RE: Another Gun Thread
May 22, 2019 at 11:49 am
(This post was last modified: May 22, 2019 at 11:53 am by The Grand Nudger.)
The tab for a certain bar in philly.....
Washington was a rum runner and profiteer who literally paid for his seat in booze. He insisted that the continental army be kept in liquor (even if he spoke out of the other side of his mouth about drunkeness) and became a very successful whiskey distiller after the war.
Them boys was drunk, all the time. To some extent, fighting a quasi guerrilla war against a well equipped and well supplied tyrant just might require copious amounts of sedatives and liquid courage, lol.
(and I know, I know, the tyranny of the king is highly debatable..but that's the fundamental propaganda of that narrative, right?)
Quote:54 bottles of Madeira, 60 bottles of claret, eight of whiskey, 22 of porter, eight of hard cider, 12 of beer and seven bowls of alcoholic punch.
Washington was a rum runner and profiteer who literally paid for his seat in booze. He insisted that the continental army be kept in liquor (even if he spoke out of the other side of his mouth about drunkeness) and became a very successful whiskey distiller after the war.
Them boys was drunk, all the time. To some extent, fighting a quasi guerrilla war against a well equipped and well supplied tyrant just might require copious amounts of sedatives and liquid courage, lol.
(and I know, I know, the tyranny of the king is highly debatable..but that's the fundamental propaganda of that narrative, right?)
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