Word: rotgut
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...birth of the "Urban Hermit Financial Emergency Rotgut Poverty Plan": While the rest of his fellow Yale alums enjoyed high-profile jobs and piles of cash ("It was the nineties, dammit, and they were getting rich. Just like everybody else"), MacDonald did his best to shirk responsibility - including his tax-paying duties. After several IRS agents came calling to collect nearly $2,000 in back taxes, MacDonald began to ponder questions like, "In basic animal terms, what does it take for a human being to survive? Maybe I didn't need to swallow up half of the Rolling Rock...
...cheap new way to get that Friday night buzz. Under these lock-down conditions, we thought it would be appropriate to take a cue from real inmates and present the official recipe for “Harvard Hooch,” FM’s version of prison rotgut. Sure, it might taste like sewage, but who cares? It’s free. You can get all the ingredients you need right in the dining hall. Grab a trash bag, a gallon of orange juice, two cups of sugar, and two crusty dinner rolls. Toss the juice and rolls...
This San Francisco hangout is an internationally renowned temple of tequila cult. It serves more than 200 brands of the Mexican drink--varieties derived from the juice of the spiky agave plant and far pricier than the sugarcane-diluted rotgut of college frat parties. Tommy's Blue Agave Club, the nation's largest tequila-tasting group, boasts connoisseurs from five continents among its 5,000 members. Julio gives seminars in France, Germany, Hong Kong and Singapore. And when Mexican distillers visit Tommy's, patrons ask for their autographs. "They get rock-star status," he said...
...Vending machines in Japan already sell just about anything one can't imagine in a machine?eggs, porn, rotgut?and you see their familiar glow on remote mountaintops and temple grounds. Now, like the automobile and the breadmaker, the coin-op vendor is getting way smarter. The new crop is rigged up with video came-ras, touch-panel computer screens and optical sensors. And these are more than just bells and whistles. In many new models, wireless chips improve efficiency by alerting vendors when a machine is running out of Pocari Sweat or chips. This generation will also be able...
...They found a populace unhappy not just with being tallied but grumbling over how they were counted. Prostitutes were outraged that they had been categorized as beggars, so too were jailed criminals, smugglers and the all-important makers of rotgut liquor. (Census officials say it's because their jobs contribute nothing to the national economy, not because their activities are illegal.) India's highly visible transsexuals, known as hijras, came close to burning their saris when census officials would give no quarter on gender and listed them as men. The country's estimated 30 million Christians charged that they were...