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This is truly a treasure find...
1 posted on 02/06/2010 9:26:14 AM PST by DogByte6RER
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2 posted on 02/06/2010 9:26:56 AM PST by DogByte6RER ("Loose lips sink ships")
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To: DogByte6RER

Indeed. Maybe the most valuable whiskey in the world!


3 posted on 02/06/2010 9:27:11 AM PST by jpl
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To: DogByte6RER

Great news!


5 posted on 02/06/2010 9:28:10 AM PST by jay1949 (Work is the curse of the blogging class)
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To: DogByte6RER; alarm rider; stump56; bcsco; PJ-Comix; kimmie7; MissDairyGoodnessVT; Paul Heinzman; ...

A “not quite bourbon ping”. It is whiskey..


6 posted on 02/06/2010 9:28:11 AM PST by Cletus.D.Yokel (Freepmail me to get on the Bourbon ping list.)
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To: DogByte6RER

Would any beverage that old be consumable, vodka maybe?


7 posted on 02/06/2010 9:28:29 AM PST by valkyry1
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To: SunkenCiv

ping


8 posted on 02/06/2010 9:28:52 AM PST by DogByte6RER ("Loose lips sink ships")
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Shackleton

the name exudes balls....and willpower


13 posted on 02/06/2010 9:35:07 AM PST by wardaddy (Book of Eli.....awesome.....Denzel Washington was perfect....Mila Kunis is smoking..nothing PC)
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To: DogByte6RER

I look forward to sampling Whyte and Mackay’s attempt at reproducing the taste of Mackinley’s lost recipe.

They apparently found cases of brandy, as well.


14 posted on 02/06/2010 9:36:31 AM PST by worst-case scenario (Striving to reach the light)
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Another news report at:

http://abcnews.go.com/Travel/ernest-shackletons-100-year-whiskey-recovered-antarctica/story?id=9758898


17 posted on 02/06/2010 9:38:19 AM PST by DogByte6RER ("Loose lips sink ships")
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To: DogByte6RER
although the rest must stay under conservation guidelines agreed to by 12 Antarctic Treaty nations.

good lord

20 posted on 02/06/2010 9:41:50 AM PST by wardaddy (Book of Eli.....awesome.....Denzel Washington was perfect....Mila Kunis is smoking..nothing PC)
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To: DogByte6RER

Am reading two books now on Shackleton’s leadership principles, one by his granddaughter. There is a ton of material on him on Amazon.


21 posted on 02/06/2010 9:50:43 AM PST by Ciexyz
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To: DogByte6RER

Someone’s gonna make a few bucks.


23 posted on 02/06/2010 10:07:33 AM PST by MsLady (If you died tonight, where would you go? Salvation, don't leave earth without it!)
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