I choose to answer C) Yes, and a couple more I'm grabbing for my friends.

Whenever people start to wonder how Republicans can possibly get elected, you can just point to places like this. There are some seriously backwards people in this country.

Ah, this could be a Pennsyltucky liquor law thread. Goody!

Are Pennsylvania's liquor laws really America's most ridiculous, or is it just because it's a big media market that it gets so much coverage?

She comes in colors everywhere: Ah, this could be a Pennsyltucky liquor law thread. Goody!

Unfortunately, the story is about South Jersey.

Beer is good.

That bit of obviousness put forth I find I'm conflicted here on the idea that there should be a cooling of period between referendums.

Course I'm Canucklehead Farker where dry counties don't exist so I'm looking at this question from the perspective of a guy who's country relatively recently got together and used a national referendum to determine whether said country it was still gonna be country after the voting was done.

So there's that.

/Actually just came to make a "spirit of the law"/ "law of the spirits" joke but couldn't quite find a template that worked.

She comes in colors everywhere: Ah, this could be a Pennsyltucky liquor law thread. Goody!

This is actually a NJ county. I was disappointed too.

beta_plus: Are Pennsylvania's liquor laws really America's most ridiculous, or is it just because it's a big media market that it gets so much coverage?

It's up there. Iowa's are pretty weird too, apparently.

Lifelong PA resident here. Visiting WA and seeing beer in a grocery store was a life-changingly weird experience.

Wow. And all this time I had been led to believe the freedom-hating Prohibitionist crowd lived only south of Mason-Dixon and in a few pockets of wacky in Midwest, Plains.

Didn't they watch the Ken Burns documentary??

You're a pothead if you argue for sensible marijuana policy.

You're sensible if you argue for sensible alcohol policy.

Any way you slice it, prohibition-related laws don't work.

DRY TOWN? This is what happens when liberals run things. You're just too dumb to make the decision for yourself.

No beer for you ... beer is way too much fun and you're simply not responsible enough for it.

The new question says: "Shall the sale of all alcoholic beverages at retail, except for consumption on railroad trains, airplanes, and boats, and the issuance of any retail licenses, except as aforesaid, pursuant to chapter one of the Title Intoxicating Liquors of the Revised Statutes" be permitted?"


reads like

Outlawing alcohol for the betterment of the community would be communist thinking, right? Reducing government's control over our lives is good, right? Alcohol sales would generate revenue and produce jobs, right? Alcohol bans interfere with new and increased business opportunities, right? So what's the problem? Who could possibly be in favor of retaining the alcohol ban?

/yeah, I know who...

Aquapope: Outlawing alcohol for the betterment of the community would be communist thinking, right? Reducing government's control over our lives is good, right? Alcohol sales would generate revenue and produce jobs, right? Alcohol bans interfere with new and increased business opportunities, right? So what's the problem? Who could possibly be in favor of retaining the alcohol ban?


No banning religion is a communist thing, banning fun is a religious (or British) thing.


mxBags: DRY TOWN? This is what happens when liberals run things. You're just too dumb to make the decision for yourself.


If your not a troll call 911 you have a head wound.

mxBags: DRY TOWN? This is what happens when liberals run things. You're just too dumb to make the decision for yourself.

No beer for you ... beer is way too much fun and you're simply not responsible enough for it.

tt/dr

downstairs: beta_plus: Are Pennsylvania's liquor laws really America's most ridiculous, or is it just because it's a big media market that it gets so much coverage?

Probably because they're so historic. There are crazy, backwards laws everywhere. I remember even in Illinois you couldn't buy liquor or beer before noon. Like... ummm... OK, how does that help anyone?

And in North Carolina you can't sell beer and liquor in the same store.

That is for public health, as beer and liquor don't mix.

Dammit: *you're*

A dry town is when the religious extremists (right wingers) want to enforce "their" values on the town's population. The RNs (religious nutjobs) will use any excuse and false information to force, scare, or belittle what others think.

Case in point:

Here in Hardin County, KY there was a vote for expanding alcohol sales in three areas of the county. Many of the churches had "NO" signs posted in front or had "messages" in front of the church telling people should vote "NO". There was even the "cry me a river" approach using the Carrolton, KY bus crash that happened back in 1989.
The opposing side said that it was beneficial economically for the people to vote "yes". Not to mention that that in order to buy beer, one would have to go out of the county and purchase there - the taxes from the sale would end up in that county instead.

I voted yes, and so did 3:2 margin of eligible voters.

Licenses for liquor sales start in January.
/end prohibition
//yes in the state of bourbon - there are dry counties
///virgule

mxBags: DRY TOWN? This is what happens when liberals run things. You're just too dumb to make the decision for yourself.

No beer for you ... beer is way too much fun and you're simply not responsible enough for it.

As demonstrated by all of the dry counties in that red Liberal state of Texas.

Footloose!

2 Alcoholic Boogaloo

Jock #1: [at a party] What's up, babes?
Womynist #1: Pack up your rape culture and take a hike!
Jock #1: [holds up a beer] You want a brewdog?
Womynist #1: We're not interested in your penis!
Womynist #2: Wait, wait, I think he's offering us a beer.
[turns to jock, speaks slowly]
Womynist #2: Um... Yes. We, would like, a beer.
Jock #1: Okay!
[turns around to get a beer]
Womynist #1: So it's like, if you're nice to them, they *bring* you things?
Womynist #2: Exactly.

Tusz: beta_plus: Are Pennsylvania's liquor laws really America's most ridiculous, or is it just because it's a big media market that it gets so much coverage?

It's up there. Iowa's are pretty weird too, apparently.

Lifelong PA resident here. Visiting WA and seeing beer in a grocery store was a life-changingly weird experience.

I'm an Iowa resident and I haven't noticed anything particularly crazy except that Everclear has to be sold watered down at half strength. (Some Uni student with a well connected family died getting drunk on it or something). We've got a pretty strong microbrewery/winery/distillery business, liquorl can be sold at grocery stores every day (though it can't be sold between 3am and 8am or something like that), beer and wine can be sold at any time. In comparison to a lot of things I see in these threads we seem pretty normal.

Shaggy_C: Whenever people start to wonder how Republicans can possibly get elected, you can just point to places like this. There are some seriously backwards people in this country.

Riight. As opposed to the Quakers that have always prohibitied alcohol. So, since they founded the town, hence they must be "republicans."

If there are enough "liberals" in the town, then maybe there will be more votes for alcohol then against it.

If you actually RTFA, it's not a push by "liberals" in the town to vote for alcohol, it's an outside entity that just happens to own a large property in the town that feels that they can make even more money if the town was wet and some restaurants and bars could get liquor licenses in the town. So, does that make that company the 1% in the town because they will undoubtedly make more money than the rest of the 99% in the town?

/just because you get wasted drunk every weekend does not mean that everyone else does, nor that they want to.
/no, I am no opposed to drinking

I think people have overlooked the biggest thing about this article, namely that it was written by a guy named "Will E. Cox" hehehehehehe