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Originally Posted by Dixie

I like mine dry, no twist, blue cheese olives, and make it skate.

Looks like "make it skate" means "shake the hell out of it until there's little bits of ice floating on top". The James Bond "shaken not stirred" is not that vigorously shaken so you just end up with something really cold with minimal ice bits that have broken off.

When I tended bar, anything that was shaken was VIGOROUSLY shaken and had ice floating in it. Granted, most of that was shots or other sorts of drinks. I didn't make that many martinis, and most of them were dirty.