-=> Quoting Maurice Kinal to Nancy Backus on 29-Jun-2018 06:11 <=-

 NB>> I was talking about water as a beverage
 MK> That works for me.
 NB>> I'd not want to drink a bottle a day of the single malt, tasty as
 NB>> it is

 MK> Not to mention cost.  Perhaps that is why it is "99 bottles of beer on
 MK> the wall" rather than "99 bottles of single malt scotch on the wall"? 

Quite probably figures into it... 

 MK> Also the song doesn't specify the rate of removal and passage of said
 MK> bottles so cost would be a very serious consideration given the rate
 MK> of the singing of the entire song.  Mind you they are being passed
 MK> around which implies multiple consumers. 
 MK> Hopefully cost is being shared.

One would certainly hope...  Of course, the song normally wouldn't be
sung over the course of one bottle per day, so the bottles of beer might
be taken down more quickly... and there one would also hope that the
cost was shared as well as the beer... (except of course, I'd not be
sharing the beer, since I find the taste of it totally nasty...)

Maybe we could use bottles of water on the wall...?  Those are less
objectable to me than beer.... and certainly cost less.... 

ttyl     neb

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