-=> Quoting Maurice Kinal to Nancy Backus on 02-Jul-2018 17:34 <=-

 NB>> since I find the taste of it totally nasty

 MK> Like everything, there is beer and then there is beer.

That's what my brothers kept saying... as I rejected one more of the
supposedly much better beers... I really really don't like the hops in
beer... the only "beer" I've been able to tolerate has been Smithwicks,
which apparently has no hops in it... actually drank a good 2-3 oz of
that last year...  

 NB>> Maybe we could use bottles of water on the wall

 MK> It seems to me the original concern wasn't about the bottled beverage
 MK> but instead the threat of 98 days of countdown where all that changes
 MK> is the number of bottles, with only the last two days offering some
 MK> variation - "1 bottle of beer on the wall" and "Go to the store and
 MK> buy some more" on the 0 bottle day.  Given the previous 98 days I
 MK> doubt that is enough to placate anyone who would object being
 MK> subjected to the months of daily annoyance.  I seriously doubt that
 MK> bottles of water are going to be much less objectionable to those who
 MK> will potentionally object. 

Oh, I don't know... the only objection I've heard so far in the echo was
to the beer (and it wasn't even me)... 

 MK> For example something like the "The 12 Days of Christmas" might be
 MK> more acceptable given it is only 12 days instead of 100 and has more
 MK> variety in the offerings per day.  Having said that I don't believe
 MK> "The 12 Days of Christmas" is appropriate for the occasion in question
 MK> but it is a very good example of a countdown song. 

Agreed that it isn't all that appropriate for the occasion, since in the
2024 case we're going to a Nov date, and in the 2019, it's smackdab in
the middle of those 12 days...  Plus, agreed as well that 12 days isn't
really long enough a countdown...  Besides, it's really a count up song,
as the numbers get larger, not smaller.... <G>

 MK> Speaking for myself, who took the time to program the routine, I am
 MK> inclined to leave well enough alone including the bottled beer which
 MK> is traditional as far as the original song is concerned, although I
 MK> did find one reference where pop was an acceptable substitution. 
 MK> Personally I don't agree but then again I have no claim whatsoever for
 MK> "99 Bottles of Beer".  Probably the best source of information is
 MK> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/99_Bottles_of_B... especially the
 MK> section labelled "Mathematically inspired variants".  However it still
 MK> lacks any suggestion for a reduction in duration of the potential
 MK> annoyance in the Little Mikey's Brain implimentation. 

Oh, well... do as you wish...  

ttyl        neb

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