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ANOTHER DRINK familiar to those of us who remember Prohibition days is bootleg whiskey, and some moonshiners in the Ozarks had a unique way of testing their product. Their still was near a high-voltage electric power line. Wearing rubber gloves, they'd throw a wire across the line and dip the end of the wire into a crock of the new batch. If the booze merely caught on fire, it was too weak; but if it blew out all the fuses at the generating plant, it was just right.