by Aimrehtopyh » Fri 15 Jun 2007, 13:11:12
...stock up NOW.
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'J')ack Daniels water supply is running low and putting the century-plus whiskey business in jeopardy...
...For more than 140 years this spring, known as Cave Spring, has been the water supply for Jack Daniels. It is one of the most essential parts of the whiskey’s recipie...
...What will happen if the spring goes dry?
“If we can’t use what it takes to make Jack Daniels I suspect we won’t make Jack Daniels until we get all the ingredients we need,” Hamilton said.
Link to whole story$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', '[')b]What now remains of the formerly rich land is like the skeleton of a sick man, with all the fat and soft earth having wasted away and only the bare framework remaining. Formerly, many of the mountains were arable. The plains that were full of rich soil are now marshes. Hills that were once covered with forests and produced abundant pasture now produce only food for bees. Once the land was enriched by yearly rains, which were not lost, as they are now by flowing from bare land into the sea. The soil was deep, it absorbed, and kept the water in the loamy soil, and the water that soaked into the hills fed springs and running streams everywhere.
Now the abandoned shrines at spots where formerly there were springs attest that our description of the land is true.’ Plato Dialogues (in Hillel 1991:104)
At the moment I'm at a loss as to what else to say about this. Somebody make a zombie joke quick, before I start to cry.