#coley

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Looking at the audience like it's fucking office.

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she's so skrunkly here :]

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Regretyurivator

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Coley in Florida

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Violators - Gangland

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The sex is good but Aster's cooking is rather meh.

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Hanky Panky !

Actor and theater producer Sir Charles Hawtrey needed some magic when he wandered into the American Bar at London’s Savoy Hotel in the early 1920s, looking for a drink. “Coley,” he said, “I’m half dead. What can you do to make me quite alive?”

The “Coley” in question was Ada “Coley” Coleman, head bartender at the Savoy and, at the time, perhaps the most famous female bartender in the world. Her father died in 1899 when she was 24, and being unmarried found herself with a sudden and somewhat urgent need for a job. 

She got hired at a London hotel arranging flowers, then moved to the bar, and then ultimately transferred to the big leagues, to the American Bar at the elegant Savoy Hotel. She was a gifted bartender, endlessly charming, and quickly worked her way up to head bartender, where she served for 22 years. 

She hosted Mark Twain, Charlie Chaplain, the Prince of Wales… it goes on and on. “It was she who made the bar famous,” asserts cocktail historian Ted Haigh, and indeed, when she retired in 1925, at least two different London newspapers published articles documenting her legacy.

Ingredients:

1.5 oz Dry Gin

1.5 oz Sweet Vermouth

2 dashes Fernet Branca

1 Twisted orange peel as garnish

Instructions:

Add all ingredients at once to your mixing glass and also add plenty of ice.

Stir until the drink is well-chilled.

Strain into your chilled cocktail glass and garnish with the twisted orange peel.

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