YOU KNOW THERE'S MORE TO LIFE BESIDES FOOTBALL WEEPING FOR EXAMPLE

That Sunday Blue law is especially brutal when a holiday comes right on the heels of a “sober sunday”. That means that you have to think two to three days in advance if you want to crack a beer or two on a holiday. Which sorta is the point of a holiday, no?

“Masochism lives, and its address is probably somewhere with IA or SD behind it.” -spaketh Orson.

/weeps knowing that he lives in one, works in another.

The best parts about living in flyover country, other than the obvious getting-tanked-on-Sunday oppotunities:

1. All the directions do not involve roads named after fruit.
2. The vast majority of the roads are straight, not paved over goat trails. If you can get lost in a town like Omaha, you fail at life. Find someone to lead you around on a leash.
3. It’s only a 3-hour flight to the coast, not that godawful 6-hour ordeal you folks have. You resent us being in “flyover country” because you WISH YOU COULD GET OFF THE PLANE RIGHT THE HELL NOW WHADDAYA MEAN I CAN"T HAVE MORE SCOTCH YAAAAR.
4. People driving four-wheel drive trucks and SUVs generally have some justification for doing so other than driving over the curb for a triple whip macchiatto.

What really did suck was going to school in South Dakota where there was a municipal blue law that forbade both on- and off-sale alcohol. One had to do some pretty good budgeting of the hooch supply for a weekend bender.

Forgot to go to the store on Saturday again last weekend eh Spencer?

PEOPLE LIKE BOOZE AND WHORES. THEY’RE GOOD FOR BUSINESS. GOD, OUT.

Jim Rome probably thinks that this rant from OT God . . . [grossly exaggerated and unnecessary pause] . . . is a good take. Rack him!

I understand our good Gov. Puurdoo might also propose a bill repealling the Homestead Exemption here in GA. That’s right Georgians; steep spikes in property taxes coming to a state near you!

With the Supreme Court saying Georgia can’t steal water from Alabama and Florida anymore, you’re going to need something else to drink. Maybe Sonny is too busy grabbing his granddaughter’s chest. Or was that Saxby? Sorry, I can’t keep my “Georgia Republicans Named After Cats” straight.

Its five degrees out, my truck heater went out and Mizzou lost to fucking Kansas with their fucking cartoon bird mascot. Life does suck in Missouri right now, but at least I live 5 minutes from the bar district and a giant casino. Plus I can buy as much booze as I want on Sundays and holidays.

Gotta love the South and their liquor laws.

That is where moonshine was elevated to an art form and spawned NASCAR ultimately.

Now, that would be torture, watching NASCAR sober. Worse than spending time sober with the in-laws, out-laws and Boss Hogg doppelangers.

“We could go outside…no, wait, outside sucks.”

/looks at thermometer

/sees that the air temp is -15, and that ain’t celsius.

It’s not that bad out, Orson. Kinda balmy, eh.

Hilarious, Mini. A case of beer for you, as long as it’s not on Sunday.

But, how is using water from a lake northeast of Atlanta “stealing” from other states?

behold the shaft of heavenly brilliance that gave the metroplex addison.

kleph, maybe it’s my Fort Worth bias showing, but you may the first person EVER to claim that Addison is a gift from God.

Ft.W. FTW

Do you know who one of the biggest PROPONENTS for the ban on Sunday alcohol sales is? Liquor stores. Because they figure they would lose more money in having to pay employees, etc to keep their stores open that day when people will just buy beer, etc from grocery stores anyway. Just figured I’d throw that bit out there. Which isn’t to say I agree with the Sunday ban. I get just as pissed as everyone else when I can’t buy Shiner Bock on a Sunday if I somehow didn’t buy enough for whatever occasion I needed it for. I just felt like I’d point out this little tidbit of information for your contemplation.

@gatorfrog you forgot about barry switzer.

That’s why everyone always needs the second fridge in the garage for “beverages”. And if tragedy befalls and that one is somehow empty, there’s always mini-fridge in the home office – with a sixer of the High Life. The Arky teetotalers won’t stop me from drankin’.

I know that someone said there would be no math questions…but….

According to the AJC: “Members of the public have also gotten heavily involved in the issue. An online petition drive collected more than 50,000 signatures for Sunday sales last year.”

Heavily involved?

There’s what – 10 million people in GA? If you assume that 25% are underage and didn’t vote – that leaves 7.5 M left. Let’s assume that 50% of those left were computer illiterate, were against repealing the blue law, didn’t care one way or another, or were Christian fundamentalists (or a combination thereof). That leaves 3.75 M people left to who WANTED to drink on Sunday. And the best you could come up with was 50,000 signatures?

Hell, there are 51,000 students at UF alone. I have one word for the people of GA who want to buy liquor on Sundays: Amateurs. No wonder you can’t get the blue laws repealed.

Weather report here: 65 degrees and sunny – and selling alcohol on Sundays.

And THAT’S why I just brew my own beer. It would take a serious bender, and alot of help for me to run out.

This is why the state of Kentucky is superior: we have distilleries at our uncle’s place and basketball (of the ‘in the gym’ or ‘on teevee’ or ‘goal hangin’ from the side of the garage over the trampled-to-death dirt’ to pass away our holy day.

It’s not just the South. Here in MI, we can’t buy alcohol before 12:00 PM on a Sunday. It’s not AS bad as not being able to buy it all day, but back in high school when I worked at a grocery store, you’d see dads with crying kids waiting 15 minutes to be able to buy that six-pack. Father of the Year, anyone?

Fear not. Sonny will be gone one day and there is already tons of pressure to allow gambling and convert Underground Atlanta into Casino space.

As soon as this happens the bible bangers will have much more to focus on than the Sunday alcohol sales ban. Plus the casinos will be open 24 hrs and attract SHITLOADS of people back .

Let’s add casino gambling to the list of what Georgians want and need. Keep the money in state.

pretty sure you can buy beer/liquor in Shreveport on sundays. just sayin.

…..For the record, it’s still illegal to sell alcohol on Sunday in Alabama. There are local exceptions, like Jefferson County, Birmingham. Certain little small towns like Cullman and Ft. Payne. But, the northern end of the Bama state map is dominated by “dry” counties, where it’s not legal to sell alcohol, period!

…..The vast majority of liquor stores in Alabama are state-owned ABC stores, and they’re not open on Sunday, anyway. Bottom line: you should always know who the bootlegger in your area is!

Walt-
I don’t get it. Would the proposed reform require liquor stores to be open on Sundays? If it wouldn’t, then they any store could just choose not to open on unprofitable days. If the ones that chose to close on Sundays would lose customers on the other six days because of their Sunday closure, how would that be the legislature’s problem? Strange.

For the record, there are Dry areas of Massachusetts too. Most of the island of Martha’s Vineyard is.

mlmintampa: Not to be repetitive, but I wanted to note that you are spot on save for your geography. Lake Lanier is in Georgia. Georgia’s water. Fuck you and your oysters. With a smile, of course.

I’m not sure why I care since it’s ATLANTA’s fucking water (they think) and I live in the holiest of holy cities WATKINSVILLE where I can’t buy booze at all. Ever. Thankfully, I have Athens where it’s flowin’ like mad. In fact, I think I’ll pop out of the office and walk over to a downtown drinking establishment right now.

Ah, I now remember why I care. The solons in under the Golden Dome (stole from Cherokees!!!) redrew the political watersheds so The ATL can siphon off all the water it needs. I suppose there’s more of Gwinnett County to be paved or something…

Damn you Cathy Cox.

Acid Reign, I invite you to Mobile. Alcohol every day of the week.

Hell, head down to Solomons and you can drink 24/7 in a bar. It’s an odd mix of merchant marine and medical students packed into a building that is painted Yellow and Bright Red like a rip-off payday loan place.

I just remembered the third thing I miss about living in Columbus, GA, since moving to Atlanta : Sunday sales were available with a quick drive across the river or, even better, available senza tax with a short drive out Victory Drive onto the military reservation (always important to maintain military connections). We lead the way.

Oh, and while I’m up: Sonny lied.

Gen.: The story was, of course, that the hill overlooking the lovely Oconee River shoals was selected for site of the first state-chartered university in the U.S. instead of Watkinsville because Watkinsville had a tavern, and we wouldn’t want our young men exposed to such temptations while they were studying. The Red Eagle, I think? Which building still stands, if I’m not mistaken.

Acid Reign,

Last time I drove past Solomon’s it looked like it had been closed for a couple of years. (Even more so than it used to.) Still open?

No wonder Indiana is considered a Southern state. Can’t buy booze here on Sundays either, although you can get your drink on at your favorite watering hole.

I live in New Orleans. We laugh at your backwards and uncivilized world.

Hey! It was only minus 18 (-18) degrees this morning in Des Moines, IA!!!!!! That was without the windchill, and then for some ungodly reason, Mike and Mike would not come in on the radio, forgot my gloves (hands froze to steeering wheel),

Hey we do not have hurricanes…. just little buddies called tornadoes

Peace out people…

There would be mass chaos in Iowa if they would not serve (sell) beer on a Sunday, what are you supposed to do after church! Watch the NFL without a beer? Naysayers

NCT @ 30: Yes, very familiar with that story. The “Eagle Tavern.” The building serves as a Watkinsville welcome center of sorts. One of those typical “historical!” buildings in every little Georgia town.

IThe story is a myth, by the way, according to Professor Thomas G. Dyer. If you don’t know Prof. Dyer, then trust me when I tell you that he would know. Don’t you hate it when some egghead professor mucks up a good story?

@33
That is perhaps the most heinous verbal assault I’ve ever had to endure as a citizen of Georgia, yet entirely deserved in this particular instance.

Checkmate, sir.

I checked about the drinking thing Orson, and here is there response:

“Please tell Master Swindle there are plentiful libations served here each Sunday, and he should just be sure to alert his chauffeur that you must arrive here before 3pm to ensure good seating”
Signed
Piedmont Driving Club

Here in bee-yu-ti-ful Santa Barbara it’s 70 degrees with no hint of clouds. Our women are buxom and stupid (or at least trained to act that way) and our liquor stores are open seven days a week. But I’d live with blue laws for a year if my Trojans could go back in time and stop that midget Jacquizz Rodgers every few plays. Is there a fan out there who wouldn’t give a testicle to see Rey Maualuga meet Tim Tebow in the middle?

Sonny Perdue still holds QB records at my alma mater of Warner Robins High School.

Also, we played on the same little leage all-star team, albeit almost a half century apart.

Sonny Perdue sucks.

PEOPLE LIKE BOOZE AND WHORES. THEY’RE GOOD FOR BUSINESS.

If we get Sunday booze and 24 hour clubs, this HAS to be the new ATL motto… or has New Orleans already claimed it?

Until you have had to form a single file line outside of an ABC store at 11:55 on a Sunday you can never fully understand the comptemptous looks given by Southern Baptists driving by on their way home from church. God I miss Alabama…sometimes.

In Gainesville there is the half assed blue laws. No liquor sold on sunday (except at bars/restaurants) but beer is sold after noon. Liquor sales stop at 11pm every day, while beer stops at 2am, except on sunday when it stops at 11pm. you can always drive to the county line where there is are 24 hour convenience marts at all corners that sell beer cause their counties arent retarded

I used to work at a grocery store in Houston right after George H.W. Bush was booted out of the White House in ‘93. One Sunday morning at around 11am he came into the store in his running suit and Secret Service escorts. He proceeded to load up one shopping cart full of wine and another one full of beer (Ed: must’ve all been for Li’l George). When he went to check out the 18 year old girl behind the register said that she couldn’t sell him the booze until noon.

The poor man just about blew a blood vessel. I think that’s when it hit him that he was now a former President with no public powers.

Well, the Jesus I worship turned water to wine to keep the party going (after the party was already full of drunks!), so I don’t know what these Christian posers are talking about:

John 2:1-11 (New International Version)

John 2
Jesus Changes Water to Wine
 1On the third day a wedding took place at Cana in Galilee. Jesus’ mother was there, 2and Jesus and his disciples had also been invited to the wedding. 3When the wine was gone, Jesus’ mother said to him, “They have no more wine.”
 4"Dear woman, why do you involve me?" Jesus replied, “My time has not yet come.”

 5His mother said to the servants, “Do whatever he tells you.”

 6Nearby stood six stone water jars, the kind used by the Jews for ceremonial washing, each holding from twenty to thirty gallons.[a]

 7Jesus said to the servants, “Fill the jars with water”; so they filled them to the brim.

 8Then he told them, “Now draw some out and take it to the master of the banquet.”

   They did so, 9and the master of the banquet tasted the water that had been turned into wine. He did not realize where it had come from, though the servants who had drawn the water knew. Then he called the bridegroom aside 10and said, “Everyone brings out the choice wine first and then the cheaper wine after the guests have had too much to drink; but you have saved the best till now.”

 11This, the first of his miraculous signs, Jesus performed in Cana of Galilee. He thus revealed his glory, and his disciples put their faith in him.

I LOVE living in Atlanta, but this Blue Law shit has got to fucking go. I mean I can buy booze whenever the hell I want in JACKSONVILLE. Why not here?

I’ve been working for years to have Sonny excommunicated from the University of Georgia’s alumni list.

Could be worse though. I lived in Connecticut for 2 years (I’m not proud). Think for a second how cold it is up there. Now think about CT’s blue law: NO ALCOHOL SALES ON SUNDAY AND ANY DAY AFTER 8:00 P.M. And, it’s fucking Connecticut.

Here’s a thought: Don’t want to drink on Sunday? Don’t drink on Sunday. Don’t like the cleavage on “90210”? Don’t watch “90210”. Skip Bayless make you want to hit him with a chair. HIT HIM WITH A CHAIR.

OK, that’s a series of thoughts. Put that chair down.

1. yeah CT sucks, my parents lived there for 6 years, 2 of those while I was at UF. Imagine everyone else coming back to school from Christmas break… pleasant and moderately tanned, and get home and still have fucking snow salt on my shoes. AND the no alcohol after 8:00… fucking Puritans. ::shivers:: Ugh, hate that place.

The worst part about those laws can be discovered on Saturday night.

In t-town, you can’t buy booze at all on Sundays, and the cut-off started at 2am. Meaning if you wanted to keep drinking after leaving the bars, you had to plan ahead.

I distinctly remember being stuck in traffic one Saturday night/Sunday morning and finally getting out of my buddy’s car to haul ass to the BP on foot so I could get the booze we “needed” before the cut off. And I received applause from those stopped in traffic.

On a different night, I almost got arrested because the bitch at the gas station wouldn’t sell me booze because of the time change. We argued over when the time actually changed until a cop walked up and I thanked her for her time and got the hell out of dodge.

What a bitch.

Walt,

No offense to you personally, but that whole “the liquor stores are really the biggest proponents of not being open on sunday” argument is a crock of shit. Why, if alcohol were allowed to be sold on sundays, would everyday liquor store customers suddenly turn to kroger to buy their alcohol? There is no stipulation saying that only beer or wine would be sold…it’s all or nothing. On top of that, why would opening their businesses and paying employees on sundays be any more expensive than any other day of the week? Like I said, no offense to you personally, but this argument just doesn’t make any sense. Anyone, and I mean ANYONE, who is in the business of selling liquor is going to jump at the idea of being able to sell even more of it, regardless of what day of the week it is.

I join #39 in noting that it is 80 degrees today in my part of California and I can get my drank on whenever so long as it’s before 2 AM.

And I’m gonna need it with Sanchez leaving for the draft.

You whiners need to move down here to South Louisiana. I can buy any kind of alcohol, anytime I want. And I can buy it at grocery stores, convenience stores, whatever. Hell I could drive through and get a daquiri on Sunday if I wanted with all the extra shots I can ask for without turning my vehicle off.

#29: Phenix City IS good for something besides spiking the A.I.D.S. and teenage pregnancy rate.

Up until a few years ago, the liquor stores (which included beer sales) in Delaware had to be closed on
 Sunday. The legislature banned smoking in bars but then changed the law to allow beer and liquor sales
 on Sundays. Bar business is booming and you can re-stock on Sundays. Life is good.

For all of the negatives to living in Nevada being able to get liquor 24/7 has its advantages. Hell, I can grab any type of liquor I want in the grocery store. Screw having to go to the liquor store.

You guys do realize there are Dry counties in Alabama (I’m looking at you, Fayette) where alcohol isn’t sold AT ALL. EVER. ANY DAY OF THE WEEK. PERIOD.

Just think about the drunk driving implications of everyone having to drive to the county line to get their beer. You don’t really have to think hard, you can go look up the stats on drunk driving fatalities in those counties.

#51

The liquor store reason is true. A friend of mine worked for the liquor store lobby last year; she says that they are staunchly against Sunday alcohol sales; they like the built in day off, and resulting lower labor costs.

@51

Yeah, GTFridge is right. Rot in B-school for a couple of years and you will realize that established businesses no likely laizze faire at all.

Thanks GTFridge. I remembered reading a big thing on it and seeing it in the news in Atlanta about the liquor store lobby being against Sunday sales for that reason. Hence the reason why I brought it up. It’s not a “crock of shit” a hailtogeorgia so eloquently put it.

A name to remember Don Leeburn, think Bobby Lowder, but Leeburn likes to keep his pets at the state house and to a lesser degree at UGA. If Crown Royal Don is against Sunday sales, so is Sonny and several others.

Ah, but there’s something sort of magical about navigating one’s way through the parking lot at the Green’s in front of the Killer Kroger when a Saturday night coincides with payday (or VA benefits day — whatever) then standing in line behind someone purchasing a pint with a handful of nickels and pennies. Ah, Ponce: I love you so.

@36 And yes, Gen., I’m familiar with Dyer. I suspected the Eagle Tavern story was a myth perpetuated by over-zealous student tour guides. Or maybe I read it in Coulter’s book while trying to dodge the Jim Crow apologia subtext.

@61 … Speaking of Columbus …

I’m tempted to make some connection between “Leebern’s pets” and floor exercises (both in the General Assembly and Stegeman), but I fear for my personal safety.

@29: I make that drive quite often! I think the Adult Swim cartoon Squidbillies did an episode on Georgia’s blue laws.

Granny: Why don’t ya jest buy your sunday liquor on saturday?

Early: Inconvenient!

Indeed.

Even when read on a blackberry after a day spent trekking the frozen tundra of the northeat, that’s some funny stuff. But COTG is just saving the booze for the Yankees. We need it more than y’all do right now.

I never want a beer more than after mowing my lawn on a Sunday, going inside and realizing that we drank them all watching football the day before.

Riviera, Backstreets, or 1tweezy? Which where you at?

you know, usually you making fun of the midwest would piss me off, but not today. you have to be right about the masochism thing, because there were windchills up to 57 below 0 today in gorgeous ames, iowa.

Meh… I stock up on Saturday, just takes some planning. Blue Laws are stupid, but isn’t that what the gov’t is for? Making stupid laws to piss us off? And I don’t care what they have in L.A. Unless you have seven digits to the left of the decimal on your bank statement, Los Angeles sucks.

While the crusade to retake Sundays is good, we must avoid being out-flanked in the Atlanta-area

For those that haven’t heard, DeKalb is considering (just got delayed) an ordinance that would allow the county to revoke liquor licenses if the county designates the establishment with said license a ‘nuisance’ or if there’s a crime committed somewhere in the area.

roll tide, motherfuckers. finally, we’re ahead of the curve on something. bars open 24/7 and sunday drankin. now, if can only deal with that hoover hair bangs deal

Walt,

I wasn’t saying that there aren’t liquor lobbyists who are against sunday liquor sales. I meant that the argument, itself, is a crock of shit. If the liquor stores like the built-in day off and the lower labor costs, then simply don’t open on sunday (see: Chick-Fil-A, though not with liquor and for a different reason). It’s no reason to fight for the banning of alcohol sales in stores altogether on sunday. Like I said before, it simply doesn’t make sense. Oh, and I apologize for not wording my earlier comment a little more “eloquently”. At a website where articles talk about Bob Stoops giving Gary Pinkel a reacharound while anally raping him, and comments refer to AIDS, teenage pregnancy, or include “Roll Tide, Motherfuckers”, I didn’t realize I should limit my terms to not include “a crock of shit”.

Oh, and @57, it’s not just Alabama that has the dry counties. They’re all over south Georgia as well. I can think of three (Effingham, Bulloch, and Screven) off the top of my head…though some of them are kinda like “Dry County Lite”, where you can buy beer and wine, but liquor…NOOOOOO! You can’t get drunk off of beer and wine and cause a wreck, in case you didn’t know.

In Alabama we got rid of the blue laws by jury nullification. We sold beer on Sun. asked for jury trials, and got exonerated for the most part. Even with judges instructions to convict. It takes lots of people flouting the laws, brvely, and a great risk and expense. Then the legislature caved. By the way, prostitution on an individual basis was only outlawed in Alabama about 6 years ago.

31/ by the way, solomons has been closed in Mobile for about 4 months, to many crack whores and muggings in the parking lot.

Just like Brian O’Blivion above, this is why I make my own beer. I’ve got 4 or 5 dozen 22oz bottles of beer sitting under the stairs in my garage (who needs a fridge when the basement garage is a steady 45 degrees?) waiting for any reason to drink. If I get down to 20 or so bottles, I make up another batch or two and they’re ready by the time my beer is gone. It’s rather convenient and it’s a decent cost savings. 30 bucks for a box of ingredients makes nearly 5 gallons (about 50-55 12 oz bottles) of beer.