sf wrote:
> On Mon, 15 Jan 2007 02:52:09 GMT, Margaret Suran
> > wrote:
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>>At least, that is what my mother used to tell me. Once a week she
>>would buy a small bottle of beer and pour a couple of ounces into a
>>cup, so that it could get stale. Then she would say: " No sense
>>wasting the rest of the beer", pour it into a glass and have it for
>>lunch with a sandwich. When she washed her hair later on, she would
>>use the stale beer for the last rinse.
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>
> Now I understand. Your mother was a very wise woman.
>
Yes, a very wise woman who probably looked forward to her weekly glass
of beer. Instead of feeling guilty for having a drink, she felt
great, because she was not wasting perfectly good beer. I am starting
to understand, too. )