Posted on 01/11/2012 9:47:06 AM PST by Timocrat
Man drowns himself in a vat of whisky at world famous Scottish distillery
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2084984/Brian-Ettles-drowns-vat-whisky-Glenfiddich-Distillery.html#ixzz1jAkH4gDb
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I do, too. I lived in N. England for almost a decade and we’d always head to Scotland for vacation. It’s beautiful.
I’ll have to take your word for that. I’ve never tasted a burnt fence post. BTW, is there a good story to back up your experience? I’d love to hear (read) it.
Meanwhile, I still like Scotch Whiskey.
That, is a good one.
heaven in a bottle!!
They fished him out though, right? I mean, this isn’t another one of those mouse in the Mountain Dew can stories, is it? The lawyers will be on this.....booze and a lawsuit....crap.....it’s lawyer heaven.
We’re all gonna die.
An Englishman, an Irishman and Scot meet at the local pub to have a bit of their homelands best. The Englishman orders a pint of bitters, the Irishman orders a shot of Irish Whiskey and the Scot orders a dram of 21 year-old scotch.
As the bartender places their drinks before them, three flies land in each of the drinks. The Brit, so as not to ruin his drink, carefully downs the bitters, leaving the fly carcass in the bottom of his glass.
The Irishman, disdainfully lifts the fly from his whiskey, tosses it on the bar and downs his drink in one gulp.
The Scot quickly lifts the fly out of his drink and begins to violently squeeze the insect while shouting, “Spit it back ya wee bastid!”
Me? My heritage is Scot and I like bourbon.
PING!
I’m borrowing that story... :>
“It was a stainless steel washback tank of water not a wooden vat of whisky”
The headline is a lie
(nitpicking alert) In this case, it is spelled ‘whisky’.
"The puir man, did he suffer?" asks his stricken wife. "No Ma'am," says a co-worker, hat in hand. "He made three trips to the WC before he finally expired."
I think I do fairly well for learning my first words of English at 12!
English is screwy when it comes to spelling. And whisky (whiskey) is even screwier. If it is distilled in Scotland or Canada, it is whisky. In Ireland and the United States, it is whiskey (unless it is Makers Mark). Got it? Aw, what the hell, lets have a drink.
Ah, but a fence post made of the very best wood.
JAMESON advertises that the’ve been making IRISH WHISKEY for a Thousand years, my family has been drinking it for a Thousand years, of course not always JAMESON’S there were the years in Arkansas and Mississippi when they made and drank their own WHITE MULE whiskey.
Reminds of a line from the old bluegrass tune “JACK of DIAMONDS” “If a river was whiskey and I was a duck. I’d dive to the bottom and never come up.”
LOL! You owe me a screen!
Made in DUBLIN, many of my ancestors are from Ireland, the fascimile made in Arkansas and Mississippi of course contained corn and had not been aged. After a quart you could hardly tell the difference.
I’d expect that a whiskey called ‘white mule’ would have quite a kick.
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