Missing the Boat

[gerisullivan]

I seem to have moved to the wrong Wales today, for mine is the one where 92 tons of whisky and liquor weren't swept off a boat near the coast a few days ago.

They're reporting that all of it sank by yesterday morning, but if you'd bagged even one of the four 40-foot containers of alcohol, isn't that what you'd say, too? The fact that it took 'em three days to say it further suggests that someone had one whale of a party Thursday night, and that they and all their friends are just starting to sober up.

Either that, or there's going to be some really goofy fishing in those parts for some time to come.

Comments

[dalesql.livejournal.com]

There was a freighter full of whisky that was torpedoed and sunk
just off the coast of the UK during WW2. In fairly shallow water. It was apparantly a popular 'recreational' swimming site for the locals. Some time later the UK customs service convinced the government to blow up the wreck.

[timill]

See Compton Mackenzie's "Whisky Galore", and the film based on it; or google for SS Politician.

[bibliofile.livejournal.com]

Hmm, for those people who like their herring pre-pickled?

Yay, I'm going to Wales

[thirdworld.livejournal.com]

Fits in with my new bachelor lifestyle. Oh wait, there is a bar just around the corner. *counts on fingers* Crap, it's cheaper to stay here. Ah well.

[richardthe23rd.livejournal.com]

Sewe also "Green Grow the Rushes," in which Richard Burton, that estimable Welshman, plays a whiskey smuggler who is perturbed to learn that his girlfriend, just trying to be helpful, had emptied their cargo into the pond in front of his house just as the excise man is walking up the driveway. Unfortunately the ducks in the pond have imbibed its contents and are staggering about the lawn.

"Now you've really cooked our goose," he tells her. "Well...pickled our ducks."

[richardthe23rd.livejournal.com]

"Sewe"? Uh...It's Welsh.