Whisky Galore

[ionnsaigh]

We stayed at Carraig Fhada at the time - Singing Sands was a favorite spot. I remember hiring bicycles and cycling out past the Laphroaig Distillery. My sons bicycles chain snapped about Twelve miles outside Port Ellen.
I had to scooter like on the way back - covered in oil. We arrived back when the prince passed - the car slowed down as they passed. He was sitting in the back with two or three other people. We where a right site after a Twenty Four mile cycle. I remember him looking at me eye to eye - The strangest feeling washed over me - as if someone had walked over my grave. It took several glasses of Laphroaig to calm me down. Incidentally this has happened twice - the other time in Glasgow's George Square - I was demonstrating carrying a red flag - again the car slowed at the corner he pointed to the flag - then looked me in the eye. shiver shiver. Seven pints of McEwans
Heavy eased the pain.

[witchnettle]

my favourite whisky is Lagavulin, i love the peatyness of it, and a cheap alternative is White Horse, they use the lagavulin barrels to make White Horse in and it seems to have the same peatyness. But i find it really hard to get White Horse these days, (not that i am always searching for whisky), but i can't remember seeing it on any shelves of late.
x

[Govangirl]

We stayed at Carraig Fhada at the time - Singing Sands was a favorite spot. I remember hiring bicycles and cycling out past the Laphroaig Distillery. My sons bicycles chain snapped about Twelve miles outside Port Ellen.
I had to scooter like on the way back - covered in oil. We arrived back when the prince passed - the car slowed down as they passed. He was sitting in the back with two or three other people. We where a right site after a Twenty Four mile cycle. I remember him looking at me eye to eye - The strangest feeling washed over me - as if someone had walked over my grave. It took several glasses of Laphroaig to calm me down. Incidentally this has happened twice - the other time in Glasgow's George Square - I was demonstrating carrying a red flag - again the car slowed at the corner he pointed to the flag - then looked me in the eye. shiver shiver. Seven pints of McEwans
Heavy eased the pain.

When I grow up I'm going to make a film about this! Sure to take away the top prize at Cannes!!

[ionnsaigh]

Och a no - a should be oan the stage - it leaves in Five minutes - pulled by a White Horse.

[Muffinz]

is prince as short in reallife as he appears on MTV?

[ionnsaigh]

Aye - with a whiter shade of pale - awe the wee Emoticons are awe Chinese - naw darkies oan there. see whit a mean.
Poll Tax - a hivnae a bluddy clue - a went tae a widin weddin wance - Two Poles.

[petewick]

my favourite whisky is Lagavulin, i love the peatyness of it, and a cheap alternative is White Horse, they use the lagavulin barrels to make White Horse in and it seems to have the same peatyness. But i find it really hard to get White Horse these days, (not that i am always searching for whisky), but i can't remember seeing it on any shelves of late.
x

The reason you can't find it nowadays is because you arsed it all! x

[Sheik Yir Erse]

Slightly off thread, but hopefully it'll be permitted. One of my favourite jokes of all time:

A White Horse walk into a bar.
The barman takes a look at him and says "Hey, we've got a whisky named after you!"
And the horse says - "What ........ Eric?"

I know it's very old, and yes, I'll get ma jaiket

[UP THE ROAD]

Slightly off thread, but hopefully it'll be permitted. One of my favourite jokes of all time:

A White Horse walk into a bar.
The barman takes a look at him and says "Hey, we've got a whisky named after you!"
And the horse says - "What ........ Eric?"

I know it's very old, and yes, I'll get ma jaiket

Another one is a Horse walked into a bar and the Barman said to the Horse -Hey What's with the long face?

[EMDEE]

I had a very large Laphroaig tonight.

Believe it or not, I was addressing a haggis, and it is a lottery as regards what whisky you get in that situation. Tonight it was unmistakable-Laphroaig. As I said earlier, it smells like a wood fire and tastes of halogens. As soon as I smelled it, I thought again it was the most unmistakable whisky in the country, and it is so distinctive that it does not even taste like other whisky (As we know it). Compared to this, the popular blends really are “cooking whisky” this is not just whisky, it is wood, it is peat bog, it is sea, it is fire.

There is whisky and then there is Laphroaig.

In the vein of the last two posts:

Dog walks into the Wild West bar. One of his front legs is bandaged up.

He swaggers up to the bar, puts his two front legs on top of the bar, and says:

“Ah’m lookin’ for the guy that shot ma paw.”

[Bobbie En Tejas]

Laphroig is some good stuff..

[rtodd31]

[I'm glad you explained because folk will be thinking I'm drinking the hard stuff if I was asking how to do a quote box when it is already there

yipeeeeeeee i've been trying to do this for ages thanks govan girl i'm glad i wasn't the only one who didn't know how to do it quotes here we come

[ionnsaigh]

A think - aff goat it .