9K wet floor part 2...

Coward...

Hm. Brake fluid can strip paint in hours. Maybe that was an older formulation, or maybe a different paint, or maybe this is something else.

Care to pick me up a nice single-malt while you're there?

Bob is Mark now? I am _so_ confused.

Well Dave.. we'll be visiting Glenmorangie country (Glen of tranquility).... so you never know... ;)

Well, that'd do, in a pinch...

Dave "I think the next bottle, actually, is a Scapa 14. The Balvenie 21 was _very_ nice, though." Hinz

tranquility)....

You obviously know your stuff... Celtic origins??

You betcha. My ancestors, um, contributed quite a bit of genetic material there during the Viking years. A bunch of 'em hung out in Orkney for several centuries, until Norway gave it back to Scotland as part of a dowry arrangement. (hell of a wedding present...) Oddly enough, the Scots Kings felt that giving their daughters to the Vikings would make 'em go away. Sure, worked for a year or three, at which time they came back and said "Yeh, well, we're back. Has she got a sister, then?" or words to that effect.

I also like a nice dram from time to time. Couple times a month we have "Scotch night". I work in downtown Milwaukee (Wisconsin), and there's a great bar right across the road with literally hundreds of different Scotch to try. At two a month, it'll take forever to get through 'em, but a man's gotta have a goal, y'know?

Dave Hinz

it'll take forever to get through 'em,

Dave - it's an unexpected pleasure to banter with you. As ancient obligations require, I'd offer you my "first born".. but I have a feeling virgins only count if they're females...

Take care - and thanks for all your help (and possible DNA) !!

PS next time you have a "whisky night" ask 'em for a double Lagavulin... ;)

"Bad news is, you're gonna be sacrificed in the morning as a virgin. The good news, my dear, is that I know how you can get out of it..."

When the mood is right, I'll go for that. It just got hard to get in this country, though, in the last 6 months. I traded a Turbo B-engine for the '78 99 Turbo I'm working on, for a bottle of Lagavulin (14 year, I think?), and it was already getting hard to find 6 months ago. I haven't seen any since. If I'm going for smoky/peaty, I like the Oban, which isn't quite the kick-in-the-face intense flavor, but very nice in a different way.

"It just got hard to get in this country"

Yeah... I hear you. It's not exactly easy to get here either, at £35 + a bottle. My dad's a member of the whisky society though.. he has stuff in the attic that'll make you go blind!!

Take Care

Mark

35 quid, let's see...yup, you suck. It's 80 bucks a bottle here. Or, rather, was. The Scapa 14, oddly, is only 45 bucks. I like the 12, I liked the 25 we bought my boss (and gave him 4 snifters with it...subtle, eh?), so the 14 should be nice.

in article a0kue.21186$ snipped-for-privacy@fe3.news.blueyonder.co.uk, Nasty Bob at snipped-for-privacy@hotmail.com wrote on 22/06/2005 21:39:

Yup! I received a very belated Christmas present from a client the other day; a bottle of Glenmorangie. I've just finished it, as it happens. Yes, just ... Hence the not uncommon jovial tone to me posting :)

Not bad stuff really, after all I've said about Scotch :) I drank about half of it (with cola ... Ner! Ner!), spilt about a quarter and made some chicken stock and cream sauce with the remainder for Swedish (er hum, Ikea) meatballs and root veg the other night. Mmmm! Swedish :))

Paul

Var tog vägen vägen? SAAB : Nothing on earth comes close

Paul... Belated Xmas present..... Whisky & cola?????? lock yourself in dark cupboard and have a word with yourself ....you bad man. Ikea meatballs make you sterile.

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My boss suggested I should be more "sociable" at work recently...... so I handed out home-baked brownies ;) must go and watch the end of "Team America - World Police" motion picture they've been telling me about...

Weel, it's not like he wasted _good_ Scotch.

Oddly enough, there is also a relationship between that 21 year Balvenie and becoming sterile in this household, so you may be on to something.

Geeze, Dave. Bob's your Uncle...

-Fred W

My personal favorite. I'm a heavy peat guy...

-Fred W

I wouldn't even say Oban was all that peaty, but it's another favorite.

One advantage of living in NH is the State Liquor stores do a pretty good stocking the singles, and they are dirt cheap (very minimal taxes).

But I tend not to drink them during the warmer months. Summer time is for tequila or martinis. Cheers!!

-Fred W

Feast your eyes...

...and they put them on sale now and then too.

-Fred W

No, John is my uncle. Wait, he's my son. Damn, I'm _SO_ confused.

Dave "Yes, I recognize the phrase but can't figure out a way to work it in" Hinz

Wait, I thought you were Fred. So, Bob is Mark, and Fred is Pete. Damn...and here I've been using what is nearly my name all this time.

Dave "What the hell, call me Julio" Hinz