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Re: CHAT drinking soup: (was: Malat (on behalf of Garrett))

From:Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...>
Date:Tuesday, December 8, 1998, 0:56
Carlos Thompson wrote:
> So, when one slowly poisons oneself with alcohol... one is *mot* drinking?
Like I said, "or as if it were a drink were to sustain life" - one drinks alcoholic beverages, because they are not actually poisonous per se (only in excess), and if one poisons oneself with alcohol, then they were probably drinking it like water anyways. -- "It has occured to me more than once that holy boredom is good and sufficient reason for the invention of free will." - "Lord Leto II" (Dune Chronicles, by Frank Herbert) http://members.tripod.com/~Nik_Taylor/X-Files/ ICQ #: 18656696 AOL screen-name: NikTailor