I wish I could take credit for this...

... but it came in an e-mail. From my mother:

Wine or Water

In a number of carefully controlled trials, scientists have demonstrated that if we drink 1 liter of water each day, at the end of the year we would have absorbed more than 1 kilo of Escherichia coli (E. coli) bacteria found in feces. In other words,we are consuming 1 kilo of poop.

However, we do NOT run that risk when drinking wine (or rum, whiskey or other liquor) because alcohol has to go through a purificationprocess of boiling, filtering and/or fermenting. Remember: Water = Poop, Wine =Health. Therefore, it's better to drink wine and talk stupid, than to drink waterand be full of shit.

There is no need to thank me for this valuable information: I'm doing it as a public service.