Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/03/25
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On 3/25/07 10:03 PM, "Marc James Small" <marcsmall@comcast.net> typed: > At 08:35 PM 3/25/2007, Jerry Lehrer wrote: >> Marc, >> >> Sensitivity or acuteness of taste is such a personal entity that I will >> forego saying that you are >> FOS. >> >> We recently ran a series of blind taste tests of Irish Whiskeys, Scotch >> Whiskys and Irish >> Stouts. At different times of course! > > You come from a group of greater drinkers, I fear, than occurs in my > circle. > > How big was your sample group? I had suggested a > thousand. Was yours that large? I doubt > it. Therefore, your results are piffle. > > Marc > > Its a civilized topic for civilized people but we should not forgot that for every person with a crack or hard drug or any kind of drug problem there are TEN THOUSAND people dying slowly and with great humiliation from all kinds of problems from alcohol. There are few less pleasant ways to go. You go real slow. You are left with little respect. Its the drug which kills us by far the most. And its serious business. I wish the stuff never existed. Sorry. I'd recommend a non poisonous present for anyone to anybody for any occasion. I've not drank for 1728 days. If there's anything I'm more happy about than that than I don't know what it is. Mark Rabiner 8A/109s New York, NY markrabiner.com