# Never on Sunday

**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/never-on-sunday/74180
**Category:** Factual Questions
**Created:** [July 29, 2001, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/never-on-sunday/74180 "2001-07-29T22:06:10Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
**Page:** 2

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### Author: ![Ringo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/779978/32.png) [@Ringo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ringo)
#### Post date: [July 31, 2001, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/never-on-sunday/74180/21 "2001-07-31T03:23:15Z")

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Even if the former, it’s still probably not a decision that falls in the cashier’s domain.

Other states?

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### Author: ![kniz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/c37758/32.png) [@kniz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kniz)
#### Post date: [July 31, 2001, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/never-on-sunday/74180/22 "2001-07-31T03:27:48Z")

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Here in Mississippi, it is against the law for the library to be open on Sunday. Never could figure that one out.

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### Author: ![sewalk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b3f665/32.png) [@sewalk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sewalk)
#### Post date: [July 31, 2001, 5:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/never-on-sunday/74180/23 "2001-07-31T05:35:41Z")

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I guess the logic in the Mississippi state legislature is that if you’re gonna read on the Lord’s day, you’d better already have a Bible.

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### Author: ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)
#### Post date: [July 31, 2001, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/never-on-sunday/74180/24 "2001-07-31T14:33:41Z")

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> \*Originally posted by SirRay \*  
> \*\*Actually all of Bergen County is covered by Blue Laws, and apparently its still retained for the very reason that Annie stated - so that local roads can be free one day a week of all the traffic generated by the malls. \*\*

How does Coconuts Music get by this. I thought it was cause they opened on the one tiny patch of Route 4 that is technically in River Edge?

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### Author: ![alibey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ebca7d/32.png) [@alibey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alibey)
#### Post date: [July 31, 2001, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/never-on-sunday/74180/25 "2001-07-31T21:52:09Z")

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It was state law at the time

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