The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #52458   Message #804037
Posted By: Beer
15-Oct-02 - 10:28 PM
Thread Name: Folklore: Moonshine (2)
Subject: RE: BS: Moonshine (2)
Do you remember " Flip Wilson"? Well if you don't, he used the phrase " The Devil Made Me Do it".
Back when I was around 4 or 5 living on that beautiful Province of Prince Edward Island, Dad had a Mobel T Ford which he placed in a ditch one evening coming home from a visit after fishing. I never forgot that. When I got a little older I came to find out that the house we stopped at was a very good place to get shine. As far as I'm concerned, dad was my hero for that line " The devil made me do it".
1954 we moved to Nova Scotia. The small community was a hornet's nest for bootleggers (Spelling?). Well I guess Dad new what he was doing. In this community of approxmately 300, I counted 52 who ran shine and Malt beer.
Beer.