MY COCKTAIL MARTINI

It's all Beatles' fault: the 'Yellow Submarine Martini'

In the town where I was born,
Lived a man who sailed to sea,
And he told us of his life,
In the land of submarines,

So we sailed on to the sun,
Till we found the sea green,
And we lived beneath the waves,
In our yellow submarine,

We all live in a yellow submarine,
yellow submarine, yellow submarine,
We all live in a yellow submarine,
yellow submarine, yellow submarine.

And our friends are all aboard,
Many more of them live next door,
And the band begins to play.

We all live in a yellow submarine,
yellow submarine, yellow submarine,
We all live in a yellow submarine,
yellow submarine, yellow submarine...

These yellow submarines are in fact full of liquid and they can be very conveniently put in the freezer at -10°C: when this small chunky U-Boot is locked solid inside the ice cube (the ice 'base' serves to stabilize the vessel in the glass, of course) they can be put in your Martini for a cooling effect...and a good prank, of course. As I sometimes says when exhamining some puzzling technical developments in the '60s and '70s British industry (oil-in-frame Bonnevilles, solid state Ferrographs, rubber-bumper MGs, 'pantograph' Garrards...), the Beatles made me do it. And the dog ate my homework, of course