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|    Don Freeman to Pluted Pup    |
|    Re: Tapping The Admiral from 1873    |
|    21 Feb 24 17:01:52    |
      From: Don@cosmoslair.com              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.              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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