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Shackleton's whisky recovered
Guardian.co.uk ^
| February 2010 12.20 GMT
| Rick Peters
Posted on 02/05/2010 7:52:41 PM PST by Pan_Yan
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Cases of Mackinlay's whisky found intact under the hut used by the British Antarctic Expedition of 1907-1909 (The SS Nimrod expedition), led by Sir Ernest Shackleton. Cape Royds, McMurdo side, Antarctica. Photograph: New Zealand Antarctic Heritage Trust
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posted on
02/05/2010 7:52:41 PM PST
by
Pan_Yan
To: Pan_Yan
To find the actual whisky favoured by this ultimate man's man is one thing, to taste the essence of death-defying, pipe-smoking, god-among-men masculinity will be quite anotherPuhleeze.
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posted on
02/05/2010 7:55:40 PM PST
by
the invisib1e hand
(governance is not sovereignty [paraphrasing Bishop Fulton Sheen].)
To: Pan_Yan
A toast, from the pages of Endurance: To our wives and girlfriends! May they never meet!
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posted on
02/05/2010 7:56:34 PM PST
by
the invisib1e hand
(governance is not sovereignty [paraphrasing Bishop Fulton Sheen].)
To: Pan_Yan
The brandy will possibly be good, but the whiskey is likely garbage IMO.
I confess that I am not a big whiskey fan.....LOL
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posted on
02/05/2010 7:57:08 PM PST
by
Cold Heat
To: the invisib1e hand
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posted on
02/05/2010 7:58:03 PM PST
by
Cold Heat
To: SunkenCiv
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posted on
02/05/2010 7:59:26 PM PST
by
GeronL
(http://tyrannysentinel.blogspot.com)
To: Cold Heat
I just thought the point was a little overworked - not even invalid. Just overworked.
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posted on
02/05/2010 7:59:47 PM PST
by
the invisib1e hand
(governance is not sovereignty [paraphrasing Bishop Fulton Sheen].)
To: Tijeras_Slim
To: the invisib1e hand
I was fun'in.....
You are right, the adjectives were overdone a bit....LOL
In modern times that writing style in pretty much confined across the pond.
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posted on
02/05/2010 8:04:47 PM PST
by
Cold Heat
To: the invisib1e hand
I just thought the point was a little overworked - not even invalid. Just overworked. A few months ago the dragon throne of China was sold at auction. Imagine sprawling on the dragon throne of China drinking a bottle of Shackleton's brandy. Now THAT would be overworking it. I guess the only proper place to do that would be on Mount Olympus.
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posted on
02/05/2010 8:05:13 PM PST
by
Pan_Yan
(Is the sarcasm tag really necessary?)
To: Pan_Yan
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posted on
02/05/2010 8:38:07 PM PST
by
plinyelder
("I've noticed that everybody that is for abortion has already been born." -- Ronald Reagan)
To: Pan_Yan
Fuick...., if it gets you hammered then it’s great fuicking whiskey...!
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posted on
02/05/2010 8:42:44 PM PST
by
freebilly
(No wonder the left has a boner for Obama. There's CIALIS in soCIALISt....)
To: Pan_Yan
Let's pour some!!
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posted on
02/05/2010 8:44:14 PM PST
by
CurlyBill
(1-20-13 can't get here fast enough!)
To: Pan_Yan
sounds like something Nick Cage would pay all that to do.
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posted on
02/05/2010 8:53:07 PM PST
by
valkyry1
To: GeronL
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posted on
02/05/2010 9:26:13 PM PST
by
SunkenCiv
(Happy New Year! Freedom is Priceless.)
To: Pan_Yan
Shackleton was an amazing man, but from what I have read he did not really give credit to Providence who saved him and his crew.
And how utterly ridiculous that he survived the harrowing journey and rescue, only to return to sea!! Dude, when you narrowly escape death, does it make sense to return to the same circumstances?? He died of a heart attack on his second journey aboard ship.
Idiot.
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posted on
02/05/2010 9:34:53 PM PST
by
Reddy
(B.O. stinks)
To: Pan_Yan
Break out the Mackinlay's!!
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posted on
02/05/2010 9:36:51 PM PST
by
VeniVidiVici
(Marsha Coakley's been teabagged. Populists Hugo Chavez and Hussein Obama are next.)
To: Pan_Yan
Rare. Old. Fitting I guess.
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posted on
02/06/2010 12:05:51 AM PST
by
rdl6989
(January 20, 2013 The end of an error.)
To: valkyry1
If I recall the throne sold for more money than Nick Cage has ever made.
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posted on
02/06/2010 4:32:47 AM PST
by
Pan_Yan
(Is the sarcasm tag really necessary?)
To: Pan_Yan
A few months ago the dragon throne of China was sold at auction. Imagine sprawling on the dragon throne of China drinking a bottle of Shackleton's brandy. Now THAT would be overworking it. I guess the only proper place to do that would be on Mount Olympus. Now there's an ambition...
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posted on
02/06/2010 10:16:08 AM PST
by
the invisib1e hand
(governance is not sovereignty [paraphrasing Bishop Fulton Sheen].)
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