[SOC] Drinks that are Qualified for SOC

Tue Oct 4 01:05:06 EDT 2011

I recommend gasoline, hi test, and for whimps.... coal oil.

Charles Harpole k4vud at hotmail.com 

> From: n7xy at clearwire.net
> Date: Mon, 3 Oct 2011 19:08:08 -0700
> To: soc at mailman.qth.net
> Subject: Re: [SOC] Are You Qualified for SOC?
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> Thinking about this again, it was Pernod Ricard which bought out Allied Domecq (which at the time owned Dunkin' Donuts and Baskin-Robbins, later spun off).
> 
> On Oct 3, 2011, at 3:36 PM, Bob Nielsen wrote:
> 
> > Oh, you are making me thirsty,
> > 
> > I have a bottle of Pernod here which is 40%. Perhaps it has changed over the years. Maybe I should only cut it at 4:1 to compensate (actually I never measure, just pour),
> > 
> > Several years ago I had some Pernod Ricard stock. I only had it for a few months until they were bought out but I made ~50% profit.
> > 
> > 73, Bob N7XY
> > SOC #77
> > 
> > On Oct 3, 2011, at 3:25 PM, john bell wrote:
> > 
> >> Absinthe was a problem in France so the French Government outlawed it. A 
> >> certain Mr Pernod eventually went to the government and suggested that 
> >> if he made a weaker solution and called it something else perhaps they 
> >> could legalise his new drink. They agreed and Pernod at 45% was born.
> >> In the UK Absinthe was never a problem so they never declared it 
> >> illegal, and it is still legal now. The fact is nobody drinks it.
> >> The popular aniseed drinks in France are Ricard, 51, and other cheaper 
> >> supermarket ones (which I'm drinking at this moment). 40% and 45% proof 
> >> are available here, both disgusting without water added at 5:1 or 
> >> thereabouts.
> >> 
> >> Slurp slurp
> >> 
> >> 73/51 John
> >> 
> >> On 04/10/2011 00:00, KD7JYK DM09 wrote:
> >>> "I am told the real stuff ( very hard to obtain) still has Wormwood in
> >>> it but if you like that sot of thing Try Pastis,Ouzo,or some such
> >>> aniseed flavoured spirit.I am told the original was somewhat mind
> >>> bending I a, sure that I only have had a pale imitation"
> >>> 
> >>> Actually, they all have wormwood in them, some more than others. Mind
> >>> bending? No, never was, other than the alcohol, the wormwood was a bad
> >>> rumor. About 120 years ago or so, some twit went on a bender, drank
> >>> everything in sight and went on a murderous rampage. Investigators
> >>> discovered the clown had drunk everything he could find, including Absinthe.
> >>> Several days, maybe even weeks after the fact, a newspaper ran an article
> >>> explaining that the Absinthe was the cause. It could have just as well be
> >>> red wine, white wine, whiskey, or nothing at all that caused the guy to go
> >>> overboard, but the newspaper, having little information and not being part
> >>> of the investigation, focused on the Absinthe. The story grew to the point
> >>> that until 1990 Absinthe was illegal in every country except Czechoslovakia.
> >>> Why not there? Because they had an entirely different liquor by that name.
> >>> Years ago, several bottles of "original" Absinthe was obtained by several
> >>> liquor producers and analyzed. Not surprisingly the amount of wormwood
> >>> varied from little to none at all.
> >>> 
> >>> There IS something FAR more deadly in Absinthe, DHMO:
> >>> 
> >>> http://www.lhup.edu/~dsimanek/dhmo.htm
> >>> 
> >>> Kurt
> >>> 
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