Why do Golf Courses have 18 holes?

Here's a little slice of golf history that you might enjoy. Why do Golf Courses have 18 holes? Not 20, or 10, or even a dozen?

During a discussion among the club's membership board at St. Andrews in 1858, a senior member pointed out that it takes exactly 18 shots to polish off a fifth of Scotch. By limiting himself to only one shot of Scotch per hole, the Scot figured a round of golf was finished when the Scotch ran out.

Now you know.

Fedora 11 codenamed Leonidas, will kick bad guys into pit

reported by Ars Technica

According to Fedora project leader Paul W. Frields, the next major version of the popular Linux distro will be codenamed Leonidas. The developers plan to improve boot time, integrate DeviceKit, add support for delta RPMs, and include KDE 4.2. » Full Story on Ars Technica

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Man exchanges 14 year old daughter for 100 cases of BEER!

Police said they only learned of the deal after the 36-year-old man went to them to get his daughter back because payment wasn't made as promised.

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