Once Over Lightly

THE HEIGHT OF IRONY DEPARTMENT: A while back, my wife and I were cruising through the Virgin Islands. Without preamble, the alcohol stove decided to run out of fuel and, being good alcoholics, we didn't have any extra stove alcohol aboard. We went ashore to a sleepy little town and searched for some without success. We did, however, find four bottles of 190 proof drinkable booze that an assortment of barflies assured us would work. It did indeed, although the mint flavoring clogged the burners and, as we were filling the stove tank, the thought crossed our minds that this was one helluva thing for us to be doing: pouring perfectly good booze into a stove to make coffee!