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I need help being a suck-up
Me | 01/20/2009 | Glenn

Posted on 01/20/2009 5:35:07 PM PST by Glenn

I need to suck-up to my boss.

He is a scotch drinker. I know nothing about scotch.

What can I purchase for him that will really impress him?


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KEYWORDS: scotch
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To: Fintan

That’s what you wash your whiskey glass with afterwards, to sterilize it.


81 posted on 01/20/2009 6:27:55 PM PST by irishtenor (Check out my blog at http://boompa53.blogspot.com/)
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To: Glenn
"Sounds expensive. Thanks for the tip!"

Not as much as some, and really sublime, and quite frankly worth it. I'll have a wee dram tonight, neat, couple drops of water to open the flavor, in a heavy round cut crystal glass. Marvelous-- a treat for all the senses.

The Economist may be a priggish eurosocialist rag, but their coverage of whisky-related topics is excellent. They had an article in their Dec. 21, 2000 issue on the science of ageing whisky that was really wonderful but unfortunately is available online only to paying subscribers. It's worth chasing down in a library. Meanwhile, their latest article on the topic is http://www.economist.com/world/britain/displaystory.cfm?story_id=12955266&fsrc=rss
82 posted on 01/20/2009 6:32:51 PM PST by RightOnTheLeftCoast ([In the primaries, vote "FOR". In the general, vote "AGAINST". ...See? Easy.])
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To: RegulatorCountry

Agreed about Laph. Undrinkable.

But a very small amount of water can do remarkable things to the flavor of a good whisky. I used to view water as a pollutant but have come around. Just a few drops, mind you.


83 posted on 01/20/2009 6:35:28 PM PST by RightOnTheLeftCoast ([In the primaries, vote "FOR". In the general, vote "AGAINST". ...See? Easy.])
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To: Glenn

IBTZ???

(Are you freakin’ kidding me?? The LAST thing you want to do to suck up to your boss is buy him scotch - he can buy his own. BE the most valuable employee walking the face of the earth!!! THAT will impress him.)


84 posted on 01/20/2009 6:35:53 PM PST by DustyMoment (FloriDUH - proud inventors of pregnant/hanging chads and judicide!!)
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To: ALASKA
Depends what you want to spend, but Oban is an incredible single-malt......

I spent Easter of 1979 in Oban and sampled quite a bit of the local product. Last year for my birthday my wife got me a bottle. The select friends I have let have a taste have marveled at its smoothness.
85 posted on 01/20/2009 6:41:06 PM PST by drjimmy
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To: Glenn
One word: Oban


86 posted on 01/20/2009 6:41:13 PM PST by who_would_fardels_bear (The cosmos is about the smallest hole a man can stick his head in. - Chesterton)
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To: DustyMoment
Are you freakin’ kidding me?? The LAST thing you want to do to suck up to your boss is buy him scotch - he can buy his own. BE the most valuable employee walking the face of the earth!!! THAT will impress him.

I am not in marketing. I have to do what I can.

88 posted on 01/20/2009 6:43:28 PM PST by Glenn (Free Venezuela!)
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To: Glenn; Pharmboy

if you haven’t heard from pharmboy on this topic, you haven’t gotten all the info. he’s a scotch-meister.


89 posted on 01/20/2009 6:43:58 PM PST by thefactor (yes, as a matter of fact, i DID only read the excerpt)
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To: Glenn

Get a good single malt instead of a blended.


90 posted on 01/20/2009 6:44:56 PM PST by PAR35
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To: al_c
Macallan. Go for the 20 year single malt.

The 18 year Macallan is better bang for the buck. I'm also fond of the Balvenie 21 Year Portwood.

Both chime in at around $135

91 posted on 01/20/2009 6:45:29 PM PST by tx_eggman (I own two rare photos. Houdini as he locks his keys in his car and Norman Rockwell beating a child.)
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To: who_would_fardels_bear
One word: Oban

There are many on this thread who agree. I'm moving it to the top of the shopping list.

92 posted on 01/20/2009 6:45:38 PM PST by Glenn (Free Venezuela!)
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To: Glenn

I just need to jockey for position.
***Tell him you’re a freeper and invite him over for the fun.


93 posted on 01/20/2009 6:47:08 PM PST by Kevmo ( It's all over for this Country as a Constitutional Republic. ~Leo Donofrio, 12/14/08)
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To: Glenn

I wouldn’t buy him the most expensive brand, that might make him think he’s paying you too much.


94 posted on 01/20/2009 6:48:47 PM PST by kalee
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To: Glenn

Glen Morangie is the best I’ve tasted. It easily beats out Glen Livet. Glen Fiddich is better than Chivas, but so is horse piss.


95 posted on 01/20/2009 6:50:39 PM PST by Grizzled Bear ("Does not play well with others.")
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To: Glenn

Glen Morangie is the best I’ve tasted. It easily beats out Glen Livet. Glen Fiddich is better than Chivas, but so is horse piss.


96 posted on 01/20/2009 6:50:50 PM PST by Grizzled Bear ("Does not play well with others.")
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To: Glenn
I am not in marketing. I have to do what I can.

It's not a question of being in marketing. It's going out in your company and being the guy that your boss sees everywhere he looks. Somebody needs supplies delivered to their desk, YOU deliver them. Someone else needs help figuring out how to do something on the computer, YOU'RE the guy giving the help. Someone else needs help cleaning up a mess on the floor, YOU're the one helping.

It's not rocket science . . . . . it's BEATING him at his own game. You buy him a bottle of scotch and it sends a message that you don't want to send. The kind you want to send is greeting him when he first walks into the office in the morning with a cup of coffee, a stack of reports and a bagel or muffin or something

97 posted on 01/20/2009 6:51:18 PM PST by DustyMoment (FloriDUH - proud inventors of pregnant/hanging chads and judicide!!)
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To: Glenn

Unless you know his pour don’t do it.

Scotch is very diverse, particularly the single malts.

Some are light, almost like an Irish.

Some are very heavy, to me like drinking medicinal iodine.

Some have so much ocean in their taste and nose.

About the only thing they have in common is some level of peatyness.

A true suck up would find out his drink hook or crook. Ask his secretary, she knows.

Suck up to her as well. Everybody is sucking up to the boss. You will be the only one sucking up to the boss’s secretary.

BTW !$#&+`#@ $%$^@$% $#%_$% !$#&`#@ $%$^@$% !#$!* *&$$= !$#&+`#@ $%$^@#$% suckup!. ;-)


98 posted on 01/20/2009 6:52:59 PM PST by Dinsdale
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To: Glenn

As an alternative to my serious suggestion above; you could try something offbeat. Look for a jar (it’s sold in Mason jars not bottles) of Georgia Moon. It’s a legal clear corn whiskey. And unlike most of the old stuff on the shelf of the liquor store it is generally sold fairly fresh. If he doesn’t want to drink it he can always use it to start his charcoal grill or as a paint remover.


99 posted on 01/20/2009 6:58:04 PM PST by PAR35
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To: Dinsdale
"Some are very heavy, to me like drinking medicinal iodine"

I keep some Lagavulin around just in case of a nuclear incident.

Sure beats those nasty iodine pills! ;-)

100 posted on 01/20/2009 7:00:27 PM PST by who_would_fardels_bear (The cosmos is about the smallest hole a man can stick his head in. - Chesterton)
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