# What was not legal (or illegal as the whippersnappers call it) 'back in the day? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [June 4, 2005, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-not-legal-or-illegal-as-the-whippersnappers-call-it-back-in-the-day/306917 "2005-06-04T19:32:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Myron\_Van\_Horowitzski](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9de053/32.png) [@Myron\_Van\_Horowitzski](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Myron_Van_Horowitzski)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2005, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-not-legal-or-illegal-as-the-whippersnappers-call-it-back-in-the-day/306917/61 "2005-06-07T03:46:05Z")
> [@5 time champ](#): > > Wisconsin finally repealed laws restricting the sale of colored margarine in 1967. Goddam dairy lobby. You still cannot, in this state, buy wine or liquor but only beer, after 9:00 pm. Goddam beer lobby. ---
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2005, 1:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-not-legal-or-illegal-as-the-whippersnappers-call-it-back-in-the-day/306917/62 "2005-06-07T13:28:17Z")
> [@Myron Van Horowitzski](#): > > Goddam dairy lobby. > > You still cannot, in this state, buy wine or liquor but only beer, after 9:00 pm. Goddam beer lobby. I assume that the margarine pigment law was to prevent oleomargarine (is there any other kind of margarine?) makers from colouring margarine to make it look like butter. But how does that account for **matt\_mcl** ’s observation of “day-glo” margarine? ---
**Author:** ![matt\_mcl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@matt\_mcl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt_mcl)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2005, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-not-legal-or-illegal-as-the-whippersnappers-call-it-back-in-the-day/306917/63 "2005-06-07T18:33:51Z")
> [@acsenray](#): > > I assume that the margarine pigment law was to prevent oleomargarine (is there any other kind of margarine?) makers from colouring margarine to make it look like butter. But how does that account for **matt\_mcl** ’s observation of “day-glo” margarine? Maybe it just looks like that to me in comparison to what I’m used to – much like people think we in Quebec have “white” margarine. (The margarine is not milky-white. It’s pale yellow.) ---
**Author:** ![Ignatz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/3be4f8/32.png) [@Ignatz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ignatz)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2005, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-not-legal-or-illegal-as-the-whippersnappers-call-it-back-in-the-day/306917/64 "2005-06-09T00:38:21Z")
> [@Wesley Clark](#): > > adultery and coed cohabitation used to be illegal. Still are in NC. Cohabitation for more than two weeks is a misdemeanor. Cohab is also illiegal in 6 other states (no cite available). One evolving case in NC is of a county sheriff’s radio dispatcher that was given a choice of moving out on her boyfriend (or making him move out) or being fired as the sheriff didn’t want such a lawbreaker working for him. She quit and now the ACLU is taking her case trying to get the law against coed cohabitation overturned. The DA advises that it should not be heard because she was not charged with a crime. The sheriff didn’t have the _cajones_ to perform his sworn duty of enforcing the law, no matter how stupid it is. The best way to get rid of a stupid law is to enforce it and let the courts decide. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-not-legal-or-illegal-as-the-whippersnappers-call-it-back-in-the-day/306917.md?page=3)