Posted on 12/31/2006 11:08:17 AM PST by freespirited
Oscar Goodman loves his martinis....
The Las Vegas mayor is famous for showing up at events with a showgirl on each arm, and for proposing outrageous punishments -- the stocks, removal of limbs -- for petty offenses.
But his martini habit is perhaps his best-known feature. The city's flamboyant mayor picked up a $100,000 endorsement deal with Bombay Sapphire. He got in trouble last year for telling a fourth-grade class that if he could take anything to a desert island, he would take a bottle of gin. Drinking, he told them, is one of his hobbies.
And so it recently came to pass that Goodman accepted an offer from the Community College of Southern Nevada to teach a one-time class in martini-making.
The two-hour class will be offered in February to as many as 40 students at $20 each. Goodman will demonstrate his technique, answer questions and schmooze with the students.
"I'll do anything to further the educational opportunities in the valley," Goodman told the Las Vegas Review-Journal.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
Do i look like i give a damn?
Well, from what is contained in the posted article, he is a easonably harmless one. Besides, some of his penal propositions have merit. I always believed that the sexual offenders ought to be set in a tree stump [by having a split stump clamp on their appendages]. It is a sort of a pillory variant, properly specific to the offense.
easonably = reasonably
I hate the commercials Las Vegas is putting out. Basically, be a slut and we won't tell. What a joke.
Oh, but a good martini is bipartisan!!
"He got in trouble last year for telling a fourth-grade class that if he could take anything to a desert island, he would take a bottle of gin."
Better then the lies a lot of politicians would say....
Bing a bottle of gin, and you'll drink for a day. Bring a still, and you'll drink for a lifetime. (or at least until you're rescued, but with a lifetime supply of booze, who'd want to be rescued?)
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