I know what im getting myself for my 23rd birthday then. Cant for my 22nd because i'll be in the last two weeks or so of my cadet period before becoming a private :)

Scotch is the only way to fly. Johnny Walker Blended Scotch Whiskey just makes my day.

XabbaRus if your planning the 3rd Jacobite rising good luck to you. :)

Indeed, Black Label is my usualy whisky of choise, great taste for a great price. Though generaly i prefer Irish and Islay malts.

Talisker for me please :up:

As for this story, after 30 years as a manager at J&B my dad will be livid.

I second that! Sashimi is even better!

-S

All loyalty to the King of France! Oh wait, there is no more king of france! :hmm: Uhhh.... How about all loyalty to subman1 of America??!!! Yeah, thats the ticket! :smug:

-S

An elderly English gentleman of 83 arrived in Paris by plane.

At the French immigration desk, the man took a few minutes to locate his passport in his carry-on bag.

"You have been to France before, monsieur?" the Immigration officer asked, sarcastically.

The elderly gentleman admitted he had been to France previously.

"Then you should know well enough to have your passport ready."

The English gentleman says, "The last time I was here, I didn't have to show it."

"Impossible. All Englishmen have to show their passports on arrival in France !"

The elderly gentleman gave the French Immigration Officer a long hard look.

Then he quietly explained.

"Well, the last time I was here, I came ashore on Juno Beach on D- Day in June 1944, and I couldn't find any fecking Frenchmen to show it to"

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No use to me as I don't drink!:doh:

As for the Japanese whipping Scotland, you have to remember that "Scotch" can only be made in Scotland. It's the same as all the difference between Champagne and "sparkling wine". Champagne can only bear that name if it comes from the grapes and wineries of the Champagne region of France. So that contest was bogus! :stare:

Besides, over half the judges were probably limeys anyways. :p

No, the yearly contest is about "single malts", and other destillations and mixtures, note they also voted a best Blend. And that both are not exclusive Scottish labels, but simple describe the number of destillation cycles. Most Irish whiskys are destilled three times, and thus most of them are said to be much milder than Scotch. I tried only a few Irish ones, but they were much milder than any Scotch I ever had indeed. Jameson 1780 I liked best, its the only one that kept on my memory.

The German article where I read about it said the Japanese man producing Yoichi came to Europe and studied here, and raised a fascination for Scotch. He went to Scotland and learned and absorbed everything he could learn about Scotch. He married a Scottish girl, I think she too was from a family associated with whisky-production. He packed together all the info he could get and his wife, went back to Japan, and started to destill himself. In other words: the Scots were beaten by their own knowledge, so to speak. :lol:

Never allow Japanese to have a look inside. First they copy it - than they improve it! :lol: It was like this with cars. With cameras. With consumer electronics...

They may take our whisky, but they'll never take our Irn-Bru!

There's a wonderful (and SUBSIM-relevant) moment in a much-maligned film, Spielberg's 1941.
A Japanese submarine officer is manhandling a large radio down the conning tower hatch, without much success. He mutters to himself, "We've got to find a way to make these things smaller.."

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And don't like whisky. I prefer brandys and conhacs!:lol: