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It's a rum do, innit?
Topic Started: Dec 13 2012, 01:11 PM (1,822 Views)
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I've just read the latest Dennis Lehane (best known for "Mystic River" and "Shutter Island").

"Live By Night" is a Prohibition era thriller.
The novelty is that - despite being Irish - the main character is a bootlegger of rum rather than whiskey.
The Cuba / Florida production and distribution of rum was genuinely a Big Deal; but not so often dealt with in fictions about the Prohibition years (compared to gin and whiskey).

I've read that rum was also a lot more common in the Old West than the movies acknowledge.
I'm sure that's true but...
I just can't see John Wayne walking into a saloon and ordering a Bacardi'n'Coke!
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caissier
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"In a DIRDY GLAIRSSE !!!!! ..... " <laugh>


He wouldn't explain ..... he wouldn't apologise ..............



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(sorry, having a laugh)
Edited by caissier, Dec 13 2012, 01:28 PM.
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rumbaba
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Nuthin' wrong with rum
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Get away with you! <laugh>

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