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Alan J Rosenthal
Jan 23, 2012, 6:23:22 PM1/23/12
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I'm home from work already, because for slightly-complex reasons I got
permission to work from home today. I don't do this very much because it
often doesn't work out well -- too many distractions -- but I actually got
a full day's work in today as it turned out.
And I'm just starting to sip a shot from a bottle which we inexplicably won in
the fund-raiser raffle two days ago. Last year I mentioned the celebration
of "the nearest Saturday to the anniversary of Robbie Burns's birthday".
This year they had an alternate celebration, which was "the Saturday which is
the second-nearest to the anniversary of Robbie Burns's birthday". It turns
out that this alternate celebration is basically the same kind of event.
Raffle tickets were $10, but EEM wanted to buy one because it was a
fund-raiser. And the three other couples at our table all left before the
draw, so we had four tickets, one of which won.
EEM let me choose the bottle because she was equally uninterested in all of
the four choices. I accepted the recommendation of someone who was discussing
it with her before I came up to the front of the room, which was ten-year-old
Ardbeg.
http://lcbo.ca/lcbo-ear/lcbo/product/searchResults.do?ITEM_NAME=ARDBEG
shows that it's rather expensive stuff. And that price ($100) is for the
750 ml bottle, whereas this is the litre bottle.
(I'd point you to http://www.ardbeg.com , but it makes you fill out a small
form to enter.)
EEM took a sip, and her evaluation was "Yuck!"
All the more for me...
My oh my, this is awfully good stuff. Each sip just fills my mouth and nose
with peaty goodness. Too bad it isn't going to last long. I'll do my best to
stretch it out.
permission to work from home today. I don't do this very much because it
often doesn't work out well -- too many distractions -- but I actually got
a full day's work in today as it turned out.
And I'm just starting to sip a shot from a bottle which we inexplicably won in
the fund-raiser raffle two days ago. Last year I mentioned the celebration
of "the nearest Saturday to the anniversary of Robbie Burns's birthday".
This year they had an alternate celebration, which was "the Saturday which is
the second-nearest to the anniversary of Robbie Burns's birthday". It turns
out that this alternate celebration is basically the same kind of event.
Raffle tickets were $10, but EEM wanted to buy one because it was a
fund-raiser. And the three other couples at our table all left before the
draw, so we had four tickets, one of which won.
EEM let me choose the bottle because she was equally uninterested in all of
the four choices. I accepted the recommendation of someone who was discussing
it with her before I came up to the front of the room, which was ten-year-old
Ardbeg.
http://lcbo.ca/lcbo-ear/lcbo/product/searchResults.do?ITEM_NAME=ARDBEG
shows that it's rather expensive stuff. And that price ($100) is for the
750 ml bottle, whereas this is the litre bottle.
(I'd point you to http://www.ardbeg.com , but it makes you fill out a small
form to enter.)
EEM took a sip, and her evaluation was "Yuck!"
All the more for me...
My oh my, this is awfully good stuff. Each sip just fills my mouth and nose
with peaty goodness. Too bad it isn't going to last long. I'll do my best to
stretch it out.
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Howard S Shubs
Jan 24, 2012, 2:14:32 AM1/24/12
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In article <2012Jan23.1...@jarvis.cs.toronto.edu>,
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Life is 100% fatal. Ban it.
fl...@dgp.toronto.edu (Alan J Rosenthal) wrote:
> My oh my, this is awfully good stuff. Each sip just fills my mouth and nose
> with peaty goodness. Too bad it isn't going to last long. I'll do my best to
> stretch it out.
It's okay, they've made more!
> My oh my, this is awfully good stuff. Each sip just fills my mouth and nose
> with peaty goodness. Too bad it isn't going to last long. I'll do my best to
> stretch it out.
--
Don't bother with piddly crap like "gun control".
Life is 100% fatal. Ban it.
TimC
Jan 24, 2012, 2:09:43 AM1/24/12
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On 2012-01-23, Alan J Rosenthal (aka Bruce)
was almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea:
Alas, it's the wrong time of year here, so I'll have to settle with a
bottle of summer ale instead. I might have to go home via a bottle
shop though, because the fridge is merely full of porters and stouts.
Try the other Islays now (pity shipping from the Whisky Castle was so
expensive and my panniers were full). All of the rest of the Scotchs
from elsewhere aren't worth wasting your time on though <gd&r>
--
TimC
I have something exactly like that! Except, mine's completely
different!
was almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea:
> EEM let me choose the bottle because she was equally uninterested in all of
> the four choices. I accepted the recommendation of someone who was discussing
> it with her before I came up to the front of the room, which was ten-year-old
> Ardbeg.
...
> the four choices. I accepted the recommendation of someone who was discussing
> it with her before I came up to the front of the room, which was ten-year-old
> Ardbeg.
> EEM took a sip, and her evaluation was "Yuck!"
> All the more for me...
>
> My oh my, this is awfully good stuff. Each sip just fills my mouth and nose
> with peaty goodness. Too bad it isn't going to last long. I'll do my best to
> stretch it out.
+1 *like*. That would be a nice thing to accidentally come across.
> All the more for me...
>
> My oh my, this is awfully good stuff. Each sip just fills my mouth and nose
> with peaty goodness. Too bad it isn't going to last long. I'll do my best to
> stretch it out.
Alas, it's the wrong time of year here, so I'll have to settle with a
bottle of summer ale instead. I might have to go home via a bottle
shop though, because the fridge is merely full of porters and stouts.
Try the other Islays now (pity shipping from the Whisky Castle was so
expensive and my panniers were full). All of the rest of the Scotchs
from elsewhere aren't worth wasting your time on though <gd&r>
--
TimC
I have something exactly like that! Except, mine's completely
different!
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stevo
Jan 24, 2012, 7:14:29 PM1/24/12
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Alan J Rosenthal <fl...@dgp.toronto.edu> wrote:
>
> http://lcbo.ca/lcbo-ear/lcbo/product/searchResults.do?ITEM_NAME=ARDBEG
> shows that it's rather expensive stuff. And that price ($100) is for the
> 750 ml bottle, whereas this is the litre bottle.
> (I'd point you to http://www.ardbeg.com , but it makes you fill out a small
> form to enter.)
>
> EEM took a sip, and her evaluation was "Yuck!"
> All the more for me...
>
> My oh my, this is awfully good stuff. Each sip just fills my mouth and nose
> with peaty goodness. Too bad it isn't going to last long. I'll do my best to
> stretch it out.
I highly recommend Ardbeg [1]. I always have a bottle on the whisky
>
> http://lcbo.ca/lcbo-ear/lcbo/product/searchResults.do?ITEM_NAME=ARDBEG
> shows that it's rather expensive stuff. And that price ($100) is for the
> 750 ml bottle, whereas this is the litre bottle.
> (I'd point you to http://www.ardbeg.com , but it makes you fill out a small
> form to enter.)
>
> EEM took a sip, and her evaluation was "Yuck!"
> All the more for me...
>
> My oh my, this is awfully good stuff. Each sip just fills my mouth and nose
> with peaty goodness. Too bad it isn't going to last long. I'll do my best to
> stretch it out.
shelf for emergencies, which seem to happen regurlarly on a Friday
night.
[1] I have been told it's pronounced "Arrvvvveg...give me another one"
--
Stevo st...@madcelt.org
Alan J Rosenthal
Jan 24, 2012, 8:46:44 PM1/24/12
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ab...@leftmind.net (AdB) writes:
>Alan J Rosenthal posted thus:
I'm not sure your participation would help it last longer!
>And somehow (Mc)SWMBO keeps forgetting to find a Burns dinner to
>attend. Really ought to, oneday.
The one to which I am indirectly associated is very likely next to be on
26 January 2013. I'll try to remember to alert you two in time! Tickets
have to be purchased in advance. (I don't want to disclose my exact town
of abode in usenet news.)
>Alan J Rosenthal posted thus:
>>Too bad it isn't going to last long. I'll do my best to stretch it out.
>
>If it's a problem I could most certainly come over and help!
>
I'm not sure your participation would help it last longer!
>And somehow (Mc)SWMBO keeps forgetting to find a Burns dinner to
>attend. Really ought to, oneday.
The one to which I am indirectly associated is very likely next to be on
26 January 2013. I'll try to remember to alert you two in time! Tickets
have to be purchased in advance. (I don't want to disclose my exact town
of abode in usenet news.)
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Lionel
Jan 28, 2012, 3:23:53 PM1/28/12
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On Mon, 23 Jan 2012 23:23:22 +0000, Alan J Rosenthal wrote:
[...]
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W
. | , w , "Some people are alive only because
\|/ \|/ it is illegal to kill them." Perna condita delenda est
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> EEM took a sip, and her evaluation was "Yuck!" All the more for me...
>
> My oh my, this is awfully good stuff. Each sip just fills my mouth and
> nose with peaty goodness. Too bad it isn't going to last long. I'll do
> my best to stretch it out.
Sounds like a win in every possible way. ;^)
>
> My oh my, this is awfully good stuff. Each sip just fills my mouth and
> nose with peaty goodness. Too bad it isn't going to last long. I'll do
> my best to stretch it out.
--
W
. | , w , "Some people are alive only because
\|/ \|/ it is illegal to kill them." Perna condita delenda est
---^---^---------------------------------------------------------------
Ignatios Souvatzis
Feb 7, 2012, 4:23:25 AM2/7/12
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AdB wrote:
> Alan J Rosenthal posted thus:
> Alan J Rosenthal posted thus:
>>My oh my, this is awfully good stuff. Each sip just fills my mouth and nose
>>with peaty goodness. Too bad it isn't going to last long. I'll do my best to
>>stretch it out.
>
>>with peaty goodness. Too bad it isn't going to last long. I'll do my best to
>>stretch it out.
>
> If it's a problem I could most certainly come over and help!
>
> I'm very much partial to smoky/peaty Islay malts and similar good stuff,
>
YKYHBHTLW you read Islay and try to pig-decode it.
-is
TimC
Feb 8, 2012, 6:55:01 PM2/8/12
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On 2012-02-07, Ignatios Souvatzis (aka Bruce)
Seriously? You haven't been here long enough if you didn't already
know what an Islay was!
--
TimC
The sooner you fall behind, the more time you'll have to catch up
was almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea:
know what an Islay was!
--
TimC
The sooner you fall behind, the more time you'll have to catch up
Seth
Feb 10, 2012, 12:07:53 AM2/10/12
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In article <2012Jan23.1...@jarvis.cs.toronto.edu>,
Seth
>EEM let me choose the bottle because she was equally uninterested in all of
>the four choices. I accepted the recommendation of someone who was discussing
>it with her before I came up to the front of the room, which was ten-year-old
>Ardbeg.
If you can find it (good luck!) try Ardbeg Rollercoaster.
>the four choices. I accepted the recommendation of someone who was discussing
>it with her before I came up to the front of the room, which was ten-year-old
>Ardbeg.
Seth
Ignatios Souvatzis
Feb 10, 2012, 11:40:07 AM2/10/12
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TimC wrote:
> On 2012-02-07, Ignatios Souvatzis (aka Bruce)
> was almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea:
> On 2012-02-07, Ignatios Souvatzis (aka Bruce)
> was almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea:
>> YKYHBHTLW you read Islay and try to pig-decode it.
>
> Seriously? You haven't been here long enough if you didn't already
> know what an Islay was!
I don't care enough to flush my workplace memory with $maltproduct
>
> Seriously? You haven't been here long enough if you didn't already
> know what an Islay was!
in the evening. But I would have recognized Islay as such, only
for some split-seconds, the happy memories of setenv LANG pig in
the olden days of NetBSD[1] interfered.
[1] I think the new locale stuff lost it some years ago. Wait...
|marie is 106% setenv LC_ALL Pig
|marie is 107% ls /nother
|ls: /nother: Onay uchsay ilefay orway irectoryday
No, it didn't.
-is
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