Ring Lardner & Arthur Jacks: Midwestern WhiskeyWhile staying in a hotel one night, Ring Lardner and Arthur Jacks stocked their room with liquor. Among their supplies was a good Canadian whiskey and some inferior Midwestern corn.
The next morning, Jacks, hoping to quell a fierce hangover, poured himself some of the Canadian whiskey, which promptly made him ill. Nonetheless, he tried again, with the same result.
On Jacks's third or fourth unsuccessful attempt to keep the whiskey down, Lardner, still in bed, opened one eye. "Arthur," he drily remarked, "if you're just practicing, would you mind using the corn?"
Lardner, Ring [born Ringgold Wilmer] (1885-1933) American writer [noted for his sketches, letters, and memoirs; and various sardonic baseball and other short stories revealing the foibles of average Americans]
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