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Poitín now legal to drink in Ireland as first license given [Poteen, moonshine]
Irish Central ^ | December 30, 2016 05:36 AM | IrishCentral Staff

Posted on 12/30/2016 5:08:46 PM PST by Olog-hai

After generations of his family spent their lives as outlaws for making the infamous Irish poitín, Pádraic Ó Griallais has finally been able to carry out the family business in the open just under a decade after the spirit was outlawed.

Taking a career break from his job as a high school teacher to establish a new business based on his old family recipe, Ó Griallais is free to produce and sell the highly alcoholic spirit as he pleases without the interference of the Gardaí [Irish police], who hounded the previous poitín distillers in his family with raids to put a stop to the production of the beverage that was outlawed from 1661 to 1997 due to excise regulations.

The production of the spirit was regulated by the Irish Department of Agriculture in 1997 but only under their specific regulations. Luckily the regulations still allow Ó Griallais to use the botanical bogbean that grows around his family’s homeland around Indreabhán, County Galway, that makes their specific recipe so special. …

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TOPICS: Food; Local News
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To: NoCmpromiz
When Bobby Was Seven

When Bobby was seven,
He liked playing games,
Liked working out puzzles,
And had puzzled aims.

He mostly was smiling,
About average size,
And his exercise program,
Involved mainly his eyes.

He liked to hear music,
Couldn’t figure out dance,
His movements reflected,
All those ants in his pants.

As his friends fondly noted,
There was surely a way,
Having made it to seven,
He’d grow up one day.

NicknamedBob . . . 27 Feb, 2015

461 posted on 01/14/2017 5:59:02 PM PST by NicknamedBob (If you can't do something well, you won't do anything good.)
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To: NicknamedBob

Now that there is good...


462 posted on 01/14/2017 6:02:27 PM PST by NoCmpromiz (John 14:6 is a non-pluralistic comment.)
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To: NoCmpromiz
I just don't specify seven what.
463 posted on 01/14/2017 7:03:08 PM PST by NicknamedBob (If you can't do something well, you won't do anything good.)
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To: NicknamedBob

In my case it’s decades. But not ‘til tomorrow. Officially at 1:55 AM.


464 posted on 01/14/2017 7:16:10 PM PST by NoCmpromiz (John 14:6 is a non-pluralistic comment.)
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To: Darksheare
A thought..


465 posted on 01/14/2017 7:17:53 PM PST by NoCmpromiz (John 14:6 is a non-pluralistic comment.)
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To: NoCmpromiz

I only made a credible dummy once.
Got me into trouble.
Ask others about “cousin Gomer”.


466 posted on 01/14/2017 7:20:09 PM PST by Darksheare (Those who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same.)
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To: NoCmpromiz
"In my case it’s decades. But not ‘til tomorrow."

Mine too. On the date I wrote the poem.

467 posted on 01/14/2017 7:55:59 PM PST by NicknamedBob (If you can't do something well, you won't do anything good.)
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To: NoCmpromiz; NicknamedBob

Frank is 7. He’ll be 8 in May.


468 posted on 01/15/2017 3:21:25 AM PST by Tax-chick ("He who is kind to the poor lends to the LORD, and He will repay him for his deed." Pv. 19:17)
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To: NoCmpromiz

You don’t look a day older than 37.


469 posted on 01/15/2017 3:25:10 AM PST by Tax-chick ("He who is kind to the poor lends to the LORD, and He will repay him for his deed." Pv. 19:17)
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To: Tax-chick; fanfan; ColdOne; Cyber Liberty; null and void; Anoreth; Monkey Face; ...

470 posted on 01/15/2017 3:26:43 AM PST by Tax-chick ("He who is kind to the poor lends to the LORD, and He will repay him for his deed." Pv. 19:17)
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To: Tax-chick

471 posted on 01/15/2017 3:37:26 AM PST by Tax-chick ("The less free you are, the more you are obliged to applaud.")
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To: NoCmpromiz

Yes, well, I have a reunion coming up Labor Day weekend, but I don’t remember which one it was. The last one, ten years ago (or eleven, I think) was a shock because had it not been for name tags, I would not have known who all those old people were!

My sister looks remarkably older than I, poor baby.


472 posted on 01/15/2017 4:12:50 AM PST by Monkey Face ("...he can read by the lamp (light) of his own conceit...." Joseph F. Smith)
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To: Darksheare; NoCmpromiz

My brothers made a dummy once on Hallowe’en. They put it in the road on a blind curve on Main Street, a block from out home.

I was too young to answer any questions.


473 posted on 01/15/2017 4:17:56 AM PST by Monkey Face ("...he can read by the lamp (light) of his own conceit...." Joseph F. Smith)
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To: Tax-chick

Wow. Two squees for the price of one! I’m very cold, and I’m waiting for the bathroom to warm up.

After I open the clubhouse, I’ll go to Walgreen’s and get my prescription. I don’t think I’ll have enough left over to go to Walmart.

All of a sudden I seem to be out of almost everything. How’d that happen? *sheesh*

(I checked to tagline quote and corrected it.)


474 posted on 01/15/2017 4:26:25 AM PST by Monkey Face ("...he can write by the lamp (light) of his own conceit...." Joseph F. Smith)
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To: Monkey Face
...block from out OUR home.

Sorry folks. I must be still asleep.

475 posted on 01/15/2017 4:28:23 AM PST by Monkey Face ("...he can write by the lamp (light) of his own conceit...." Joseph F. Smith)
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To: Monkey Face

Good morning. I’m cold, too. I will have a shower once I’ve marshalled some young persons into productive activity.


476 posted on 01/15/2017 4:48:22 AM PST by Tax-chick ("The less free you are, the more you are obliged to applaud.")
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To: Tax-chick

I’ve opened the clubhouse and I’m headed for Walgreen’s, now. Then home for a breathing treatment.

Thanks!


477 posted on 01/15/2017 5:31:42 AM PST by Monkey Face ("...he can write by the lamp (light) of his own conceit...." Joseph F. Smith)
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To: Monkey Face

You’re welcome.

I hassled Tom, Elen, and Sally off to Mass. The girls are going on a camping trip with a friend later.


478 posted on 01/15/2017 5:54:34 AM PST by Tax-chick ("The less free you are, the more you are obliged to applaud.")
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To: Tax-chick

It must be January. The co-pay on my prescriptions went up. *sigh* I’m so far in the hole when the month starts, I don’t know if I will ever be able to catch up.

Looking on the bright side, maybe I’ll be able to lose that clingy 15 pounds that doesn’t want to leave me.

:o|


479 posted on 01/15/2017 6:33:43 AM PST by Monkey Face ("...he can write by the lamp (light) of his own conceit...." Joseph F. Smith)
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To: Monkey Face
maybe I’ll be able to lose that clingy 15 pounds that doesn’t want to leave me

Yeah, me too.

The right side of my head is all blocked up. I feel sideways.

480 posted on 01/15/2017 6:35:27 AM PST by Tax-chick ("The less free you are, the more you are obliged to applaud.")
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