On Mon 03 Aug 2009 09:14:44a, pavane told us...

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> "brooklyn1" > wrote in message
> ...
>| "blake murphy" wrote:
>| > On Sun, 02 Aug 2009 11:49:48 -0400, Dave Smith wrote:
>| >
>| >> brooklyn1 wrote:
>| >>
>| >>>> It was developed by the
>| >>>> Brits when they were in India. The tonic (quinine water) was
>| >>>> thought to counter the malaria, and the gin made it tolerable to
>| >>>> drink.
>| >>>>
>| >>>>
>| >>> I can't agree with the "tolerable to drink" part, plenty of folks
>| >>> drink gin neat, in fact it's the only way to drink top shelf gin.
>| >>
>| >> The idea of adding the gin to the quinine was to make the quinine
>| >> tolerable.
>|
>| MYTH!
>|
>| > sheldon has reading comprehension problems.
>| >
>| >
>| My reading comprehension is a billion times better than yours, you
>| vulva faced ignorant mick...
>
> Do tell. Why don't you explain again why the already precooked ham
> has to be heated because it is uncooked?

ROTF!!!

It's too bad no one began keeping a record of such statemts of his. :-)

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Wayne Boatwright
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