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I know I have enjoyed a great deal of merriment and bourbon, together, over the years. So how to explain how seldom the word appears in a context of humor? Most words with two ’s in them are good for a couple of laughs: and so on. Maybe guffaws are restrained in the face of the word by the fact that it derives (by way of a county in Kentucky) from a line of French evokes, however faintly, a shivering rabbit. Bourbon, I suppose, is not to be lightly bandied about. After all, it has been aged in new, thoroughly charred oak barrels. A six-bottle selection of a certain brand of bourbon costs more than I paid for my first house.
