don't get me started on absinthe!! my friend brought me back a bottle from Prague and i tried to serve it using instructions i found on a couple of websites. I can't remember it exactly anymore but it involved pooring it over a sugar cube and some ice water or something like that. It was suppose to turn a pearlized color and never did. It tasted disgusting and its effects were non-distinguishable from those after a beer or two. Unless I got bad stuff it was highly over-rated.

Actually you were supposed to take a spoon with perferations in it (holes in the spoon) and use a lighter, or candle to then melt the sugar cube, letting the carmilizaed sugar then drip into Absinthe...

Its cool, I thought I mispelled when I posted. I just said that to correct myself. Change back if you'd be so kind.

Absinth versus Absinthe.
One is a brand name, one is the correct generic name. By brand name I mean a producer uses it to refer to theirs. Will get back to you which way round it is.

...two minutes later:
Q. Why the different spelling of Absinth / Absinthe?
A. Absinthe with the "e" is the French spelling, but since 1914 Absinthe in France has been illegal, so most production of Absinth moved to Eastern European countries such as the Czech Republic (formerly Czechoslovakia) where they do not use the "e", so the spelling is ABSINTH.
Source: http://www.seborabsinth.co.uk/faqs/absinth.asp
(Sebor is a brand sold widely in the UK).

N.B Re the brand name/generic thing I said earlier(!), to further confuse things; it is a brand name thing for the company Sebor. I.e. Sebor Ltd. have a product the called "Sebor Absinth". Which is an absinthe as opposed to a tequila spirit.