Try the 92 per cent weapons-grade whisky that will take your breath away. Literally

The London Times ^ | February 27, 2006 | David Lister

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Unless you get it on VHS...

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Oh Rimmer, you are a smeghead...

[Oberon]

I will not kill a grown man.

Not even if he's English?

[Paul C. Jesup]

A single drop of the ancient drink of “usquebaugh-baul” was described by the travel writer Martin Martin in 1695 as powerful enough to affect “all members of the body”. He added: “Two spoonfuls of this last liquor is a sufficient dose; if any man should exceed this, it would presently stop his breath, and endanger his life.”

This whisky sounds more powerful per ounce that most hardcore illegal drugs you could name. Hell, most deadly poisons are not this powerful.

[AnAmericanMother]

Another vote for Laphroaig here.

My hubby is a Friend - we haven't visited our square foot yet (but I'm sure it's damp).

The 10 year old is my favorite Scotch - like it better than the older bottlings. My husband prefers Lagavulin, I can't understand that, it tastes like paint thinner to me.

[wyattearp]

My VCR died a few years ago. Never replaced it. I didn't have enough stuff on tape to warrant buying a machine that was on its way out. Of course, that means that I have had to wait for my Dwarf fixes, but...

[wyattearp]

You don't mix Jack Daniels with anything. You sip it just as poured from the bottle.

At first I thought that you were saying "heresy" because somebody was suggesting that coke be tortured with JD.

[krb]

Yeah, this is goofy. I "discovered" everclear my freshman year, then promptly undiscovered it when I realized how nasty it was.

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I'm going to upgrade to all DVD some day...

[Sic Luceat Lux]

A 17TH-CENTURY firewater, more than two spoonfuls of which was said to be enough...

Perhaps Hitlery will partake of two spoonfuls.

[HereInTheHeartland]

"The US Secret Service admitted in 2003 that it had been monitoring the distillery because the difference between distilling a fine whisky and making chemical weapons was “just a small tweak”."

The marketing folks there are having just a wee bit to much fun!

[uglybiker]

The only thing I use Everclear for is making transparent soap!

That's a new one!

Do tell!

[slimer]

So, when you are making 170 or 180 proof, if someone wants to drink it, they will first have to mix it about 50/50 with water, or orange juice, or whatever, and it will still be too strong a drink.

Can You Drink It?"

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Once upon a time I tried to make napalm by mixing Liquid Joy detergent and kerosene. Didn't burn worth a damm, but it made a great hand cleaner!

[WilliamWallace1999]

Only if he's a Plantagenet.

[Lurker]

I've tried the Lagavulin at the same Scotch Tasting that inroduced me to Talisker. I prefer the Talisker, but to each his own.

Yea, the Golf Course my wife works at actually had the audacity to make her go to a Scotch tasting sponsored by Johny Walker. 7 single malts and all the JWs from Black to Blue.

I went as a guest, of course. To top it all off they actually paid her for her time.

Those bastiches....

L

[Lurker]

You're quite correct of course. I checked my bottle and Talisker is indeed from the Isle of Skye.

The way you make it sound makes me want to hop a jetliner and spend a week or two there. Some day when I can afford it, I intend to do just that.

L

[GOPJ]

The US Secret Service admitted in 2003 that it had been monitoring the distillery because the difference between distilling a fine whisky and making chemical weapons was “just a small tweak”. Is this true?

[Lurker]

Jack Daniels isn't whiskey. It's sour mash.

JD is a distilled liquor with training wheels. When you grow up, you'll learn to appreciate a real whiskey.

If you're lucky anyway.

L

[Stoat]

The US Secret Service admitted in 2003 that it had been monitoring the distillery because the difference between distilling a fine whisky and making chemical weapons was “just a small tweak”. Is this true?

Not being a chemist I can't address the chemistry issue in a definitive way (I did take chemistry in college and decided that I would prefer to be shot out of a cannon at a circus rather than take any more chemistry courses) and as far as "The U.S. Secret Service admitted....." I would suggest that it is NOT true, because if it had actually happened it would be a part of the shrill and hysterical cacophony that we've been hearing from the Left: "Bush Administration Harassing Tiny Scottish Distillery!!"  "Religious Zealots In Bush Administration Spying On Distillery On Terror Pretext!!!" "Bush's Secret Service Thugs Make War on Distillery!!!"  etc. etc.

My guess mirrors that of many posters on this thread so far, in that it's most likely the product of a marketing / advertising brainstorm session fuelled by some 'special reserve' Single Malt  :-)