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2007-08-20 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

Distilling the Muslim World's First 20-Year-Old Whisky

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Posted by anonymous5089 2007-08-20 10:02|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 The Pak dictator Yahya Khan was quite fond of his whiskey, as were his opponents...

During the 1971 war, the Indian army commander Sam Manekshaw was admonished by the Indian PM Indira Gandhi when she walked into the operations room and saw a bottle of whiskey and 3 glasses on the table.

"Madam, the brand of the whiskey is Black Dog, the same that General Yahya Khan drinks. I shall outdrink him and I shall outfight him".

Posted by john frum 2007-08-20 12:09|| 2007-08-20 12:09|| Front Page Top

#2 Now that would be camel piss right?

Posted by Icerigger 2007-08-20 12:41|| 2007-08-20 12:41|| Front Page Top

#3 After he was deposed, Yahya Khan was provided with a bottle of whiskey and a copy of Playboy regularly.

At one base, he was cursed on the tarmac by some PAF airmen... 'What is the matter with them?" he asked. "Did someone take away their she-goat?"

Posted by john frum 2007-08-20 12:52|| 2007-08-20 12:52|| Front Page Top

#4 When Yahyaa Khan attended the 2500 years of Monarchy in Iran during the rule of the Shah, he
was so drunk on Black dog that he pissed himself right on the dais.

He was also drunk in 1947, and too busy with his mistress, in a safe-house near Srinagar to give orders. Reportedly he let the looting Pashtuns continue on their rampage instead of moving onto Srinagar. The Indians beat him to it.

Posted by john frum 2007-08-20 13:04|| 2007-08-20 13:04|| Front Page Top

#5 More whiskey tales...

1971

Dictator Yahya Khan, was drunk, sitting in a hole just dug behind the commander in chief's house at army headquarters in Rawalpindi with a couple of sandbags over his head to protect him against Indian bombs.

He had just met the US Ambassador who tried to tell him that he was on his own. Yahya was still hoping that Nixon would save him.

The ambassador was literally pulled away by his military attache, Chuck Yeager. "We've got to get out of here right now," said Yeager.

"Why?" Yeager explained that for some fool reason Khan had ordered a few of his planes to attack airfields in India. Probably Khan thought a few explosions would persuade Nixon to send in the Marines. Now, said Yeager, the Indians are going to send in bombers and the Pakistanis were going to send up their entire air force to dogfight. When the Pakistanis landed to refuel, the Indian bombers would turn for home, but a second Indian wave would arrive and destroy Pakistan's air force while it was all on the ground with empty gas tanks.

Posted by john frum 2007-08-20 13:11|| 2007-08-20 13:11|| Front Page Top

#6 Excellent stories, JF!

Posted by anonymous5089 2007-08-20 14:04|| 2007-08-20 14:04|| Front Page Top

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