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- From: scairns@is.morgan.com (Scott Cairns)
- Subject: Re: boat drinks
- Message-ID: <1992Nov18.110937@is.morgan.com>
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- References: <28169@castle.ed.ac.uk> <1992Nov16.085627.17074@alcatel.no> <1252@tekcae.cax.tek.com> <1992Nov16.224008.9918@leland.Stanford.EDU>
- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 16:09:37 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov16.224008.9918@leland.Stanford.EDU>, stefan@leland.Stanford.EDU (Stefan Michalowski) writes:
- |> In article <1252@tekcae.cax.tek.com> paulh@tekcae.cax.tek.com (Paul Hammer) writes:
- |> >>As a passing reference, I recently saw a TV program about the Carribean where
- |> >>grog was said to be the acronym for 'Good Rum Of Grenada'. Anybody know if
- |> >>this is true? I.e. when did the Royal Navy start to use the term 'grog'?
- |> >
- |> >It's false. Grog is named after a certain Captain Grog whom was
- |> >the first to cut the rum ration...
- |>
- |> Didn't Humphrey Bogart play Captain Grog in a movie about a WWII minesweeper?
- |> Seriously, folks, grog was named for Admiral Something-or-other of the
- |> Royal Navy who was a bit of a party-pooper and first started watering down
- |> the hooch. His nickname was "Old Grog" becuase of the grogram (a kind of coarse
- |> fabric) cloak that he wore on deck. I'll look up the details in the Oxford
- |> Companion when I get home.
- |>
- |> Stefan
-
- I can confirm Stefan's account regarding the origin of the term "Grog" as related
- to the cloak that the Admiral who issued the order wore. It's in a book I'm
- reading on the British Virgin Islands (where I'm headed next week!) on the origin
- of Pusser's Rum.
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