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Well, it was almost 20 yrs since I did it...but if I remember correctly, it's some sort of blue raspberry Alize-type liquor, pretty sure there was vodka in there too & poured over a sugar cube in a rocks glass. It was "super" (see what I did there?) tasty & went down real easy. Also came back up real easy :(

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Well, Kryptonite is generally green, except when it's red. (Actually, there might have been other colors, I forget; even then, I realized that expanding the canon was a dick move.)

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Not unless you're Kellyanne Conway.

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lol I like the simple yes and not yet box at the bottom

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Yes! This beverage may have had a green-tinge to it, I honestly don't remember. Lighting wasn't very good & I was already pretty buzzed by the time I started downing those...

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...in beautiful downtown Baltimer!

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Beautiful and mesmerizing.

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Ms. FDF:I am (unofficially, for reasons) engaged to a wonderful woman who has lived her entire life in Baltimore city and county. She was an inner-city girl (specifically the Lumberyard) and some of her family still lives there. Nothing you've said, however 'inflammatory,' is any different than the things she's said about those horrors in the city she loves.Baltimore is a beautiful city, or at least it tries to be. There's centuries of history there, and much of it still shows. But the world moved on, and like every other city in the Rust Belt it was too closely tied to one particular industry to survive when those industries left. (The sight of square MILES of empty shipyard still haunts my dreams. I mean that literally.) And like so many other Rust Belt cities it seems to have lost hope, and when hope is lost human life becomes irrelevant, and the bullshit divisions created by disparities of wealth become even more marked. (I have spent a lot of time in Erie PA as well. The similarities are striking - and disturbing.)But I also know that ordinary, everyday people in Baltimore hate what has happened to their city, and they're trying to take it back. That was what the demonstrations were about, not the 'breakdown of law and order' lies the RW noise machine were propagating. I hope this helps. I hope this works. Because I for one am sick to fucking DEATH of monsters with a little temporal power (like that filthy little waste of molecules Sessions) fucking over 'the others' just because they can. And if this nightmare ends before I die I would really like to be able to visit again, and watch CSXT freights climb towards the Carrollton Viaduct, and wander through the catacombs under Westminster Hall, and contemplate the ancient engines in the B&O Museum, and discover with joy more ancient and forgotten architecture.

Enh... not usually so introspective this early in the day. I blame this frakking cold.

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Apparently blue only affects Bizarro. Plus it's an antidote to red.Because of course.

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*drooooooooooool* I can never get enough of those cookies.

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Heh, I remember the bakery was working on getting an exception to the whole "No hydrogenated ingredients!" regulations that were going around because they said they tried to reformulate the cookies but they just didn't taste right.

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I really need to go back to the Brewer's Art.

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Mmmmm... Old Bay bagels. So delicious with lox.

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Natty Boh-- never in cans, always bottles.

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I haven't been up to Balmer in a few years. Does the mystery person still write " hon" under the welcome sign or did the state cave and make it official?

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