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250 Year-Old Shipwreck Could Hold Thousands of Litres of Rum
The Spirits Business ^
| 18th May, 2015
| Annie Hayes
Posted on 05/18/2015 6:26:51 PM PDT by DogByte6RER
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To: ProudFossil
Arrrh! Bacardi 151 for me because Rum needs to burn like gasoline for me to like it. I only like it straight up.
To: DogByte6RER
But after sitting on the bottom of the ocean for a couple hundred years, wouldn’t the casks have been eaten by sea creatures? Wouldn’t the rum be, at the very least, heavily contaminated with seawater?
Or are we talking well-sealed bottles?
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posted on
05/18/2015 7:13:48 PM PDT
by
hoagy62
("Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered..."-Thomas Paine. 1776)
To: DogByte6RER
I wouldn't drink it But I would whisper nothings to it, take baths with it,
and roll the barrel down the street on moonlit nights.
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posted on
05/18/2015 7:24:00 PM PDT
by
MaxMax
(Call the local GOP and ask how you can support CRUZ for POTUS, Make them talk!)
To: MaxMax
"I wouldn't drink it But I would whisper nothings to it, take baths with it, and roll the barrel down the street on moonlit nights."Excellent!
Is this yours? What inspiration, pray tell?
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posted on
05/18/2015 7:36:09 PM PDT
by
MV=PY
(The Magic Question: Who's paying for it?)
To: DogByte6RER
"bought in 1762 by the East India Company for use in a military campaign in Spain, but sunk during its crusade"It is intriguing that a private company went to war against Spain in South American.
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posted on
05/18/2015 7:38:43 PM PDT
by
UnwashedPeasant
(A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.)
To: DogByte6RER
100,000 “rare” coins. Hope they weigh 4 ounces each for those valuations.
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posted on
05/18/2015 7:46:28 PM PDT
by
Stentor
("The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.")
To: DogByte6RER
It’s not a warship. When she was sold to the East India Company, it ceased to be a commissioned warship and became a merchant ship. This is a critical point in respect to the salvage rights and sovereignty ownership.
The rum would have certainly been in barrels, not bottles, and therefore is likely long gone. The ship has great historical value and may have some value if it has coinage or bullion on their manifest.
To: DogByte6RER
He said ‘booty’. Heh heh heh ha ha har har yar yarrrrrrr!
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posted on
05/18/2015 8:01:44 PM PDT
by
tumblindice
(America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives.)
To: DogByte6RER
They will find no rum, but they will find sodomy sand the lash........
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posted on
05/18/2015 8:06:23 PM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Man builds a ship in a bottle. God builds a universe in the palm of His hand.............)
To: TexasGator
If this came for Georgetown Guyana it will be the best British Naval ever produced. If you still want the best rum, make by the same process used over 150 years ago, then get some rum from Guyana - you will be pleased.
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posted on
05/18/2015 8:18:15 PM PDT
by
Jumper
To: 22202NOVA
Drunken Red Snapper? I could read that a couple of different ways.............
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posted on
05/18/2015 9:22:16 PM PDT
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Viking2002
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To: Viking2002
You know the one about the woman who went out on a fishing boat with 15 guys? She came back with a red snapper.
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posted on
05/18/2015 9:38:52 PM PDT
by
22202NOVA
(Tagline? I don't need no stinking tagline!)
To: 22202NOVA
Sounds like most of the women I dated. LOL
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posted on
05/18/2015 10:01:30 PM PDT
by
Viking2002
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To: 22202NOVA
OK, so I always went for the low-hanging fruit.........
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posted on
05/18/2015 10:02:14 PM PDT
by
Viking2002
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To: yarddog
“Tight Little Island”, I believe.
To: DogByte6RER
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posted on
05/18/2015 10:58:39 PM PDT
by
Liberty Valance
(Keep a simple manner for a happy life :o)
To: Heart-Rest
That is outstanding! The imagery in those lyrics is pure pirate’s gold.
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posted on
05/18/2015 11:17:17 PM PDT
by
TigersEye
(STONE COLD ZOMBIE SCOURGE)
To: Jumper
Better than Barbados’ Mount Gay Rum established in 1703 ye say?
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posted on
05/18/2015 11:25:03 PM PDT
by
TigersEye
(STONE COLD ZOMBIE SCOURGE)
To: smokingfrog
Probably just the cheap rum they used to give sailors for their daily ration.Nicely aged by now?
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posted on
05/19/2015 8:01:51 AM PDT
by
JimRed
(Excise the cancer before it kills us; feed & Ifwater the Tree of Liberty! TERM LIMITS NOW & FOREVER!)
To: SamAdams76
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posted on
05/19/2015 8:19:50 AM PDT
by
smokingfrog
( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
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