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We need to talk about Gàidhlig

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This is the way to pronounce "Gaelic"    [ˈkaːlikʲ]: This is the weather forecast in Scots Gaelic : And my face right now: Dafuq did i just watch!!?!???

NOBLE SONS OF CUMASCH

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You, Alecksandor Gregory   Comiskey , are in interesting, if not good, company.   Andrew , a  crusader  for "healing" the homosexuals Brendan , Bishop Emeritus of the Diocese of Ferns, who was forced by John Paul II to resign on false allegations of sexual abuse and was ordered to rehabilitation for alcoholism.   Patrick , a well-known wine critic, Rhône Ranger and former sommelier. Charlie , nicknamed " Commy " and also "The Old Roman". We may know him as the namesake of Comiskey Park, but his debut was as  pitcher  for the good old St. Louis Brown Stockings in their 1882 season. Charlie went on to own the White Sox during the notorious 1919 World Series scandal. Allegedly, his swindling team members were motivated to gamble  in part by a shared contempt for their owner's  miserliness ; Comiskey even made the players pay to launder their own uniforms. That's awkward. What's also awkward are the names of the people involved...

A Curated Collection of Quotes about Whisky (for which you can thank me in whisky)

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"Too much of anything is bad, but too much of good whisky is barely enough." Mark Twain "The light music of whisky falling into a glass - an agreeable interlude." James Joyce "Always carry a large flagon of whisky in case of snakebite and furthermore always carry a small snake." W. C. Fields "I should never have switched from Scotch to Martinis." Humphrey Bogart 's last words "Whisky is liquid sunshine." George Bernard Shaw "The water was not fit to drink. To make it palatable, we had to add whisky. By diligent effort, I learned to like it."   Sir Winston Churchill "There are two things a Highlander likes naked, and one of them is malt whisky." Scottish Proverb "May the enemies of Ireland never eat bread nor drink whisky, but be tormented with itching without the benefit of scratching." Irish toast "Whisky, drink divine! Why should drivelers bore us With the prais...