A few years back, my State of Tennessee changed its permitting laws and now we've got quite a few legal distilleries around here, all making "moonshine" to sell to tourists. The thing is, while they can let you taste it at full strength, what they actually sell you can't be any stronger than other "store bought" whiskey.Sent from my Verizon Motorola DroidOn Feb 2, 2019 4:02 AM, "Phil Pugliese (via tml list)" <xxxxxx@simplelists.com> wrote:I've heard that the 'pink lady' was actually just a way of 'marking' the liquid as poisonous cuz' it was methyl alcohol, which is in fact quite poisonous.However, some people still imbibe it.I've also heard that it sometimes gets into 'moonshine', contaminating it & poisoning people as a result.-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------On Friday, February 1, 2019, 11:23:18 PM MST, Hal <xxxxxx@roadrunner.com> wrote:If it is anything like Reagent grade Alcohol, the “instant knock out drop” then I’d best not give it a try. Just thinking anyone tried to drink undiluted 180 proof alcohol boggles the mind with respect to alcohol poisoning. And yes, in my ill informed youth, having put away nearly two “Big Gulp” sized drinks of Scotch (the third drink I had inadvertently spilled – which means over 2 Big Gulps) – I was in the hospital with Alcohol poisoning. It was a near thing that I could have been buried at 22 instead of writing this 37 years later.
Now, I tend to be a wee bit more conservative in my drinking habits. ;)
In defense of my stupidity – I was really upset that someone I thought was a friend, would have turned on me as badly as they did. Ah yes, the treasured memories of youth…
From: xxxxxx@groups.io [mailto:xxxxxx@groups.io] On Behalf Of mithgiladan
Sent: Saturday, February 02, 2019 1:13 AM
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Screw 180 proof…
Get into interstellar space and get yourself some 307 Ale >:)
Marc
From: xxxxxx@groups.io <xxxxxx@groups.io> On Behalf Of Hal
Sent: Saturday, February 2, 2019 1:03 AM
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Well, you got the timing right – it was a Black and White movie filmed in 1964 about D-Day. The movie? The Americanization of Emily. I could say more, but I’ll behave.
THANK you for the input on the Pink Lady as well. A #10 can in theory holds about 109 oz of fluid. Gotta wonder what “proof” that alcohol was! Wow. 180 proof??!!!
The things one learns about the navy! *rueful grin*
Thanks Marc.
From: xxxxxx@groups.io [mailto:xxxxxx@groups.io] On Behalf Of mithgiladan
Sent: Saturday, February 02, 2019 12:49 AM
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In WWII…
Torpedoes ran on alcohol and they used to put what they called “pink lady” in it to make men sick if they drank it. If the torpedo bombers didn't use them, the carrier and flight line crews were supposed to dump the liquid out.
They often enough dumped it out, but not back in the can.
Instead, they made “torpedo juice” using copper tubing and other “spare parts” to make stills to remove the pink lady.
#10 is a can size
Marc
From: xxxxxx@groups.io <xxxxxx@groups.io> On Behalf Of Hal
Sent: Saturday, February 2, 2019 12:40 AM
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Watching a movie, I heard a reference to a #10 Can of Torpedo Alcohol. Could anyone tell me what that is?
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