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Old 07-31-2012, 02:28 PM   #981
WT Sharpe
Bah, humbug!
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Maybe this will serve to show it couldn't have been Carlin:

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Millions of people, teetotalers all their lives, who had never been in a saloon or a night club and were indifferent to the joys of a highball or a martini, suddenly developed a yen for hooch. I was one of those millions. I never had a drink before January 16, 1920. It wasn't that I disapproved of it, morally, but I just didn't like the taste of the stuff. As a matter of fact, I still don't. I drink it now and then at parties to avoid being caught sober. But with the advent of prohibition, I came to the conclusion that if it was illegal there must be something to it that I had never discovered.
Well, in truth, Carlin could have made that statement, but didn't. For that matter, I never had a drink before January 16, 1920, either.

But the fellow who wrote that line was alive at the time to have had one if he'd wanted.
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