[Lancey Howard]

Here is the definition of "neat", per Webster's New World College Dictionary:

"neat": unmixed with anything; undiluted; straight: said esp. of liquor drunk without a mixer or chaser

Hmm..
I think most people for the past 30 years or so (I'm in my 50s) have mostly used the word "straight" to describe a drink with nothing added. I'm guessing "neat" was the common way to say "straight" back in the 40s and 50s - - you know, during Frank Davis's heyday.

[shibumi]

Not that it sheds any light on things, but “neat” is a particularly European (mostly Brittish Isles) term that has been co-opted by Americans to make them sound more sophisticated.

My father, who, if he were alive would be 107 emigrated from Scotland, and was the only one of his group of buddies to use the term. All the other men in his age group said “straight.”

I think The Usurper’s use of the word is just faux-culture.

[carcraft]

I worked as a waiter in the 70’s and clients ordered drinks “neat” all the time. I believe Davis is Obama’s daddy. Davis, in one of his porn books, describes him and his wife having a sexual relation ship with the young daughter of a friend. There is supposedly a naked picture of Ann Dunham (the picture sure looks like Ann) taken by Davis on the Internet, the young women has a wedding ring on. Ann Dunham was a flake and may well have named Davis as daddy on the birth certificate. I think pops was about when Davis told Obama who his daddy was...Obama has created an alternate life for himself as expressed in Dreams and his speech's and the c*rp about the Kennedy airlift, Selma etc. I think Obama was born in Hawaii and I wonder if there are any Davis's listed around the time he says he was born?

[jazminerose]

Yup. Not to date myself, but when I was very very young & yet precocious enough to notice such things, the grown ups asked for their scotch “neat” meaning straight up, no ice, no soda.