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Drilling for Whiskey

If it’s still good, this will be some expensive whiskey. 

A beverage company has asked a team to drill through Antarctica’s ice for a lost cache of some vintage Scotch whiskey that has been on the rocks since a century ago.

The drillers will be trying to reach two crates of McKinlay and Co. whiskey that were shipped to the Antarctic by British polar explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton as part of his abandoned 1909 expedition.

Whyte & Mackay, the drinks group that now owns McKinlay and Co., has asked for a sample of the 100-year-old scotch for a series of tests that could decide whether to relaunch the now-defunct Scotch.

Workers from New Zealand’s Antarctic Heritage Trust will use special drills to reach the crates, frozen in Antarctic ice under the Nimrod Expedition hut near Cape Royds.

Posted by Owen at 0730 hrs
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1. Owen has a sense of humor as well as an appreciation of esoteric historical facts.  Posts like this keep me from becoming too centered on the negative.  Thanks, Owen.

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2. Looking for booze in a hut with a bunch of nimrods . That is very funny, or it has been a ugly Monday and I need sleep. No it is funny.

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3. Wouldn’t it be easier to just wait for global warming to melt all the ice?  Al Gore says that is going to happen very soon.  Wait, he has been saying that for years now hasn’t he.

   Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on November 17, 2009 at 0527 hrs
   
   
   

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