"Sacha" wrote in message
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On 23/1/07 11:21, in article , "David
Rance" wrote:

On Tue, 23 Jan 2007 Martin wrote:

Please forgive the absence of Sacha and Dave Poole


Ho, ho, ho! ;-)

and a bottle of rum, too?

It was "Whisky Galore", not "Rum Galore"!

David

Yes but not on the dead man's chest. ;-) Or any other part of his
anatomy,
for that matter.

Nelsons body, was, apparently pickled in a container of rum to preserve his
body so he could be bought home for burial, the sailors on board did not
know this and they taped the cask, forever after, rum was known as Nelsons
Blood!

Alan