Haven't had Bushmills- will give that a shot soon. Jamesons & Tullamore I have had and liked them- still partial to Bourbon though.
Riddler- "Deliverance" actually isn't too far off - The stories I have told people about growing up in Coal Mining Country in Eastern Kentucky are usually taken as jokes. Wood shacks, inbreeding, banjo-picking, snake-handling churches.. it was all there, and all real. The flip side was that many of those people, mostly the older generations, were really good people. Not at all "savvy" or street smart, but as far as ingenuity and instinct go, they had it covered. I would even say that most of them would, as "backwards" as we would perceive them to be, would fit right in with the crowd here, politically speaking.
hey-ho hb (i'm sorry...i can't call you that anymore..unless you're some sort of major corporate mogul..."HB, the helicopter is waiting to take you to the Kennedy compound", or some such..it's too far a stretch, i'd say, to go from hellbilly to something obnoxiously highbrow)
anyway, as i said, no personal digs on the familial rootage; those ARE the peeps i want to be around. good times or bad, they always take care o' one another. i pretty much have that now, ceptin' these fellers have dental plans, mostly.
i also ain't caught a buddy fuckin' a goat .....yet
not sayin' you or your's does, mindin' you
ain't none-a mah bidniss , anyhow