NATIONAL NAME YOUR POISON DAY – June 8

National Day Calendar ^ | June 8, 2023 | Staff

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(Last Updated On: June 6, 2023)

NATIONAL NAME YOUR POISON DAY | JUNE 8

National Name Your Poison Day on June 8th places a few options before you and challenges you to choose. In this case, the idiom can be a cautionary one or it could be your bartender’s way of asking you what you want to drink.

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Daily National Republican in Washington, D.C. reported in its March 24, 1864 edition, “The latest fashion in Washington of asking a party what they will take to drink is – ‘Please nominate your poison, gentlemen.’” The story made its rounds to newspapers across the country and by 1867 writers attributed the colloquial term to folks in Indiana.

While “nominate your poison” harkens back to the early days of the temperance movement, the phrase seems to have been used mostly to describe the action of ordering the drink. Even in 1914 as the mayor of New Bavaria, Ohio proposed a law requiring all drinkers to apply for drinking licenses, the phrase was popular. The phrase comes in many forms – pick, choose, or name – and of course nominate your poison.

HOW TO OBSERVE NATIONAL NAME YOUR POISON DAY

Have you ever had a choice to make where no option seemed to point to a good outcome? Which poison did you pick? Decisions, decisions. We all have to make them. Share your decision-making skills by using #NameYourPoisonDay to post on social media.

NATIONAL NAME YOUR POISON DAY HISTORY

Our research was unable to locate the creator and the origin of National Name Your Poison Day.

[Red Badger]

Mine is a Singapore Sling!...................

[Red Badger]

Ping!................

[Jim W N]

I’ll defer to my wife (if she’s in a good mood).

[showme_the_Glory]

Pappy Van Winkle, neat

[M Kehoe]

Hi.

I’m convoluted.

Methinks I’ll toss a coin...

Which single malt scotch do I want today?

Balmoral or Glenfiddich?

Maybe an Aberfeldy?

Johnny?

No, let me think about that again...

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[Red Badger]

When I used to drink, I’d have Black Velvet.............

[mabarker1]

Cyanide on the rocks ?

[Red Badger]

With a carbolic acid chaser...............

[paintriot]

Laphroaig neat.

[V_TWIN]

While that time is well past me now, back in the day it was

Jameson

Or Makers Mark

Or Crown Royal

ice, a water mixer and a lime wedge

FYI for anyone not aware.....carbonated mixers can magnify the hangover.

[GingisK]

I’m partial to VX. Every liberal should try it.

[M Kehoe]

“I’m partial to VX. Every liberal should try it.”

Did I just copy that?

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[Red Badger]

I never really developed a taste for alcohol like some people do.

I drank a lot with my buddies in the Marines, but after I got out I didn’t drink hardly at all.

Still don’t. I’ve got a good bar with bottles that haven’t been touched in years..............

[Red Badger]

I hear it’s a gas!...........

[Magnum44]

[FamiliarFace]

Anything with dark rum in it works for me. Favorite is Zacapa 23. I can’t afford the really good stuff.

[Red Badger]

I remember some really good times with Diablo Azul!..........

[Dutch Boy]

Twice a year I have a shot of Herradura Reposado tequila.

[Sirius Lee]

I stocked the cellar years ago with a case when it was still only a little over a hundred bucks a bottle.

Now you can't even get the fresh stuff, let alone 12 year at that price.

I finished the 21 year during WuFlu. It's a drink, not an investment. No regrets.

[hoagy62]

For my wife, Woodford Reserve bourbon.
For me, Alaskan Amber ale.