A drink with bourbon and rye makes no sense imho. A rye is just bourbon with a higher percent of rye and less corn. You might as well call it blending your own whiskey.
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A drink with bourbon and rye makes no sense imho. A rye is just bourbon with a higher percent of rye and less corn. You might as well call it blending your own whiskey.
I like cocktails. I like cocktail recipes. I don't know why this is on hacker news thought.
This always happens on Sundays.
Users submit random web pages that pique their interest. Those who are merely scrolling through the “New” page find these submissions intriguing as well, leading them to upvote. These submissions gradually ascend to the top of Hacker News in place of other submissions that are typically more relevant and submitted during weekdays.
Similar, but not quite the same as https://xkcd.com/1053/
There ought to be an XKCD for this, but instead it's from the FAQ.
In short: somebody thought it was interesting enough to submit, and enough other people voted for it that it got to your attention.
That's it.
If it ends up with 2000 points and sits on the new page for 3 days, I'll be quite surprised, but strange subjects do that.
my thoughts exactly.
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It lived long enough to get something archived:
https://archive.is/x180d