TANQUERAY? Boodles? Crown & 7? What is NOVAK'S lunch pleasure?

[kid a]

He was, and always seems, toasted.

[CottonBear]

1. Maybe he has cocktails at lunch with Hitchens.

We all know that Hitchens is a 'drink-soaked popinjay!"

[Warren DeMontague]

5. Yeah, if "lunch" is 7 am wild turkey over cheerios to ward off the shakes

Mmmm, breakfast of champeens.

[htuttle]

2. Gotta be scotch, neat

He doesn't lie ice cubes, since just dilute the liquor.

[Hobarticus]

4. "Neat, schmeat...just leave the damn bottle!" n/t

[Canuckistanian]

3. John Daniels

When you know him as well as Novak does, you call him John.

[librechik]

6. 2 fingers of baby's blood straight up with a chaser of

gold dust dissolved in the abandoned hopes of the poor.

[xray s]

7. Old Crow

with a sewer water chaser

[longship]

8. There's only one drink that explains Novak.

Prune juice and grain alcohol.

[iconoclastic cat]

9. Antifreeze.

[Cocoa]

10. the most expensive Scotch they have

and put it on Karl Rove's tab.

[KeepItReal]

11. Tony Sinclair to Novak: "That is *not* how you Tanqueray."

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[kid a]

12. He seems like an olive or gibson man