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LUVMBDiesels · #1 01-10-2009, 08:13 PM

I just want to take a minute to say that this place is really great.
Every day there is more and more for me here.
Where else could you have a discussion about your favorite songs, b*tch about politics, talk about locomotives, and find out the *best* oil for my Mercedes? No matter what the topic somebody is out there willing to talk back about it.

We have really created on online village here.

The Clk Man · #2 01-10-2009, 08:24 PM

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Originally Posted by LUVMBDiesels

I just want to take a minute to say that this place is really great.
Every day there is more and more for me here.
Where else could you have a discussion about your favorite songs, b*tch about politics, talk about locomotives, and find out the *best* oil for my Mercedes? No matter what the topic somebody is out there willing to talk back about it.

We have really created on online village here.

And as a newbie here, I am glad to be a minor part of it.

MS Fowler · #3 01-10-2009, 08:42 PM

"It takes a village"

The Clk Man · #4 01-10-2009, 08:43 PM

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Originally Posted by MS Fowler

"It takes a village"

To raise a Drunk?

al76slc · #5 01-10-2009, 09:12 PM

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Originally Posted by MS Fowler

"It takes a village"

It takes a village idiot.

Hatterasguy · #6 01-10-2009, 09:23 PM

I spend way to much time here. But its the best waste of time I have found so far!

Anyone ever drink a Canadian Whiskey called "Canadian club"? I got cheap today and insted of coughing up $50 for a good handle of vodka bought a $20 handle of what I suspect is bum whiskey. Its not as sweet as VO, but still smooth. Just wondering if I should expect a crazy hangover....I have a beer stein half full of the stuff I'm working on...

LUVMBDiesels · #7 01-10-2009, 09:30 PM

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Originally Posted by Hatterasguy

I spend way to much time here. But its the best waste of time I have found so far!

Anyone ever drink a Canadian Whiskey called "Canadian club"? I got cheap today and insted of coughing up $50 for a good handle of vodka bought a $20 handle of what I suspect is bum whiskey. Its not as sweet as VO, but still smooth. Just wondering if I should expect a crazy hangover....I have a beer stein half full of the stuff I'm working on...

Anybody with over 18000 posts IS spending way too much time here

CC was a very popular brand from the 1930's to the 1970's. For what it's worth, I like it, but then again I like the Jets! It has never given me a wicked hangover,but then I never killed the bottle in one shot either. Only used to to that with Vodka

Hatterasguy · #8 01-10-2009, 09:33 PM

Meh open discussion is crazy, you wouldn't believe the BS I used to have to put up with. Thankfully its really calmed down lately.

Thats where my post count comes from, before they stopped counting.

Fulcrum525 · #9 01-10-2009, 09:35 PM

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Originally Posted by Hatterasguy

I spend way to much time here. But its the best waste of time I have found so far!

Anyone ever drink a Canadian Whiskey called "Canadian club"? I got cheap today and insted of coughing up $50 for a good handle of vodka bought a $20 handle of what I suspect is bum whiskey. Its not as sweet as VO, but still smooth. Just wondering if I should expect a crazy hangover....I have a beer stein half full of the stuff I'm working on...

Hatterasguy.....always drinking something mourning, noon and night.

LUVMBDiesels · #10 01-10-2009, 09:40 PM

I start this thread and it morphs into a discussion of whiskey, then into a discussion of Hattie's drinking habits. I love it!

Hatterasguy · #11 01-10-2009, 09:55 PM

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Originally Posted by Fulcrum525

Hatterasguy.....always drinking something mourning, noon and night.

I'm a thirsty guy!

pastmaster · #12 01-12-2009, 01:00 AM

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Originally Posted by Hatterasguy

I spend way to much time here. But its the best waste of time I have found so far!

Anyone ever drink a Canadian Whiskey called "Canadian club"? I got cheap today and insted of coughing up $50 for a good handle of vodka bought a $20 handle of what I suspect is bum whiskey. Its not as sweet as VO, but still smooth. Just wondering if I should expect a crazy hangover....I have a beer stein half full of the stuff I'm working on...

This is a good place to learn about Mercedes-Benz's, good and evil points, as well as life's experiences too.

You have discovered Canadian Club Whisky, eh? It's says Canadian Blended Rye Whisky, on the label, but it is as American, as the "Small-Block Chevy!"

It's distilled in Walkerville, Ontario, by Hiram Walker Co., and was originally an American made Whisky. It moved from Detroit, to escape the Vollstedt Act, Prohibition as it was more commonly known, and made there since. It was legal for export purposes from Canada, but not legal to be imorrted into the USA. This caused a new class of "boot-legger," to be born. Anyone who had a fast boat would make a quick trip to Windsor, for a midnight run, and make some illegal money. Thje cops couldn't keep up with speedboats and was usually pretty safe way of making money, until the Fed's, started shooting. There is so much whisky that was thrown over the side into the Detroit River, you could almost walk over to Detroit on the whisky cases, and not touch bottom. My step-grandfather was a boot-legger and ran a "family oriented, Blind-Pig," in those years. I heard this from him and my step-dad.

The quality of the Whisky, is top class! The price is excellent for what you are buying. I drink it by choice! I like it on ice, neat or with a little water or Vernor's Ginger Ale, another Detroit born soft-drink. I also like it as a "shot and a beer wash, libation, it really quenches a dry thirst after a hard day of physical work. It was a popular drink for the Auto Workers, after work, when they stopped for a drink or two, before going home to Supper and Family, or before going to work.

My family and I owned a Bar & Grill in Ann Arbor, MI. A college town and not a factory town. It was popular there too. When ordering one, it was called a CC with water, or a CC with a beer wash. If you called it by name, it brought attention to yourself, as being a stranger in the Detroit area.

I haven't had a CC, in a while. I think that I will "Strike a blow for Liberty," tomorrow.

Zeus · #13 01-12-2009, 11:39 AM

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Originally Posted by Hatterasguy

I spend way to much time here. But its the best waste of time I have found so far!

Anyone ever drink a Canadian Whiskey called "Canadian club"? I got cheap today and insted of coughing up $50 for a good handle of vodka bought a $20 handle of what I suspect is bum whiskey. Its not as sweet as VO, but still smooth. Just wondering if I should expect a crazy hangover....I have a beer stein half full of the stuff I'm working on...

Yep, great forum, been here a while!

Hattie - one of my first and worst hangovers came from drinking an entire bottle of CC that was given to me as a gift from a girl at a high school party around Christmas time. She gave me the bottle at the party, and with the mistaken sense of invulnerability that youth gives you, I downed the bottle over the course of the next couple of hours. Things went bad fast after that.

I still have trouble smelling CC today.

It's good whisky though. It's a 'Canadian' rye whisky in the sense that it's a multi-grain blended whisky. Hiram Walker started the distillery, as someone else already posted, near Windsor, ON due to prohibition. It has an interesting history.

Another popular and decent whisky is Crown Royal. Sometimes comes wrapped in a purple velvet bag, which incidentally is the best marble bag a kid can own.

I'm not a big fan of Canadian whisky, though I'll drink it with ginger ale. I'll stick to my scotch, thanks.