But,New Orleans,he writes,is like "watching an outdoor cocktail party play football."

VOA: special.2010.02.05

I only caught five. A couple more,you can have yourself a cocktail.

VOA: standard.other

"Kook means the clueless beginner who paddles his surf board out to the other surfers in the lineup and starts chattering away like it's a cocktail party, completely ignores all the finely-tuned protocols of surf that have developed over decades."

VOA: standard.2010.08.04