The world's greatest minds defend beer.

[Whidbey78]

A pint of Guinness is like a woman's breast.
1 isn't enough and 3 is too many.

[Irish Jack O'Brian]

[JCheshire]

I'm not so think as you drunk I am. It's just the drunker I sit here, the longer I get!

Anon. (Possibly Foster Brooks)

Ah...Foster Brooks! Now THAT was some funny stuff, wasn't it?

[JCheshire]

A pint of Guinness is like a woman's breast.
1 isn't enough and 3 is too many.

That's pretty entertaining, to say the least!

[JCheshire]

I can believe this. Beer, unlike water, was a safe drinking beverage.

EDIT: Hmmm... did I actually type "drinking beverage"? Please excuse the repetitive redundancy.

Hello, and thank you for calling the Department of Redundancy Department...

[ohiopiper]

Yep. The pilgrims had no intention of settling at Plymouth rock, they were heading to the Virginia Territories but ran out of beer. Water goes stale and sours when stored in the oak casks aboard ship, but beer holds up just fine. Sailors, and pilgrims too, were on a steady diet of beer on the way over because it could be stored. When it began to run out, they had to make landfall simply as a matter of survival. The first thing they built after landing was a brewery.

[McElmurry]

When it began to run out, they had to make landfall simply as a matter of survival. The first thing they built after landing was a brewery.

Shortly thereafter, two Scots showed up and built a still.

[Ian.MacAllan]

Martini:

One if you're able, two at the most;
Three under the table, four under the host.

---traditional

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[Mike_Oettle]

I read somewhere once that the way to make a really dry martini was to pour a glass of gin, pick it up and say: “Vermouth,”
But for my liking, a martini is a waste of good vermouth.
Regards,
Mike

[cruiser348]

My understanding is that Winston Churchill's concept of a good martini involved pouring a glass of gin and looking at the bottle of vermouth.