November 28, 2004
Glencannon
A wee smattering of Guy Gilpatric’s non-PC tales featuring the crusty yet highly flammable Colin Glencannon and his beloved swig of choice: Duggan's Dew of Kirkintilloch.
“Prying open the Teutonic mouth, he poured into it approximately one pint. It was a hundred and fifty proof, and the results were stupendous. Mate Schneider coughed explosively, sprang to his feet, saluted, and shouted "Achtung!"”
via the not-recently-updated Internets discussion list “Gaslight” from Mount Royal College in loverly Calgary, Alberta
Somehow beeswacky reminds me of Glencannon, for no particular reason ...
Thanks, Fishy! This is lovely. I only wish there was more. My Dad, an ex-navy man, is a big Gilpatric fan and whenever we have a scotch together we call it a "tumbler of Duggan's Dew". Some of the Glencannon stories are among the funniest I've ever read.
islander: do ye know the one aboot the wager over cat sweat?
Ye can find Glencannon books fairly often on ebay.
Aye, they sweat through their wee feet, lassie.
There's a bunch of antiquarian book stores down in Sidney (BC, the left one) wherein I found a copy of the Glencannon Omnbibus for me old Dad's birthday a while back.
Bless yer soul, laddie- glad ye got the omnbibulous.
I likes Sidney; they spells it right some good.
Yer either omnbibus or yer not.
Green to green,
Red to red,
Foosh to the world!
I'm off to bed.
'night, islander.
fish tick, I grew up reading these tales, among others -- Gilpatric had a keen eye for character.
Not so devoted to the omnibibullion, though now and again I take a dram or two.
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