Re: Booze

Hair spray works well on removing ink stains sometimes. Especially when
they are new. Got any? 

> Speaking of cleaning rugs, Romeo chewed up a pen today on the 9x12
handmade
> wool oriental rug that I inherited from my grandmother.  Argh.  I'll see
> how well Resolve carpet cleaner really works once everything dries!  Or
> is there a booze trick for that, too?  ;)


Andrea H
Beaufort, SC 


> [Original Message]
> From: Christopher P. Lindsey <lindsey@mallorn.com>
> To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
> Date: 4/12/2005 9:20:12 PM
> Subject: Re: [CHAT] Booze
>
> > Ok-  I am a woman of my word, so went to the local BevMo (Beverages & 
> > More, for those of you who don't know what they are) and sure enough 
> > they did have naVan.  Your price range was exactly correct $42 for a
750 
> > ml bottle.  And the verdict is.....you are correct Chris.  It is a 
> > wonderful flavor and whom ever thought to mix vanilla (REAL vanilla) 
> > with cognac was brilliant. 
>
> Yay!  I'm glad you liked it!
>
> I went out this afternoon to Friar Tuck (one of the larger liquor stores
> in town) and they didn't have Talea, so I have to keep looking.
>
> > And I feel compelled to help Chris feel less like the chatlist lush.  
>
> I appresheeate that.
>
> > While in the store I was also looking at the Ouzo- and thougt that
there 
> > was something different looking about the Metaxa Ouzo bottle.  There 
> > were several Ouzo choices, so I asked a very knowledgable employee
there 
> > (Fred) for his recommendation.  He did recommend the Metaxa, so I asked 
> > him if they changed the bottle- the answer was yes.  Here's the scary 
> > part-  I haven't bought a bottle of Ouzo in ages- like since college. 
I 
> > remembered what the bottle and label looked like from when I worked at
a 
> > DutyFree store during undergrad school (that would have been from 
> > 1985-89).  How's that for a useless bit of trivia I maintained in my 
> > brain! (P.S. Kahlua is the hardest liquor to clean out of a rug, and
151 
> > rum will peel the paint off of a cement floor and clean it to the point 
> > you could eat off of it).
>
> Did you end up buying the Metaxa?  :)
>
> I have a painted cement floor that needs stripping too; now I know what
> to do with my Cruzan 151!
>
> Speaking of cleaning rugs, Romeo chewed up a pen today on the 9x12
handmade
> wool oriental rug that I inherited from my grandmother.  Argh.  I'll see
> how well Resolve carpet cleaner really works once everything dries!  Or
> is there a booze trick for that, too?  ;)
>
> Chris
>
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