[TheForge] OT: Goats and Uisge

[Andrew Vida]

Jason Nass wrote:
> What a pleasant surprise... I was talking to a friend who needed a bit of
> computer work done, and jokingly said I'd do it for $800 an a bottle of
> decent scotch... well, I went over and cleaned her machine of numerous nasty
> pieces of spyware, and found that she had taken my joke seriously, and found
> she had bought a bottle of 14 yr. Oban single malt. A tad young for my
> taste, but I find Oban's 14 is easily on par with most other distillery's
> 18's. I also managed to wrangle a $20 for gas out of the deal. Mind you,
> with finances as they are, I could never justify buying a bottle of scotch
> for myself at the moment, but having one given to me was a rather welcome
> surprise. As for sticking with Irish whiskey, I have but this to say to you
> sir... It may have been the Irish who invented whiskey, but it took us scots
> to perfect it.

Oban and Balvenie are both very tasty offerings, especially for the 
money.  Used to get them for around $40, whereas I apid $160 for the 25 
year MacAllan at the FL ABC, which was by FAR the lowest price I'd ever 
found it.  I have heard it is now obscenely $$.  Used to get the Louis 
there for about $900, and that was about half of what it cost elsewhere.

Sunny and I (worked together in FL) used to hang at Mulvaney's in 
Orlando.  When one is away from home like that for better part of a 
year, bars tend to become hangouts for dopes such as myself.  God knows 
I could not get myself to go to a place like Disney even once, so we 
hung there, got to know the barkeeps really well, drank obscenely 
expensive stuff, smoked some truly fine cigars, and partook of their 
rather good kitchen perhaps two or three nights/week.  Their shepherd's 
pie was very, very good.

Last night on that job we went for broke and drank a WHOLE bottle of the 
Louis @ $85/shot.  Kelly, the barman, charged us for one each only that 
night.  I left him $100 tip that evening, given he gave us each about 
$1500 worth of drink according to his register.

I remember having work and money.  Yes... it was... *nice*. :)