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A stranger enters a village pub in a remote corner of Ireland and orders three pints of Guinness. The barman is curious, but serves his new customer without question. The stranger takes his drinks to a table and starts drinking, later he returns to the bar and orders another three pints of Guinness, drinks these and leaves. Over the next week the mysterious stranger who drinks Guinness three pints at a time becomes the talk of the village and the barman is persuaded to question him and find out his story. So when he returns the following week, the barman asks why he drinks three pints at a time? "Well you see, I have two brothers, Seamus lives in Australia and Paddy lives in Canada, but before we split up, we agreed that every Wednesday night, wherever we were, we would each drink a pint of Guinness for each brother." The barman is delighted with this answer, which quickly passes around the pub and the rest of the village and the stranger becomes something of a local celebrity. Over the coming weeks villagers come to the pub on Wednesday nights just to catch a glimpse of this man with his three pints of Guinness. Then one night he enters the pub and orders two pints of Guinness. The whole pub is shocked, assuming bad news about one of his brothers. When he returns to the bar the barman asks him why he is now only drinking two pints at a time and has something happened to one of his brothers? "Oh no" he replies, "they're both fine, its me, I've decided to give up drinking."