On Jun 15, 9:00*am, wrote:
On Fri, 15 Jun 2012 08:22:02 +0100, "the_constructor"

wrote:

"Mr Pounder" Me the wife has given me a bottle of Bells
Whiskey.
It tasted awful so I have poured it down the drain.
r on it or poured it into the petrol tank on
the car !!

I can still see the bemused expressions of passengers on a ferry as we
did that returning from France in the hey day of the Booze cruise.

The ferry company had an offer on and it included a "free" bottle of
whisky per ticket. *Was something blended I had not come across
before.
Amongst our purchases in France we got some reasonable Malts and were
above the customs limit so all six bottles of the nondescript brand
were poured in to the tank before we disembarked. We *did get pulled
over and an officer seeing the empties asked where the contents were,
we've drunk it was the reply.


There's a story in one of Spike Milligan's war books about coming back
to the UK after the war and one soldier in his party having a bottle
of whisky that he couldn't bring into the country; it would have to be
confiscated. So he cracked it open, drank half the contents and passed
the rest around, much to the excise officer's fury. He called over a
Military Policeman and told him to arrest the soldier.

MP: "Why?"

EO: "He's drunk."

MP: "No he's not."

MP: "Just wait a bit..."

--
Halmyre