Don't forget your accent!
Posted on 02/27/2006 1:04:17 PM PST by Stoat
I was actually introduced to it at a competitor's distillery: Gelngoyne. Man there was nice enough to pour a taste, along with theirs. It was so distinctive and evocative, I got one of theirs, and a Lagavulin later.
Dan
Thank you! I thought I'd lost it for a while there!
Yes, I know the feeling of "Uh-oh, I've passed the line of obscure reference....."
Actually, this is true:
American spies home in on weapons of mass drunkenness
...Managers at the Bruichladdich Distillery on the Hebridian island of Islay, famous for producing Scotland's best malt whisky, were puzzled when they received an e-mail from "Ursula", asking them to repair their webcam that broadcasts scenes from the Victorian distillery to whisky lovers around the world.
After inquiring, they found that Ursula was a spy with the US Defence Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA)...
The US secret service had marked the distillery as a potential terrorist threat because its traditional method of distilling whisky was similar to that used to manufacture chemical weapons. "It's hilarious," Reynier said. "Mind you, we're a sinister-looking bunch, so I can see how we might be mistaken for al-Qaeda."
Ursula Stearns of the DTRA said the agency's mission was to safeguard the US and its allies from weapons of mass destruction (chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear and high explosives)...
Also, see the article in post 145.
During World War I, the microbiologist Chaim Weizmann cultured large quantities of Clostridium acetobutylicum in Nicholson’s gin distillery in England, in order to produce acetone which was desperately needed to make the explosive cordite. It would be just as easy to culture similar volumes of Clostridium botulinum in a distillery, this bacterium produces botulin - the most deadly toxin known to mankind - which would make a very potent biological weapon.
Obviously, its rather unlikely that a respectable Scottish distillery would ever be taken over by the kind of people who would do that, but perhaps the DTRA got a bit carried away!
Thanks. I love it when facts get in the way of opinion! And it's interesting...
Thanks very much for your research and your post....very interesting and relevant.
I am so accustomed to lies and half-truths from the MSM that I was a bit too quick to assume that the Secret Service part of the article was so much hooey....they typically busy themseelves with protection of the President and the currency and leave such things as this to the CIA / NSA, etc.
I'm glad to see that they were on their toes in this case and I'm surprised that we haven't been hearing about "Bush's Brownshirts Harassing Tiny Scottish Distillery!!!" from the Left.....I suppose they simply missed this one back in 2003 as most of the rest of us did.
And this stuff sounds like the kind of smegging liquor that Lister would enjoy with his Shrimp Vindaloo (g)
I made "Bathtub Napalm" with Easter Grass, not Liquid Joy, but you may have a different recipe. And I the two times I made it, it was perhaps a cup full, just to see if it was a legend or not: it was still fairly runny, and my Vietnam Vet neighbor said it was nowhere as sticky or slow-flowing as "real" napalm. . .Obviously, the Military adds "Secret Sauce". . .(grin)
Nahhhh, that's a lager meal...
The others appear from the direction they were running in originally,
rather distressed expressions on their faces. They duck down a side
corridor. The monster arrives, and faces LISTER. LISTER backs off. As
he does so, he knocks over an open can of lager. The monster steps in
the spilt liquid, there is a hissing sound, and the monster draws back
its foot with a roar of pain.
LISTER: Of course. Lager! The only thing that can kill a vindaloo!
Red Dwarf Series VIII will be released 3/27/06...
http://www.reddwarfshop.co.uk/
I should have been more specific. Series VIII is already out in Region 2, Europe and Australia, but wont be available in Region 1, US, until 3/27/06.
Lister invented the Beer Milkshake!
When I was in college, I knew a guy who used to steal 100% alcohol from a lab, and we’d drink that in fruit juice.
And now you’re dead.
Where's Rimmer, the Cat, Holly, and Kryten?
Red Dwarf ping!
Don't forget your accent!
I remember jugs marked 100% ethanol in college chemistry. Ethanol is ethanol, is it not?
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