It's High Time I Developed a Scotch Habit

[BlackCat]

Bug's suggestions are good - especially waiting a bit with the Isle of Islays - they certainly has their own "charm"

Another good starter could be Dalwhinnie.

[Elok]

I agree, if you're ever going to be a whisky snob, you need to get rid of the ice. Even I know that much. I think it also helps to spell it 'whisky,' that's the foreign spelling.

[Imran Siddiqui]

As for the Scotch, dump it. Rumplemintz is my current drink of choice, that, and chilled vodka. Can't beat it

As if I needed another reason to hate you!

[Asher]

I wonder if Floyd says Rumplemintz with a lisp...

[MikeH]

I don't know why you would label them stupid. It's just the older way of naming. Read a few older English novels and it's all Scotch, not Scots. Educate yourself.

No, Educate YOURself! Yes, it was a historical way of saying it, but it is now annoying / mildly offensive. Lots of historical American novels use the N word to describe people with dark skin, should I assume that because it's common in historical literature I should use it freely now? Scotch is not as offensive as that, but it illustrates the stupidity of assuming a phrase in an old book is still used and accepted in the same way.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scotch_(adjective)

"Scotch" if applied to people is widely considered mildly pejorative. However, 'Scotch' is still in occasional use in England and Ireland, and common use in North America.

I'm married to a Scottish woman and I see her (her family, everyone else in Scotland) get annoyed every time someone uses 'Scotch' incorrectly. eg. "I'm not a whiskey!"

[Dinner]

My grandparents and father (who are all from Scotland) really got pissy when someone called them Scotch instead of Scottish.

[Barnabas]

Doesn't drinking scotch strike anybody as a bit bourgeois for a commie?

But he used a plastic cup

[MikeH]

My grandparents and father (who are all from Scotland) really got pissy when someone called them Scotch instead of Scottish.

[Cort Haus]

I'm married to a Scottish woman and I see her (her family, everyone else in Scotland) get annoyed every time someone uses 'Scotch' incorrectly. eg. "I'm not a whiskey!"

Great way of winding 'em up though.

[self biased]

I had too much Scotch and beer today at the BBQ and ended up falling asleep in the middle of the party. Apparently I snored way to loud for everyone.

dude, your snoring could be heard from orbit.

[Krill]

Cheap scotch is only goo when added to crap beer.

[MikeH]

Great way of winding 'em up though.

[Dinner]

dude, your snoring could be heard from orbit.

I agree.

[MikeH]

Nuke Oerdin from orbit, it's the only way to be sure.

[DanS]

I love A.J.P. Taylor's quote from that Wiki article...

Some inhabitants of Scotland now call themselves Scots and their affairs Scottish. They are entitled to do so. The English word for both is Scotch, just as we call les français the French and Deutschland Germany. Being English, I use it.

Yes, he's in my bookcase.