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Tragedy at Scottish Distillery
Daily Mail ^ | 1/11/2012 | Daily Mail Reporter

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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TOPICS: News/Current Events; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: singlemaltwhisky
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To: mass55th

I do, too. I lived in N. England for almost a decade and we’d always head to Scotland for vacation. It’s beautiful.


41 posted on 01/11/2012 10:52:15 AM PST by RushIsMyTeddyBear (A MUST WATCH: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=KeOLurcQaqI)
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To: donozark

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.


42 posted on 01/11/2012 10:53:06 AM PST by oldfart (Obama nation = abomination. Think about it!)
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To: dfwgator

That, is a good one.


43 posted on 01/11/2012 10:57:23 AM PST by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: ConorMacNessa

heaven in a bottle!!


44 posted on 01/11/2012 11:00:25 AM PST by wyowolf
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To: Timocrat

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.


45 posted on 01/11/2012 11:03:12 AM PST by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: reaganaut

We’re all gonna die.


46 posted on 01/11/2012 11:15:36 AM PST by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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To: Timocrat; Rider; stump56; bcsco; PJ-Comix; kimmie7; MissDairyGoodnessVT; Paul Heinzman; ...

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!


47 posted on 01/11/2012 11:31:54 AM PST by Cletus.D.Yokel (Islam is a tyrannical and violent POLITICAL ideology and has nothing to do with "religion".)
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To: Cletus.D.Yokel

I’m borrowing that story... :>


48 posted on 01/11/2012 11:36:27 AM PST by bcsco
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To: Timocrat

“It was a stainless steel washback tank of water not a wooden vat of whisky”

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2084984/Brian-Ettles-drowns-vat-whisky-Glenfiddich-Distillery.html#ixzz1jBCsvvTd

The headline is a lie


49 posted on 01/11/2012 11:42:34 AM PST by bert (K.E. N.P. +12 ..... Crucifixion is coming)
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To: Jewbacca

(nitpicking alert) In this case, it is spelled ‘whisky’.


50 posted on 01/11/2012 11:46:23 AM PST by fhayek
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To: Cyman
It's hard to steal since it's from an ancient joke about Paddy the Irishman who drowned in a vat of ale -- at least that's the version I heard long ago.

"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."

51 posted on 01/11/2012 11:48:07 AM PST by Bernard Marx
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To: fhayek

I think I do fairly well for learning my first words of English at 12!


52 posted on 01/11/2012 11:52:46 AM PST by Jewbacca (The residents of Iroquois territory may not determine whether Jews may live in Jerusalem.)
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To: Jewbacca

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.


53 posted on 01/11/2012 11:58:11 AM PST by fhayek
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To: donozark
...have always found the taste of scotch to be akin to a burnt fence post.

Ah, but a fence post made of the very best wood.

54 posted on 01/11/2012 12:02:39 PM PST by Talisker (Apology accepted, Captain Needa.)
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To: fhayek

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.


55 posted on 01/11/2012 12:36:04 PM PST by duffee (NEWT 2012)
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To: duffee

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.”


56 posted on 01/11/2012 12:43:37 PM PST by duffee (NEWT 2012)
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To: duffee
I assume that Irish whiskey is made in Ireland. The Irish invented whiskey, God bless their souls.
57 posted on 01/11/2012 1:10:22 PM PST by fhayek
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To: dragonblustar

LOL! You owe me a screen!


58 posted on 01/11/2012 1:23:39 PM PST by tanuki (Left-wing Revolution: show biz for boring people.)
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To: fhayek

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.


59 posted on 01/11/2012 1:57:39 PM PST by duffee (NEWT 2012)
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To: duffee

I’d expect that a whiskey called ‘white mule’ would have quite a kick.


60 posted on 01/11/2012 2:05:15 PM PST by fhayek
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