I have to admit that I like a drink with a famously sissy name

Hey Alex, I love Shirley Temples too! I always drink 'em when invited for dinner at Swiss Chalet (chicken 'n' ribs chain, for them as doesn't have it).

And your mention of "silk panties" reminded me of a story told me by a boyfriend, long ago. He was a waiter and once served a table of guys who asked him to bring them each a "six forty-nine." He did not know what this was (apart from the name of, um, a national lottery? or provincial? not sure - anyway, it's known as Lotto 649 or just 649). They told him that a 649 is always different, because it is created by counting six bottles in from the right on the first row of bottles behind the bar, then four bottles in from the left on the next row, then nine bottles in from the right again on the next row. (Or I might have got my lefts and rights mixed up. You can do it either way, I guess....) This makes for some pretty unlikely combinations at times. I tried it at a bar in Valdez, Alaska, once (needless to say, I had to explain about the whole Canadian lottery thing!), and what I got was revolting! think it was something like a mixture of pear brandy, pineapple liqueur and blue curacao or something weird like that.

But the fellers this boyfriend was serving that day were luckier, and got something drinkable, and decided to remember the concoction and have it again sometime....And they called it "silk panties." I went and had a look at this recipe you offer, and it only has two ingredients, so clearly isn't the same....(Before I looked I was all excited, thinking I knew the origin of the drink! wrong.... )