Scotch and the crazy Scots who drink it

rkottke · Post by **rkottke** » Mon Jul 12, 2004 11:18 am

jbarter wrote:Maybe that's why the Irish have an 'e' in whiskey, so the Scots can't sue them.

I have tried a number of Scotch whiskys and a number of Irish Whiskeys and I always thought the 'e' stood for excellance.

Snuh · Post by **Snuh** » Mon Jul 12, 2004 6:36 pm

I'll just stick with my good old Canadian rye whisky. Or whiskey. Or whatever.

Flyingcursor · Post by **Flyingcursor** » Tue Jul 13, 2004 7:30 am

Cyfiawnder wrote: The problem is there is Too many damn sue happy people! It's not the lawyers that caused the problem, they were just benifiting from it.

I agree wholeheartedly. If the judges didn't make such idiotic rulings the lawyers wouldn't persue the cases.
What ever happened to common sense?

OnTheMoor · Post by **OnTheMoor** » Tue Jul 13, 2004 8:44 am

geek4music wrote:
Cyfiawnder wrote:
What ever happened to common sense?

Too much Whisky.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Tue Jul 13, 2004 4:09 pm

Isn't the word "Glen" like the word "Whiskey" Gaelig, who then can lay claim to it?

The Feadog ...whatever remained very popular in Ireland when it had become virtualy unknown everywhere else in the British Isles, but it NEVER did enjoy much pupularity there anyway. The little Flute however is another story

The earliest TWs were made of Oat stalk. Nobody knows when that practice arose or where it came from, so the Scots could easily have inherited the custom along with the Bagpipes from the same ancestors. However, collected Scottish folk dance music shows little sign of Whistle much less the Flute, instead it looks like it was made for the Fiddle.

So if the Irish did not invent TW and TWing they sure as hell found a better use for it! See O Niell's 1001 tunes -

CHIFF FIPPLE · Post by **CHIFF FIPPLE** » Wed Jul 14, 2004 3:36 am

[quote="toasty"]Isn't the word "Glen" like the word "Whiskey" Gaelig, who then can lay claim to it?

The Feadog ...whatever remained very popular in Ireland when it had become virtualy unknown everywhere else in the British Isles, but it NEVER did enjoy much pupularity there anyway. The little Flute however is another story

[quote]
No Wiskey is not a Gaelic word, no words in Gaelic start with W
In Scots Gaelic we have the whistle as Feadag Feadan and Fead.
And --------- so when did Northen Ireland stop being part of the British Isles

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Wed Jul 14, 2004 4:30 am

CHIFF FIPPLE wrote:
toasty wrote:Isn't the word "Glen" like the word "Whiskey" Gaelig, who then can lay claim to it?

The Feadog ...whatever remained very popular in Ireland when it had become virtualy unknown everywhere else in the British Isles, but it NEVER did enjoy much pupularity there anyway. The little Flute however is another story

No Wiskey is not a Gaelic word, no words in Gaelic start with W
In Scots Gaelic we have the whistle as Feadag Feadan and Fead.
And --------- so when did Northen Ireland stop being part of the British Isles

Ulster ISN'T part of the UK - because it is not on 'that' island. It is on the island of Ireland allbeit occupied by the British Army and a few wankers who havn't the balls to do the right thing - gway hame..

dubhlinn · Post by **dubhlinn** » Wed Jul 14, 2004 4:44 am

Toasty, you really need to get your act together a bit more.
The "British Isles" is a geographical distinction as opposed to a political one and therefore Chiff Fipple is correct.
I hold very strong Republican beliefs but in this case I see nothing that offends those beliefs.

Slan,
D.