“I TASTE A LIQUOR NEVER BREWED”: Terry Teachout writes to say, in re Ye Olde Title Discussion, “Dickie Umfraville, one of the characters in Anthony Powell’s A Dance to the Music of Time, serves a cocktail dubbed Death Comes for the Archbishop. I’ve always wondered what was in it!”

This seems like a good lead-in for a contest. Way back in college, Ratty and I hosted a drink-mixing party in which we started with the names of drinks and attempted to come up with recipes that would fit the names. We… didn’t quite succeed, although we did have fun, and learned quite a lot about the interaction of various tropical fruit juices and hard liquors. So: drink names. People who send in recipes that sound like they might actually taste GOOD will win everlasting fame and fortune, if by “everlasting fame and fortune” you mean “an email published on my weblog.” Also, feel free to suggest more drink names, and if I like ’em I’ll add ’em to the contest.

The names: APOLLO AND DIONYSOS

A CLOCKWORK ORANGE

A DANCE TO THE MUSIC OF TIME

DEAD FOR A DUCAT

A FAILED SOUTHERN LADY

I KNOW MY REDEEMER LIVETH (from “Cheers”)

INVITATION TO A BEHEADING

TOTALLY UNRELATED

VIEW TO A KILL

and, of course, DEATH COMES FOR THE ARCHBISHOP.