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Author | Time | Post |
 Woo-hoo! At last, we in CT can buy alcohol on Sundays! (Original post) |
CTyankee | May 2012 | OP |
| xchrom | May 2012 | #1 | |
| CTyankee | May 2012 | #3 | |
| xchrom | May 2012 | #4 | |
| Bonhomme Richard | May 2012 | #2 | |
| CTyankee | May 2012 | #5 | |
| Bonhomme Richard | May 2012 | #11 | |
| CTyankee | May 2012 | #16 | |
| treestar | May 2012 | #6 | |
| CTyankee | May 2012 | #7 | |
| sharp_stick | May 2012 | #8 | |
| CTyankee | May 2012 | #9 | |
| seabeyond | May 2012 | #10 | |
| CTyankee | May 2012 | #13 | |
| seabeyond | May 2012 | #14 | |
| CTyankee | May 2012 | #18 | |
| LynneSin | May 2012 | #12 | |
| CTyankee | May 2012 | #20 | |
| LynneSin | May 2012 | #28 | |
| CTyankee | May 2012 | #29 | |
| treestar | May 2012 | #37 | |
| LynneSin | May 2012 | #41 | |
| Adsos Letter | May 2012 | #15 | |
| One_Life_To_Give | May 2012 | #17 | |
| bigwillq | May 2012 | #19 | |
| CTyankee | May 2012 | #21 | |
| BumRushDaShow | May 2012 | #22 | |
| MadrasT | May 2012 | #34 | |
| opiate69 | May 2012 | #23 | |
| CTyankee | May 2012 | #24 | |
| opiate69 | May 2012 | #25 | |
| BumRushDaShow | May 2012 | #27 | |
| CTyankee | May 2012 | #30 | |
| BumRushDaShow | May 2012 | #31 | |
| madinmaryland | May 2012 | #26 | |
| hfojvt | May 2012 | #32 | |
| CTyankee | May 2012 | #33 | |
| hfojvt | May 2012 | #36 | |
| CTyankee | May 2012 | #38 | |
| RebelOne | May 2012 | #35 | |
| Stinky The Clown | May 2012 | #39 | |
| CTyankee | May 2012 | #42 | |
| UnrepentantLiberal | May 2012 | #40 |
Response to CTyankee (Original post)
Wed May 2, 2012, 09:16 AM
xchrom (90,676 posts)
1. joining Civilization
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Response to xchrom (Reply #1)
Wed May 2, 2012, 09:23 AM
CTyankee (35,117 posts)
3. I wish there were a smilie for us wine drinkers...
Response to CTyankee (Original post)
Wed May 2, 2012, 09:22 AM
Bonhomme Richard (7,835 posts)
2. It made me wonder how many of those store owners talk free enterprise....
Response to Bonhomme Richard (Reply #2)
Wed May 2, 2012, 09:28 AM
CTyankee (35,117 posts)
5. Oh, you should hear them! I have a great wine store that has a terrific selection.
Response to CTyankee (Reply #5)
Wed May 2, 2012, 10:32 AM
Bonhomme Richard (7,835 posts)
11. Anyway, I am glad we don't have to run over to NY......
Response to Bonhomme Richard (Reply #11)
Wed May 2, 2012, 12:04 PM
CTyankee (35,117 posts)
16. Being in New Haven, I don't really have that option.
Response to treestar (Reply #6)
Wed May 2, 2012, 09:39 AM
CTyankee (35,117 posts)
7. Don't get me started on the lingering effects of Puritanism!
Response to sharp_stick (Reply #8)
Wed May 2, 2012, 09:43 AM
CTyankee (35,117 posts)
9. Init amazing? I moved here from VA and as strong as the fundies are there, we could still
Response to CTyankee (Original post)
Wed May 2, 2012, 09:50 AM
seabeyond (85,893 posts)
10. i thought that was only texas. well, until 12.
Response to seabeyond (Reply #10)
Wed May 2, 2012, 11:56 AM
CTyankee (35,117 posts)
13. Up until my mother died, I would visit her in Dallas and a shopping center near her happened
Response to CTyankee (Reply #13)
Wed May 2, 2012, 11:59 AM
seabeyond (85,893 posts)
14. lol... the town i am in is part wet, part dry. how about that. lol.
Response to seabeyond (Reply #14)
Wed May 2, 2012, 12:06 PM
CTyankee (35,117 posts)
18. I remember doing that in a Mexican restaurant there.
Response to CTyankee (Original post)
Wed May 2, 2012, 10:34 AM
LynneSin (89,793 posts)
12. I remember all the religious nutz going crazy when we allowed alcohol sales on Sunday here in DE
Response to LynneSin (Reply #12)
Wed May 2, 2012, 12:09 PM
CTyankee (35,117 posts)
20. From New Haven, it's not that easy. I'm a good hour from bordering states, RI, NY and MA.
Response to CTyankee (Reply #20)
Wed May 2, 2012, 12:45 PM
LynneSin (89,793 posts)
28. Yeah but if you really needed the booze - you'd make the trip
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Response to LynneSin (Reply #28)
Wed May 2, 2012, 12:57 PM
CTyankee (35,117 posts)
29. Please, my gas bill is high enough, thank you!
Response to LynneSin (Reply #12)
Wed May 2, 2012, 03:41 PM
37. I remember going to Elkton on Easter Sunday
Response to treestar (Reply #37)
Wed May 2, 2012, 03:57 PM
LynneSin (89,793 posts)
41. Ironically the 2nd largest liquor store in the country is right across the border from Pennsylvania
Response to CTyankee (Original post)
Wed May 2, 2012, 12:04 PM
Adsos Letter (14,004 posts)
15. BLASPHEMERS!!!
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Response to CTyankee (Original post)
Wed May 2, 2012, 12:06 PM
17. Ya still have to come to MA for Gas
Response to One_Life_To_Give (Reply #17)
Wed May 2, 2012, 12:08 PM
19. And those that live on the Mass border will likely still go to Mass for booze
Response to bigwillq (Reply #19)
Wed May 2, 2012, 12:11 PM
CTyankee (35,117 posts)
21. That's right.
Response to CTyankee (Original post)
Wed May 2, 2012, 12:11 PM
BumRushDaShow (11,958 posts)
22. Welcome (sort of) to PA's world
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where there's no alcohol in supermarkets and only a few State Stores (not all) are open on Sundays now (as of last year or the year before). Oh that's right, they are now called "Wine and Spirits Shoppes" (LOL) and even the tea bagger governor and his tea bagger legislature can't seem to get past the PA "T" fundies.
 Of course as it stands, these stores are run with state employees and the biz wing is butting up against those fundies with respect to privatizing and I support the state workers in principle. |
Response to BumRushDaShow (Reply #22)
Wed May 2, 2012, 02:52 PM
MadrasT (5,705 posts)
34. We (PA) crack me up.
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Remember back in the day when they kept all the booze behind the counter and you had to ASK THE GUY at the counter for your fifth of vodka?
At least they let us stroll down the aisles ourselves now. And there is the loosening up on Sundays thing. "Wine and Spirits Shoppes" 
Then there's the bit about having to go to a WHOLE DIFFERENT SPECIAL STORE to buy a case of beer... |
Response to opiate69 (Reply #23)
Wed May 2, 2012, 12:18 PM
CTyankee (35,117 posts)
24. yes. you can't even buy wine anywhere else than a wine or liquor store.
Response to CTyankee (Reply #24)
Wed May 2, 2012, 12:24 PM
25. I moved from Ct to Washington state back in 89...
Response to CTyankee (Reply #24)
Wed May 2, 2012, 12:39 PM
BumRushDaShow (11,958 posts)
27. Maybe they will try the failed wine kiosks
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like they tried here in PA as a pilot test. That didn't last long. I think they've all been pulled.
http://www.pennlive.com/midstate/index.ssf/2011/09/pas_wine-vending_machine_exper.html |
Response to BumRushDaShow (Reply #27)
Wed May 2, 2012, 01:08 PM
CTyankee (35,117 posts)
30. Here's the 15th century wine kiosk
There are several in Florence. They are are little doors, called wine doors, in the palazzi of the wealth families. They sold their excess wine from their country vineyards to the public. One of the wine doors I saw even had their daily hours carved in stone above it! Evidently you would bring your wineskin to the door, knock and a servant would take your money and fill your wineskin. How cool is that? |
Response to CTyankee (Reply #30)
Wed May 2, 2012, 01:23 PM
BumRushDaShow (11,958 posts)
31. That bike is missing a little basket
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to hold the wine and maybe some bread!
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Response to CTyankee (Original post)
Wed May 2, 2012, 12:28 PM
madinmaryland (52,948 posts)
26. I lived there 20 years and remember the Sunday drives to New York, to pick up
Response to hfojvt (Reply #32)
Wed May 2, 2012, 02:50 PM
CTyankee (35,117 posts)
33. You try to take my glass of red wine with dinner away, mister, and you've got a fight on
Response to CTyankee (Reply #33)
Wed May 2, 2012, 03:03 PM
36. I don't think I have a teetotalling problem
Response to hfojvt (Reply #36)
Wed May 2, 2012, 03:44 PM
CTyankee (35,117 posts)
38. I didn't mean to imply it was you I was talking about...sorry if I gave that impression! my bad....
Response to CTyankee (Original post)
Wed May 2, 2012, 02:58 PM
35. Finally, here in Georgia, in March, the voters elected to sell alcohol
Response to CTyankee (Original post)
Wed May 2, 2012, 03:50 PM
Stinky The Clown (51,333 posts)
39. I never lived in a state with sane liquor laws.
Response to Stinky The Clown (Reply #39)
Wed May 2, 2012, 04:13 PM
CTyankee (35,117 posts)
42. Yeah, those state stores in VA where you bought liquor were pretty Iron Curtain-ish.
Response to CTyankee (Original post)
Wed May 2, 2012, 03:53 PM
UnrepentantLiberal (11,700 posts)
40. You still have to buy beer and wine in a liquor store
