Thedford in auction

[bourbonmed]

Thedford trademark is for sale on ebay... $10K.

Thedford-Super premium small batch bourbon brand including registered trademarks, tradename, ATF (Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms) approved label and package designs. Also, designs and art for bourbon chest and cask, art, design and source for publishing an authentic Colonial American newspaperand complete web site Thedford.com.

http://cgi.ebay.com/Kentucky-Bourbon-Brand-registered-trademarks-logos_W0QQitemZ7587458035QQcategoryZ50973QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

Omar

[TNbourbon]

Do you suppose that means I should grab the 3 or 4 still on a shelf around the corner from me?

[BourbonJoe]

You can have 'em Tim. I don't care for the stuff.

Joe

[Barrel_Proof]

Thedford trademark is for sale on ebay... $10K.

Thedford-Super premium small batch bourbon brand including registered trademarks, tradename, ATF (Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms) approved label and package designs. Also, designs and art for bourbon chest and cask, art, design and source for publishing an authentic Colonial American newspaperand complete web site Thedford.com.

http://cgi.ebay.com/Kentucky-Bourbon-Brand-registered-trademarks-logos_W0QQitemZ7587458035QQcategoryZ50973QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

Omar

Prediction: No bids. (legitimate ones, anyway)

[JeffRenner]

The included web site includes this drivel:

Bourbon The Way It Used To Be

"When I settled in Kentucky in 1788, the thing I missed most about my old Virginia home was the bourbon - smooth, aged-in-wood, served straight from the cask. I had my father-in-law's yeast, so I decided to make some whiskey for myself. When it was ready for drinking, I shared some with friends and neighbors. They urged me to make more and soon I sold the farm and started distilling full time.

I made my bourbon the way my father-in-law taught me to. Sweet limestone water, freshly harvested grains, Indian white corn and his special yeast produced a whiskey that surpassed anything I had ever tasted.

I aged my bourbon in casks made from fresh oak straplings, so it can continue to mellow, absorbing the natural character of the oak, making for a full brimming taste.

Soon all the taverns in the County were selling my whiskey fresh out of a cask."

Whatta loada.

Any idea what "straplings" are?:grin:

Jeff

[jeff]

Did anyone call it "bourbon" in 1788?:skep:

[scratchline]

After consulting my OED and American Heritage and Webster's New International Second Edition dictionaries, I am forced to the conclusion that "straplings" are part of the Through-The-Looking-Glass Lexicon which includes such keepers as "vorpal", "uffish", and "jabberwocky". Use them freely and as you wish, but don't try to play them in Scrabble.

[JeffRenner]

For that matter, what the hell is "a full brimming taste"?

Do they teach this BS in Marketing 101 or do they just find it along the road?

Jeff

[barturtle]

But Jabberwocky is a great word to use in scrabble:smiley_acbt: I just argue until they accept it:slappin:

[chasking]

The included web site includes this drivel:

[snip drivel]

Whatta loada.

If the weather turns bad this winter, we could probably entertain ourselves for weeks just trying to identify all the impossibilities in that ridiculous paen.

For that matter, what the hell is "a full brimming taste"?

That's easy. A "bold" taste.

("Bold" is the ultimate copout word in advertising and marketing. Whenever I see or hear the word "bold" in an ad, I assume that what they really meant is "bland". :bs: )

[Grant]

The included web site includes this drivel:

Whatta loada.

Any idea what "straplings" are?:grin:

Jeff

First Post:

I too had never run accross the term "straplings".

It's not in the "dictionary" - but can be found on the web - used during that time period - and even today.

From what I can find "straplings" equates to - in this case - virgin wood.

It's hard to find - but this term still seems to be used mostly to describe small samples of new wood.

There are many words that were used in the past that never made it into the "dictionary".

My interpretion of "fresh oak straplings" is "virgin oak" - which seems to meet the barrel requirements for Bourbon today.

Remember the childhood story of the "Three Little Pigs" ( not what we read in the books - but the original story )

It refers to "straplings" as children:

...Upon a time there lived a homely hog woman, and her three straplings.

They lived in a bare brush hut in the forest, and they did live in squalor, and

they were tortured by many hooligans and wild beasts...

[TNbourbon]

...Remember the childhood story of the "Three Little Pigs" ( not what we read in the books - but the original story )

It refers to "straplings" as children:

...Upon a time there lived a homely hog woman, and her three straplings.

They lived in a bare brush hut in the forest, and they did live in squalor, and

they were tortured by many hooligans and wild beasts...

This is akin to my familiarity with the word, though its use in the north woods of my youth also involved kinship to forestry. I've many times heard strong, hearty (usually male) youths or young adults referred to as 'straplings'. Better to be a strapling than a sapling, in fact, in that neck of the woods.:grin:

[scratchline]

Strapling. Maybe a conflation of "stripling" and "strapping" as far as the youngster usage goes. And a combination of "sapling" and "strapping" to get the timber meaning.

Where can one find the original story of "The Three Little Pigs"?

[Grant]

Strapling. Maybe a conflation of "stripling" and "strapping" as far as the youngster usage goes. And a combination of "sapling" and "strapping" to get the timber meaning.

Where can one find the original story of "The Three Little Pigs"?

The Story of the Little Pigs Three, a Biblical form of the Three Little Pigs

1. Upon a time there lived a homely hog woman, and her three straplings. They lived in a bare brush hut in the forest, and they did live in squalor, and they were tortured by many hooligans and wild beasts.

2. On one day, a wolf came to pester forsooth. And he did huff and he did blow, and he did blow yon pighut down. The hog woman did send her young into the wilderness to escape the beast, and they did so. Thus the wolf did eat the poor hog woman.

3. Thus the three pigs were sent into the world to fend hunger, and thirst, and cold. The pig of lineage closest to the hag pig, did set himself apart from his brother and went his merry way. The next oldest pig set himself apart from his next of kin, and went on his own way. The youngest pig did build a hut of grass. The middle child did make a hut of sticks, and he could be seen in the distance carrying a fagot across his back. The third and oldest pig did build a house of bricks for he did know much about architecture.

4. The wolf did look upon these happenings with slavering jowls, and dripping snout. How did resolve to blow down these lodgings and gobble the inhabitants on the morrow. And on that morn, he blew upon the hut of straw, and he did gobble the pig into quivering chunks. Then he went to the house that beheld the second pig, And he did blow it down, and he did devour the pigeon inside. When he got to the third house, the Great Pig Snortimer was awaiting him. This was the last and oldest pig, and he did wield a great Claymore sword. With one chop the pig did lop off the head of the evil wolf, and blood did steam and there was much rejoicing. Then the remains of digested pig did ooze out of the cut. The Great Pig Snortimer did apply healing herbs to the chunks of pig, and the pigs were restored, and there was much rejoicing.

5. Thus the pigs did wallow and rejoice in the blood of the wolf, and they did rest in the house of the Great Pig Snortimer for the rest of their days.

[gr8erdane]

Sounds like hogwash to me....:slappin: :slappin:

[Grant]

Sounds like hogwash to me....:slappin: :slappin:

gr8erdane - you caught me!

Apologies to all - it seems that my research last night was somewhat influenced by the Knob.

The Three Little Pigs story that I posted - containing the word "straplings" appears to be an essay that is being sold over the Internet to those that need help for their creative writing course. I did post this because I thought it was factual at the time - I did not take the time to research it.

But - I did find something else that may support TNbourbon's familiarity with the word "straplings" :

15th Vermont Infantry Biography

http://www.vermontcivilwar.org/units/15/brown10.php

...There are no Generals, no Captains, no Lieutenants, or Corporals here to night. All privates, and it was not long before the hall was full of high privates in the rear ranks. It kind of knocked the shoulder straps to be obliged to dance with the high privates. The line officers of the different regiments got the thing up and were going to have no privates in, but then the general came he just opened the doors and gave them all a chance to share. Even down to the [edit] which made some of the under straplings look rather wild...