Excellent!  I tried this right away and was able to make this mission 
critical app:

b = " bottles of beer"
w = " on the wall.  "
t = "  Take one down and pass it around.  "

99.downto(1) do |i|
  puts i.to_s + b + w + i.to_s + b + "." + t + (i - 1).to_s + b + w
end

Thanks again!

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