GOOD NEWS! - Alcohol sharpens your brain, say researchers

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2004/08/01/nalco01.xml&sSheet=/portal/2004/08/01/ixportal.html ^

[justshutupandtakeit]

Now this is a study I can fully get behind. It MUST be true because I like the conclusion.

My plan to drink myself brilliant is still in effect.

[ravingnutter]

Disagree wholeheartedly. Alcohol puts me to sleep.

Look at the positive side, you can double the brain sharpening effect...alcohol **and** a good night's rest!

[HEY4QDEMS]

BRILLIANT!!!!

[Southside_Chicago_Republican]

To alcohol -- it tastes great, causes women appear more attractive, and makes a person virtually invulnerable to criticism. And now this.

Cheers!

[sweetiepiezer]

I will drink to that, cheers.

[NavyCanDo]

Good time for a quote from the movie Curse of the Black Pearl - - - After Elizabeth blew up the rum stash…………

"Why is the rum gone?" (Jack Sparrow)

"One: It is a despicable drink that turns even the most respectable men into complete scoundrels. And two: I've created a column of smoke that rises a thousand feet in the air. My father's ships will be combing the area. Do you think there is even a chance they won't see it?" (Elizabeth)

".... but why is the rum gone?" (Jack Sparrow)

[Slyfox]

The drink of genius's

[Always Right]

It is news guaranteed to raise a cheer among those who enjoy a glass or two: drinking half a bottle of wine a day can make your brain work better, especially if you are a woman.

Yep, women are far more interesting when they are drunk....

[VRWCmember]

carried to the extreme, this guy ought to be one of the most intelligent people around:

[Gabz]

Gee, thanks.........now I guess I better read the article!!!!

[shubi]

Yeah, my wife's head falls into her dinner plate after one glass of wine. It is hard to tell if her brain is functioning better or not.

[kittymyrib]

Hmmm...this may be junk science, because how do you explain the French? (They have a law that truckers cannot comsume more than half a bottle of wine at lunch before hitting the highway again.)

[Gabz]

so now I know why they are banning smoking in pubs in England - they are trying to get the teatotallers into the pubs............

yeah, right.

[Dan Evans]

These researchers seem to be assuming that alcohol makes you smarter but I wonder if they considered the possibility that people with higher IQs are more simply likely to drink.

[rockabyebaby]

bottoms up!

[VRWCmember]

Alcohol makes you smarter, particularly if you are a woman.

So hillary is in danger of losing her title of "most intelligent woman in the world" to Tereza Heinz-Kerry????

[taildragger]

Gosh, I need glasses, for a minute I thought this post said: Al Shaprton has a Brain...

[ko_kyi]

makes sense to me - all those tag-along brain cells die, while the strong ones survive and prosper without all that dead weight.

It's Atlas Shrugged in a glass