Lowest member number???

[Peter Kalshoven]

In the thread thanking Scott, someone asked the question "if Scott is number 3, who is number 1 and 2?" or words to that effect. That echoed a thought I've been having since finding the new improved site, and discovering my number is 20. (what the!!!) The only thing that I can figure is that when the "Old, Old" forum became the "New, Old" Forum, I was one of the first people to sign in with the new password system, AND I have never had to re-do my sign-in. How else would we explain Cleek's high member number? So Log in here folks, and let's see who has the lowest active member number. Remember, that and $50 will get you a bottle of Single Malt Scotch.

Pete

[Garrett Lowell]

LaPhraiog is the one I'm stuck on recently (Scotch that is, with just a bit of water to bring out the flavor).

[mmd]

Ach, laddie, the nectar of the Highlands is a bonny dram, but it fights me each time. Must have too much Roundhead in me blood! I'll just have to stay with the Bluenoser's traditional libation, black rum. Arggh, by gum!

[Biofish]

Of course the numbers are not about WHEN a person first came to the forum... they are assigned by a complex alerbreic forumula which only i know. Basicly it is a new and improved version of the IQ scale in which the higher the number the better. Here is a list of the groupings in which this forum is assigned..

4000+ - Genuis level. and all around good looking too!.

2000-3999 - Wierd, slightly smart, but are useually drunk all the time and post about scotch and other alcoholic drink in unrelated threads. heh.

500-1999 Tend to only venture out of their garage at night for meals and can smell the difference of various grains of mahogany from 1000 yards away.

under 500 - sleep on the their boats, eat marine grade plywood, drink epoxy and basiclly spend the whole day counting how many clamps they own.

Of course i don't expect anyone to understand this very complex scale...soo uummmmmm i won't explain it any further..

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[skuthorp]

I prefer The Glenlivet personally, then maybe Talisker. (I thought everybody counted their clamps)

[John B]

I like RRRRUM. arr. darrrk rrrum.
and then when the wind she be blowing, and the waves, they be cresting.... a Glaver. just a wee sip. Boy thats a nice drop.

[ken mcclure]

Just tell me where I can get a bottle of Macallan's 18-year-old for $50! Not in Pennsylvania :(

[ 04-22-2002, 11:39 PM: Message edited by: ken mcclure ]

[skuthorp]

Not in Australia either Ken! :(

[Ron Williamson]

I just "discovered"(like Columbus)a tasty winter rum called Stroh.It is Austrian,which rum-wise is counter-intuitive.Rum is supposed to be from Down East,the Carribean,or have the Union Flag on it somewhere.
This stuff tastes like Buttered Rum Lifesavers with 54% alcohol :eek:
R

[Bernadette]

my, my Biofish, but you know me so well and we havn't even met!

[Concordia..41]

Well I'm glad now that we had to re-register (twice) tongue.gif

[G. Schollmeier]

Here I am, living proof of Biofish's theory.

Ken, if we ever cross paths, I'll go halfs with you. :D
Gary

[Wayne Jeffers]

Originally posted by Concordia..41:
Well I'm glad now that we had to re-register (twice) tongue.gif Yeah! Me, too! (Twice.)

Wayne

[nevrdun]

I'm for Yukon Rum, it's overproof, it's hot and it hurts, but you get happy a lot quicker.
How potent was 'Yukon Rum'?
*Unless you poured it directly onto ice in a glass, it could spontaneously combust.
*This is true! Underneath the cap, in the neck of the bottle was a screen flame arrestor, to prevent burning back up the pour and blowing up the bottle in your hand. Check it out, it still comes that way.
*Newfy Screech is nothing but Yukon Rum cut three to one with pond water. Check that out too.
*A jug of Y.R. could turn a mining camp into a lumbered camp in 1 hour.
The RCMP, to quell the riot, would have to buy their way past customs at the camp gate with, well, you know --- .
Y.R. was in every bush pilots' baggage going into the nasty north. In an emergency it could get a Norseman started in sub zero weather and off a frozen lake, or act as start-fire for cold wet wood in an unscheduled come-down. Sleet happens.
*Y.R. was illegal tender, but a bottle would get you a seat on a plane, a bale of furs, or 'Holy Communion for Heathens' at the nearest Oblate mission.
*It was preferred over the legal folding currency, which was viewed as scrip, and only grudgingly accepted in that it could be used to purchase Yukon Rum if one ever got into town.

Nevrdun

[nevrdun]

I'm for Yukon Rum, it's overproof, it's hot and it hurts, but you get happy a lot quicker.
How potent was 'Yukon Rum'?
*Unless you poured it directly onto ice in a glass, it could spontaneously combust.
*This is true! Underneath the cap, in the neck of the bottle was a screen flame arrestor, to prevent burning back up the pour and blowing up the bottle in your hand. Check it out, it still comes that way.
*Newfy Screech is nothing but Yukon Rum cut three to one with pond water. Check that out too.
*A jug of Y.R. could turn a mining camp into a lumbered camp in 1 hour.
The RCMP, to quell the riot, would have to buy their way past customs at the camp gate with, well, you know --- .
Y.R. was in every bush pilots' baggage going into the nasty north. In an emergency it could get a Norseman started in sub zero weather and off a frozen lake, or act as start-fire for cold wet wood in an unscheduled come-down. Sleet happens.
*Y.R. was illegal tender, but a bottle would get you a seat on a plane, a bale of furs, or 'Holy Communion for Heathens' at the nearest Oblate mission.
*It was preferred over the legal folding currency, which was viewed as scrip, and only grudgingly accepted in that it could be used to purchase Yukon Rum if one ever got into town.

Nevrdun

[Gresham CA]

Brugal Gold Rum, McClellans Lowland Single Malt, and for when I'm cooking a pig, Evan Williams and branch water.

[Bill Dodson]

I'll have to find some Yukon Rum and give it a try. My current favorites are Gosling's Black Seal and Lamb's Navy Rum.

tongue.gif Bill

[Mike Field]

Sounds good stuff Bill, doesn't it?

,,,, the juice is a liquor
That will get you higher quicker--
And you're still lit up next morning when you wake!

One thing that Biofish didn't mention in his little taxonomy is that those in the 4000+ group somehow don't seem to be able to spell very well.

I confess he seems to be right about me though,,,,

[Garrett Lowell]

If you get a chance, try Cachaça, a Brazilian rum made from sugar cane juice and used to make the national drink, the caipirinha.
CAIPIRINHA
1 lime, quartered
1 to 2 tablespoons sugar
2 ounces cachaça
Ice cubes
Mash the lime quarters in a cocktail glass with a wooden pestle. Do not remove the pieces of crushed lime. Add the sugar and cachaça. Fill the glass with ice cubes and stir well.
CAIPIRINHA DE TANGERINA
1/2 very sweet tangerine
2 ounces of cachaça
1 to 2 tablespoons sugar
Ice cubes
Peel the tangerine and put it in the glass. Sprinkle with the sugar and crush the pieces with a pestle. Add the cachaça and stir to mix. Add the ice and stir again.

NOT something you want to get (too) drunk on, but a great ice breaker at parties.

[Peter Kalshoven]

Biofish, thanks for clearing up the mystery. I would have replied sooner, but I had all these damn clamps to count...you know how it is.

To keep the thread going in the proper direction, I'll throw my two cents worth in. For $50, in a duty free shop on the way home to the States from Toronto, I bought a bottle of Balvenie DoubleWood. I quote from the tube it came in:
"Two casks of different character produce a deeper, more complex flavour and greater character than maturation in only one wood. During maturation, the Balvenie DoubleWood is transferred from a traditional whisky oak cask to an original sherry oak cask, thereby acquiring character from each cask. The result is a rich, mellow flavout of great depth and unusual complexity."

I guess it must be my eyes, because I just can't find where it says "Elixir of the Gods" on the bottle. It must be on there somewhere, for it surely qualifies. And what better Single Malt to be the Official Scotch of the WoodenBoat Forum than DoubleWood!!??!!

If you haven't tried it, I recomend!

Now I've got to go out to the driveway and take a nap in my boat.

Pete tongue.gif

[Kermit]

'Scuse me while I spit out the Okume chips.

Reregister? Not me. Signed on when I first read of the site in Wouldn'tBoat.

Later. Got half a mug of CPES sitting here to finish with my yellow cedar sandwich.

[Tar Devil]

"4000+ - Genuis level. and all around good looking too!"

In my case, only after the entire contents of a bottle of single malt...

Make mine Lagavulan...

[Joe Sengl]

mmmmmmmmmmm charred oak barrel ribs!

[Syd MacDonald]

They all sound pretty good but I drank all mine when it was cheep.
Then I discouvered how good P.E.I. water is. Right out of the pump.

[Biofish]

Ok.. you guys have been sniffing too much epoxy...

I can just picture it.... your sailing down the eastern coast line.. The wind is blowing through what little hair you have left....Your beer belly is actually keeping the tack straight... Your thighs are flapping in the breeze... The skipper mumbles somthing about a "Rhumb line".. So you perk up and say "WHAT?... Rum line???!!!..WHERE???"

ahh but you gotta love it.

Rob

[ 04-29-2002, 10:41 PM: Message edited by: Biofish ]

[Wilson Fitt]

Snow flurries mixed with rain all day today. We stocked the liquor locker with a new bottle of Laphrohaig, turned the trusty cabin heater up to high and were underway for the first time this season, from our winter berth to the "summer" mooring. The outlook is fine.

[Bpolk]

Remember, that and $50 will get you a bottle of Single Malt Scotch.

I make sure to ScotchGuard my body every evening.

Old Bob, landlocked in Oregon

[Hal Forsen]

I love the old Lap Robe! Dead bodies and seaweed aged in a bag pipe! A wee taste of the west country mon.
Slainte' Mhor!
HF

[ 10-03-2004, 09:54 PM: Message edited by: Hal Forsen ]

[rdapron]

269 clamps... Now I need to get back to the shop and count the # 8 bronze screws...

[TimH]

If I lived on Mercer Island, I would have more than 269 clamps :D

[Kev Smyth]

:D

[john j henderson]

you know, if we would just launch our boats and go down island, a bottle of rum can be had for a little over $5.00; after the first bottle, you will not care that much about the taste of the second.

BTW, I have only 9 clamps, must be really something wrong with my IQ

[Dale Genther]

I have far more clamps than my member number. I'm not sure where that puts me on the IQ scale.

[paladin]

Youse guys drink some gawdawful rotgut.....
120 years old brandy......goes down like pure spring water.......sorta like a bottle of Chateau LaFitte Rothchild, 1928........

[Kermit]

This one's still active? More'n I can say of mesel'. Back to--what was I doing?

[Willin']

My number doesn't seem to have changed, although how would I know? I drank a bit of Cachaca a while back and seem to have misplaced some brain cells somewhere and haven't yet found them.

A few years back, we were in a Mexican restaurant in Auckland when I spotted a bottle of Pitu (don't know why a Mex/Kiwi joint would even have it) wedged away in a dark corner of the top shelf. Neither brother nor wife had ever had any so I talked the bartender into making us caipirinhas, and we made a serious dent in the bottle. Fortunately it was a short crawl back to the boat that night. Next time we came in, the bartender told us he'd nearly been fired for selling the owner's private stash.

In the backwoods of Northeast Brazil they drank cachaca con mel (raw honey). Lots of smiling people with really bad teeth there.

[Ian Wright]

,,,,,,,,,,,, but how many numbers are dormant?

Tobermory 14 year old malt, ithenkuverymuch,,,,,,

IanW

[Matt J.]

I have far fewer clamps then the member number, but I'm working on it... and I just tried Tullamore Dew whiskey recently, and it ain't half bad. Last time I tried Johnnie Walker, it half burned my mouth and throat off. Rum? Gosling dark rum is fine stuff, or Pusser's Dark in a painkiller. OK, back to the garage for me.

[Boomkin Joe]

http://www.digitalelvis.com/trek5/images/features/prisoner.jpg

[Bob Adams]

Originally posted by skuthorp:
I prefer The Glenlivet personally, then maybe Talisker. (I thought everybody counted their clamps)Yeap....The Glenlivet, not enough ooooooo's in smooth to discribe it!

[Joe ( Cold Spring on Hudson )]

Originally posted by Gresham CA:
Evan Williams and branch water.http://media5.hypernet.com/ubb/icons/icon14.gif

[mygoatboy]

Originally posted by Boomkin Joe:
http://www.digitalelvis.com/trek5/images/features/prisoner.jpgI love the prisoner!

[Boomkin Joe]

I guess Portmeirion isn't a bad place to sip some Glenlivet while watching The Prisoner. :cool:

(In retrospect and for all its nonsense, the only series ever that had some substance, IMO.)

[W. Anchor]

Well, t'ain't the lowest, but I stalked for days to get this 'un.

[Wild Wassa]

Originally posted by Boomkin Joe:
"Prisoner ... the only series ever that had some substance."

Is that the old Australian series called 'Prisoner', about Australian women prisoners? Mate it's a true story, I knew the electrician. He was a hard man.

The best incarceration programme on the planet is shot in the US and is called 'OZ' ... coincidentally. Get with the programme.

Warren.

[Boomkin Joe]

Not that one, Wild Wassa. I meant the Brit programme with P.McGoohan. An Orwellian tale, but low-deep a mix of Wonderland laced with Hume/Berkeleyan questioning of reality vs semblance.
Very special indeed! :D

[imported_Dutch]

ive been called the lowest member that has a number

[Jim Pooler]

Well I'll bet I have the highest number. At least for today.

[katiedobe]

Lots of drinking going on here.

[joejapan]

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The boatowners do a little bit of drinking over my way too. Mostly imported from the Green Isle, but the local sake is absolutely delicious, it goes down like silk and lulls you off to lala land. :D

By the way, this lady above, katiedope, is from an incredibly beautiful, interesting place. I sure wish we could talk her into posting a few photos.

Katie, I had a girlfriend a number of years ago that graduated from the teacher's college there. I went with her to visit her former teacher. There were only five or six thousand people there back then and some really fine old wooden boats. I've often wondered how it is thesedays.

[Kermit]

FIVE digits!!! Katie--WOW!!!

:D ;) tongue.gif ;) :D

[ 02-13-2006, 10:24 PM: Message edited by: Kermit ]

[Charlie Santi]

#16 guess I have been around awhile.

[Alan D. Hyde]

Yes, Charlie, so you have.

And will stay with us quite a bit longer, we hope, despite the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune...

Alan & Joy Hyde