Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/3/84; site panda.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!bellcore!decvax!genrad!panda!slf From: slf@panda.UUCP (Scott Fisher) Newsgroups: net.singles Subject: Re: How Much Drinking is Safe Before Driving? Message-ID: <383@panda.UUCP> Date: Fri, 15-Mar-85 11:52:04 EST Article-I.D.: panda.383 Posted: Fri Mar 15 11:52:04 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 17-Mar-85 01:49:05 EST References: <517@ahuta.UUCP> Reply-To: slf@panda.UUCP (Scott Fisher) Organization: GenRad, Inc., Concord, Mass. Lines: 12 Summary: In article <517@ahuta.UUCP> btb@ahuta.UUCP (Bruce Burger) writes: >> I don't drink anything stronger than beer. > >This is a dangerous and stupid (sorry for the language but lives are >at stake here) misconception. A bottle of beer has as much alcohol >as a shot of liquor or a glass of wine. Your statement would make >sense only if people drank similar quantities of each (e.g., a shot >of beer). > I think he was comparing a beer to a mixed drink. A mie-tie or fogcutter etc. is much more potent than a beer. Scott