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Default Some thoughts on Gin

On Mon 03 Aug 2009 02:08:44p, Dave Smith told us...

> Wayne Boatwright wrote:
>> On Mon 03 Aug 2009 09:14:44a, pavane told us...
>>
>>> "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. :-)
>>

>
> No mushrooms or cheese with seafood. So much for bonne femme sauce and
> Coquilles St. Jacques.
>


LOL!

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