Re: not Celts - North Britons
Paul Kennedy (kennedyp@toronto.cbc.ca)
Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:39:28 -0400 (EDT)
Glenlivet, Scottie, is 100% Canadian (check the flag they fly outside the
distillery....) for which fact I humbly apologize....
Lagavulin is another matter (and more, I would have thought, to your
elevated tastes....)
But I'll reply at greater length tomorrow, after I've attended my daughter's
graduation from Grade 8....
Cheers, (with some fluid from Islay.... and certainly nothing less--let
alone that abomination called Glenlivet!)
Paul
> '... I guess it's the Scots/Irish in me. [.....] Hugh Maclennan
> .... once penned a line I almost live by:
> "To be a Celt is never to be far from tears" ...'
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> I'm only too familiar with the Irish predeliction for
> sodden touchy-feeliness but I do wish Paul would refrain
> from tainting my own people by association with it.
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> A Scot sheds tears in only two situations: when he sees
> yet another ship load of bog trotters arriving at the
> Broomielaw from Dublin; & when he watches his last bottle
> of Glenlivet sliding off the table & smashing on the floor
> of the croft.
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> Scottie B.
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