Re: GGG: How's Laphroaig 18?
 

The 18 is very good, but different. More subtle than the 10, still with very clear peat and iodine flavors. The 19 is extraordinary. They really mellow together with a lot less iodine and a different kind of peat flavor.

The thing about the different Laphraoigsd is the aging isn't just producing a somewhat mellower version of the basic. The flavors seems to change with age.

But the QC is in its own category in a lot of ways. It's the choice of the litter for a really macho scotch you can eat.

Re: But Virginia they didn't give you quite enough information.
 

but how do you over rule Griswold without a ban to challenge it?

Re: GGG: How's Laphroaig 18?
 

Thanks. I may avoid it then and experiment with something else. By the way, as a Laphroaig drinker, you may be tempted to try the Ardbeg. I enjoyed it, but was unimpressed. A bit thin on flavor. Sort of like Talisker in that regard. Good up front, but no staying power.

Sadly, I cannot get the 19 in PA. And the cartel doesn't allow out of state shippers to send me a bottle.

I'm think of trying the Macallan cask strength. It seems a bit ludicrous at 57 proof, but I'm wondering what an atomic sherry bomb tastes like.

Re: GGG: How's Laphroaig 18?
 

Someone around here made a comment, was it you?, that a tiny bit of water added to the cask strength really opens it up - I endorse that, it was good advice. You kind of get two different scotches for the cost of one.

Re: GGG: How's Laphroaig 18?
 

Less said it. He's right. It can sometimes be a bit too rich taken neat.

Re: But Virginia they didn't give you quite enough information.
 

As a mere slip-and-fall lawyer, I have no idea, but that sounds right to me. (Along with vetting judicial nominees for their views on the Griswold case, as both parties have done re Roe v Wade.)

Apropos of nothing, and of interest to perhaps two other posters, I am in The Ancestral Homeland today on a couple of matters. The courthouse is Not Bad, and (unlike my last out of town hearing), there were no deranged people muttering to themselves ("gonna kill you; gonna kill you") in the spectator benches in the courtroom.

Sadly, it doesn't look like I will be able to make it to my Aunt Mary's bar for a Black Bush and a "short one" of draft Schaefer's ("the one beer to have when youre having more than one") (yes, I like cheap American beer -- suck it) before my flight

Re: Pepper sprayed for public safety.
 

who deserved to die more Sonny Corleone, Teddy Kennedy or JFK, Jr. They all killed, but it strikes me that sonny only killed those in the game. Thoughts?

Re: But Virginia they didn't give you quite enough information.
 

Well that last part is really comforting.

Re: But Virginia they didn't give you quite enough information.
 

A more accurate characterization would be "He'll do everything possible to let state governments impose a ban."

Re: Pepper sprayed for public safety.
 

Sonny. His Mamma told him "don't interfere" with Connie and Carlo's marriage. And yet, interfere he did. A good Italian boy always listens to his Mamma.

Re: Pepper sprayed for public safety.
 

So why do religious conservatives believe they should be able to deny employees birth control but that someone's right to marry based on their own beliefs isn't an issue of religious freedom?

Re: Pepper sprayed for public safety.
 

Because they are deaf to irony?

Re: Pepper sprayed for public safety.
 

do you mean for your question to imply a requirement that an employer pay for the wedding, or is it just a half-baked thought?

Re: Pepper sprayed for public safety.
 

qed

Re: Pepper sprayed for public safety.
 

Ah! So employers should be able to decide who gets married?

Is that just religious employers, or all employers?