jmcquown wrote:
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> > It's probably just me, but "cocktails" sounds 1920's or something.
> > Dated, I just don't know from when. Drinks, mixed drinks, okay. But
> > the only person I know who says "cocktails" is probably dead. Wait.
> > What I mean is that he was in his mid-seventies several years ago when
> > I noticed he always said "cocktail".
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> Wait long enough and you'll start using the term yourself. If you're lucky
>


Too true :-)
Now that I am retired I am starting to enjoy the cocktail hour more than
ever. After arising at the hour my body chooses, instead of the alarm
clock, and having spent a day pursuing the things I choose to pursue, and 5
o'clock rolls around I utter the phrase " Oh look. It is cocktail time."
and my wife brings me a Manhattan a plate with some crackers and pate. :-)