UCLA Bruins

[aTm]

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[Bklyn]

better than expected. I found myself impressed after a while...and he saved his status from falling to full Kentucky nerd-dom by rattling off the improv at the end.

[hedge]

I don't even watch the show and that was good...

[eCat]

I got tickets to see Eddie Izzard in a couple of weeks.

Its been awhile since I've seen a comedian in concert - a real concert and not some comedy club. I guess Eddie Murphy was the last

[AlabamAlum]

I saw Ron White a few weeks back.

[eCat]

Did he have new material?

[AlabamAlum]

Yeah. The Dr. Phil stuff and whatnot. It was actually disappointing. It was in a beautiful, historic theater (The Alabama Theater), but the sound system was shit. I didn't hear half of it.

The bar was also disappointing. Asked for bourbon and given Jack. And it was a one ounce pour. Not even 1.25.

[eCat]

I could have got floor seats for Izzard but I took front row balcony seats instead.

The balcony has more fun I think

[AlabamAlum]

I was front row balcony for Ron White.

[hedge]

Is Jack Daniels not considered bourbon (if that's what you were referring to when you said Jack)? I thought it was listed as Tennessee sour maish whiskey, which I call bourbon. Of course, my parents and their age friends refer to any liquor at all as whiskey...

I've been listening to the raw comedy channel on XM. Good stuff...

[aTm]

They don't market it as bourbon but it meets all the requirements.

[AlabamAlum]

JD is not bourbon. While its components are similar to bourbon, the filtration process they use robs the very heart and soul from it and makes it into something different.

[AlabamAlum]

And the fine folks at JD will tell you themselves that its not bourbon.

That said, I am okay with JD, the way I am okay with Curry Sark or Dewer's. It's fine when free (wedding, any place with an open bar, friend's house), but if I have to purchase a brown liquor, it's not even a consideration usually.

[aTm]

I agree that it changes it, but theoretically some bourbon maker could add the same pre-aging filtration process JD undergoes to their bourbon and it wouldn't be a problem selling it as bourbon except to tens of people like you.

[AlabamAlum]

There is no doubt that it changes it. It removes a host of compounds and esters that give Bourbon a distinctive flavor. While, legally, because of a raw ingredient similarity, they may be able to call something that goes through extensive charcoal filtration "bourbon" I would no more consider it the same (regardless of how it was marketed) than I would consider Crown a type of Scotch.

[hedge]

So what is the definition of bourbon? I know JD and George Dickel are listed as Tennessee whiskeys, as opposed to the more common Kentucky whiskey, and I know JD at least has something about charcoal filtering, but I've never been able to tell much difference b/w JD and any other whiskey (I mean american whiskey, of course). In fairness, though, I don't drink much American whiskey...

[AlabamAlum]

If you can't tell a diff, Hedge, then it doesn't really matter. Drink Seagram's 7 with your root beer and bitters and be happy. It gets the job done.

[eCat]

oooooohhh snap!

[hedge]

The main reason it doesn't matter is b/c I rarely drink bourbon. But I am open to suggestions on what would be the bourbon of choice in, say, an Old Fashioned...

[hedge]

Speaking of Segrams, I used to date Edgar Brofman's goddaughter...