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• The water was not fit to drink. To make it palatable, we had to add whiskey.
  By diligent effort, I learned to like it. -- Sir Winston Churchill...
• Could ye use a little water in your whiskey?" "When ay drink whiskey, ay drink whiskey, an' when ay drink water, ay drink water.
  -- Maureen O'Sullivan and Barry Fitzgerald in THE QUIET MAN, begorra....
• My band career ended late in my senior year when John Cooper and I threw my amplifier out the dormitory window.
  We did not act in haste. First we checked to make sure the amplifier would fit through the frame, using the belt from my bathrobe to measure, then we picked up the amplifier and backed up to my bedroom door....
• My band career ended late in my senior year when John Cooper and I threw my amplifier out the dormitory window.
  We did not act in haste. First we checked to make sure the amplifier would fit through the frame, using the belt from my bathrobe to measure, then we picked up the amplifier and backed up to my bedroom door....
• POTABLE, n. Suitable for drinking. Water is said to be potable
  indeed, some declare it our natural beverage, although even they find it palatable only when suffering from the recurrent disorder known as thirst, for which it is a medicine....
• I like the whiskey old and the women young.
• If the conjecture `You would rather I had not disturbed you by sending you this.
  ' is correct, you may add it to the list of uncomfortable truths. -- Edsger W. Dijkstra...
• Early in life I had learned that if you want something, you had better make some noise.