Daily Leo Forecast

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Quickie: Flirting is good practice, even if it doesn't always get you the response you crave.

Overview: At the moment, you're so diligent, meticulous and pragmatic that you're starting to fear for your sanity -- and your hard-earned reputation as a party animal. Not to worry. Work hard -- then play harder.

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Just for thefeline

This tastes funny. . .

Urban Legends, Semi-Bunked

Legend:

Good vodka is nothing more than better-filtered bad vodka

Test procedure:

Procure 500ml of Bad Vodka - Gordon's Deluxe
Procure Charcoal Filter (Pur, 1 qt)

All but 50ml of the GS were poured through the Pur filter three times over the course of three days and refrigerated continuously.  The control sample remained sealed in the original (plastic, natch) bottle, and was also refrigerated.

Before sampling, the tester's mouth was rinsed with Ocean Spray Cranberry Fruit Tea.

The control sample was, in a word, vile.  But, to go into greater detail, it came on like a turpentine enema, had the body of a flyblown yak, and finished like last year's Miss Bukkake Albania.

After a rinse with OSCFT, the test was sampled.

It won't be mistaken for Grey Goose or Ultimat, but it might pass for Absolut - the brutal come-on was all but entirely eliminated, and the body and finish, while still approximating a hundred and twenty grit sanding belt, were markedly improved.

Verdict:

The filter effect was far from negligible, and for those readers with a taste for non-shite vodka and on a slimmer budget, the $20 Pur filtering pitcher will pay for itself in less than three liters' worth of production.  Additional filtration may yield superior results; further experiments into the law of diminishing returns may be undertaken at a future date.