uk.people.disability

®i©ardo wrote:
> R. Mark Clayton wrote:
>> wrote in message
>> news: @ ...
>>> On 31 Aug, 00:42, pete wrote:
>>>> It is becoming dangerously worse. A chap locally was given an ABSO
>>>> and forbidden to drink aftershave. He was caught drinking
>>>> aftershave and jailed for three years later reduced to 18 months.
>>> What does aftershave taste like?
>>
>> A member of the England Rugby team tried it once - ended up in a
>> French (IIRC) hospital. (100ml at 70% on top of a skinful, meant he
>> was lucky) Also during the first gulf war British soldiers based in Saudi
>> were
>> all sent a bottle of "Highland Spring" aftershave for Xmas by the
>> MOD. Apparently this tasted remarkably like Scotch - perhaps there
>> was a mix up at the labelling plant...
>>
>>> --
>>> x If you have been, was it bitter?
>>> /|\
>>>
>>
>>
> Even the girls got one?
>
> There is a "Highland Spring" on the market, but that's bottled water
> from a "pure" source somewhere in Scotland, which probably means out
> of a tap.

The story is slightly inaccurate. Although, it does have a basis in truth.
In actual fact, squaddies in Saudi desperate for a drink discovered that if
they filtered certain brands of aftershave through bread they had *procured*
from the cookhouse, it removed the impurities and left them with
more-or-less pure alcohol, which when mixed with orange juice or something
similar, was just about drinkable.
As a result, requests started flooding back to the UK for friends and family
to post out bottles of this certain specific brands of after shave.