[muawiyah]

BTW, with my natural born immunity to cholera I can pretty much drink anything but water choc full of e-coli. Now that's a gene that survived some nasty environments Fur Shur.

Could be a technology advance that encouraged this anti-alcohol gene to get a foothold. Living in yurts and drinking fermented mares milk probably served to kill off all the folks who persisted in letting it get "too fermented". Must be a gazillion diseases that just love mares milk.

[txhurl]

There are quite a few instances of Russian octogenarians and higher that cite a yogurt, vodka and cigarette diet.

?

[blam]

"Could be a technology advance that encouraged this anti-alcohol gene to get a foothold. Living in yurts and drinking fermented mares milk probably served to kill off all the folks who persisted in letting it get "too fermented". Must be a gazillion diseases that just love mares milk."

Maybe not.

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