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Bacardi Denies 151-Proof Rum Caused Bar Burn Injuries
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| September 25, 2006
Posted on 09/25/2006 9:17:53 AM PDT by stainlessbanner
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To: Mr. Brightside
To: stainlessbanner
Sorry! We won't do it again.
To: stainlessbanner
To: stainlessbanner
The Flaming Moe's song
When the weight of the world has got you down,
And you want to end your life
Bills to pay, a dead end job,
And problems with the wife
Well don't throw in the towel
Cause there's a place right down the block
Where you can drink your miseries away
At fla-ming Moes
Where liquor in a mug will warm you like a hug
Let's all go to flaming Moe's... Flaming Moe's
And happiness is just a flaming Moe away
Happiness is just a flaming Moe away
To: stainlessbanner
Have one on the house, ladies.
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posted on
09/25/2006 9:25:21 AM PDT
by
Redcloak
(Speak softly and wear a loud shirt.)
To: stainlessbanner
Someone help me out here. By burning off the alcohol, does the drink become less potent? (I'm simply curious--personally, I wouldn't pay money for a drink that wussifies itself).
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posted on
09/25/2006 9:28:40 AM PDT
by
1rudeboy
To: stainlessbanner
Alcohol, the socially accepted drug.
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To: stainlessbanner
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posted on
09/25/2006 9:32:12 AM PDT
by
oldleft
To: stainlessbanner
does rubbing (isopropyl) alcohol even burn with a real visible flame, like Bacardi (75% ethanol) does?
If not, why would a bar even have a bottle of isopropyl on its premises?
(I know that methanol burns pretty much invisibly, and that ethanol is similar and that the other ingredients make rum burn so pretty.....but not certain about isopropyl which is wood alcohol)
To: Vn_survivor_67-68
does rubbing (isopropyl) alcohol even burn with a real visible flame, like Bacardi (75% ethanol) does? Yep ... grab a cotton ball with pliers, soak in 'rubbing alcohol' and ignite. It makes a dandy field-expedient, improvised torch; has a nice blue and orange flame.
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posted on
09/25/2006 9:42:04 AM PDT
by
ArrogantBustard
(Western Civilisation is aborting, buggering, and contracepting itself out of existence.)
To: Vn_survivor_67-68
It also works well for the "set your hand on fire" trick.
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posted on
09/25/2006 9:42:52 AM PDT
by
ArrogantBustard
(Western Civilisation is aborting, buggering, and contracepting itself out of existence.)
To: Andy from Beaverton
To: oldleft
Looks like you have been to the Kon Tikki. I have a mug just like it only it is about 20 years old.
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posted on
09/25/2006 9:43:57 AM PDT
by
John D
To: stainlessbanner
So, the lawyers are saying that Bacardi needs to come up with a bottle cap that can't be removed?
Wouldn't this rather defeat the purpose of a bottle of rum?
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posted on
09/25/2006 9:44:50 AM PDT
by
Cicero
(Marcus Tullius)
To: stainlessbanner
Bacardi said its 151-proof rum was not the cause of burns suffered by three women who sued the spirits company and alleged that their injuries were caused when a bottle used to pour shots turned into a "flame thrower." Idiot lawsuit alert!
First, the rum didn't cause the fire, a match and a dumb idea, perpetrated by a dumb person, did!!! Second, to have a "flame thrower", there must be projection of flame a considerable distance. Since the drink is probably not pressurized, this was no "flame thrower". I doubt the woman or her lawyer have ever seen a flame thrower outside Hollywierd.
Let's see, drunk, dumb person, alcohol, and a match........ I can see Carlos Mencia saying "Dee Dee Dee" right now.
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posted on
09/25/2006 9:45:53 AM PDT
by
M1Tanker
(Proven Daily: Modern "progressive" liberalism is just National Socialism without the "twisted cross")
To: Vn_survivor_67-68
Methyl is "wood alcohol", it used to be distilled from wood.
Methyl has one carbon, ethyl two, and propyl three. If the -OH that makes it an alcohol is on the end, it's n-propyl alcohol short for normal). If the -OH is on the middle carbon it's called iso-propyl alcohol.
Yes it burns and the flame is a bit more luminous than ethyl alcohol, probably because it has more carbon per molecule. It's much cheaper than pouring Bacardi on the bar.
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posted on
09/25/2006 9:48:29 AM PDT
by
DBrow
To: M1Tanker
Light an empty 151 bottle after shaking it profusely. Instant flame thrower.
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posted on
09/25/2006 9:49:12 AM PDT
by
AppyPappy
(If you aren't part of the solution, there is good money to be made prolonging the problem.)
To: AppyPappy
As I said, the open drink was not pressurized. Shaking the bottle pressurizes it.
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posted on
09/25/2006 9:52:19 AM PDT
by
M1Tanker
(Proven Daily: Modern "progressive" liberalism is just National Socialism without the "twisted cross")
To: DBrow
OOOO-PAAAAAAAAAH!!!!
at least they hold the cheese overhead
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