Comments on: Why do people freak out about liquor? http://www.clusterflock.org/2007/09/why-do-people-freak-out-about-liquor.html thoughts, questions, original art and content and links to stuff we think is of interest; a group blog dedicated to pretty much everything. by people you would like to meet at a party; proof of intelligent life on the planet; inhabited by Internet hunter gatherers in the pre-apocalyptic realm; a destination that offers constellations of stimulating links to popular (and not so popular) culture; a group blog dedicated to culture: art, design, music, food, architecture, science, travel, movies, books, typography, politics, etc.; inclusive of geezers!; a delightful mixture of orange words and pictures of well, the insides of a stuffed animal–delightful all the same; the social network I never thought I’d join. Sat, 20 Mar 2010 03:51:32 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Daryl Scroggins http://www.clusterflock.org/2007/09/why-do-people-freak-out-about-liquor.html/comment-page-1#comment-13267 Daryl Scroggins Mon, 24 Sep 2007 01:14:24 +0000 http://wp.patrickburleson.com/?p=6897#comment-13267 "Get a job, sir." “Get a job, sir.”

]]> By: Sheila Ryan http://www.clusterflock.org/2007/09/why-do-people-freak-out-about-liquor.html/comment-page-1#comment-13266 Sheila Ryan Sun, 23 Sep 2007 23:46:24 +0000 http://wp.patrickburleson.com/?p=6897#comment-13266 I reckon I used up four, maybe five of my nine lives back in them old days. Gives me the heebie-jeebies just to recollect. "Mind if I do a jay?" I reckon I used up four, maybe five of my nine lives back in them old days. Gives me the heebie-jeebies just to recollect.

“Mind if I do a jay?”

]]> By: Daryl Scroggins http://www.clusterflock.org/2007/09/why-do-people-freak-out-about-liquor.html/comment-page-1#comment-13265 Daryl Scroggins Sun, 23 Sep 2007 23:26:36 +0000 http://wp.patrickburleson.com/?p=6897#comment-13265 <i>Hey, Daryl, can you roll on Sunday in Texas?</i> No, and I don't roll on Shabbas either. Oh, wait...I think you're okay with less than an ounce. Not like the old days when residue on the clip was time in Huntsville. Hey, Daryl, can you roll on Sunday in Texas?

No, and I don’t roll on Shabbas either.

Oh, wait…I think you’re okay with less than an ounce. Not like the old days when residue on the clip was time in Huntsville.

]]> By: Sheila Ryan http://www.clusterflock.org/2007/09/why-do-people-freak-out-about-liquor.html/comment-page-1#comment-13264 Sheila Ryan Sun, 23 Sep 2007 21:30:56 +0000 http://wp.patrickburleson.com/?p=6897#comment-13264 Hey, Daryl, can you roll on Sunday in Texas? Hey, Daryl, can you roll on Sunday in Texas?

]]> By: Kathy Smith http://www.clusterflock.org/2007/09/why-do-people-freak-out-about-liquor.html/comment-page-1#comment-13263 Kathy Smith Sun, 23 Sep 2007 17:16:05 +0000 http://wp.patrickburleson.com/?p=6897#comment-13263 It is a clear attempt to legislate the shopping schedules of normal Americans. Only Abnormal Americans would support such a diabolical plot. I think we should band together and boot out the Abnormals. Boot them right out, I say. <i>All the answers can be found in great poetry.</i> Agreed: But if at the Church they would give us some ale, And a pleasant fire our souls to regale, We'd sing and we'd pray all the live-long day, And never once wish from the Church to stray. It is a clear attempt to legislate the shopping schedules of normal Americans. Only Abnormal Americans would support such a diabolical plot. I think we should band together and boot out the Abnormals. Boot them right out, I say.

All the answers can be found in great poetry. Agreed:

But if at the Church they would give us some ale,
And a pleasant fire our souls to regale,
We’d sing and we’d pray all the live-long day,
And never once wish from the Church to stray.

]]> By: Cindy Scroggins http://www.clusterflock.org/2007/09/why-do-people-freak-out-about-liquor.html/comment-page-1#comment-13262 Cindy Scroggins Sun, 23 Sep 2007 16:38:16 +0000 http://wp.patrickburleson.com/?p=6897#comment-13262 <i>Can someone explain the mental jumping-jacks needed to allow beer and wine, but somehow make liquor this bringer of evil?</i> Wine's fine But liquor's quicker All answers can be found in great poetry. Can someone explain the mental jumping-jacks needed to allow beer and wine, but somehow make liquor this bringer of evil?

Wine’s fine
But liquor’s quicker

All answers can be found in great poetry.

]]> By: Daryl Scroggins http://www.clusterflock.org/2007/09/why-do-people-freak-out-about-liquor.html/comment-page-1#comment-13261 Daryl Scroggins Sun, 23 Sep 2007 16:06:44 +0000 http://wp.patrickburleson.com/?p=6897#comment-13261 Yep--that's the way it is here in TX: no sale of liquor after 9 p.m. or before 10 a.m. and no sales on Sunday. Presumably a person could buy several cases at 8:59 and, waiting outside, give it away to friends who showed up late due to blurry watches. But Sunday? They actually used to have a thing here called "the blue laws" (?) that made it against the law for your basic retail stores to be open on Sunday. There was some strange argument always made about the need to make sure employees weren't prevented from attending church because of work schedules--but this was apparently not a worry when it came to faiths that don't typically hold their services on Sunday. The people who vote an area dry are the same ones who will shoot you for stepping on their lawns. Yep–that’s the way it is here in TX: no sale of liquor after 9 p.m. or before 10 a.m. and no sales on Sunday. Presumably a person could buy several cases at 8:59 and, waiting outside, give it away to friends who showed up late due to blurry watches. But Sunday? They actually used to have a thing here called “the blue laws” (?) that made it against the law for your basic retail stores to be open on Sunday. There was some strange argument always made about the need to make sure employees weren’t prevented from attending church because of work schedules–but this was apparently not a worry when it came to faiths that don’t typically hold their services on Sunday. The people who vote an area dry are the same ones who will shoot you for stepping on their lawns.

]]> By: Kathy Smith http://www.clusterflock.org/2007/09/why-do-people-freak-out-about-liquor.html/comment-page-1#comment-13260 Kathy Smith Sun, 23 Sep 2007 15:32:55 +0000 http://wp.patrickburleson.com/?p=6897#comment-13260 Beer <i>is</i> a good drink for families. Beer is proof that G-d loves us and wants us to be happy. I read that on a bumper sticker, so it must be true. Following that unflawed logic, Single Malt Scotch, Vodka, and Kentucky Bourbon are proof of a love so profound, why, it's almost Biblical. Here in our corner of the not-quite-Midwest-but-too-far-west-to-be-East (AKA Bible Belt), there are laws that prohibit the sale of G-d's bottled love on Sunday. It's a challenge for a mother to keep her family happy on Sunday with laws like those on the books. Something should be done. Beer is a good drink for families. Beer is proof that G-d loves us and wants us to be happy. I read that on a bumper sticker, so it must be true. Following that unflawed logic, Single Malt Scotch, Vodka, and Kentucky Bourbon are proof of a love so profound, why, it’s almost Biblical. Here in our corner of the not-quite-Midwest-but-too-far-west-to-be-East (AKA Bible Belt), there are laws that prohibit the sale of G-d’s bottled love on Sunday. It’s a challenge for a mother to keep her family happy on Sunday with laws like those on the books. Something should be done.

]]> By: Sheila Ryan http://www.clusterflock.org/2007/09/why-do-people-freak-out-about-liquor.html/comment-page-1#comment-13259 Sheila Ryan Sun, 23 Sep 2007 14:01:30 +0000 http://wp.patrickburleson.com/?p=6897#comment-13259 This is just speculation right off the top of my head, but the distinction, like so many unexamined beliefs, may have historical roots in notions of which none of its adherents are aware. In the early nineteenth century, in England and the US, anyway, a temperance movement arose whose proponents condemned the use of 'hard liquor' (such as corn likker and applejack here in the States). Later on the teetotalers and abstainers, those who frowned on wine and beer as well as the 'hard stuff', came to the fore, but it may be that folks have inherited the old beer and wine/hard liquor dichotomy through some kind of folksy transmission through the generations. Anyway, it's the kind of shaky distinction that allows people to make political compromises, so in that sense it has some use for them. I have an 1840s housekeeping manual, by the way, that not only features guidelines for making various herbal wines but which states that "beer is a good drink for families". This is just speculation right off the top of my head, but the distinction, like so many unexamined beliefs, may have historical roots in notions of which none of its adherents are aware. In the early nineteenth century, in England and the US, anyway, a temperance movement arose whose proponents condemned the use of ‘hard liquor’ (such as corn likker and applejack here in the States). Later on the teetotalers and abstainers, those who frowned on wine and beer as well as the ‘hard stuff’, came to the fore, but it may be that folks have inherited the old beer and wine/hard liquor dichotomy through some kind of folksy transmission through the generations. Anyway, it’s the kind of shaky distinction that allows people to make political compromises, so in that sense it has some use for them.

I have an 1840s housekeeping manual, by the way, that not only features guidelines for making various herbal wines but which states that “beer is a good drink for families”.

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