The 100th post belongs of course to W.C. Fields, the comedian remembered for playing profane, child-hating, boastful, dishonest, lecherous, and on occasion physically violent characters on-screen, and apparently not being the nicest of people off-screen.

If Mae West at least made pro forma attempts of disguising the gist of her lines and quotes in the flimsiest of innuendos or spoonerisms, such as …

”A hard man is good to find.”
(but not“Is that a gun in your pocket, or are you just happy to see me.” which is a famous misquote)

… Fields was much more straight-forward with his favourite subject:

”Somebody left the cork out of my lunch.”
”I cook with wine, sometimes I even add it to the food.”
”The cost of living has gone up another dollar a quart.”

Since Mr. Fields was not much of a cocktail man, though he did purportedly begin his day with two Martinis, one before and one after breakfast, therefore making it difficult to nail down his drinking habits to one type of drink, the ”Gin & Orange” will have to serve as a stand in: 

During the shooting of ”Tillie and Gus” (1933) Fields spiked the orange juice of his three-year old co-star Baby LeRoy and later, with the toddler staggering across the stage, Fields kept muttering: ”The kid’s no trooper. Look at him, he ain’t no trooper.”

Gin and Orange

• 3 parts gin
• 1 part orange juice
• 1 orange peel

Fill a chilled rocks glass with ice cubes, add all ingredients and garnish with an orange peel.