Irish car bomb

[Rowan McMullin]

Irish Car Bombs:

Guinness with a shot of Bailey's dropped inside.

Hope this helps...

On 11/14/06, James A. Landau <JJJRLandau at netscape.com> wrote:
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> Another coworker, this one with the very English name of "Tamar Marple",
> said that she once had a drink called an "Irish car bomb" but didn't know
> what it was made of.
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> Barry?  Does your day job extend to expertise on car bombs?
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> Aside to Wilson Gray---"There's always five percent who don't get the
> word" was, in my experience, not a humorous barracks expression like "junk
> on the bunk" but rather a serious proverb drummed into officers and
> non-coms.  It is very good advice for high-level managers in any
> organization, military or civilian.
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> A couple of notes on the ineradicable illiteracy of the US Army:  in Basic
> Training we had coffeecans nailed onto posts in the barracks for
> cigarettes.  Each can was carefully labelled "buttes only".  I believe I was
> the only man in my platoon to notice the possibilities of that one.
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> But US Army illiteracy is not limited to the grunts.  At the Pentagon I
> met a piece of social-climbing illiteracy: in the announcement of some
> formal event, it was stated that "champaign" would be served.
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> Chairborne!
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>    - Jim
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