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From: stevet@brahms.udel.edu (Steven J Turnauer)
Newsgroups: sci.bio
Subject: Re: Are Humans Naturally Monogamous?
Message-ID: <16744@brahms.udel.edu>
Date: 12 Dec 90 03:29:45 GMT
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In article <4662@idunno.Princeton.EDU>, vnend@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (D. W. James) writes:
> In article <59596@microsoft.UUCP> rodvan@microsoft.UUCP (Rod VAN MECHELEN) writes:
>  
> )In small amounts it acts as a stimulant, in larger doses it acts as a 
> )depressant, and in big, big doses it kills.
>  
> 	Thus betraying your ignorance of the subject.  Or, rather, mearly
> that you are several decades behind the times.  Alcohol is *never* a
> stimulant, unless you want to burn something.  It is a depressant drug.
> 
> -- 
> Later Y'all,  Vnend                       Ignorance is the mother of adventure.   

I agree, alcohol is not a stimulant.  However, this is not what he said.
What he _did_ say is that, in small doses, alcohol can _act_ as a 
stimulant.  I have come across this in recent Sociology and Psychology
texts, and from personal experience have found this to be true.  Perhaps
you betray _your_ ignorance?



				Steve

Ps: But, what has this got to do with romance?