PARIS concocts commemorative cocktail

The Paper Aircraft Released Into Space (PARIS) team is delighted to announce today that it has concocted a cocktail in honour both of our patron saint Paris Hilton and the heroic Playmonaut who on 28 October piloted the Vulture 1 vehicle to earth from a dizzying 89,591 feet. Our inspiration for the commemorative beverage came …

[Colin Miller]

NSFD

= Not Safe For Drinking

[Pierre Castille]

Paris Cocktail

Knickerdropper Glory?

[bill 36]

cant stop laughing

Class!!

[Paul 4]

The icecream

layering effect. A perfect name.

[The March Hare]

"crack tasters"

I thought you sniffed it through a £5 note...

[Anonymous Coward]

Trans Am' wheel arch nostrils

Snorting crack? No thanks. LOL

I'd rather inject myself with herbal marijuana....

[BorkedAgain]

May I suggest...

...A mite high...

[Huey]

Great Boo's Up!

I thought it was going to mean not safe for drinking but can see what you mean!!

I wouldn't mind going to a bar and asking for a stratospheric parisian please!

BTW Paper_Aircraft_Released_Into_Space now comes up second on the google rankings for parisian.

[Anonymous Coward]

My suggestion

"Slurp of Paris' siberian counter-parts"

As a side note, surely you could've used baileys flavoured ice cream? f.e. haagen-dazs? or is that not available on those siberian parts?

[Ikoth]

PARIS = PARIS

Why not embrace recursion and just call it PARIS which, or course, stands for:

Paris - Alcohol, Recumbent In Sugar

Kind of sums up your patron too...

I.

[Jolyon]

(๏ Y ๏) Name

One Flight In PARIS?

[Anonymous Coward]

NSFD ...

Damn tootin' - the brown sugar was enough to put me off, although I can't quite see it working as well with artificial sweeteners, somehow.

As well as being diabetic, I'm also teetotal and lousy at thinking of names but I'll be the first to admit that the end result looks pretty epic.

¡Salud!

[Ihre Papiere Bitte!!]

NSFD?

Damn right. I read the story, and my blood glucose level soared by a stomach-clenching 12 points!

The one with the insulin in the pocket thank you!

[Matthew]

The title is required, and must contain letters and/or digits.

Tinkerbell

[Code Monkey]

Shriley

Is should be called the Intrepid Playmonaut

[disgruntled yank]

Trop au Pause?

Or perhaps Langerham's Lament?

[Stoneshop]

Alternatively

Trop-os-fear, given the number of adverse reactions so far.

[Dr. Mouse]

Classic old geek...

How's about a recursive acronym?

PARIS Alcoholic Refreshment Is Sweet!

[Richard IV]

Ideas

Well, it's based on a view from PARIS, so what about Pariscope?

Someone with more CAD skills than I should cobble this up a la the Engineers' Guide to Drinks (a version is at http://engineers-drinks.blogspot.com/)

[Tim Worstal]

Hmmm

You should be able to do this without sugar or ice cream.

Bottom layer of either green or brown could be done with Kahlua or creme de menthe. White layer, clouds, could be cream (might have to be double cream).

You should be able to float blue curacao on cream and then if you're lucky, blackberry brandy on that (which would give you deep purple, perhaps better than black) as your top layer.

However, you'd want to do it in a "pousse cafe" glass, not a martini glass like you used.

There are actually books out there which tell you which liquor will float on another. If it wasn't 25 years since I was a cocktail bartender I'd even remember the title of one of them.

But that's the way you want to go. Pousse cafe (ie, tall, thin, straight sided glass, often no wider than the diameter of a couple of pencils) and then layer the colours using the density of the liquor.

Bonus tip: this is that the twist on the handle of a bar spoon and the dime sized head of it is all about. Turn the spoon upside down (or bowl upwards, handle hanging down) and the twist enables you to pour the liquors down the handle, the top aiding in spreading it in a layer.

I've seen this done properly (ie, not by me) and ending up with 10-14 layers.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pousse-caf%C3%A9

It's really a matter of getting the densities right.

[bell]

Playmodropper

In honour of the the nature of the mission which it commemorates and because it has clearly caused the plucky plastic protagonist to forsake his better judgement (it must be mighty cold sitting there).

[Code Monkey]

@it must be mighty cold sitting there

After the terror of SPACE our Playmonaut has no fear of chalfonts.

[Harvey Trowell]

Title

Blue Movie

One Flight in PARIS

Wings over Curacao

Dave

[Mostor Astrakan]

About that last photo...

What on Earth are they drinking? It looks like some kind of stout, only smaller...

[wayne 8]

you just look at pictures, then

The text accompanying said photo mentions a case of Guiness as an item on an expense report.

Reading, it opens new worlds...

[Mostor Astrakan]

Impossible!

Can't be! Guinnesses are bigger than that!

[RathanDog]

Tentative of Surbiton

Suggests Plastered of PARIS...

[Poor Coco]

Hmmmm....

The Knicker-Freezer

Booze From A Tube

Hypobaric Hyperglycemia

PARIS Gets Really High

[Anonymous Coward]

Chusma

>holiday weekend serving hoards of Madrid chusma (riff-raff)

The only reason anybody left Madrid this long weekend was to get away from all the bolos, chicharreros, conejeros and various other hijos de p... (or, as I respectfully call them, peasants) that invaded us. If we hadn't had such a person visiting then I too would have left for the wilds, you lot really don't know how to behave yourselves in a metropolitan area.

Oh and why do they all come here. My theory is because the number for one of el Gordos larger prizes was once sold at a kiosk in Puerto Del Sol so they all descend on the same vendor in the stupid belief that they will sell the winning number again.

[Huntsman]

How about...

Hypoglidescenic.

[anarchic-teapot]

re: How About

Cirrhosis formation?

[Stoneshop]

Soarrhosis

(of the liver)

[John I'm only dancing]

A Captain Kirk

To boldly go where no Playmonaut has gone before...

Or in Paris's case, to boldly go where most men have .....

[Stoneshop]

To baldly go

There, fixed it

[Bryn Evans]

Spaced Out

What more can be said about such a cocktail (and it's creators)

[Anonymous Coward]

I'll be back with a witty name later

but I really don't want to be queueing at a bar while the resident mixologist spends and hour and a half mucking about with ice cream and freezers

[James Hughes 1]

A Dead Arm

Because when you pick up your glass, you can imagine Paris is doing it....

[Martin.Hale]

Really Mum, Do I Have To Leave aTitle?

Flying Parisienne

Humdinger

[The/A] 17 Mile High

Heiress of the Dog

Sugar Rush

[Martin.Hale]

So Much For Editing

Er, that was supposed to be:

Hummerdinger

[Alan Esworthy]

Nombres

Paris' Labia Menorca

Spacervixen

and, inevitably, Puss Cafe

[proto-robbie]

Through hardships to the bars

"Bird Dropping" seems apposite, in a pseudish sort of way.

[IglooDude]

My offering

for the name of the concoction would be a "Ride on PARIS" (in honor of the plucky playmonaut, of course).

[Ugotta B. Kiddingme]

NSFD

Read the sub header and instantly interpreted as "Not Safe For Drunks" which certainly pause me gave...

[Anonymous Coward]

In view of current world events

Perhaps, "Sex by Surprise".

[Anonymous Coward]

Some ideas:

If you can add club soda, you can call it the "17 mile high club"

PARIS--"Plane Above (the) Rain In Spain". (Or "plastered". Brits can also use "pissed", but that has certain twisted overtones and doesn't travel well with your American readership. So many options--someone find Henry Higgins to tell us which is proper!!)

PARIS--Playmobil Astronaut's RIght Stuff

Or just "The Right Stuff", but watch out for the cease and desist order from Tom Wolfe and the MPAA.

"The Wrong Stuff" might work based on the ingredients

"Smashed (in) the face of God"

[Rattus Rattus]

"The Wrong Stuff"

Love it!

[Anonymous Coward]

Hows about: Overlord

Because it has intimations of elevation and grand vision, and I, for one, would welcome it.

[C. P. Cosgrove]

Admiration

I canot think of a name to outdo those above, but my admiration for the sheer dedication to their task of the design, construction and launch crews as well as the selfless application of those in a support role, knows no bounds.

The PARIS project has amazed me from the very first intimation to this crowning effort.

[skeptical i]

Blue Horizon

Good work, Tito!

[bill 36]

in the bar last night.....

How about

Cocka-ola

[bugalugs]

Vulture's Nest

◄ that is all ►

[Adrian Esdaile]

At last!

The intrepid Playmonaut gets his justly-deserved reward; being bathed in alcoholic fluids! Hopefully someone rigged up a straw-and-pump system to get him plastered in record time.

HURRAH!

And I second the PARIS = PARIS recursion.

[Denarius]

not only but maybe

Cocktail names based on height and planes.

Blackbird

Not the band U2

ERS1

and given PARIS made it to the height of Mons Olympus,

Olymparis

Back to the coffee

[inquisition.ca]

Stratobliss

Seeing that Playmonaut sitting so happily on top of that cocktail of atmosphere layers, I thought maybe "Stratobliss" for the drink's name?

If not, I vote (in descending order) for:

Paris - Alcohol, Recumbent In Sugar (Ikoth)

Plastered of PARIS (RathanDog)

Pariscope (Richard IV)

[The Indomitable Gall]

Mile high club solo

After all, if you recall, the pilot was blid by the time he descended....

[Trollslayer]

That is so...

El Reg!

Brilliant!

[Alan Esworthy]

mas nombres

Spread Eagle

Paris Soar Bust

Videosonde

A Wing and a Player

[BenR]

How about...

... calling it 'The Playmobile Reconstruction'?

More in honour of El Reg generally than PARIS specifically, but it works quite well as a name!

Other than that, 'Knickerdropper Glory' is awesome, as is 'Paris - Alcohol, Recumbent In Sugar' and 'Plastered of PARIS', in that order.

[Randombard]

Drinks

Snatched Glory

Multiple oops shot

Recuring Up Shot

[Mystic Megabyte]

Ola!

NumbNuts?

It's gotta be cold up there..

Drink a few of those and I doubt you'd feel any part of your body..

[gfs]

Vultures Revenge

It certainly looks leathal.

[Captain Hogwash]

Got to admire your...

Blue Skies Drinking

[Laurie]

Airhead!

See title.

[Andrew Norris]

The Plane in Spain..

Or maybe the "Rightstuff" 'cos when you have one, you are rightly stuffed.

[Thomas Steven 1]

Apollo blue cheesecake

Just a suggestion

[NeverMindTheBullocks]

Easy to do without the sugar and icecream.

Same glass but fill with crushed ice first.

Brown or Green booze in first ( Tia Maria, Kahlua / Midori, Creme de Menth)

Baileys

Curaco

Black Vodka

The Ice makes it easier to layer up the drinks and adds some texture to the whole thing.

Slice of Lemon for the sun and a straw. Then drink. Carefully.

[lIsRT]

The things I learn on this site...

In Spain, brown sugar comes in cartons.

[The Nameless Mist]

"We'll Always have PARIS"

We'll Always Have PARIS.

Truly geeky as its also a ST:TNG episode name.

[AlgernonFlowers4]

Experimental Lightweight Scale High Altitude Glider

El Shag!

[Jo 5]

erm

Just makes me thing Vomit Comet. Or Vulture Vomit? Or Vulture Liver Rupture or Vulture Spacer (looks like the old kids favorite sweeties Spacers) or Ozone Depleter or Death by Sugar being the most appropriate.

Ride of the Vulture?

[Anonymous Coward]

inspired by that

esp. Vulture Liver Rupture, which I like, maybe Deliverance. As in De-liver-ance. Maybe in the same vein, De-livered From Above.

[Eugene Goodrich]

Vote for prev

Vulture Vomit.

That's what I thought of on seeing it at first, and I see someone else thought so as well.

[Stoneshop]

Vulture Fuel

I'd also like to propose that the distance of 89,591 feet be added to El Reg's standards as a unit of length, the Vulture Altitude

[Anonymous Coward]

Space Rocks Up Uranus

Title says it all

[Juillen 1]

Perhaps..

"Low Orbit Eyeing Canon" (as the 'official fiction' context of canon) to be topical..

"The fine Kármán line"

Or, in honour of earthiness, touch of sweetness and a kick like a mule, perhaps "A Sarah Bee".

[Anonymous Coward]

The Esther Rantzen...

...because it draws your gums back over your teeth.

[Christopher Cowan]

How about

Pan Galactic PARIS Blaster

[DI_Wyman]

1 word....

wicked

:-)

[Random Noise]

My Suggestion

Is 'The Cloud Buster'.

When I saw the picture I actually thought it was an orgone generator (or epoxy with metal shavings to those who don’t believe in Reich's science).

Good name to commemorate something released from space tho IMHO.

[Ken MAC]

Paris Cocktail

"The Van Allen Belt." You might need a couple to reach the extra altitude..)

'To Insanity and Beyond" Sorry Buzz

Reminds me of a rumoured lethal cocktail\drink from the early days of the North Sea setup in Sullom Voe. It was called a northern lights cos once consumed the 'victim' saw all the colours of the rainbow then it went black..

There used to be an upmarket bar in paris "the Opera Cafe" on quai de valmy which served great cocktails and had been the officers mess of the Royal Flying corp in WWI. Would be a great place to test fly your drink...

[Goatan]

re: stratospheric parisian

Nice one Huey :D

[Stoneshop]

A friend suggests

Aviagra: it's blue and makes things go high up.

[Jack]

A Big Blue Marble...

... since this is the Earth we're talking here.

Or you could go with "Blue Ball" given the most excellently juvenile double entendres such a drink name would permit when describing your weekend/vacation/polling experience, etc

Cheers!

[Hulot]

Aviagra

Aviation, BaUrgh!ley's, blue stuff, sex: I call it:

Aviagra

[Mike48US]

Pan Paris Gargleblaster

Ok, how about "The Pan Paris Gargleblaster" do to your liver and pancreas what the original does to your brain!

[SpottedCow]

A la REM -

"Man On the Moon".

"Lost In Space" would be a good one as well.

[Stoneshop]

Title

View from the top

[thecakeis(not)alie]

Touched.

You managed to wring PARIS for another article. On booze no less! <3 fridays.

MORE PARIS! (At least until it's time for LOHAN.)

[Thomas 4]

Ladies and Gentlemen.....

I suggest the name "Starhumper"

It's descriptive of El Reg's bold little paper plane, which slipped the surly bonds of Earth to reach out and fondle the stars, and it's descriptive of our favourite socialite because, oh ffs, do you really need me to spell it out? Go read the comments section sometime. -.-

[Kev99]

Drinkie-poo name

Something relating to the flight, your inspiration, and host country seems right. Something like Paris Does Spain?

OR maybe Ponce de Leon's Revenge?

[Arlinora]

Drink Name

Wild Blue PARIS

(Like the airforce theme song: Wild Blue Yonder)

[Anonymous Coward]

Recipe

The green layer should be represented by a more representative component. Such as *ahem* grass or oregano or other er, herb.

AC, 'cos it might be illegal on your jurisdiction. No guv, I swear this is chlorophyll extract. Yes, from spinach!

[Dick Pountain]

AstroNewt

Pissed as an...

[bugalugs]

Our intrepid ( and now legless ) pilot needs a name too !

soo, inspired by a very famous old song, how about calling it a Major Tom.

♫heeeere am I floating in my tin can♪

[bugalugs]

Confessions of a serial comp entrant

( Vulture’s Nest, Major Tom,) Vulture’s View, Vulture Vision, ElRegicidal, High Dive, Biosfear •••

[Anonymous Coward]

Perhaps...

The Cloudtopper.

It certainly accomplished that.

netgeek

[chrisjw37]

I'll stick to Guinness

On the whole - it looks undrinkable, being mostly ice

I'll stick to Guinness, thanks anyhow

[Silent but Deadly]

A few that spring to mind...

10 Seconds to Launch

Missile Toe (Athletes get athlete's foot, astronauts get...)

Plastic Fantastic

The Challenger (It ends with a mess).

Liquid Lightyear

Cyanosis (Blueness of tissue often caused by blood lacking oxgen.)

[Lottie]

title

PARIS Plummet (because that's what you'll do)

PARIS going down

[Queeg]

With a combined nod to Darling Paris and Comets everywhere...

"The Dirty Snowball"

Both look gorgeous but have a slightly grubby center.

[KrisMac]

..or what about?

PARISian Drop Out -- applys to both the organic and inorganic birds... and probably describes the results of imbibing...

[Stuart Morrison]

We already have an icon.. sorry.. marketing logo for it..

Given it's composition, practicality, appearance and likely effect it has to be a 'W.T.F.'

[Peter Mylward]

What about -

What about the "Bangkok Hilton". Nuff Said.

[Martin Erdelen]

Pan-glucosic Stratoblaster

That's all.

[EDIT: Came up with this *before* seeing Mike48-US's idea but will concede priority if challenged.]

[Charles Osborne]

One small sip for man...

...one giant gulp for mankind. Or a coma, but I repeat myself.

Well blended, El Reg!

[Arlinora]

More Names

Vulture Vomit does sound pretty good.

Other names:

Space Fumes

PARIS Astronaut Rides In Space

Playmonaut Assumes Region In Space

Paristini

Diabetic Hilton

[C 2]

Methinks

Pan Galactic Liver Blaster

[Cass Woods]

how about

A large Sacchasphere

[Uncle Siggy]

A couple of names

PARIS Parfait

It does have ice cream you know.

Star Wench

Dirty Panties

Futurama Mama

Sex on the Bitch

[Fluffykins]

Carrion Playmobil

Or

Playmobil Carrion

[Anonymous Coward]

Titley Goodness

Cream-filled Paris

Paris Does Black Russian Missionary

Sweet Sticky Paris Juice

[Zacpod]

How about:

reentry?

kosmos?

extraterrarium?

or

HILTON - High-Impact Liquid Tonic Of 'Nauts!

[Ramshackle]

How about...

The f*cking awful.

That isn't a drink, it's the result of an alcoholic confectioners shopping trolley tipping over.

[Queeg]

In honour of Comets everywhere...

"The Dirty Snowball"

[gimbal]

I suggest: The Kubric Europan

...in honor, after all.

Granted, Europa might not have much terra firma to it. Would the dedication in the name of the item be enough to win those points back, perhaps?

[Old Painless]

Too easy...

"The Wizard Prang" -- in honour of the sugar crash that will inevitably follow consumption

[Anonymous Coward]

If you could make one without alcohol...

... it would be a Virgin Galactic Gargle Blaster [TM]

[Muscleguy]

Sorry Douglas

The Pan Atmospheric Pancreas Blaster

[djs]

PARIS and HELEN

The classical companion to PARIS was always HELEN (who was the Paris Hilton of her era),

Backronyming HELEN is left as an exercise for the reader.

[Danny 4]

PARIS cocktail

Terminal Velocity

Our Pale Blue Dot

In PARIS Ad Astra

Space-sucking Earthgirl

Going Down on PARIS

Puny Earthling

The IT Angle

Home Sweet Home

Crazy Sweet Caress

Sweet Down Below

Dreaming of PARIS

The Sweet Lingering Decent of PARIS

[alain williams]

Verb for drinking it

I'm not sure what to call it, although I do like the suggested nickerdropper glory.

We ought to define a verb that describes how to imbibe it, it must be: to deep throat.

Ie ''off to the pub to deep throat a nickerdropper glory''.

[Anonymous Coward]

In honor of the craft...

Paper Trails.

[Anonymous Coward]

One more suggestion

I continue to pad my chances of winning with still more entries.... :)

Bad points about my latest option--it doesn't have much of an aviation/PARIS the aircraft angle.

Good points--it matches well with Paris the patron saint(?)/inspiration of the Reg's aeronautical enterprise, it's a Paris recursion and its name practically guarantees that the cocktail itself will live forever among the English-speaking sun and pleasure seeking crowd in Spain.

Drumroll please!!

PARIS--"Pissed And Randy In Spain"!!!

[Emilio Desalvo]

Entitled to a title...

"Splashdown" - that's what happens to the drinker after the first glass...

[Omphaloskeptic]

New Cocktail Name?

How about simply calling it HACE after another form of high-altitude induced sickness?

[Some Beggar]

The Ben And Gerry or The Nancy

Perhaps if you'd drunk your Guinness from proper glasses you might have been in a state to understand the subtle difference between a cocktail and a children's party dessert.

[Omphaloskeptic]

Supergallic-Fragile-Sick-Hypoglycemicocious

Bit of a mouthful in more ways than one!

[aMerkin]

Tiers, Layers, or Strata?

I played with "Plummet" and "Strumpet", "Tiers" (as in tears of Paris), and "Layers", but finally settled on "Strata Glide".

But "Strata Slide" and "Stratacide" also work.

On second thought, I like "Stratacide" best.

Yes bartender, make it a Stratacide!

Regards,

Ed