[lit-ideas] Re: St. Andrew's Speech
- From: wokshevs@xxxxxx
- To: David Ritchie <ritchierd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 9 Dec 2008 18:23:40 -0330
Of the 356 single malts known to noumenal and sublunary beings, none of them
attain their peak nosing and tasting qualities without a small infusion of
spring water. This is a T claim and few such claims are able to attain the
degree of certainty possessed by this one. (Trust me on that.) Should Michael
Jackson disagree - not THAT Michael Jackson - I would be willing to debate the
matter in open forum with him or any of his disciples - under idealized,
counterfactual conditions of discourse - at a venue of his own choosing, at a
high noon of his own preference. Na zdarovye, tovarish.
Walter O.
Glenmorangie Professor of Phenomenological Spirits
Department of Transcendental Philosophy
University of Edinburgh, Scotland
Quoting David Ritchie <ritchierd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>
> On Nov 30, 2008, at 11:45 AM, wokshevs@xxxxxx wrote:
> > Exactly what do you all
> > do the toasting WITH? Perchance a touch of the Highlands, dare we
> > say? Or arre
> > ye all more of the Skye perrsuasion? Surely not the Lo'lands. We're
> > not
> > Brrritish after all, even if God chose to give us a boundarry with
> > them
> > people.
> >
> > Vladsimir Mihailovitch Gavrilov Okshevsky
> > First Bagpipe Player
> > Soviet and Scots Army Chorus and Band
> >
> You have touched a raw or sore point. In prior years there have been
> whisky tastings associated with the dinner, for FREE, which of course
> draws in the Scots. Not so, this year alas. The only hooch I
> touched--being in charge of an event does take some of the wildness
> out of it--was what they handed me when I toasted the haggis and
> that, horror of horrors, though a single malt, had to be dispatched
> (or so the piper said) in one gulp and without benefit of water.
>
> Slan-ge-vah, or as it's written, "slainte." Maybe there'll be
> occasion for a drop this evening.
>
> David Ritchie,
> celebrating the many lands which honor St. Andrew, Russia clearly
> among the foremost
>
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