darkhorse23: Oh, finally, the long lines at Green's on Ponce, on Saturday night, will finally diminish.

I've only been there a couple of times, and only because it's the best liquor store close to my best friend's house. I wish I hadn't been so stupidly broke when I passed through a couple of weeks ago, because I'd love a few more bombers of fantastic beer.

/still can't buy bombers in AL... for now
//can still buy on Sunday here
///don't miss Sundays in GA at all

Strange, in the article it said atlanta sunday sales start on jan 1

woo

Metro Atlantans line up to buy beer on Sunday for the first time ever since the mid 1700s

FTFM.

Atlantans? Dammit. I thought we were voting in beer on Sundays for Atlantians...

I was actually in Atlanta today for a conference and this was on the radio for a bit. No, I did not partake. I was driving back to Baltimore at the time.

"It's a beautiful thing, it's a beautiful thing,"

Well said Mr. Davis, well said!

Fett56: Strange, in the article it said atlanta sunday sales start on jan 1

for METRO Atlanta. The actual city of Atlanta voted on it and approved Sunday sales but it doesn't take effect until Jan.1st.

frtmn7: Fett56: Strange, in the article it said atlanta sunday sales start on jan 1

for METRO Atlanta. The actual city of Atlanta voted on it and approved Sunday sales but it doesn't take effect until Jan.1st.

"People of the Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Marietta Metropolitan Statistical Area" just doesn't have the same ring to it.

I used to drive from Cobb County to North Ave, downtown Atlanta to buy beer at 12:01 AM Monday mornings.

/csb

Fett56: Strange, in the article it said atlanta sunday sales start on jan 1

Just getting in line like Black Friday.

friedlinx: I used to drive from Cobb County to North Ave, downtown Atlanta to buy beer at 12:01 AM Monday mornings.

/csb

After a hard days work no doubt.

Yay! Now I can buy on the way to work at Lindbergh City Center on Sundays

darkhorse23: Oh, finally, the long lines at Green's on Ponce, on Saturday night, will finally diminish.

Done in one

I used to live nearly next door.

Phlem Pickens: friedlinx: I used to drive from Cobb County to North Ave, downtown Atlanta to buy beer at 12:01 AM Monday mornings.

/csb

After a hard days work no doubt.

If by *hard days work* you mean: drinking all the beer on Sunday, that I bought on Saturday, that was suppose to last till Monday, then yes.

I agree that the law prohibiting alcohol sales on Sunday was a stupid anachronism, but really - is it that hard to plan ahead and make sure you have plenty to drink to tide you over the one day a week when you can't buy beer?

Nogale: anachronism, but really - is it that hard to plan ahead and make sure you have plenty to drink to tide you over the one day a week when you can't buy beer?

FREEDOM! From religious repression.

/that's what it's about

Nogale: I agree that the law prohibiting alcohol sales on Sunday was a stupid anachronism

That's all you needed to say

Good. Now Jesus won't have to spend as much time turning water into wine, and can concentrate on more important things like healing the leopards.

As a resident of Sandy Springs, I was in line yesterday and purchased my alcohol at 12:31 pm, just because I could. Freedom is a wonderful thing.

Fett56: Strange, in the article it said atlanta sunday sales start on jan 1

Yeah. The start times are staggered depending on jurisdiction. Atlanta specifically said 01/01/2012 on their vote to allow time to ramp up. There are still several places in the metro that haven't held their votes yet. Dekalb County won't do theirs until March.

There were no alcohol sales on Sunday in IN when I grew up. After much experimentation, some thirsty folk discovered the answer. Some came up with a plan that they called "The Plan," and attempted to buy beer on Sunday and were rebuffed. Yet another group came up with what they called "The Other Plan" and bought beer on Monday, only to discover that this did nothing to help the drinking on Sunday problem. Finally, another group was inspired by what they called "The Other Other Plan," and bought beer on Saturday. This, for Hoosiers, was a breakthrough.*

*With thanks to the Piranha Brothers.

Nogale: I agree that the law prohibiting alcohol sales on Sunday was a stupid anachronism, but really - is it that hard to plan ahead and make sure you have plenty to drink to tide you over the one day a week when you can't buy beer?

Where have YOU been? Just In Time Delivery has been the standard model for a while now.

Dear Indiana,

Did you see that Georgia is still there and that no one decided to set the entire state on fire.

Someday I hope Connecticut can take this great leap forward into the 20th Century so we too can buy packaged liquor/wine/beer on Sunday.

/For now I have to stick to driving down to the bar and drinking it there, or -gasp- crossing state lines if I want to bring something home

Take a hint, Minnesota

AverageAmericanGuy: Atlantans? Dammit. I thought we were voting in beer on Sundays for Atlantians...

I first read Atlantians, I thought wow, not only had we discovered a lost civilization but they were as backwards in their thinking as we are.

Nogale: I agree that the law prohibiting alcohol sales on Sunday was a stupid anachronism, but really - is it that hard to plan ahead and make sure you have plenty to drink to tide you over the one day a week when you can't buy beer?

1. Shut up. 2. The biggest annoyance for those of us who have a fully stocked liquor cabinet at all times is that when you go grocery shopping on Sunday (which, really, is the most convenient day to do it), you couldn't buy beer and wine. I hit the Trader Joe's in Sandy Springs yesterday, and half the people there were buying cases of wine. I was able to get my groceries AND the magnum of prosecco that I'm bringing to Thanksgiving dinner.

phrawgh: Nogale: anachronism, but really - is it that hard to plan ahead and make sure you have plenty to drink to tide you over the one day a week when you can't buy beer?

FREEDOM! From religious repression.

/that's what it's about

Personally I liked some religious aspects, like when I was in high school and retail would close at 6 on Sundays, that farking rocked since it left us more time to get drunk and high.

You could buy alcohol on Sunday if you knew where to go or had z buddy that owned a chain of gas stations, just sayin'.

Alcohol sales weren't a big deal for most of us on Sunday, you get used to it and just stock up, I hated snellville where until the 2000s you couldn't even get a beer in a restaurant in the city limits. Not surprisingly all the restaurants were just outside the city limits.

And wouldnt this headline be better to go green on Sunday, when it actually happened?

Nogale: is it that hard to plan ahead and make sure you have plenty to drink to tide you over the one day a week when you can't buy beer?

Interestingly, that was our last Governor's reasoning for not signing a Sunday Sales law. It promotes good planning.
I wish I was kidding.



steamingpile: I hated snellville where until the 2000s you couldn't even get a beer in a restaurant in the city limits. Not surprisingly all the restaurants were just outside the city limits.

I was surprised to see Snellville was one of the first cities to approve it. I left in '96 and have never looked back.

Nogale: I agree that the law prohibiting alcohol sales on Sunday was a stupid anachronism, but really - is it that hard to plan ahead and make sure you have plenty to drink to tide you over the one day a week when you can't buy beer?

This. It was a stupid law and I am glad it is over but it never really effected me that much. I would buy enough beer on Sat. night or just go to the taco and get "to-go beer" (perfectly legal in Athens to buy unopened beer at a restaurant but you have to pay full price.) Also the convenience store workers were not very hard to bribe once they got to know you and I never heard about "stings" so I don't think it was enforced that hardcore. Kinda sad that those of us that really wanted it had to earn our beer SUnday, now anybody can just go in the store and buy it!

There's something wrong when a southern state has fewer blue laws than a northern state. In minnesota where I still can't buy liquor in a store or a car on a sunday

I had Sweetwater 420, Mississippi Mud, whiskey, bourbon and plenty of other booze on hand and am too farkin' hungover to kick at your replies.

What's all the fuss? Seems silly.

/moved to FL from ATL after about 20 years
//don't drink much, but for some reason I always remembered I wanted to buy beer on Sunday

SniperJoe: As a resident of Sandy Springs, I was in line yesterday and purchased my alcohol at 12:31 pm, just because I could. Freedom is a wonderful thing.

Nothing says freedom like being told you can't buy it at noon.

The fact that this is a story at all, and that there are still places where superstition governs when people can buy things, is so sad.

/tired of being a human
//not drunk

We could go into bars and drink on Sunday in Atlanta 25 years ago (something you couldn't do anywhere else in Georgia) so excuse me if I don't get all excited about this.

To Nogale, rico567, and the others suggesting that the solution was always there--the solution being simply buying enough alcohol on Saturdays to tide you over until Monday:

So, by that logic, we should all be fine and OK with just buying a week's worth of alcohol on Saturdays, correct? If it is just a matter of planning ahead, we should all be OK with only one day a week of alcohol sales, right?

Or this: what if you couldn't buy food on Sundays, and you had to make sure you bought enough on Saturdays or you just had to go hungry on Sundays. Or what if your utilities (water, electric, gas, etc.) didn't work on Sundays, and you had to buy enough propane, bottled water, batteries, wood for fuel, etc., on Saturdays so you could eat/wash/be warm/live/etc. on Sundays?

Or what if you weren't allowed to to have casual conversations with anyone on Sundays, and only absolutely essential speaking is allowed on Sundays (that is, worship-related speaking), since it is God's day? Would you take the same position...that you should just plan well enough to have the non-essential conversations you need to have by midnight every Saturday?

The point is that it is a stupid law...and it is based entirely and completely in religion (and an archaic interpretation of one particular aspect of one particular religion, at that...and it's even an aspect that most followers of that particular religion don't even regularly adhere to when left to their own devices anyway). The fact that there is a way to cope with the law without completely overturning your life is not the point.

What if you were required to spend five minutes every day singing songs of praise to Beelzebub, or Baal, or Jesus, or the FSM, or me...or any other religious figure...surely that wouldn't be a problem for you, right? You can find five minutes a day to fulfill your legal obligations, right? Surely you can arrange your days properly so that you have five measly minutes each day...and yet, I have a feeling most of you would strenuously object if lawmakers proposed such a law. I know I would.

I don't want anyone legislating their brand of morality on everyone else...and ESPECIALLY not the hypocritical jack-arse politicians that lie, steal, cheat, etc. on a daily basis. Before one tries to get others to follow their religious beliefs--and certainly before they try to force others to do that--they should probably be sure that they are a good example of how to follow those rules. So I guess that pretty well disqualifies most every politician from legislating morality.

Legislate safety for the citizens: outlaw murder, theft, rape, abuse, assault, extortion, and all other sorts of victim-generating crimes. Protect us from predatory lenders, shady businessmen, and shysters. Keep the streets safe and organized. But let ME decide whether I want to try to make your god happy or not.

Live webcam. Lots of hangovers this morning.

This comes three years too late for me.

/I'm in a better place now

cryinoutloud: We could go into bars and drink on Sunday in Atlanta 25 years ago (something you couldn't do anywhere else in Georgia) so excuse me if I don't get all excited about this.

That was before the Happy Hour laws. One bar in Sandy Springs poured 6 for 1 on Sunday.

MBooda: Live webcam. Lots of hangovers this morning.

I laughed.

End of the tyranny!
Can we drink and drive now?