A question to the group: Did Mark Twain ever write anything along the lines of ``Whiskey is for drinking and water is for fighting over.'' I'm a newspaper reporter and once wanted to use the quote in an article about water rights. I looked everywhere I could think of and even called a few Twain scholars and nobody could place it. Although I had seen another newspaper, years earlier, attribute it to Twain, I couldn't verify that. I ended up writing something like ``it's been said whiskey's for fighting over ...'' Does anybody know if the line traces to Twain or if not him, whom? Scott Canon Reporter The Kansas City Star