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[CAJUNLAWYER]

Don't name your male child Courvoisier. It just looks funny on legal documents.

[Texas Star]

And "Hennesy" doesn't look much better.

BTW, I was once able to taste the wine they distil to make cognac. It's called pineau de charente and it was awful.

[Hobie1]

Originally Posted by CAJUNLAWYER

Don't name your male child Courvoisier. It just looks funny on legal documents.

You are amusing, counselor. If I had a newborn girl, I'd name her Brandy....
If a boy, I'd name him.....Jack.

Regards,

Hobie

[DeathGrip]

All the boys around the trailer park are named Bud for some reason.

[A10]

Is his sister named Latrina???

If he's doing time do they have him on ice?????

[Texas Star]

Originally Posted by Hobie1

You are amusing, counselor. If I had a newborn girl, I'd name her Brandy....
If a boy, I'd name him.....Jack.

Regards,

Hobie

What's the nme of that song where they sing, "Brandy, you're a fine girl..."?

BTW, cognac is just brandy distilled within a leglly defined zone in France and made to that standard. Prominent brands include Remy Martin, Hennesy, what the counselor said, and Martell. V.S.O.P. on the label supposedly means Very Special Old Pale. But why would they abb. this in English words?

South African brandy has a good rep, and the Christian Bros. used to make a good brandy in CA.

Besides cognac, France also makes Armagnac, if I spelled that right. I've never had any, but it's supposedly the next best thing to cognac.

A physician told me to quit drinking the occasional brandy, as it's "a potent bronchial irritant", and I have asthma. But when I drank it, Remy Martin was my favorite.

[DeathGrip]

Going way back.

There was a gal we all called "Schlitz".

[bluegrassarms]

Originally Posted by Texas Star

What's the nme of that song where they sing, "Brandy, you're a fine girl..."?

BTW, cognac is just brandy distilled within a leglly defined zone in France and made to that standard. Prominent brands include Remy Martin, Hennesy, what the counselor said, and Martell. V.S.O.P. on the label supposedly means Very Special Old Pale. But why would they abb. this in English words?

South African brandy has a good rep, and the Christian Bros. used to make a good brandy in CA.

Besides cognac, France also makes Armagnac, if I spelled that right. I've never had any, but it's supposedly the next best thing to cognac.

A physician told me to quit drinking the occasional brandy, as it's "a potent bronchial irritant", and I have asthma. But when I drank it, Remy Martin was my favorite.

I highly recommend the Armenian cognacs for any lover of the spirit. Ararat by Yerevan Brandy is available in the US, and a few others are out there as well. I recommend at least a 5 year but the older the better in general.

Guess you could name a girl Yerevan. Sounds kinda cool. Ararat not so much.

[kozmic]

You must be feeling particularly philanthropic today councilor. I was actually billed by my (former) attorney when I sought professional advice on naming my first born "Hooch".

[timn8er]

Originally Posted by Texas Star

What's the nme of that song where they sing, "Brandy, you're a fine girl..."?

BTW, cognac is just brandy distilled within a leglly defined zone in France and made to that standard. Prominent brands include Remy Martin, Hennesy, what the counselor said, and Martell. V.S.O.P. on the label supposedly means Very Special Old Pale. But why would they abb. this in English words?

South African brandy has a good rep, and the Christian Bros. used to make a good brandy in CA.

Besides cognac, France also makes Armagnac, if I spelled that right. I've never had any, but it's supposedly the next best thing to cognac.

A physician told me to quit drinking the occasional brandy, as it's "a potent bronchial irritant", and I have asthma. But when I drank it, Remy Martin was my favorite.

That WAS the title of the song, & it was performed by a group called Looking Glass.

[Autococker07]

Originally Posted by CAJUNLAWYER

Don't name your male child Courvoisier. It just looks funny on legal documents.

So it looks ok on non legal documents?

[jlrhiner]

Cognac. Excellent. If you need to strip wall paper or clean blackpowder fouling.

[bgrone]

Not to be rude, especially to a self-declared candidate for popedom, but isn't legal advice worth what you pay for it?

[mc5aw]

Originally Posted by bgrone

Not to be rude, especially to a self-declared candidate for popedom, but isn't legal advice worth what you pay for it?

"Free" legal advice is a bait & switch. We'll be getting billed for this thread, it's just a matter of time.

[yaktamer]

It's free, but he makes it up on volume.

[Pete99004]

Originally Posted by DeathGrip

Going way back.

There was a gal we all called "Schlitz".

DG - you got that one wrong - it was drink a 12 pack of Schlitz and call the gal "Beautiful".

Pete

[tork'd]

Originally Posted by Pete99004

DG - you got that one wrong - it was drink a 12 pack of Schlitz and call the gal "Beautiful".

Pete

but will she hear you from the outhouse?

[LazyKB]

What do you get if you distill Ripple?

[george minze]

I forget the exact name but I'll try...Abestine or or something like that..it was advertised in printed material...Supposadly you wern't supposed to be able to purchase in US....I had heard it was almost as strong as Ever-clear.....****mor had it that it had something in it that was or could be dangerous to drink.... Just curious I haven't seen the add for sometime.....It was in gun mags for years?????

[Hobie1]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Absinthe

I'll take a tot....

[CBus660R]

Originally Posted by george minze

I forget the exact name but I'll try...Abestine or or something like that..it was advertised in printed material...Supposadly you wern't supposed to be able to purchase in US....I had heard it was almost as strong as Ever-clear.....****mor had it that it had something in it that was or could be dangerous to drink.... Just curious I haven't seen the add for sometime.....It was in gun mags for years?????

The variety distilled with wormwood used to be unavailable in the US, but I've seen it on the shelves at my local liquor store the last few years. I've had some from France, it's sneaky. Doesn't taste/feel like 140 proof when you drink it, but it most certainly is!

[wbraswell]

It also sounds very sissy when pronounced correctly.

[charlie sherrill]

A friend's wife insisted they name their new boy kid Julian. I tried to talk him out of it. He lives in a very rural area with a rural school. I told him he better nickname him "Bubba" Or "J.T." (his middle name is Tyler) or the kids' gonna be fighting all the way through school. I call it the "Boy Named Sue" syndrome. She gets irritated with me when they visit and I call him "Julio." Think before you name your kid. Cutesy baby names and things you can't spell or pronounce will not help them as they grow older. Don't give a boy a girl name or a girl a boy name or for that matter a name that is used by either. Think about how that name will affect your child. I once knew a kid named Adolf back when I was in school and all the kids called him Hitler.

[carpriver]

Originally Posted by DeathGrip

Going way back.

There was a gal we all called "Schlitz".

There was a Mable also, Mable , Black Label.

[Jst1mr]

Originally Posted by CAJUNLAWYER

Don't name your male child Courvoisier. It just looks funny on legal documents.

See what happens when you just flop something like this down on the table........this thread has drifted like an iceberg in the north Atlantic!

[Texas Star]

Originally Posted by charlie sherrill

A friend's wife insisted they name their new boy kid Julian. I tried to talk him out of it. He lives in a very rural area with a rural school. I told him he better nickname him "Bubba" Or "J.T." (his middle name is Tyler) or the kids' gonna be fighting all the way through school. I call it the "Boy Named Sue" syndrome. She gets irritated with me when they visit and I call him "Julio." Think before you name your kid. Cutesy baby names and things you can't spell or pronounce will not help them as they grow older. Don't give a boy a girl name or a girl a boy name or for that matter a name that is used by either. Think about how that name will affect your child. I once knew a kid named Adolf back when I was in school and all the kids called him Hitler.

Charlie-

You're right to a degree, but have you seen, "A Bridge Too Far"? Remember the American major whose name was Julian? Played by Redford? A pretty tough guy, and I think Redford was playing a real man, as he did in, "Out of Africa", where he portrayed the real Denys Finch Hatton, a famous white hunter.

Giving a kid a name like Bubba or Billy Bob will limit where he can go in life. I know a retired educator, a college dean. He has had to use his initials lest his actual name seriously impede his career.

[rocketdog]

Talked to a guy named "Tranchilla." Like, "tarantula."

[shouldazagged]

Many years ago I knew a family who gave their son the legal first name "Smiley". By the time he was thirteen, when I met him, he appeared to have vowed never to smile again. He wore a perpetual scowl.

[arjay]

Originally Posted by george minze

I forget the exact name but I'll try...Abestine or or something like that..it was advertised in printed material...Supposadly you wern't supposed to be able to purchase in US....I had heard it was almost as strong as Ever-clear.....****mor had it that it had something in it that was or could be dangerous to drink.... Just curious I haven't seen the add for sometime.....It was in gun mags for years?????

Absinthe,the original stuff was distilled from wormwood,I don't think the new stuff is.My father told me a few stories that occurred in Europe in the 30s.Finished up by telling me it made people crazy

[zoom6zoom]

Originally Posted by LazyKB

What do you get if you distill Ripple?

In the US... Arrested.

[bigolddave]

Absinthe makes the mind go wander.

[bluegrassarms]

Originally Posted by CBus660R

The variety distilled with wormwood used to be unavailable in the US, but I've seen it on the shelves at my local liquor store the last few years. I've had some from France, it's sneaky. Doesn't taste/feel like 140 proof when you drink it, but it most certainly is!

The Green Fairy! Did you care for it at all? I've never had it, very curious.

From what I've read it's been legal for a long time by technicality (see below) even though "banned", but it was perceived as nearly a poison and banned so it just wasn't sold.

the loophole is that the ban is on "thujone" from wormwood, but the limit wasn't zero, it was set at so many parts per million. That limit is actually higher than the thujone content in most absinthes. Even most pre-ban absinthes would be legal under the existing standard. Not all, but most.

Absinthe got a bad wrap from the massive consumption in France in the late 1800s and early 1900s but historical research has shown that the hallucinogenic effects and other issues attributed to it were probably not from the wormwood or part of the absinthe itself. Even pre-ban versions rarely had enough thujone to induce an effect. Youd' have died from alcohol poisoning first. The evidence suggests it was a combination of high alcohol content, street brands that were cut with dangerous chemicals (like street drugs are done today) and a very few with high wormwood content.

It was so popular and strong it ended up like moonshine where someone would make it with the wrong metal and people would go blind, but these were cut with poisons that killed or caused hallucinations. Only takes a few of those things happening for the stories to become widespread. Add in the 140 proof and you have to have had some interesting parties.

[george minze]

Originally Posted by Hobie1

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Absinthe

I'll take a tot....

You are right more than I need to know...However I found it very interesting.......It certainaly had it's proponets and it's detracters...That alone makes it interesting.......Now reaching 75 I just might try it as what the heck if it don't kill me it sure isn't going to hurt me any more tha nature is trying to do.......Thanks for the info..

[CBus660R]

Originally Posted by bluegrassarms

The Green Fairy! Did you care for it at all? I've never had it, very curious.

I only had one small glass and didn't do the water over a sugar cube deal, just drank it neat, but I liked it. It did not feel like 140 proof going down. One of these days I'm gonna pick up a bottle and some sugar cubes and channel my inner Hemingway.

[shouldazagged]

Originally Posted by LazyKB

What do you get if you distill Ripple?

Boiler cleaner.

[Erich]

I have a Courvoisier who's a witness in a case I have on appeal.

[Straightshooter2]

Originally Posted by LazyKB

What do you get if you distill Ripple?

Originally Posted by zoom6zoom

In the US... Arrested.

I was going to say the death penalty!

CW

[Ethang]

What about Orangejello, Lemonjello or my favorite La-sha?