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'Sober bar' must sell Booze to allow smokers
Edmonton Journal ^
| Friday, August 15, 2003
| Jason Markusoff
Posted on 08/17/2003 11:04:26 PM PDT by Ronin
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To: Ronin
simple... charge $500 a drink.
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posted on
08/18/2003 1:28:31 PM PDT
by
steveo
(Saying nothing important since 1998)
To: Ronin
Easy solution. Sell Ipecac beer.
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posted on
08/18/2003 1:29:26 PM PDT
by
Centurion2000
(We are crushing our enemies, seeing him driven before us and hearing the lamentations of the liberal)
To: Ronin
Charbonneau and Lawrence Lathe opened Keep It Simple two years ago to give recovering alcoholics, gambling or drug addicts a bar-like atmosphere without the booze they have to shun. They also hold meetings for Alcoholics Anonymous, Cocaine Anonymous and other 12-step programs in a back room. Five dollars says that this 12 step group isnt welcome.
Nicotine Anonymous
To: Freebird Forever
They meet at Starbucks.
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posted on
08/18/2003 2:51:02 PM PDT
by
Ronin
(Qui tacet consentit!)
To: Freebird Forever
They meet at Starbucks.
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posted on
08/18/2003 2:51:02 PM PDT
by
Ronin
(Qui tacet consentit!)
To: Ronin
Bump.
To: Ronin; *puff_list; Just another Joe; Great Dane; Max McGarrity; Tumbleweed_Connection; ...
ack!
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posted on
08/18/2003 11:20:38 PM PDT
by
SheLion
To: Ronin
This is what the anti-smokers want - make smokers as uncomfortable as possible.
How disgusting.
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posted on
08/19/2003 1:37:32 AM PDT
by
Gabz
(anti-smokers - personification of everything wrong in this country.)
To: Libertarianize the GOP
Utterly ridiculous.
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posted on
08/19/2003 1:41:42 AM PDT
by
Gabz
(anti-smokers - personification of everything wrong in this country.)
To: Ronin
A city official said the rules are clear on the bylaw, and the owners knew about the restrictions well in advance. I seem to remember that the leaders of the southern states felt slavery was OK. But even they didn't mandate that everyone farming had to own slaves. This is stoopid government runamuck.
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posted on
08/19/2003 4:43:40 AM PDT
by
Conspiracy Guy
(If John Kerry was a bobble head doll, he'd need a smaller head.)
To: Freebird Forever
I'm trying to quit smoking (2 weeks after 30 years of smoking) I am beginning to think the key is NOT to change your lifestyle at all. Do all the same things you did while you were smoking. After you have done all of these things several times without smoking, you begin to realize you can, and it gets easier.
To: NeonKnight
After you have done all of these things several times without smoking, you begin to realize you can, and it gets easier. Good luck with your endeavor.
After a person overcomes that habit, most other challenges in life become easy by comparison.
To: Freebird Forever
I like your choice of the word Habit rather than Addiction. I am a smoker because I like it not because I'm addicted. I stoped for 2 years once and started back. I kept doing all the things I did when I smoked. I know too many people who just decided one day "I quit" and did for it to be an addiction. They key to quitting is to want to.
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posted on
08/19/2003 5:40:24 AM PDT
by
Conspiracy Guy
(If John Kerry was a bobble head doll, he'd need a smaller head.)
To: SheLion
Coming to a town near you! SOON!
What a crock. And at a private club no less.
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posted on
08/19/2003 6:07:49 AM PDT
by
Just another Joe
(FReeping can be addictive and helpful to your mental health)
To: jfritsch
Seems like the solution is easy. Make alcohol for sale so they can get their liquor license, but they can set their own selling rate at $25,000 per nanoliter.
Reminds me of Mike Snyder's joke on the opry sunday night. This old boy goes in a bar and tells the bar tender to give him 5 shots of the best scotch he has.
The bar tender turns and points to a bottle on the far wall and says, " That's it over there. It's 35 dollars per shot, you sure you want that?"
The old boy says, "I don't care, just pour me 5 shots."
"Ok," says the bar tender; and sets up 5 shot glasses and fills them from the bottle.
The old boy throws down those shots in record time and wipes his mouth.
Bar tender was amazed and said, "I've don't see how anybody could drink 5 shots that fast"
The old boy said, "you could if you've got what I've got."
"What have you got?", ask the bar tender.
"Fifty cents" replied the old boy
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posted on
08/19/2003 7:04:40 AM PDT
by
UpToHere
To: Ronin
AA is for quitters! What good is sitting in a bar if you can't drink?!
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posted on
08/19/2003 7:10:35 AM PDT
by
Hatteras
(FREE MR. EXCITEMENT!)
To: Ronin
What'll they think of next? A bar without big-screen TVs so housewives can have a "bar atmosphere" without football on to interupt their yapping?!
I say to hell with a bar that doesn't serve alcohol.
"Oh, I want to go to a bar, but I don't want to drink or watch any football..."
What the hell is that?!!
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posted on
08/19/2003 7:19:02 AM PDT
by
Hatteras
(FREE MR. EXCITEMENT!)
To: Hatteras
Maybe they consider that they aren't sitting at a bar,they are sitting at a counter,like in a coffee shop.What's the difference?
This is probably the most ridiculous anti-smoking rule I have ever seen.For people suffering through the struggle to stay off booze it is a place to socialize without pressure to drink.
I think the posters that said to get the license and just charge a ridiculously high amount is the answer.
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posted on
08/19/2003 7:42:54 AM PDT
by
Mears
To: Mears
If they feel the need to get together and not drink than they can go sit in a circle in the middle of an empty high school cafeteria on Wednesday nights. They shouldn't be taking up valuable space in a bar where honest people can get a stiff drink.
A bar is a bar. A coffee shop is a coffee shop. What they want is to go to a coffee shop but are too embarassed to call it that so they want to call it a "Bar".
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posted on
08/19/2003 9:29:20 AM PDT
by
Hatteras
(I'm just tryin' to get by, being quiet and shy, in a world full of pushin' and shove)
To: nickcarraway
What would be the harm in allowing people to smoke without drinking?
they'd need to get a licence to continue to allow smoking.
I think that sentence pretty much answers your question......revenues, revenues and more revenues to support the state. The "state" has long since forgotten about the people. Canada is now a dehydrated old sow with all its teats intact and attached to them all are obsolete, proven government failures.
The western provinces need to secede from Vancouver and the rest of the socialist republic of kanada.........
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posted on
08/19/2003 3:07:37 PM PDT
by
Hot Tabasco
(After 30 years of dealing with stupid people, I still haven't earned the right to just shoot them...)
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