Only if you put it in your rum and Coke.  Ruth




At 10:10 AM -0500 2/26/02, Ken Follett wrote:
In a message dated 2/24/2002 12:15:06 AM Pacific Standard Time,
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Lime-- it's not just for masons anymore.



Early in my career I asked the stonemason I was mentored by why he thought
masons tended to be drunks... at least all the masons we knew were drunks,
and he said it had to be the lime. (A socio-physiological impetus to use
Portland mortars?) I asked him if that was the case then how come all the
painters we knew were also drunks? He did not have an answer. It might have
been because we were drunks and everyone we knew were drunks which may have
had to do with that when we were not working we were socializing, sort of,
in back country taverns, or sleeping it off. Is there a connection between
lime and alcoholism?

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