Got a Flask?

[gr8erdane]

Very cool flasks BJ, but I couldn't find one for Knob Lick Polytechnical University listed. Wonder if they make one for the Fighting Roadkills?

[brendaj]

Wonder if they make one for the Fighting Roadkills?

I've heard of them. That's the team from the Gravel Switch Institute of Culinary Arts...
They're a pretty small school, so that's probably a special order
Bj

[pepcycle]

Let's see, Hmmmm?
Isn't Gravel Switch the home of the annual Outhouse Relay??
The Roadkills and Outhouse Relay. I gotta visit this place.

[brendaj]

Mr. Ed,

Isn't Gravel Switch the home of the annual Outhouse Relay??

Why yessur, it is...
Penn's Store
When I was a kid, we'd all pile in the car and 'go to the country' to visit. We went to Gravel Switch...
Merry Christmas to you and Patty!
Bj

[gr8erdane]

Penn's Store reminds me of some of the country stores I used to see when I was growing up. My dad and I would go fishing somewhere on Saturday afternoons and almost always there was a country store that we could stop at for a cold drink. I particularly remember the country store in Jewett MO where you crossed the St Francis river on highway C that was cut back into a bluff. The whole parking lot seemed to be paved with rusted bottle caps. Sadly, none of those old stores exist anymore in that part of the world except for a couple on highway 67 south of Fredericktown MO. The rest are only fond memories.

Dane

[cowdery]

Over New Year's, my brother was travelling internationally with a full flask of Old Grand-Dad BIB in his carry-on luggage. The TSA made him dump it out. He offered to chug it but they said no.

What price security!?!

[kgiammarco]

wow... that sucks... why would they care if he drank it or dumped it?

-Chris

[brendaj]

Chris,

why would they care if he drank it or dumped it?

'Cause then they wouldn't get to sell him JB white for $8 a shot...
I mean think about it. What sort of security risk would a full flask of Bourbon present? Can't you see the hijacker now...screaming instructions and waving his flask?
Making a man pour out his Bourbon is just plain criminal...
Bj

[OneCubeOnly]

What sort of security risk would a full flask of Bourbon present?

I suppose the worry is over flammable liquids. A would-be hijacker might substitute gasoline or something more insidious for the Old Granddad. But you're right--once they got a whiff of what it was, they should have left him alone. I'd be like "here......see, it's harmless!"

[TNbourbon]

I guess I'm a 'rules-is-rules' kind of guy, but -- even pre-9/11, the airlines didn't allow anyone (at least, not knowingly -- it's written in the ticket document) to bring their own beer/wine/alcohol on board for consumption on the plane. They used to let you carry sealed containers -- e.g., wine bottles in your carry-on, but didn't allow you to open it. That's not to say there aren't people who've done it -- but it's long been against the rules. So, the only thing new about this policy is its enforcement.