Posted on 04/03/2020 6:50:20 AM PDT by a little elbow grease
If the nations liquor stores bolt their doors, can bootleg liquor be far behind?
My favorite time of day is cocktail hour. While I love any number of bars and restaurants, my favorite place to enjoy a cocktail is my home. Thanks to my professional requirements, I have an abundant supply of some of the best whiskies and wines in the world. In addition, the service is impeccable (theres no trying to get the bartenders attentionI am the bartender), the pours are always perfect, theres no last call and I dont have to worry about driving home.
And now, like it or not, much of the rest of the country is also enjoying the perks cocktails at home, thanks to state-issued shelter in place mandates to slow the spread of Covid-19. And when your home is the bar, it might occasionally need restocking, but there are concerns we may not be able to continue to do that.
When Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf ordered the closing of all non-life sustaining businesses beginning Monday, March 23, 2020 (revised from the original March 19 date due to a massive influx of waiver requests), included in that were liquor stores, all of which are state-owned. So yes, he can do that.
So far Pennsylvania is the only state to saddle its citizens with the burden of a spirit-less defense against cabin fever, but it sets a dangerous precedent for the rest of the country, as many states are still defining what an essential business is. Many other states have yet to weigh in with rulings, which makes me fear that Pennsylvania has started a no-drink contagion that other governors may catch. In addition to adding to the fast-blooming unemployment problem, closing stores could have other consequences.
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I said the same thing about speakeasies to friends a week ago.
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.... looking forward to it. I'll be at "The Alibi Dive".
;-)
My grandmother used to tell lots of wild stories about going to speakeasies during prohibition. She said you’d never seen people drink so much as when it was illegal.
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barf
Guess that isnt technically true.
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LOL ... true.
........ You've got a friend in Pennsylvania --- (a manly friend)
Famously there is a town in Lancaster County called Intercourse, PA.
They had a contest to pick a new PA travel slogan and some wag suggested “Virginia May Be for Lovers, But Only Pennsylvania Has Intercourse”.
Weenie Gov. Thornburg refused to put that on the license plates.
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No kidding.
Weenie Gov. Thornburg refused to put that on the license plates.
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That's great.
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Beautiful ...
Famously there is a town in Lancaster County called Intercourse, PA.
Back in the day I went with my girl friend and her family to New Holland Pa, to buy feed for their horses. As we browsed around the the store, My girl friend motions me to come over to see what she is looking at. It was a calendar from you guessed it Intercourse, Pa, she looked at me and gave me a sly smile, then we both laughed. Lol those were the days.
Intercourse is just down the road form Blue Ball.
Supposedly Intercourse Borough has given-up posting road signs that say “Welcome to Intercourse” because every last one of them gets stolen and hung over somebody’s bed.
I’m still confused as to whether or not I am a Flubro.
I am a flubro - just like Im deplorable and a climate change denier. I am also whatever they call a person who thinks there are only two genders, and you are born that way.
Apparently, all you need to do to be called a flubro, is compare Covid-19 to seasonal flu. I think its a legitimate comparison, so I guess Im a flubro.
Oh well, Ive been called a lot worse.
ANOTHER antidote to the “erection lasting over 4 hours”.
That’s a MAN Baby Yeah!
..... now there is something to fight for.
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..... very lucky individual.
;-)
If other neighboring states had shut their liquor sales down, I’d by producing ten gallons a day of 170% neutral spirits. The hard part would be finding enough mason jars and such.
But for now, there is not enough demand.
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Wow, what do you use?
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