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To: Ilaine who wrote (21979)	4/16/1999 6:30:00 PM
From: Gauguin	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71178

Wow! That is good to know. Why drink slop when you can buy goodies. No sense de-duffing to be disappointed. That's how you get duffed in the first place.

To: Ilaine who wrote (21979)	4/16/1999 7:39:00 PM
From: nihil	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71178

The trouble with 'shine is it can make you blind. The old hill boys used run off whiskey in stills soldered (with lead bearing solder) together from copper plumbing. This killed you over time. They also cut with industrial alcohol (methanol -- very toxic. These were not honorable businessmen and were one of the principal causes of ecology and socialism and state liquor stores after prohibition. The great traditional distillers used pure corn mash -- maybe a little sugar as a started -- and fractionally distilled to avoid the amyl alcohol that gives you that rotten taste and headache of raw whiskey. Really good 'shine is filtered through activated charcoal (the absorptive element in charred barrels) and can be turned into pure 86 proof grain neutral spirits (43% ethanol by suitable filtration) which is the nectar of the gods (unflavored grain vodka). In chemical labs fifty years ago you could draw 95% untaxed alcohol or even absolute ethanol (used to remove traces of water from lab glassware (avoid acetone)) and cut it with distilled water. Very cheap. We flavored it with dextrose and citric acid -- good on the long night watches of a complex organic synthesis. It got my seniors through Prohibition, and attracted many youths to chemistry. I would be surprised if untaxed labrohol isn't behind the burst of new drugs that extend our worthless lives to day. We used to toast each other "Better things for Better Living through Chemisty!" I'll still drink to that.

To: Ilaine who wrote (21979)	4/16/1999 7:47:00 PM
From: nihil	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 71178

There's an old hollow tree down the road just from me, Where you put down a dollar or two, Then you go round the bend, And you come back again For that good old mountain dew. Ch: They call it that old mountain dew. And them that refuse it are few. I'll shut up my mug, If'n you'll fill up my jug, With that good old mountain dew. Mr. Roosevelt told the boys just how he felt, When he heard that the dry law was through, "If your whiskey's too red, it will swell up your head, Better stick to that old mountain dew." My Uncle Mort, he is sawed off and short, He measures about 4 ft 2 But he'll fight like a giant,( or gint) If you give him a pint, (or pyunt) Of that good old mountain dew. My Uncle Bill has a still on the hill, Where he turns out his a gallon or two, The buzzards in the sky, Get so drunk they can't fly, Off that good old mountain dew. Wolfgang van Hatfield