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The "If By Whiskey" speech
- konad 16y agoI'm on a whiskey diet, I've lost three days already. - Tommy Cooper
- bherms 16y agoSummary: Alcohol can be a bad thing (excess), or a good thing (moderation), depending on how you look at it.
- hsmyers 16y agoAlcohol does nothing at all if you 'look' at it--- to achieve excess or moderation (shudder) you have to 'drink' it...
- danilocampos 16y agoI think the summary is: Persuasively written speech can let you curry favor with both sides of a debate without having to take a real position.
- phaedrus 16y agoThis is like an assembly language or machine code program that does two different things depending on the alignment with which you jump into it.
- edanm 16y agoGreat article. Also take a look at the article specifically about the speech : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/If-by-whiskey http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/If-by-whiskey . The op's link is to the speech's author.