Shoe by Gary Brookins and Susie MacNelly for July 23, 2010

a man with his priorities straight! (not to mention his scotch.)

To heck with water, they need soda to go with the scotch.

i drink Scotch straight or not at all.

Don’t water down the scotch

That’s a pretty spacey wish.

Wow, they could charge for the rides to help the deficit that NASA helped rack up?

Barbarians drink single malt “on the rocks”. The totally uncouth add soda. Total idiots gulp it. Connoisseurs sip and draw out the experience as long as possible. No words for the ones who get drunk on it.

Why would I ruin good Scotch with water, soda, or ice?

How do you drink Scotch in zero gravity?

You’re absolutely right, ses1066. You don’t abuse a single malt scotch.

Doesn’t the seventh commandment forbid adding water to good whisky?

rye whiskey rye whiskey rye whiskey why rum!

Actually - The Jet Propulsion Lab’s MER rovers, Phoenix lander and the Oddessy Orbiter have all verified that there is water on Mars in the form of sub-surface ice and that Mars was once much wetter than now. The Moon Mineralogy Mapper instrument on India’s Chandrayaan spacecraft as well as (I think) the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter’s Diviner Instrument have discovered that there is strong evidence for water ice in permanently shadowed crater walls on the Moon.

But they don’t put it in the single malt. Blended works with iced tea, when it’s 110º out.