BEAUTIFUL BURLEIGH WARE POTTERY
I love the gorgeous patterns of Burleigh Ware Pottery from England. One of my favorites is Asiatic Pheasants. It was their most popular pattern in the grand days of Queen Victoria. Amazingly, although the pattern is more than 175 years old it meshes well and compliments modern decor. Burleigh's pieces are still made as their originals were when first introduced in 1827. Why go for the imposters when you can still get the real deal?
burleigh ware pitcher
Some Things Just Never Change; Just Shut Up And Pour
First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you. F. Scott Fitzgerald
Cocktail Flask by Anne Taintor
Candy is Dandy but Liquor Is Quicker and a Flask is Forever
In the good 'ole days everyone had 3 things:
virtues
beaver coats
cocktail flasks
No one worried about getting their MBA or wondered what the latest greatest adult toy would be made of (crystal, resin or plastecine........my money's on Austrian crystal...ah hem....). Nor were they concerned with saving the bears, beavers or flying lemurs of Madagascar. And they certainly didn't care about hybrid cars, solar energy or organic Thai basil you twit.
NO - your ancestors had virtues and morals (what's the difference between the two? oh please let's have that philosophical discussion over some spirits or autumnal ale....besides I cannot remember....). They didn't give a damn what they ate as long as they ate and Thailand hadn't even been discovered at that time - back then it was simply known as "Evil China." Plus it didn't matter if their car got 3 miles to the gallon of petrol it was a car gosh dang it and it was a beautiful marvelous thing going 20 miles per hour.
Anyhooo, so the whole world way back then was just filled with slow moving uneducated people who had moral backbones and virtuous femurs and what they didn't have in BA's or MBA's or French TwizzleSnazzers or MagicBullets or Chinese Pleasure Balls they made up with their jazzy tunes, cool beaver coats, leather Cuban heels, French glass hand-beaded dresses, Italian alps lambswool felt cloches adorned with exotic feathers from Argentina, Brazilian tortoiseshell and Moroccan silver cigarette cases lined in onyx and pearl, tuxes and top hats (okay so they did have more than 3 things but that's beside the friggin' point) and gobs and gobs of cocktail flasks carried by all and everyone from the Rockefellers to just the fellers working the docks and even the women (known as gals, dames or "ladies" back then) yes even the dames carried flasks.
Because it is in troubled times when it is the very best time to have a good time and having a flask will undoubtedly ensure you and yours a good time at any time. Plus a cocktail flask (like these cheeky ones from Anne Taintor) is a great way to break the ice and ask a potential paramour, "Why don't you come up and see me sometime?" Or a wonderfully creative way to keep the bar tab down in these frigid financial times (just don't let that f*&<*face barkeep see ya').
So be a virtuous moral sort and ask not what your flask can do for you but what you can do for your flask? Answer: Buy one, two or three and fillem' all up with something yummy because a cocktail flask is like love or a hangover, forever.
virtues
beaver coats
cocktail flasks
No one worried about getting their MBA or wondered what the latest greatest adult toy would be made of (crystal, resin or plastecine........my money's on Austrian crystal...ah hem....). Nor were they concerned with saving the bears, beavers or flying lemurs of Madagascar. And they certainly didn't care about hybrid cars, solar energy or organic Thai basil you twit.
NO - your ancestors had virtues and morals (what's the difference between the two? oh please let's have that philosophical discussion over some spirits or autumnal ale....besides I cannot remember....). They didn't give a damn what they ate as long as they ate and Thailand hadn't even been discovered at that time - back then it was simply known as "Evil China." Plus it didn't matter if their car got 3 miles to the gallon of petrol it was a car gosh dang it and it was a beautiful marvelous thing going 20 miles per hour.
Anyhooo, so the whole world way back then was just filled with slow moving uneducated people who had moral backbones and virtuous femurs and what they didn't have in BA's or MBA's or French TwizzleSnazzers or MagicBullets or Chinese Pleasure Balls they made up with their jazzy tunes, cool beaver coats, leather Cuban heels, French glass hand-beaded dresses, Italian alps lambswool felt cloches adorned with exotic feathers from Argentina, Brazilian tortoiseshell and Moroccan silver cigarette cases lined in onyx and pearl, tuxes and top hats (okay so they did have more than 3 things but that's beside the friggin' point) and gobs and gobs of cocktail flasks carried by all and everyone from the Rockefellers to just the fellers working the docks and even the women (known as gals, dames or "ladies" back then) yes even the dames carried flasks.
Because it is in troubled times when it is the very best time to have a good time and having a flask will undoubtedly ensure you and yours a good time at any time. Plus a cocktail flask (like these cheeky ones from Anne Taintor) is a great way to break the ice and ask a potential paramour, "Why don't you come up and see me sometime?" Or a wonderfully creative way to keep the bar tab down in these frigid financial times (just don't let that f*&<*face barkeep see ya').
So be a virtuous moral sort and ask not what your flask can do for you but what you can do for your flask? Answer: Buy one, two or three and fillem' all up with something yummy because a cocktail flask is like love or a hangover, forever.
