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   Thomas Prufer to Don Freeman   
   Re: Tapping The Admiral from 1873   
   22 Feb 24 09:16:27   
   
   From: prufer.public@mnet-online.de.invalid   
      
   On Wed, 21 Feb 2024 17:01:52 -0700, Don Freeman  wrote:   
      
   >On 2/19/2024 1:16 AM, Pluted Pup wrote:   
   >>   
   >> Spotted a Tapping The Admiral from 1873:   
   >>   
   >> "Why, sir, I've heard of sailers so wild for grog,   
   >> sir, that they tapped a hogshead what they know'd   
   >> had a dead corpse in it, goin' over seas for burial."   
   >>   
   >> - middle of a paragraph of page 112 of Nothing   
   >> To Drink, by Julia McNair Wright (1873)   
   >>   
   >>   
   >   
   >Can't be any worse than Peanut Butter Whiskey.   
      
   I'm having a taste flashback now, and not a good one.   
      
   Thomas Prufer   
      
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