National Shortage?

Re: National Shortage?

Mike Schwing from Md.

>That doesn't surprise me in the least. Retailers and their suppliers keep their stock very lean these days, and analysis of national sales data is so good that it is a regular thing to have the last item of something go out the door just as the most recent arrival is being put on the sales floor. Any interruption in the equation that isn't forecasted will change that scenario for a while. A few months from now, when we've all bought our alcohol and tried our experiment, the shelves will be overflowing with alcohol. Just like duct tape after 9/11.

I know I've purchased six gallons in the past few months. Previous to that I doubt I purchased 1 gallon cumulative for my entire life. There must be at least a few hundred people out there who have tried this in the last few weeks.

I remarked a couple of weeks ago that I wouldn't be surprised if Homeland Security was on the case, because the sudden disappearance of such a potent fuel from national shelves has to be noticed by someone, eh?

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jared

>Hello: I just bought mine yesterday, 3 gallons because that was all the store had at 9.50 per gallon. I have never bought any before in my life. By the looks of the cans, they had been on the shelf for a while. By the way it was a large hardware/farm supply place. Jared

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Raymond Overman

>Don the tin foil hats my friends. You're all on the list just for typing "denatured alchohol". They're definitely monitoring all us Woodcentral subversive types.

And why shouldn't they? We are all reclusive, obssesive, and have a skewed perspective of perfection. We spend hours by ourselves in basements or shops. We're all chemists (some amateur, others professional). We all have sharp objects. Many of us have organized into groups to discuss what we do in those basements and shops. It's just a wonder that the news hasn't broken nationally and they've rounded us all up.

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Mike Schwing from Md.

>If you only knew how subversive some of us truly are....

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Raymond Overman

>Well, there's your final nail in the coffin Mike. They are on their way.

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Dick Hines

>When you buy your alcohol just don't say anything about buying bread.

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Tom Mullane

>Mike your too close to the Homeland Security Office to making remarks like that... LOL..

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jared

>You know what, that thought occurred to me at the time, and thought of saying something to the clerk, but I didnt think anyone else would pick up on it. I dont know if it works or not but I dont think I want to run any experiments on myself. Jared

Sorry Dave....

Stuart Johnson

>I'm sorry Dave but if Homeland Security sets a $25,000,000 price tag on your head I'm going to talk. Heck, It'll only cost them $2,000,000 if they make the offer prior to the new year.

Bread doesn't work, its an urban myth

Dave Smith, Longview, WA

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My wife would beat you to the reward.

Dave Smith, Longview, WA

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Rob Bourgeois, NW Mississippi

>You are in deep trouble Mike...especially once they find out about that Jack alias

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Fog Tanner

>There are two (and probably more) that will tell you it doesn't work. One is blind, the other is brain damaged, and the third died. Pretty sad when you can't wait till shore leave.

Damn Raymond, you just...

BubbaBob

>...gave the clinical psyc description of an alcoholic...DAMHIKT.

BubbaBob

Searchin' fer corn squeezin's...

fer my bowls, damnit...FER MY BOWLS!!!

Something we oughtta know, Mike?

BubbaBob

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Re: Bread doesn't work, its an urban myth

Dick Hines

>Young drunks, there no old drunks that used to do this. They would strain Sturno through bread and drink what came out. Did not stay young doing that.

Re: Bread doesn't work, its an urban myth

Fog Tanner

>The sterno eaters down in my part of the country used to just eat it with a spoon since its a gel. Guess it was like jello for them, never could get see that - even in '67...course the ones that I knew that did that are long gone - first the eyes and then the mind...

Myself, I prefer the smell of fresh nitro (nitromethe) in the morning. Talk about a way to start the day of 200 mph+ airracing. If that doesn't clear the sinus and make you swear off everything but coffee....

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Tom Mullane

>I aint ratting out Mike until after he picks and pays for the pens I made for him... LOL...

Then the reward is mine..... LOL