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Old 08-30-2006, 11:58 PM
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Well I do NOT like gin, cannot tolerate gin, and I always tell my husband it is because of my Irish/Celtic ancestry. I also tell him that the English invented gin so the Irish wouldn't take over the world...

No, no , no! God created Scotch so the Scots wouldn't counquer the world, Beer for the same reason w/ the Irish and he created the English to give the Scots & Irish a common enemy so they wouldn't kill each other.
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Old 09-01-2006, 11:26 PM
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No, no , no! God created Scotch so the Scots wouldn't counquer the world, Beer for the same reason w/ the Irish and he created the English to give the Scots & Irish a common enemy so they wouldn't kill each other.
Now THAT is a true one too....

But I still feel the same way about gin!
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