LOTR genealogies—someone should develop an elf proof, like they have with alcohol.
Me: Elrond the Eighty Proof?
fleurdelis28: lol.
Hmm.
Elrond the Hundred and Twelve Point Five Proof, actually.
Me: I think I am going to have to put Elrond the Hundred and Twelve Point Five Proof up on my livejournal somewhere.
fleurdelis28: Yay! With context, though, so people know it’s not a drink.
Me: I don’t know: I like the idea of walking into a bar and ordering an Elrond.
fleurdelis28: But it would have to be a sufficiently worthy drink.
Me: Of course. What would go into one?
fleurdelis28: Hey, imagine the small fortune we could make selling this to LOTR fans...
Hmm, I don’t know enough about drinks. But it would probably be on the wine end of things, probably white or rosé. Though who knows, I’m mainly going on appearance here, and vodka is clear.
Definitely a mixed drink.
Me: With very old liquor.
Now, I am uninitiate in the ways of most mixed drinks. But if we can have drinks with names like Irish Car Bomb, Big Lemon Nazi, and Long Hard Screw Against The Wall, I'm sure someone out there can come up with an Elrond the Hundred and Twelve Point Five Proof. Any takers?
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Nine Sixteenths.
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