Article: Beer is good for you

Consuming large quantities of a key ingredient in beer can protect against winter sniffles and even some serious illnesses in small children, a Japanese brewery said citing a scientific study.

A chemical compound in hops, the plant brewers use to give beer its bitter taste, provides an effective guard against a virus that can cause severe forms of pneumonia and bronchitis in youngsters, Sapporo Breweries said Wednesday.
 
From "How Beer Saved the World":

Antibiotics were not discovered until 1928, so how did traces of a modern antibiotic drug end up in the 3000-year old bones of an ancient Egyptian? Beer has been changing the course of human civilisation for thousands of years, find out more in How Beer Saved the World...
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wot about absinthe and tequila ??

oh please god, please please .. .. .. its christmas after all. please ... please ... :D
 
Cliff: Well ya see, Norm, it's like this. A herd of buffalo can only move as fast as the slowest buffalo. And when the herd is hunted, it is the slowest and weakest ones at the back that are killed first.

This natural selection is good for the herd as a whole, because the general speed and health of the whole group keeps improving by the regular killing of the weakest members.

In much the same way, the human brain can only operate as fast as the slowest brain cells. Excessive intake of alcohol, as we know, kills brain cells. But naturally, it attacks the slowest and weakest brain cells first.

In this way, regular consumption of beer eliminates the weaker brain cells, making the brain a faster and more efficient machine.

That's why you always feel smarter after a few beers.
 
What Others Say About Beer

Jack Handy. Sometimes when I reflect back on all the beer I drink I feel ashamed. Then I look into the glass and think about the workers in the brewery and all their hopes and dreams. If I didn't drink beer, they may be out of work and their dreams would be shattered. Then I say to myself, "Is it better that I drink this beer and let their dreams come true than be selfish and worry about my liver?"

William Butler Yeats. The problem with some people is that when they aren't drunk, they're sober.

Henny Youngman, When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading.

Stephen Wright. 24 hours in a day. 24 beers in a case. Coincidence?

Dave Barry. Without question, the greatest invention in the history of mankind is beer. Oh, I grant you that the wheel was a fine invention, but the wheel does not go nearly as well with pizza.

Dean Martin. You're not drunk if you can lie on the floor without holding on.

Anonymous. Beer: because one doesn't solve the world's problems over white wine.
 
Frank Sinatra - I feel sorry for people who don't drink. When they wake up in the morning, that's as good as they're going to feel all day.
 
Bessie Braddock: “Sir, you are drunk.”
Churchill: “Madam, you are ugly. In the morning, I shall be sober.”
 
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