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[Adder]

Originally Posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy

If you're taking a year off, I recommend a trip to Scotland, where you will learn that all scotch has its charm. Liking one of the near-blends like McCallan doesn't mean you can't enjoy a little nip of Laphroig or Talisker, or the subtler Bowmore. Would you not eat a good snapper because you like your filet of fish? Do you skip over the patisserie because you like Dunkin Doughnuts? Do you not drink Bordeaux because you like Rose?

I have been to Scotland, and am aware that all scotch has its charm. Particularly if you are in or near the distillery (I have always been partial to Edradour for that reason). But your suggestion that Macallan is a "near-blend" whatever that means, and the implication that there is a continuum of scotch from "unblendlike" to "near-blend" is silly.

ETA: I don't think I had any while I was there, but I would definitely drink Oban if I found myself there again.

[ThurgreedMarshall]

Originally Posted by Adder

I have been to Scotland, and am aware that all scotch has its charm. Particularly if you are in or near the distillery (I have always been partial to Edradour for that reason). But your suggestion that Macallan is a "near-blend" whatever that means, and the implication that there is a continuum of scotch from "unblendlike" to "near-blend" is silly.

Are you people really having a slap-fight over scotch?

TM

[Adder]

Originally Posted by ThurgreedMarshall

Are you people really having a slap-fight over scotch?

TM

Like that is any worse than discussing NBA officiating at length.

[Greedy,Greedy,Greedy]

Originally Posted by Adder

But your suggestion that Macallan is a "near-blend" whatever that means, and the implication that there is a continuum of scotch from "unblendlike" to "near-blend" is silly.

Huh?

[Greedy,Greedy,Greedy]

Originally Posted by Adder

Like that is any worse than discussing NBA officiating at length.

Slap!

[Pretty Little Flower]

Originally Posted by ThurgreedMarshall

Are you people really having a slap-fight over scotch?

TM

So I bought some Truffle Tremor the other day. It's pretty good, as far as effeminately-named cheeses go.

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally Posted by Did you just call me Coltrane?

You do know that you can download a Firefox spellcheck application that automatically underlines misspelled words.

why hide my true self? plus, can you imagine how much more insecure flower'd get if he no longer had these "Hank can't spell" wins?

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally Posted by Did you just call me Coltrane?

This is usually the SOP at our place as well.

We like the port,* although the Atticus/Coltrane MO is more typical chez us. I can't remember the names of most of the ports we drink, but we have consistently liked is Warre's Otima.



* Alas for FC Porto, never beaten at home by a English side until yesterday.

[cheval de frise]

Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski

I meant "fully-sensed", but you knew that, and are just being cruel.

I exposed my knowledge of "the taste of a band-aid" yesterday, and you pounced on that opening to ridicule. I honestly don't know why I know how a Band-Aid likely tastes. I cannot remember ever eating one certainly, and yet I have a specific memory of associating my first peaty scotch with the taste of a Band-Aid. I know not how I make the association.

Perhaps it is due to upbringing. I believe I was raised in a poorer household than most, if not all, of you. My youth was one of sensory starvation. When I wore a Band-Aid perhaps the smell was strong compared to the scents elsewhere in my mostly empty room.

the same lower class upbringing also resulted in my poor knowledge of grammar- and as you are always quick to point out- without Spellcheck here, I am a mess of typos, and without the blindish excuse.

Still, given my background I am proud to have achieved a law degree, and the entry into this lawyer's chatting board, even in view of my apparent deficiencies compared to the rest of you. As I child, I often prayed to be given the chance to obtain a college degree, I would surely be ungrateful to find fault now in how the greater good chose to provide that blessing.

Perhaps you'll provide a corrigendum of this post now?

"Huh? I am not a bum. I'm a jerk. I once had wealth, power, and the love of a beautiful woman. Now I only have two things: my friends and... uh... my thermos. Huh? My story? Okay. It was never easy for me. I was born a poor black child. I remember the days, sittin' on the porch with my family, singin' and dancin' down in Mississippi...."

http://www.imdb.com/media/rm2130681088/tt0079367

CDF

[1436]

Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski

why hide my true self? plus, can you imagine how much more insecure flower'd get if he no longer had these "Hank can't spell" wins?

and really can anyone doubt the power of your posts . . .

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090416/...7Un4Mq2fUDW7oF

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski

I exposed my knowledge of "the taste of a band-aid" yesterday, and you pounced on that opening to ridicule.

WTF is up with high-end wine shops that tell you a wine tastes of road tar? And by "high-end wine shops" I mean the one near my house. They want to sound all cosmopolitan, but without saying something like "bitumen" which Americans won't follow. And I get the trick of telling me that it tastes like something I won't put my tongue to, but I'm still not impressed. Road tar. Feh.

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally Posted by Adder

Like that is any worse than discussing NBA officiating at length.

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The penalty call against Villareal and the ensuing yellow card on Egurin ruined the last 25 minutes of the second game yesterday, even if I was pulling for Arsenal. A pretty marginal penalty, I thought, and then sending Egurin off made sure that Villareal was done.

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally Posted by 1436

and really can anyone doubt the power of your posts . . .

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090416/...7Un4Mq2fUDW7oF

the comments under the viseo were constanly being cleansed but someone kept posting her name and a link to NC sex offenders registry, where hse is listed for some unspecified sin.

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop

WTF is up with high-end wine shops that tell you a wine tastes of road tar? And by "high-end wine shops" I mean the one near my house. They want to sound all cosmopolitan, but without saying something like "bitumen" which Americans won't follow. And I get the trick of telling me that it tastes like something I won't put my tongue to, but I'm still not impressed. Road tar. Feh.

a few years ago this one near me sells me a bottle from some narrow French region- $50 range. I get it home, open, pour, and it's corked; no question.

i take it back and the guy who helped now has a stronger accent, sniffs it and says, "wines from that region taste like that. We won't replace it- you can get something simpler, but anything from this region is an acquired taste."

So I knuckled under and took it back home.....

A few years later I bought something else from somewhere else, it was corked, took it back, and he said, "that is the way wines from that region...." I cut him off.

Foreign wine salesmen treat all Americans like mechanics once treated women.

[ThurgreedMarshall]

Originally Posted by Adder

Like that is any worse than discussing NBA officiating at length.

Really? "Referees should call a consistent game" vs. "The scotch you like tastes too peaty!"

TM