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Posted by: BA | December 3, 2009 2:22 PM

He let Jameson go when they shared a snifter full. Can't fault him for that!

Posted by: Brownian, Most Vicious & Petty of Pharyngulites | December 3, 2009 2:29 PM

He let Jameson go when they shared a snifter full. Can't fault him for that!

Yep. Now, if it were Bushmills, the 'pode might not have been so accommodating.

Posted by: blf | December 3, 2009 2:45 PM

Is there some kind of holy war between fans of Bushmills and Jameson…?

Possibly, but who cares: Both are heathens. Single-malts, now those are worth a holy war!

Posted by: Aratina Cage | December 3, 2009 2:47 PM

He was gone for weeks and he looks drunk as a skunk at the end of the video. All I can think of is that John Jameson must have had a knife somewhere and was able to dismember the poor octopus, used its suction-cupped tentacle as a lasso to drag the keg up to the surface, and then survived on tako sashimi and whiskey as he swam to shore.

Posted by: F | December 3, 2009 2:55 PM

The octopus got loaded. How the heck do you think Jameson managed to surface that barrel? The density was lowered.

Posted by: TaishaMcGee | December 3, 2009 3:12 PM

Megashark came along with some business that needed to be dealt with.

Posted by: The Science Pundit | December 3, 2009 3:16 PM

Is there some kind of holy war between fans of Bushmills and Jameson…?

I used to work with a Jameson fan from Cork, and (according to him) Bushmills is an Orangeman's whiskey from the North, and he would sooner drink Scotch "that piss".

Posted by: Xavier Ninnis | December 3, 2009 3:18 PM

@6

"speaking of videos, eddie izzard has reference to giant squid on noahs ark, but you'll have to find his facebook post. i haven't seen it anywheres else."

Posted by: Romeo Vitelli | December 3, 2009 3:32 PM

The octopus went off to found an underwater chapter of AA.

Posted by: 'Tis Himself, Quel Dommage | December 3, 2009 3:50 PM

Is there some kind of holy war between fans of Bushmills and Jameson...?

Supposedly Bushmill's is the Protestant whiskey and Jameson's is the Catholic whiskey. Bushmill's is distilled in County Antrim in Northern Ireland and Jameson's is distilled in Cork in Erie.

The founder of Jameson's was a Scotch Protestant Unionist. Jameson's is claimed as Catholic because it's produced in a majority Catholic area, but the Jameson family is Protestant.

I'm not a fan of Bushmill's or Jameson's. Two much better Irish whiskeys are Red Breast and Connemara. Red Breast is one that bourbon drinkers will like and Connemara is full of smoke and peat like an Islay Scotch whisky.

Posted by: Peter Ashby | December 3, 2009 3:57 PM

Connemara is full of smoke and peat like an Islay Scotch whisky

Dammit, up until now I had managed to think all Irish Whiskey is like Bushmills or Jamesons, less interesting than an average Speysider (that is an insult btw). Now I shall have to seek out Connemara since I am a smoke and peat freak. If you tell me it also tastes of seaweed, I may have to kill you.

Posted by: Tom | December 3, 2009 4:10 PM

To Brownian #3:

Bushmills - now you're talking! Bushmills is nectar. Oldest distellery in the british isles as well. We even (kindly) let the scots in on the secret. Mind you, Jamesons will do when the Bushmills runs out.

**ducks**

Posted by: JSC_ltd | December 3, 2009 4:30 PM

Still laughing @ 24, mythusmage. That's it exactly!

Posted by: oinonio | December 3, 2009 5:01 PM

Jameson was being environmental, and bringing back the empty for recycling.

Posted by: Al Cibiades | December 3, 2009 5:43 PM

What I find interesting is the music in the background of the ad. How many of you know what it is? (Its real classical music, not psuedo classical that's in some ads.)

And I'm pleased the American Expresses ad also uses a lovely classical piece (cello) which was even in a famous movie. No copyright problems.. the composer died hundreds of years ago.

Well, I guess I labeled myself as an old fogey...

Posted by: Diane Richards | December 3, 2009 5:58 PM

drink sharing theory may be spot on. Check out this from a dive buddy's clip gallery--we were ringing in the New Year underwater off Vancouver Island and a giant pacific joined in the fun

http://www.metridium.com/movies/octonewyear.html

Posted by: Art | December 3, 2009 6:24 PM

First thing I noted is that a barrel full of whiskey would float. The barrel, alcohol and fresh water combined weigh less than a similar volume of seawater. This assumed that the barrel is absolutely full. Any air pocket in the barrel would just make it float higher.

Second, the octopus is just there checking things out. Neither Jameson nor his barrel are sea creatures so odds are the octopus just cuddled them a bit and let them go. Then again maybe Jameson offered him a drink. Luckily the octopus wasn't a single malt man of it would have gone the other way.

Posted by: Andy James | December 3, 2009 7:38 PM

I was thinking exactly the same thing. I want to know more about this gregarious cephalopod with good taste in spirits.

Posted by: Luke | December 3, 2009 8:23 PM

@19:

3 cheers for a Red Breast mention!

Knappogue Castle is a cheap Irish single malt I started drinking a few years back. I recommend it. I'll have to try Connemara if it's available here.

Posted by: Copernicus | December 3, 2009 8:53 PM

@Luke #37

Knappogue Castle is a cheap Irish single malt

not sure about that- to be a a single malt (Scotch whisky or Irish whiskey) not only does it have to be produced from a single distillery but also made entirely from one type of malted grain- Knappogue Castle is made from both malted and unmalted barley...

Posted by: Copernicus | December 3, 2009 9:05 PM

re. me @39 (and Luke @37)

yeah, I know they call it "single malt" but...!

What do you call a group of Irish men standing around in the middle of a field?

Posted by: chuckgoecke | December 3, 2009 10:40 PM

This reminds me, I think I have a partial fifth of Jameson's squirreled away in our fairly inaccessible rollaway folding bar thingy that was 8 or 10 years old back in 1990. I bet that bottle is all dusty and stuff. Now, if only there were some Klingons I needed to drink under the table.

Posted by: Penny | December 4, 2009 2:26 AM

#10
"I wish I could carry a barrel full of whiskey like that! Sheesh, I'm so weak compared to those Brits."

I don't think the Irish would appreciate being called Brits...

Posted by: Penguin_Factory | December 4, 2009 5:49 AM

"All of Ireland" attended? There must have been a LOT of people just off camera in that shot.....

"Sheesh, I'm so weak compared to those Brits."

Irish people aren't "Brits" :P

Posted by: Copernicus | December 4, 2009 7:52 AM

What do you call a group of Irish men standing around in the middle of a field?

a thicket!

Luke, I kmow I'm a purist (technically, like other Irish "single malts", when you mix the grain it's not single) but because "single malt" is more like the word "brie", there is no real stipulation as to it's method unlike "champagne" or "port", so it tends to e thrown around a bit ... I grew up in a boarding school in Aberlour on the River Spey, literally within a stone's throw of 30 of the finest distilleries in Scotland:Aberlour, the Balvenie, Craigellachie, Cardhu, Dufftown, Glenfiddich, the Glenlivet, the Macallan, Tamnavullin, etc! We could chew on the oak twigs on the sports fields and taste the malt...

Posted by: randombloke | December 4, 2009 10:40 AM

Real whisky comes from Kentucky or Tennessee.

Posted by: chgo_liz | December 4, 2009 11:14 AM

Thank you, EboTebo. I will look for the Connemara as well.

Copernicus, I am so jealous.