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To: Ilaine who wrote (136006)	6/8/2004 6:07:33 PM
From: Ish	Respond to of 281500

<<I get sleepy when I drink. No idea how people can drink and continue with their daily affairs.>> I think age has something to do with it. When I was young, the more I drank the more energy and ideas I had. Thank God I lived through that as some of the ideas weren't the best. Now a couple of drinks and I'm looking for dinner. May have an Odouls after but it's an alcohol free beer. I made some wine years ago. Even wine snobs said it wouldn't be bad for the second bottle of the night. I forgot about several bottles of it for 10 years, by then it was the brown and chunky variety. As for the Founding Fathers sucking down the booze, it might have been the only thing they could drink without getting the green apple quick runs.

To: Ilaine who wrote (136006)	6/19/2004 4:06:22 AM
From: Bilow	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Hi CobaltBlue; Re: "No idea how people can drink and continue with their daily affairs." The way I understand it, if you drink enough, you end up resistant to the effects. Drink enough, over a long enough period of time, and you'll be asking how people can be sober and continue with their daily affairs (and avoid delerium tremens). Re: "I was surprised to read how much Americans drank during the Colonial era, it's a miracle they survived, much less built a civilization. Small beer with breakfast, or cider. Thomas Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence in the City Tavern while drinking pints of madeira." Did they always drink it straight, or did they tend to dilute it with water? Most jobs, most of the time, don't require much in the way of attention or brains, so being tipsy isn't a problem. Women drinking during pregnancy is a problem, but I would guess that women drank less than men back during the Revolution. -- Carl