18 Oct
2010
18 Oct
'10
5:16 p.m.
I do believe that Whitney invented cotton gin as
counterpoint to the
really terrible wool vermouth of the time. He probably liked his
martinis VERY dry.
I am loathe to extend this off topic further, but I can't pass up
this lead in...
For several decades my family was in the cotton ginning business.
(As a slight nod to classic computing, I wrote a management system
for the gin about 20 years ago.) So when dad was in college he
was dating this one girl. When he told her that his family had a
cotton gin, she responded:
"I didn't know they made gin out of cotton!"
BLS