I was sitting next to a priest in a pub in Boston having Irish bean soup and raving about how great it tasted...when he offered that "the Irish have a strict rule that this soup have no more than 239 beans per serving.'
I ASKED, "Why this strict rule?"
And in his finest Irish tongue he said, "If we added just one more bean it would be too farty."
Verum audaces non gerunt indusia alba. - Ipsi dixit MCMLXXII
