Found this while killing time at work - no, I’m not lazy its just that our shop is tore to pieces and I can’t do any of the work I need to do over there. Why is it tore up? We’re getting new carpet and all of our stuff is cram packed into the maintenance bays. So, I’m hanging out at control for the evening.
Canadian humorist Stephen Leacock once offered some humorous observations about the use of whisky as part of Scottish culture: “The Scots do not drink. During the whole of two or three pleasant weeks spent lecturing in Scotland, I never on any occasions saw whisky made use of as a beverage. I have seen people take it, of course, as a medicine, or as a precaution against illness, or as a wise offset against a rather treacherous climate; but as a beverage, never.”
Leacock continued: “There are seventeen reasons advanced in Scotland for taking whisky. They run as follows: Reason one, because it is raining. Two, because it is not raining. Three, because you are just going out into the weather. Four, because you have just come in from the weather. Five; no, I forget the ones that come after that. But I remember that reason number seventeen is ‘because it canna do ye any harm.’ On the whole, reason seventeen is the best.” Leacock concluded that Scots make use of whisky with dignity and without shame–and they never call it alcohol.
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