Mike,

 > First Day as a Bartender
 > Customer: I.ll have a martini, dry.

 > Me, staring at all the liquid ingredients: I don.t know how to tell you
 > this...

 MP> That one always used to throw me, too.  How can a liquid be "dry"?  :D

  If I'm not mistaken, in this case, dry means "bitter". I think of what
Groucho Marx would say "Pardon me while I slip out of these wet clothes,
and into a dry martini". I think the Looney Tunes used this quite a bit 
with their cartoons...one had Bugs Bunny as Groucho, and Elmer Fudd as 
Harpo. 

Daryl

... "Somebody left the cork out of my lunch." -W.C. Fields
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