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| May-Cee | Dec 13 2012, 01:11 PM Post #1 |
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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 | Dec 13 2012, 01:20 PM Post #2 |
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"In a DIRDY GLAIRSSE !!!!! ..... " He wouldn't explain ..... he wouldn't apologise .............. ![]() (sorry, having a laugh) Edited by caissier, Dec 13 2012, 01:28 PM.
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| rumbaba | Dec 13 2012, 10:02 PM Post #3 |
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Nuthin' wrong with rum |
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| waiting4atickle | Dec 13 2012, 10:49 PM Post #4 |
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Get away with you! |
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