ELI5: Explain Like I'm 5

99 Bottles of Beer

Okay kiddo, so imagine you have 99 bottles of beer on the wall. That's a lot of bottles of beer, right?

Now, let's say you wanted to count all those bottles down one at a time. You would start at 99 and go all the way down to 1.

So, if you take one bottle of beer down from the wall and pass it around, you would have 98 bottles of beer on the wall. Then if you take another bottle down, you would have 97 bottles of beer on the wall.

You would keep doing this until you got down to 1 bottle of beer on the wall. Then, you would have no more bottles of beer left to count down.

This counting of bottles from 99 down to 1 is a fun way to sing a song called "99 Bottles of Beer on the Wall." People like to sing this song on road trips or when they're hanging out with friends.
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