Word: scotches
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Comedienne Dorothy Loudon and Tanya the Elephant were brought together for the first time. It was not exactly a dry run with Dean. For one thing, Dean didn't bother to take part; for another, he was breaking out the dressing-room bottle and splashing himself a tall Scotch and water. Then came dress rehearsals, the cue for Martin's second Scotch and a gagging, ragging appearance onstage. Then dinner break and another Scotch. "We'd rather have him do it only once and have it fresh," says Director Greg Garrison. And after dinner...
...divide a pound of silver into 20 shillings and 240 pence, but everyone agrees that the system is a bedeviling bother. It irritates international bankers, confuses tourists and even sends British shoppers away muttering in frustration. To escape from its complicated structure (?2 8s. 6d. for a bottle of Scotch), many Commonwealth and former Commonwealth countries are switching to the decimal currency system used by 95% of the world's people. Barbados and other sterling bloc territories in the British West Indies converted in 1955, South Africa in 1961. The Bahamas will switch this year, New Zealand next year...
...French have taste-tested Scotch whisky, Russian vodka, even American colas, but when aperitif time rolls around they remain stubbornly French, call for a Dubonnet, a Byrrh, a Cinzano or-most popular of all-a pastis...
...also set out to touch off a Donnybrook in any roomful of serious or discriminating drinkers. For example, he argues that most drinkers are kidding themselves when they claim that they can taste the difference between competing brands of liquor. Moreover, though most people can taste the difference between Scotch and bourbon on the first drink, Bishop claims that most bourbon drinkers cannot distinguish between different types of bourbon (straight, charcoal-filtered, sour-mash) after the second drink. After the third, he says, they cannot tell bourbon from Canadian rye, and after the fourth they cannot distinguish bourbon from Scotch...
...author contends that an ordinary drinker cannot tell Scotch from bourbon if he is blindfolded and holds his nose. Bishop invites doubters to make the test by having someone else set up the experiment (teetotalers can substitute quinine water and coffee). It is all academic anyway, since most people prefer to drink with eyes, nose and mouth open. Just the same, the book makes pleasant bar-time reading...