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danimal · 01-18-2008, 05:34 AM

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Originally Posted by MikeWaters

there are good things about a gentocracy. There are also not-so-good things.

You've got to wonder about the cost-benefit ratio. The bad ones seem to bring us an awful lot of embarrassing publicity.

RockyBalboa · 01-18-2008, 02:06 PM

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Originally Posted by hyrum

It was next to the beer, not next to the sodie-pop, right?
Vodka looks like water, should they make it pea-green so it doesn't look too much like water?
Cough syrup comes in cherry flavors and contains alcohol, should it be sold in a state liquor store?
Was your son able to buy it?
Say someone 21 years old went to the liquor store to buy some "alcopops" at 3.2 percent and while he was there, it was next to some Everclear (80% alcohol, or something, I forget), thought that would be cool, so he got some of that, too. Now the manufacturers have just drawn the casual drinker in for the hard stuff rather than keeping them browsing the beer cooler at the grocery store. Is that good?

You can't buy Vodka or hard liquor in grocery stores in Utah, therefore you won't see something looking like water standing next to what could be Vodka.

Duh.

Having said that I don't care if they sell the stuff in the grocery store or not. I've always thought our liquor laws were really kooky.

malapert · 01-24-2008, 11:49 PM

When those of us who live outside Utah are queried about the archaic and "father-knows-best" alcohol laws in the state of Utah, I am loathe to defend them.

Perhaps the Utah legislature should also pass a law allowing the church to have employers withhold 10% of employee paychecks, since that seems to be their level of confidence in our use of agency.

SoCalCoug · 01-24-2008, 11:59 PM

As long as they don't outlaw breast implants, I have no strong feelings about what they do.

Now, if they passed a law restricting fake hooters, that could get me riled up.

il Padrino Ute · 01-25-2008, 02:40 AM

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Originally Posted by malapert

When those of us who live outside Utah are queried about the archaic and "father-knows-best" alcohol laws in the state of Utah, I am loathe to defend them.

Perhaps the Utah legislature should also pass a law allowing the church to have employers withhold 10% of employee paychecks, since that seems to be their level of confidence in our use of agency.

There is no need to defend the Utah liquor laws, because despite all the bitching and moaning about the laws, one can purchase alcohol in Utah.

01-24-2008, 11:49 PM	#13
malapert Junior Member Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: North Pole Posts: 148	When those of us who live outside Utah are queried about the archaic and "father-knows-best" alcohol laws in the state of Utah, I am loathe to defend them. Perhaps the Utah legislature should also pass a law allowing the church to have employers withhold 10% of employee paychecks, since that seems to be their level of confidence in our use of agency. __________________ . "He has all the virtues I dislike--and none of the vices I admire." -Winston Churchill "He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends." -Oscar Wilde "In order to avoid being called a flirt, she always yielded easily." -Charles, Count Talleyrand

01-24-2008, 11:59 PM	#14
SoCalCoug Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Orange County, California Posts: 3,059	As long as they don't outlaw breast implants, I have no strong feelings about what they do. Now, if they passed a law restricting fake hooters, that could get me riled up. __________________ Get your stinking paws off me, you damned, dirty Yewt! "Now perhaps as I spanked myself screaming out "Kozlowski, say it like you mean it bitch!" might have been out of line, but such was the mood." - Goatnapper "If you want to fatten a pig up to make the pig MORE delicious, you can feed it almost anything. Seriously. The pig is like the car on Back to the Future. You put in garbage, and out comes something magical!" - Cali Coug