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The Dittohead's Guide to Adult Beverages

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Tasty!
The ideal book for Rush Limbaugh listeners!
OK Book
Very witty and amusing!
A great book!

The Dittohead's Guide to Adult Beverages
Britt Gillette
Manufacturer: Regnery Publishing, Inc.
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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Book Description

If you're familiar with the Limbaugh Lexicon, the show's unique vocabulary that inspired this hilarious compilation of 125 cocktail recipes known as The Dittohead's Guide to Adult Beverages. You'll find recipes like SUV on the Rocks. The Dittohead's Guide to Adult Beverages also provides a comprehensive set of instructions for each adult beverage, guranteed to entertain anyone who follows American politics-a must-have for Limbaugh listeners and card-carrying conservatives.

Customer Reviews:

Tasty!.......2006-09-06

I had the pleasure of reading Britt Gillette's terrifying apocalyptic thriller "Conquest of Paradise: An End-Times Nano-Thriller" back when the war in Iraq started. It's a great yarn concerning the destruction of the world through the magic of self-replicating nanotechnology (eat your heart out, Ray Kurzweil), but the book gave no indication about Gillette's next effort. From the world dissolving into gray goo to "The Dittohead's Guide to Adult Beverages." I never saw that leap coming! Anyway, it turns out that Gillette is quite the Rush Limbaugh fan. I don't really listen to the man on a regular basis even though I consider myself a card-carrying member of the far right. I am, however, familiar enough with Limbaugh's self-referential vocabulary that I found this book hilarious. Actually, you don't need to know anything about Limbaugh in order to get a kick out of this slim read. All you need is a healthy disdain for all things liberal. Well, that and a well-stocked bar. How else will you whip up a batch of Flip-Flopper Fizz, Pelosi Painkillers, and Entitle-Mint Juleps?

None of these drinks make sense to you? What are you, a member of NARAL? If you don't understand what's going on, please turn to the first section of the guide. Gillette offers up a helpful lexicon of Rush Limbaugh's always humorous labels. You have probably heard and will understand terms like "Dubya," "Dittohead," and "Thought Police." Those are the easy ones. If you want to mix the drinks in this book, however, you need to know a few more. Like "Calypso Louie," used to describe the inimitable Louis Farrakhan, the current leader of the Nation of Islam. Then there is "Club G'itmo," the country club "prison" where taxpayers provide funds in order to feed terrorist inmates the best meals money can buy. "Breck Girl," a personal favorite, is a term Rush uses to describe former Democratic vice presidential candidate John Edwards. "Great Moderates in History" is a nonexistent history book, and "Ronaldus Magnus" is an affectionate term for the late president Ronald Reagan. Are you getting the idea yet? No? What are you, an ACLU lawyer?

Study Rush's lexicon before moving on to the drink menu. We start off with Alec's Bon Voyage Black and Tan. Gillette recommends the glass you should use (A "National Lampoon's European Vacation" Souvenir German Stein), offers up the ingredients (A half pint of Stout, a half pint of Lager, one empty promise, and one leftist Hollywood actor) along with pertinent commentary on each component. Follow the mixing instructions closely, learn about the origin of the drink (this one based on Alec Baldwin's promise to leave the United States if Bush won in 2004--why are you still here, Alec?), and be sure and read the special notes that almost always grace each drink recipe. How about another one? The very next drink will do quite nicely. It's "Oprah's Whine," requiring a bit of gin, some grenadine, light cream, and lots of crying. Good stuff, these drinks. Well, they sound good. I can't try any of them, though. Drink enough of these things and you might wake up wondering why you're sitting in the middle of one of Angela Davis's graduate seminars at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

You can try to mix up all sorts of fuzzy liberal drinks using this book as a guide. Try the Grape Gorbasm, the (Robert) Byrd Brain, the Coco Loco Carville (throbbing forehead vein optional), Pointy-Headed Pineapple Professor Punch, and Breck Girl Bliss. If your liver doesn't look like Ted Kennedy's face by the time you finish mixing these babies up, you are simply not trying hard enough! If the UFO/Yakub theories of Louis Farrakhan don't make sense to you after imbibing the drinks described in this book, keep drinking! If you start penning little love notes to Nancy Pelosi and Hillary Clinton, or show up at one of their press conferences with the words "I love you" written on your eyelids after chugging a few drinks from this book...wait a minute, you better stop. I'm seeing a long stint at the Betty Ford clinic in your future.

Britt Gillette has definitely penned one of the funniest political books of the last few years with "The Dittohead's Guide to Adult Beverages." Since I don't listen to Rush Limbaugh all that much, I wonder if he has seen this book. Probably, and I'll bet he loved every word in it. Congratulations to the author on a job well done. He deserves the praise this book has received on many sites across the Internet. Rush, if you happen to read this review, you should give Britt an autographed first edition copy of "Great Moderates in History." He deserves it!

The ideal book for Rush Limbaugh listeners!.......2005-12-18

Despite what some other reviewers have stated (who obviously haven't read this book), The Dittohead's Guide to Adult Beverages is not a book about drinking or mixing actual cocktail recipes. The author simply uses the common Rush term 'adult beverage' (taken from the Limbaugh Lexicon) as a comical device to convey hilarious political humor. I mean, would you really mix up a Jumpin' Jim Jeffords? This is humor people!

Regardless of whether or not you listen to Rush Limbaugh, this is a ridiculously funny book. All you have to do is enjoy politics to get a kick out of it! But if you are a 'dittohead' (defined as some who loves The Rush Limbaugh Show), then you will be ecstatic over this book. It doubles as a definitive guide to the history of the show, with myriad references to things from the past such as Dan's Bake Sale, the Colorado spotted toad (which people licked to get high), Uglo-Americans, and former minority leader Tom 'Puff' Daschle.

Once you start reading this book it's difficult to put down. With recipes such as Ted 'The Swimmer' Kennedy's Boston Sour (also known as Sexual Harrassment On The Beach), Jesse Jackson's Gin & Juice, Moral Moderate Martini, Grape Gorbasm, Global Warming Cider, and French Martini On The Chiracs, you'll be arguing with yourself over which one is the funniest. (Personally, I prefer the Affirmative Action Ambrosia which requires the use of "dark rum in order to rectify the past injustice of rampant light rum preferences"!)

Everything about this book is humorous, from the unique drinking containers it requires to hilarious ingredients and funny instructions. Believe me, if you love Rush, this is the book for you! No doubt, this is headed for the bestseller list!

OK Book.......2005-12-16

If your a hardcore Rush fan (God help you) this is the book for you- if your just an average listener- I'd skip it.

Very witty and amusing!.......2005-12-06

This is an excellent guide to bartending especially around the DC area whether you are a dittohead or not. Great blend of beverage favorites, witty humor, and offering some unique ice-breakers while serving up a drink.

A great book!.......2005-12-02

I am still laughing! If you know anyone who is a fan of radio raconteur Rush Limbaugh, then this is the gift to buy him or her. Drawing on Rush's massively politically incorrect/leave no Liberal sacred cow un-skewered humor, author Britt Gillette presents 65 adult beverages. But, these are not just any old adult beverages, they are Limbaugh-esque adult beverages with names running from Alec (Baldwin)'s Bon Voyage Black and Tan through the Wife Training Walter (E. Williams).

Yeah, this is a great book! The author does a great job of capturing Rush's style and humor, and produces a really funny book. Any fan of Rush will immediate latch onto this book and get a great thrill out of it. I loved this book, and give it my highest recommendations.

Pull up a comfortable chair, pour yourself a Grape Gorbasm, and read this book!

Average customer rating:

weak and derivative
Funny IF You Like Sesame Street
A gem of a read
Hilarious!
so funny

The Dittohead Guide To Adult Beverages
Britt Gillette
Manufacturer: Virtualbookworm.com Publishing
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 1589395751

Customer Reviews:

weak and derivative.......2005-12-30

the reviews the author anonymously wrote are far better and more amusing than the book, which , if you read it, or worse buy it and read it, you'll need that drink after all.

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Funny IF You Like Sesame Street.......2005-01-12

Simplistic Third-Grade level writting. Based on previous reviews I was expecting more, but they must have been written by friends and family. This was a big waste of my time.

A gem of a read.......2004-05-17

I've read a lot of books in my day and this one is one of the funniest! Fans of The Rush Limbaugh Show will love to delve into this masterpiece of political humor which utilizes all the essentials from the Limbaugh Lexicon. One also must appreciate the author's pursuit of his passion in creating this book and his 'own job'. The Dittohead Guide To Adult Beverages is living proof of the positive influence Rush Limbaugh is having on America. Read this book!

Hilarious!.......2004-05-14

This book is hilarious! The 'adult beverage' recipes are outrageous, with names like 'John F'ing Kerry' and 'Oval Orifice'. This is a must have and an impossible to put down book if you've ever listened to Rush Limbaugh. Kudos to the author for creating a cool product and for forging his own way in the American economy. This is sure to do well for him.

so funny.......2004-05-11

This book is so funny. I listen to Rush everyday and the book could not be better. Some of the passages made me laugh so hard my stomach hurt. I'm fascinated by the writer's personal story and his sense of humor. Every Rush fan should read this (Britt Gillette's website is a good place). The definitive source of laughter for daily Limbaugh listeners.

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