Patriotic liquor ad: Give the Axis the high hat! (But not in the rain.)
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Loose lips DO sink ships. And there is no better way to loosen lips than to get profoundly lubricated with Kessler’s Blended Whiskey.
Smooth but not high hat: so, it’s not so uppity as to look down on you, is that it?
Whiskey? Okay, never would have guessed that.
Note to self: In future Out of Context Solutions, Always guess:
1. Laxatives!
2. Booze…
OOCA? Dang I totally missed it yesterday. What was I thinking.
Here is my true report of the drinkability of Kessler’s;
A smooth start, harsh mouthfeel with a finish of broken, burning glass.
The cartoonist is Jay Irving. I knew it looked familiar (aside from the Wimpy resemblance).
http://lambiek.net/artists/i/irving_jay.htm
About Kessler – when I was a lad, living in a group house, we had a roommate who was a Scotch snob. One night we carefully removed the tax stamps from two bottles – Kessler and a single malt – resealed them and gave them to him. He made such a big show about appreciating the quality of the “better” scotch that we were appalled and never told him. Today he is a Lutheran minister in rural Minnesota and still doesn’t know. He could proabbly handle it now.
er – “switched the contents and resealed them”, that is.
But Hatt is about to kick Hi off the platform — for WHAT? They are in agreement, are they not? Or is it that Hi has in fact heard a wartime rumour and foolishly told some guy, who turned out to be an Axis spy? In which case he deserves the kick and all that follows. (But how reliable are wartime rumours, anyway? “My pal sez he’s gonna be shovin’ off tomorrow mornin’ at oh-three-hunnert and steaming straight for Liverpool at a steady six knots, is what I heard. No zig-zag, just straight for Liverpool. Or maybe it was oh-ten-hunnert and Murmansk at nine knots.”)
See, I was right. It was “rumor control”– only now with cheap whiskey.
In my college days we bought Kessler’s because it was the cheapest, and drinking it really was like trying to choke down a silk tie.
With a name like ‘Kessler’, it’s easy to see why they’d make it a point to be very publicly anti-Axis.
The phrase “high hat” makes me think of Miller’s Crossing, a very nice Coen Brothers offering and one of my faves. Great script.
Personally, I never drink liquor that costs less than gasoline…