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Yeah, you can totally go to church and the liquor store. Makes it easier to stand the sermon, I tell you what.
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Especially here in Pittsburgh- you can go to the Church Brew Works, which is a brewpub in a building that used to be a church (and looks very churchy). I don’t know if they have sermons, though.
Pennsylvania has truly bizarre liquor laws. What I think of people who are in favor of these kind of restrictions on liquor sales, I probably couldn’t say even in the Pit. I can tell you one thing, though- anyone who runs on a platform of changing them has two votes in Pittsburgh, guaranteed (Mr. Neville knows that, if he voted against such a change, I’d make him sleep on the porch). I miss California and being able to buy nice wines in the grocery store.
Colorado used to (maybe still does) have a law that you couldn’t sell/serve alcohol on an election day until the polls closed. I remember playing in a charity golf tournament and coming in to a huge bitch session in the clubhouse because the bar wouldn’t open. The fundraisng auction was to be after the event, but most of the people left because of the booze thing. I’m sure the person who planned the event for that day got fired.
Anyone know if that is still on the books?
P.S. I always thought that was a cool law. Wierd, and kinda silly, but nontheless cool.
[QUOTE=Lamar Mundane]
Colorado used to (maybe still does) have a law that you couldn’t sell/serve alcohol on an election day until the polls closed.
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Well, we wouldn’t want people to vote drunk, would we? They might elect a sub-optimal government!
[QUOTE=Santo Rugger]
:smack: Not state sponsored, just dedicated.
I always think of the song, “On a cool Colorado night, there’s something I forgot… It’s hard to get drunk on three point two (repeat) yeah it’s expensive to get drunk on three point two.”
[QUOTE=Priceguy]
And apparently the airhead thinks that people went to church because the liquor store was closed. Oh well, liquor store closed, nothing to do, let’s go to church. Why would she even want those people in her church?
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I think you misunderstand her. Her mind is so limited, that she believes everyone else thinks the way she does: she’s going to buy liquor and drink her Sundays away, so she thinks everyone else will, too.
We have sensible laws here. You can get beer, wine and liquor at liquor stores, grocery stores, convenience stores, etc. I haven’t seen it recently, but there used to be a store over on Hwy 30 with a sign that said “GUNS KNIVES LIQUOR”.
[QUOTE=Zsofia]
People who live in states with no blue laws (let alone foreigners) won’t understand what a big deal this is, but get a load of this - in city council elections today, Columbia voted 71% in favor of a referendum to allow Sunday beer and wine sales.
Holy fucking Jesus on a crutch. Sanity! Rationalism! Enlightenment! Do you realize that in Lexington County they string up tape across half the Wal-Mart at midnight on Saturday and don’t take it down until 1 on Sunday? And you can’t buy clothes and things? Because Jesus doesn’t like it?
I was scared as hell that people who can’t remember to buy beer on Saturday wouldn’t remember to vote in an election that generally gets something like a 15% turnout, but mirabile dictu! It has happened!
I feel so… free and light. Truly, a new day has come!
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[QUOTE=Zsofia]
You CAN’T drive to the next jurisdiction, dear. Columbia is the most cosmopolitan place around. (You do have to remember not to go to Lexington between midnight on Saturday and 1 on Sunday, though.) As far as I know, we’re the only ones who are going to have Sunday sales. SNIP
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Well, now those of us who live in Richland County, but not the City of Columbia, can drive to your fancy little jurisdiction and buy up all of your beer and wine on Sundays. I wonder how long it’ll be until the county gets tired of giving all the tax revenue to the city and pass the same law. Or, get rid of the same stupid law.
[QUOTE=50million]
Well, now those of us who live in Richland County, but not the City of Columbia, can drive to your fancy little jurisdiction and buy up all of your beer and wine on Sundays. I wonder how long it’ll be until the county gets tired of giving all the tax revenue to the city and pass the same law. Or, get rid of the same stupid law.
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You can’t have my beer and wine!
Seriously, can you believe somebody buying a crapload of beer and Bacardi on Saturday night would give the newspaper a quote about how people aren’t going to go to church on Sunday 'cause they’re all sinning drunks?
[QUOTE=Earl Snake-Hips Tucker]
Don’t you care about the children!
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I’ll try not to, since you feel that adamant.
Silly me, I thought “voting straight liquor ticket” meant voting for progressive candidates who favored doing away with antiquated blue laws, as opposed to those candidates who want to keep SC in the dark ages.
Rick Yeah, if you can’t find alcohol in Missouri at almost any hour of any day, you aren’t trying hard enough. Just goes to show what successful lobbying by the largest brewer in the world can accomplish.
Seriously, can you believe somebody buying a crapload of beer and Bacardi on Saturday night would give the newspaper a quote about how people aren’t going to go to church on Sunday 'cause they’re all sinning drunks?
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Camden isn’t only 30 miles from Columbia, it’s also 30 years behind Columbia. And that’s saying something! (I’m mostly kidding, I love Colatown, especially now that we’ve gotten rid of Odom. But you went to school somewhere else, so you probably don’t care about that.)
[QUOTE=Punoqllads]
“Arizona … [s]upermarkets, liquor stores, and gas stations [emphasis mine] may sell liquor.” :eek:
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Well, for the most part around here, that would be the gas stations with on-premises convenience stores, Shell, Chevron, etc. They sell a bit of everything else; soft drinks, snacks, etc., and may also have licenses to sell liquor. Sort of a blurring of the lines between a gas station and a Circle K/7-11.
[QUOTE=cochrane]
Well, for the most part around here, that would be the gas stations with on-premises convenience stores, Shell, Chevron, etc. They sell a bit of everything else; soft drinks, snacks, etc., and may also have licenses to sell liquor. Sort of a blurring of the lines between a gas station and a Circle K/7-11.
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Here in Nevada you can buy alcohol anywhere, 24/7.
I was always amazed in NYC that they still had those stupid laws…I can remember being at a grocery store to buy beer for a rooftop garden party, but they were not allowed to sell it until noon (I think) on Sunday. It was 11:55AM and I had to stand off to the side of the checkout lane for five minutes before I was allowed to pay and leave.
Then I had to schlep to another store to buy wine, because that couldn’t be sold in a grocery store! I mean, seriously people - you would think wine would be sold at a grocery store and not beer - after all, some people (like myself) never drink wine but use it for cooking.
At any rate, just struck me as odd that NYC had liquor laws that made Mayberry RFD seem liberal in comparison.
BTW, I can remember as a kid in Illinois that they were not allowed to sell any alcohol on election days until after the polls closed! Seems there used to be a problem of politicians going into bars, buying rounds, and then getting the drunks to march over to the polling booth. I always found the idea of herding a bunch of drunks to polling booths a rather funny image.
Seriously, can you believe somebody buying a crapload of beer and Bacardi on Saturday night would give the newspaper a quote about how people aren’t going to go to church on Sunday 'cause they’re all sinning drunks?
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So what do they think of people in Charleston and Myrtle Beach who’ve had Sunday sales for a decade or so? I guess they’re heathens. THAT explains all the wicker furniture in the Lowcountry: it matches the handbasket they’re all going to hell in.
[QUOTE=Lamar Mundane]
Colorado used to (maybe still does) have a law that you couldn’t sell/serve alcohol on an election day until the polls closed. I remember playing in a charity golf tournament and coming in to a huge bitch session in the clubhouse because the bar wouldn’t open. The fundraisng auction was to be after the event, but most of the people left because of the booze thing. I’m sure the person who planned the event for that day got fired.
Anyone know if that is still on the books?
P.S. I always thought that was a cool law. Wierd, and kinda silly, but nontheless cool.
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Utah still has this law, which is strange because the really should promote drinking and voting around there.
[QUOTE=50million]
Camden isn’t only 30 miles from Columbia, it’s also 30 years behind Columbia. And that’s saying something! (I’m mostly kidding, I love Colatown, especially now that we’ve gotten rid of Odom. But you went to school somewhere else, so you probably don’t care about that.)
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Don’t give a rat’s ass about the basketball coach my alma mater did have, assuming Agnes Scott had a basketball team, which I honestly don’t know. But Odom was such a nice guy! I mean, jeez, they were mean to him.