Subject: Your tidbit at the start of the game.

To whomever is looking at this, I have been enjoying this and the game that follows for over 20 years.   Both are wonderful.  I also enjoy funny e-mails and got this one today and, as I was going through them couldn't help but thinks of you. All comments are by well-known people, and I do not believe that this list could be restricted in any way.  Should you choose to use them, help yourself, but, if not, enjoy them anyway.

"Sometimes, when I reflect 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 of their hopes and dreams. 
If I did not drink this beer, they might be out of work and their dreams would be shattered.  I think it is better to drink this beer & let dreams come true, than be selfish & worry about my liver.”
Babe Ruth


"When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading.” 
Paul Horning 




"24 hours in a day and 24 beers in a case. 
Coincidence? I think not!” 
H. L. Mencken 



"When we drink, we get drunk When we get drunk, we fall asleep. 
When we fall asleep, we commit no sin. 
When we commit no sin, we go to heaven. 
So, let's all get drunk and go to heaven.” 
George Bernard Shaw 




"Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.” 
Benjamin Franklin 



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



“Beer: Helping ugly people have sex since 3000 B.C.” 
W. C. Fields 

“Remember ‘I’ before ‘E,’ except in Budweiser.” 
Professor Irwin Corey 

“To some it is a six-pack. To me, it is a Support Group Salvation in a can.” 
Leo Durocher 

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One night at Cheers a TV Sitcom, 
Cliff Clavin said to his buddy, Norm Peterson: 

"Well, ya-see, Normy, 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!”

So like, sort of during the very dawn of the man becoming crop-tending farmer more so and hunter/gatherer less so, some Mesopotamian grain blew into or was left off to rot away down in some irrigation ditch, and Mesolithic Man, being almost continually hungry says: "Yeah, it looks and smells pretty nasty, but it would certainly not be the nastiest or smelliest stuff I've ever eaten, and only recently has SOL started His come-back to us here, meaning: darn! At least three more moons until belly be can filled..."

(Above quote) W.C. Fields says 3000 BCE...I suspect awful awful beer (viz a viz today's standards) was being brewed in Mesopotamia >three millennia prior...

It's how anthropologists might imagine seminal beer drinkers, or no?

"The first chemically confirmed barley-beer – from the area of Mesopotamia, part of modern-day Iraq – dates back to the 5th millennium BCE."--Wikipedia