"Wayne Boatwright" > wrote in message
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> 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. :-)
>
> --
> Wayne Boatwright
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> Vegetables are the food of the earth; fruit seems more the food of
> the heavens. Sepal Felicivant
>
>
>

Although I 'do' sometimes answer to Gin, I prefer the Arabic
'djinn'.......indicating an evil or ****ed off spirit. If I hear anymore of
those thalidomide jokes it just may be put to the test.
-ginny