dear Mary . . . have to agree with every word of that. (Why does the sound of a young sprog upchucking into his oxy mask come back from aeons ago?)
Speaking of Franklin, only received an email today where he is mentioned in another context. Pardon the 'French' at the end. (Not my words, for once.)
QUOTE -
Here's to my dear friends who enjoy a glass of wine. . . and to those who don't,
but who seem always to have a bottle of water handy -
Benjamin Franklin it was who said:
In wine there is wisdom.
In beer there is freedom.
In water there is bacteria.
In a number of carefully controlled trials,
scientists have shown that if we drink
1 litre of water a day,
after a year we will have absorbed
more than 1 kg of Escherichia Coli, (E. Coli) - a bacteria
found in faeces.
However, we do not run that risk when drinking wine or beer
or rum or whisky, because alcohol has to go
through a purification process of boiling, filtering and fermenting.
Therefore it is better to drink wine and be
brilliant than to drink water and be full of !!!!.