Tveb is correct.
Osip has been to Lynchburg Tennessee. Osip has tasted the spring water, Tasted the Mash as it fermented in the vat, Sniffed it as it was distilled and wandered the waerhouses in awe at the millions of Barrels ageing before m y eyes into golden perfection. All in the hills of Beautiful Tennessee. It the closest place to heaven on earth Osip has found.
Coldfire, I printed up the OP and mailed it to him. Told him a Dutch friend of mine wrote it.
Bottoms up for Grampa! He rode the trains around the country during the Great Depression, looking for work. Joined the army in order to get 3 square meals per day and a roof over his head. Found himself manning artillery on Corrigedor before too long. He’s a veteran of D-Day and the Korean war (where he carried the body of his best friend for 15 miles so that he could be buried), former CID agent who tracked down Nazi war criminals, who came home from his adventures and raised four children and sold appliances at O’Coins. He is a hero to this day - he got a law passed in Massachusetts to prevent taxation of veterans’ benefits in 1998. This last year he worked as a census taker, and as an ombudsman investigating and stopping elder abuse in state-run nursing homes. He’s 85 years old, and my hero. Still going strong.
I grew up on his stories. He doesn’t think he’s a hero, just a normal person. Your OP moved him a great deal.
To Grampa!
And the problem with this would be…
(BTW, Veb, you forgot about the Confederate flag hanging in the window! ;))
See, Coldy, us Tennesee folks got sumthin’ to be proud of! (And to think that Twisty thinks we are all just backward, barefoot rednecks! Pshaw!)
Hey, if you ever get to Osip’s neck o’ the woods, feel free to mosey on down my way and sit for a spell!
I don’t normally tell EVERYBODY in a thread that they are wrong, but just try Old Crow before you start blowing smoke about how good Jack Daniels is.
dropzone. I enjoy oldcrow. It’s a very good whiskey. Even though it is cheap and comes in a plastic bottle. mmmm.
I, too, was totally wooshed by this one. Who knew that a rabid communist could pause for a few minutes from gnawing at the very foundations of American democracy to crack a joke? 
J.D. is tasty, very tasty. And Alan Greenspan thanks you, Coldfire, for doing your part for the U.S. economy.
I’d like everybody to know that I, tater of Tennessee, am the one who started ClogMod on the road to redneckdom.
See what he says in this thread from October:
Hehehe…next thing you know him and Yoji will be sitting on the porch with their coon dogs playing dueling banjos.
Coldfire began the evil by writing:
No offense, of course, as I really didn’t expect someone from the country that invented gin to have any taste (BTW, have you managed to flog off all of that Genever on unsuspecting Brits yet? They deserve it for they act at soccer matches…on second thought, even that behavior doesn’t justify being sold Genever), but Jack Daniels is to whiskey as a bastard file is to 320-grit sandpaper.
oldscratch compounds the confusion by saying:
Probably just pinko propaganda there, but I wouldn’t use those to wash my dog with (even if I had a dog).
And dropzone descends to the depths with:
Old Crow…umm, right. (Nurse! 50 cc of Thorazine, STAT!)
No, my children, Knob Creek is truly the whiskey worth drinking.
bah. basil hayden or bookers or Old Potrero blows knob creek outta the water.
And how come no one’s brought up Wild Turkey yet?
Oldscratch, you evil bastard - you even managed to piss TVeblen off
All of you nitpickers who are trying to help me sort out my whiskey preferences: feh. If I want a good whiskey, for a moment of quiet and peace, for a cold autumn night with a nice new CD on: I’ll take a Glenmorrangie.
If I’m posting to the boards and want a kick-ass drink, Jack Daniels it is. Good stuff, and the opposite of snobbery (sp?).
Meanwhile, it’s black coffee at this hour. Cheers!
p.s.: Magdalene - your grandfather is a hero. Be sure to tell him that.
thanks coldfire, that is so getting added to my sig.
Some people just don’t understand my highly advanced form of humor…in a few years it’ll be all the rage.
sigh…the burden of being on the cutting edge.