A comment someone wrote at the Wall Street Journal. It's about beer and a preacher who drinks it.

When I was growing up, my parents were members of a Baptist church whose preacher was known as a "card."

In one sermon he thundered that it was "high time to throw all the beer and whisky in this county into the river!"

Then he asked the music director to play the hymn "Shall We Gather at the River?"

I don't know if he did that coincidentally or on purpose, but the place was up for grabs. People laughed about it for years.