Cocktail, cocktail, cocktail, cocktail......
Fleet Street was a jungle in which "the story", true or false, a cocktail of blind quotes and unsourced gossip, was everything.
He was born and raised in Cincinnati and has a lively sense of humor and a love of country music: during Saturday night's cocktail hour, he quoted Ernest Tubb's songs to a nephew from Nashville.
If there's a Georgetown cocktail party person who, quote, calls himself a conservative who doesn't like her, good luck".
Here is the master of the malapropism, unashamedly mixing metaphors like cocktails and loudly quoting, or more often misquoting, everyone from Virgil to Churchill, Shakespeare to Solzhenitsyn, whose volumes, together with Hitler's speeches, he says he studied while doing time for manslaughter, finding himself – and God.
But the articles never feature much of a debate, just a list of quotes from various cocktail professionals (myself among them) who, when posed the question of which they prefer, universally dismiss mixologist as pretentious and assure that we are just "regular old bartenders".
His quotes were mangled even before cocktail hour.
With a sassy dancehall lilt, Beyonce unexpectedly quotes a Yeah Yeah Yeahs track, a cocktail of warmth and fury.
In the meantime Carter is busy churning out a cocktail of up-to-the-minute blog posts and quote-worthy front-page stories on the saga.
2.20am GMT Here's Armstrong's full quote on what he described as his drugs "cocktail": I viewed it as very simple.
