Talk:Screwdriver (cocktail)

message: The drink isn't really called a "Screwdriver cocktail".  Shall I move this article to Screwdriver (cocktail)? --Spikey 06:16, Nov 26, 2004 (UTC)
:I wrote this "Screwdriver, is a wordplay. In bar lingo, the two main ingredients are called screw (orange juice) and driver (vodka)." is this wrong? That's what I've heard, but does anyone know if it's wrong or not? Any bartender?--84.217.116.165 22:30, 12 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I heard it's invented by Soviet engineers, or scientists, or miners, or gulag prisoners (maybe they're all the same) by mixing vodka and orange juice and using a screwdriver to mix it up. 122.54.108.18 (talk) 03:41, 10 June 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Name? 

message: I'm from Canada, and everyone I know calls this a screwdriver, I've never heard the term Man Orange Juice before.
174.1.147.56 (talk) 10:38, 22 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  In Canada 

message: is a cocktail made with orange juice, Bawls Energy Drink, vodka and sometimes Hypnotic, created sometime before March, 2007 (see Earliest Reference).
The orange juice can sometimes be substituted by orange soda.
History: The Sonic Screwdriver was created by two college students in Baltimore Maryland after watching a popular British telivision Show called, "Doctor Who".  In the telivision show The Doctor uses his "Sonic Screwdriver" to perform virtualy any mechanical work that might be needed.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.250.24.238 (talk) 18:47, 25 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sonic Screwdriver (cocktail) (comment) 

message: What about the Bacardi Screwdriver, which has rum instead of vodka? MC 31/10/2007 21:42  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.23.48.120 (talk) 21:43, 31 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Bacardi Screwdriver

message: Many people in a global readership will not know of this place, and therefore it is helpful to include the country. Not only is this a helpful addition it in no way damages the article. Please leave for the benefit of non-US readers.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.147.253.126 (talk) 13:04, 6 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: That one is just a mess.  It should also be pointed out that no-one uses the double-comma convention except in mailing addresses, while the single comma convention is frequently used in real life.  It should be changed to Troy, New York, however.  — Arthur Rubin |  (talk) 16:27, 6 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Although I do not agree with you observation on puncuation I am happy for you to edit into a format you are happy with providing the full location, i.e. USA, is included. This is important if WIkipedia is to have a validity to non-US readers.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.147.253.126 (talk) 16:33, 6 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Troy, NY

message: ..was tagged as being of unclear relevance.  The relevance is pretty clear.  This is an article about the screwdriver, and these are variations on the screwdriver.  Not getting the idea behind this tag. Mr. IP (talk) 21:41, 17 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Variations section... 

message: How could the drink have been invented in the early 1950s if there was a reference to it in print in 1949? Pha telegrapher (talk) 19:19, 30 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  early 1950s? 

message: This article contradicts itself by providing two origins for the name of the cocktail. I'm not an expert so I don't know which one is accurate (if either). -Lamarcus (talk) 04:35, 22 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Contradiction 

message: According to the Cocktail page, a cocktail must contain three or more ingredients. As a Screwdriver only contains vodka and orange juice, it is CLEARLY not a cocktail!!!  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.68.48.31 (talk) 23:01, 1 February 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  The Screwdriver is not a cocktail! 

message: ALL histories of the origin of this cocktail MUST have links to published accounts or other references. Original research and first-hand accounts like "I was there!" or "This is how it was told to me" are NOT acceptable. Hearsay origin stories WILL BE REVERTED. -- Doctorx0079 (talk) 20:47, 24 July 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  NO ORIGINAL RESEARCH 

message: It is proposed in the article regarding the slightly *interesting* inventor Thomas Midgley Jr., according to his family, that he was responsible for its creation. Can anyone find a reliable source to back up this claim? 138.251.204.98 (talk) 20:43, 6 December 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: says he drank a "gin and juice" cocktail similar to a screwdriver and that "there is little independent evidence of Midgley’s primacy in this field". I don't think we can establish him as the inventor of the screwdriver so I would prefer to leave it out. Personally I think it is probably the John N Burns guy mentioned in this edit since it is the right location and time period but I looked a bit and couldn't find sources. Mathnerd314159 (talk) 17:33, 13 December 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: The sources  and  confirm that there was a steel modernization project in that time period. But EJRE seems to be dead and there is no mention of Burns. Mathnerd314159 (talk) 18:28, 13 December 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Thomas Midgely?