Like your whisky 'with ice'?

[Patrick]

Five crates of Scotch whisky and brandy belonging to the polar explorer Ernest Shackleton have been recovered after more than 100 years in the ice.

They were buried beneath Shackleton's Antarctic hut, built in 1908 for a failed expedition to the South Pole.

Some of the crates have cracked and ice has formed inside, which means experts will face a delicate task in trying to extract the contents.

The ice-bound crates were first discovered three years ago.....

[tarzanontarmazepam]

Wadda guy! He thought of everything didn't he? Perhaps somewhere they'll find a frozen brothel too. It was a man's world in those days when women did as they were told and I think we were better off for it.



Equality especially in the workplace I believe has been to our detriment. A woman's place is in the home...to heat the coals for the adventurer's return...a warm bath, warm hands, and a hot stew bubbling slowly in a pot...

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awww yess, a time when women were women and men were estate agents and debt collectors.

[Patrick]

I was wondering what he was on about for a moment - - but you're not far out there - another article on the cases:

To find the actual whisky favoured by this ultimate man's man is one thing, to taste the essence of death-defying, pipe-smoking, god-among-men masculinity will be quite another. Extracting the whisky may not be as simple as it sounds as inevitably ice has got into the cases and broken at least some of the bottles, and if the corks have come into contact with the alcohol they will have degenerated. Hopes are high however as liquid can be heard sloshing about inside the boxes and the steady, if chilly, temperature should have helped to preserve the spirit

[riotgrrl]

Feb 5, 2010 13:32:23 GMT @tarzanontarmazepam said:

Wadda guy! He thought of everything didn't he? Perhaps somewhere they'll find a frozen brothel too. It was a man's world in those days when women did as they were told and I think we were better off for it.



Equality especially in the workplace I believe has been to our detriment. A woman's place is in the home...to heat the coals for the adventurer's return...a warm bath, warm hands, and a hot stew bubbling slowly in a pot...

It's such a shame - and, indeed, a great mystery - that you can't find a woman to share your vision with you.

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[tarzanontarmazepam]

Feb 5, 2010 15:34:41 GMT @riotgrrl said:

Feb 5, 2010 13:32:23 GMT @tarzanontarmazepam said:

Wadda guy! He thought of everything didn't he? Perhaps somewhere they'll find a frozen brothel too. It was a man's world in those days when women did as they were told and I think we were better off for it.



Equality especially in the workplace I believe has been to our detriment. A woman's place is in the home...to heat the coals for the adventurer's return...a warm bath, warm hands, and a hot stew bubbling slowly in a pot...

It's such a shame - and, indeed, a great mystery - that you can't find a woman to share your vision with you.

I'm not looking. And those I have found do not fit the bill.

They need to be,hard working, warm, sexy, attractive, a little adventurous (polite wording for a bit perverse), able to get on with my mother, kind, and indeed perhaps submissive...but above all patient.

Mum tends to audition them all quite adequately. She knows what's best.

She's out there somewhere.

[riotgrrl]

Feb 5, 2010 15:57:13 GMT @tarzanontarmazepam said:

Feb 5, 2010 15:34:41 GMT @riotgrrl said:

It's such a shame - and, indeed, a great mystery - that you can't find a woman to share your vision with you.

I'm not looking. And those I have found do not fit the bill.

They need to be,hard working, warm, sexy, attractive, a little adventurous (polite wording for a bit perverse), able to get on with my mother, kind, and indeed perhaps submissive...but above all patient.

Mum tends to audition them all quite adequately. She knows what's best.

She's out there somewhere.

I'm no psychiatrist, but it sounds to me that it's your Mum you want to marry really.

[riotgrrl]

As to liking my whisky with ice, I like 4 or 5 (depending on size) ice cubes in my single malt. Thanks. Nothing else. And not 3 ice cubes or 6 ice cubes either. I'm quite particular.

[tarzanontarmazepam]

Feb 5, 2010 17:14:32 GMT @riotgrrl said:

Feb 5, 2010 15:57:13 GMT @tarzanontarmazepam said:

I'm not looking. And those I have found do not fit the bill.

They need to be,hard working, warm, sexy, attractive, a little adventurous (polite wording for a bit perverse), able to get on with my mother, kind, and indeed perhaps submissive...but above all patient.

Mum tends to audition them all quite adequately. She knows what's best.

She's out there somewhere.

I'm no psychiatrist, but it sounds to me that it's your Mum you want to marry really.

You have no idea.

[Weyland]

Feb 5, 2010 17:15:43 GMT @riotgrrl said:

As to liking my whisky with ice, I like 4 or 5 (depending on size) ice cubes in my single malt. Thanks. Nothing else. And not 3 ice cubes or 6 ice cubes either. I'm quite particular.

I remember an inn near Pitlochry in the early '70s -- my then-wife's cousin owned it -- where I first tried a single malt, neat. And very nice it was too (Glenmorangie, but I've learned since).

Anyway, they had hundreds of Scotches to choose from. There was a jug full of clear liquid with ice-cubes on the bar, regularly topped up, which the locals would tip into their whiskies at will. Pure local spring water, I assumed, until I tasted it. Cold flat lemonade. I kid you not. Another illusion shattered.

I hardly drink spirits these days, but if pushed I would choose Lagavulin. No ice. No water. No lemonade.

[Weyland]

Feb 5, 2010 17:14:32 GMT @riotgrrl said:

I'm no psychiatrist, but it sounds to me that it's your Mum you want to marry really.

Pull yourself together, Riot. It's MAM, for God's sake.

[everso]

Feb 5, 2010 17:48:59 GMT Weyland said:

Feb 5, 2010 17:15:43 GMT @riotgrrl said:

As to liking my whisky with ice, I like 4 or 5 (depending on size) ice cubes in my single malt. Thanks. Nothing else. And not 3 ice cubes or 6 ice cubes either. I'm quite particular.

I remember an inn near Pitlochry in the early '70s -- my then-wife's cousin owned it -- where I first tried a single malt, neat. And very nice it was too (Glenmorangie, but I've learned since).

Anyway, they had hundreds of Scotches to choose from. There was a jug full of clear liquid with ice-cubes on the bar, regularly topped up, which the locals would tip into their whiskies at will. Pure local spring water, I assumed, until I tasted it. Cold flat lemonade. I kid you not. Another illusion shattered.

I hardly drink spirits these days, but if pushed I would choose Lagavulin. No ice. No water. No lemonade.

There's a distillery just outside Pitlochry and it's the smallest one in Scotland. The Edradour distillery. I bought a bottle of their finest and it was truly wonderful.

[everso]

Feb 5, 2010 15:57:13 GMT @tarzanontarmazepam said:

Feb 5, 2010 15:34:41 GMT @riotgrrl said:

It's such a shame - and, indeed, a great mystery - that you can't find a woman to share your vision with you.

I'm not looking. And those I have found do not fit the bill.

They need to be,hard working, warm, sexy, attractive, a little adventurous (polite wording for a bit perverse), able to get on with my mother, kind, and indeed perhaps submissive...but above all patient.

Mum tends to audition them all quite adequately. She knows what's best.

She's out there somewhere.

Your name's not really Norman Bates by any chance, is it?

[Weyland]

Feb 5, 2010 18:42:54 GMT everso said:

There's a distillery just outside Pitlochry and it's the smallest one in Scotland. The Edradour distillery. I bought a bottle of their finest and it was truly wonderful.

I was there last year, Ev! The lady I was with bought a bottle, and I got some whisky marmalade. Both delicious.

I wanted to buy a mug, but they don't sell them -- they give them away with coffee. Strange. So I bought a coffee . . .

[everso]

Excellent!!

Bloody nice whisky.