Arid Martini

"I'm pursuing my lifelong quest for the perfect, the absolutely driest martini to be found in this or any other world. And I think I may have hit upon the perfect formula. You pour six jiggers of gin, and you drink it while staring at a picture of Lorenzo Schwartz, the inventor of vermouth. "Benjamin Franklin "Hawkeye" Pierce (Alan Alda) in M *A *S *H