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A red rooster, a hooker and a cigar
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READ“I like to have a martini, two at the very most – after three I’m under the table, after four, I’m under my host.”Dorothy Parker
“I never have more than one drink before dinner. But I do like that one to be large and very strong and very cold, and very well made.”James Bond
“He knows just how I like my martini – full of alcohol.”Homer Simpson
"Happiness is…finding two olives in your martini when you’re hungry."Johnny Carson
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