Discussing the topic of strong drink tonight at the dinner table, my sister launched into a lecture about how every bottle of imported whisk(e)y one buys, a dollar goes to the Kennedys. Which doesn’t matter to me, I’m a democrat, but my politics don’t carry over into my drinking habit anyways. I however, smelled the faint odor of bull dung. What’s the Straight Dope?
http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a3_159.html - boring as the truth may be, the Kennedys made their fortune in real estate.
Yeah, I know how they made cake in the first place. Are they getting a crapload of money off the whisk(e)y though (currently)? That’s what sent my BS meter off.
Not unless Edgar Bronfman has married into the family.
That’s a variation on the Kennedy legend I heard from a friend who grew up in Chicago. He was convinced that Joe Sr. was known to his friends as “Tailgunner Joe” because that was his job on bootlegging trucks. I was unable to convince him that the Kennedys didn’t make their fortune in bootlegging and that the tailgunner nickname beloned to Senator McCarthy.