Through the magic of Web analytics, I learned my most recent post about gin and tonic was linked from a year old Wall Street Journal blog post called Armageddon Cooler: G&T by Eric Feltin that is essentially a history of the gin and tonic. I enjoyed this passage about JFK discussing nuclear war:

Asked how many bombs Russia would need to destroy the U.K., Penney said, “It would take five or six, but to be on the safe side, let us say seven or eight, and” — just at that moment a steward passed by — “I’ll have another gin and tonic if you would be so kind.”

This statement, Arthur Schlesinger Jr. wrote in “A Thousand Days,” “uttered in one rush of breath, summed up for the Prime Minister and the President the absurdity of mankind setting about to destroy itself.” For the rest of the summit, Kennedy and Macmillan used “I’ll have another gin and tonic, if you would be so kind” as an all-purpose punch line.

Apparently, Lucy the monkey developed a taste for them as well.