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Arjan Dirkse wrote:
I learned today that horses like drinking beer (and it isn’t bad for them.)
Did a horse tell you that?
A horse walks into a pub and sits at the bar. The bartender looks at him and says “Why the long face?”
Thank you, please hold your applause…
Did a horse tell you that?
No just a random website. Could be a website run by a horse though…
Could be a web site run by a smart brewery owner in an area with a lot of horses.
It may be an apocryphal story, but near the end of WW2, editor of Astounding Stories magazine John W Campbell published a story he commissioned about a team of scientists inventing an atomic bomb that was so close to the actual top secret Manhattan project that he was visited by the FBI.
Campbell then went point by point through the story to show them how any reasonable person could put the information together with no access to secret information. Then he told them that if such a secret project did exist, then it would likely be at Los Alamos, New Mexico.
At this, the agents were sure he must have gotten hold of classified information. However, he explained that it was a guess because an unusual number of his subscribers from around the nation – a lot of scientists and engineers – had recently changed their subscription addresses to Los Alamos.
I’ve heard the story before and I believe it is true. I hadn’t heard the Los Alamos though, that’s pretty funny.
The word humility comes from the Latin humus, meaning earth or soil. Meaning a humble man is close to the Earth. The word is also related to homo meaning man.
Much of life on Brazil’s Marajó Island centers on the water buffalo, which slightly outnumber the human population there. Police use them as mounts because, as their name suggests, they are adept at navigating the island’s many flooded areas.
Although their bladders vary greatly in size, all mammals larger than 7 pounds take roughly 21 seconds to urinate.
Although their bladders vary greatly in size, all mammals larger than 7 pounds take roughly 21 seconds to urinate.
Unless you’re talking about an elephant with an enlarged prostate.
Boney M. member Bobby Farrell died in the same city (St. Petersburg) and on the same date as Rasputin.
Rubbish, they lived decades apart.
There are several species of birds that get drunk of fermented fruits.
There are several species of birds that get drunk of fermented fruits.
Typically it’s those birds that are in loveless marriages or have a crummy job.
Squirrels forget 74% of the nuts they hide.
That’s a good thing as this is how trees are planted!
Squirrels- 10 Things You Must Know About These Nutty Creatures
Hegesias the Death Persuader was forbidden from teaching by the King of Cyrene because his message that death was preferable to life caused many of his students to take their own lives.
The cynic philosopher Menedemos dressed up as a demon to tell people he had come from hell to record the sins people had committed so he could report those to the deities below.
An infant rabbit is called a ‘Kit’
When I had a bonded pair, they were ‘bunnies’ from the day they walked in the door and took control (and the female takes that seriously) until the day of that fateful trip (because we seem to be only cruel to other humans).
Anyways…
“An infant rabbit is called a kit, which is short for kitten. The term “bunny” is also commonly used, but “kit” is the more formal and accurate term for a baby rabbit. A female rabbit is called a doe, and a male rabbit is called a buck.”
There is more demand for sherry casks, which are to be used for maturing whisky, than there is for the actual sherry. This leads to sherry cask producers making sherry filled casks solely for the whisky industry. The sherry that used to be in the casks is descarded or used for other purposes like vinegar.
There is more demand for sherry casks, which are to be used for maturing whisky, than there is for the actual sherry.
Yeah, there are strict regulations in the Scotch whisky industry regarding the barrels used. Per the Scotch Whisky Association:
Previously, Scotch Whisky could only be matured or finished in casks that had been traditionally used in the industry – bourbon, sherry, rum , wine, beer to name just a few. Such casks will continue to be used but some flexibility has been introduced which potentially allows for the use of casks previously used to mature other spirits, as long as a number of conditions are met.
Scotch Whisky can only be matured or finished in new oak casks or oak casks which were previously used to mature wine, beer/ale or spirits but not if those casks were previously used to mature:
– wine, beer/ale or spirit produced from, or made with, stone fruits
– beer/ale which has had fruit, flavouring or sweetening added after fermentation
– spirit which has had fruit, flavouring or sweetening added after distillation
The American bourbon industry has even tougher standards, including limits on how many times a barrel can be used.
Who knew?
What’s better, Scotch matured in bourbon casks or bourbon matured in scotch casks?
Scotch matured in bourbon casks is a pointless exercise: Scotch is already perfect and cannot be improved. This is known.
Scotch is already perfect and cannot be improved.
Yet it’s the same with a lot of things.
“Everything in Moderation”
Edit: removed the silly part.
Plus I just ordered the first of a few, so no serious talk here!
Scotch matured in bourbon casks is a pointless exercise: Scotch is already perfect and cannot be improved. This is known.
There’s a lot of scotch that is matured in sherry casks. Seems like a fashionable thing.
njerry wrote:
Scotch matured in bourbon casks is a pointless exercise: Scotch is already perfect and cannot be improved. This is known.There’s a lot of scotch that is matured in sherry casks. Seems like a fashionable thing.
Oh, I know that, Arjan; I was just trying to be funny. In fact, my favorite go-to Scotch is The Balvenie 14-year Caribbean Cask whisky, which starts out in bourbon barrels and then finished in Jamaican rum casks.
Some spiders eat only once a year (or once in their lives since they don’t live that long)
There are butterflies who never eat at all, they lack the organs to process food.
In Europe 8 times more people die from the cold than from heat.