Well, I'm ready to drink my hundred glasses of red wine a day. Vive la vin!

When I was a student in Paris (maintes fois la France me manque) there was a wine shop across rue Tolbiac which had a great saying above their shop, translated roughly as:

"A meal without wine is like a day without sunshine"

As if I needed any more encouragement to quaff $3 bottles of AOC Bordeaux and Cotes du Rhone and Cahors and...

It's good advice. Something that folk wisdom figured out long before science.

I know its sorta like the article on CNN that said, "Eat chocolate instead of sticky candy cause its better for your teeth." I's like, "well okay then," and grabbed a big handful of chocolate out of the office halloween candy basket.

I heard this today on the radio. The local "classic rock format, perpetual stoner guy" says, "I'll just drink the wine, and try to lose weight at the same time yuck yuck yuck, here's Aerosmith..."

My initial thought went to math. 100 6 oz glasses of wine was about 4.5 gallons. Anybody who started drinking wine at that rate is bound to lose weight. Mostly from a sitting position I would say.

About the time you'd lost a goodly amount of weight, you'd be able to drive a nail with your liver.

"Come you Anglo-Saxon swine
And drink of my Algerian wine
T'will turn your eyeballs black and blue
And damn well good enough for you"

;)