"Peter Aitken" > wrote in news:gFKIf.29030$%84.527
@tornado.southeast.rr.com:

> "Seamus" > wrote in message
> oups.com...
>>
>> Kate Connally wrote:
>>> Did anyone see the an episode of Boston Legal a week or
>>> 2 ago where James Spader's and William Shatner's characters
>>> are having their traditional end of episode drinks and
>>> cigars on the balcony and James Spader takes a sip of
>>> the drink Shatner gave him and makes a face or says something
>>> (can't remember exactly) to indicate it's not very good
>>> and Shatner says, "Diet Scotch". If I had just taken a
>>> sip of scotch I would have sprayed it everywhere. I thought
>>> that was hilarious. I still think of it and chuckle every
>>> so often. What a concept. I don't suppose there really
>>> is such a thing, is there? I wouldn't put it past someone
>>> to actually do it.
>>>
>>> Kate
>> I don't know how anyone could come up with a "diet" Scotch - given
that
>> almost all the calories are from alchohol. Besides reducing the proof,
>> that is.
>>
>
> It was a JOKE fer crying out loud.


Right, a tongue in cheek way of not saying "it's the cheap stuff."

Andy