BTW, again, about this "extreme 'biblism' in the South", I just don't see it. ...and I'm a non-denominational Christian on a backslide to hell who hates organized religion and attends NO church. I just don't see it. I've been to many states in the union, from Alaska to Florida, California to New York. Easiest place to get booze, from what I've seen, is right here. In Alaska I had to walk into another section of the store and through a glass door to get it. In PA? A I had to find a beer distributor. NJ? I have to go to a licka sto. Here in Augusta? Any local convenience store. I have probably 10 within 2 miles.

(11-09-2009 11:57 PM)Rebel Wrote:  BTW, again, about this "extreme 'biblism' in the South", I just don't see it. ...and I'm a non-denominational Christian on a backslide to hell who hates organized religion and attends NO church. I just don't see it. I've been to many states in the union, from Alaska to Florida, California to New York. Easiest place to get booze, from what I've seen, is right here. In Alaska I had to walk into another section of the store and through a glass door to get it. In PA? A I had to find a beer distributor. NJ? I have to go to a licka sto. Here in Augusta? Any local convenience store. I have probably 10 within 2 miles.

Another reason Dallas doesn't belong in civilized society. :grumpy: :muttering:

Why? Only flown "to" Dallas. Never actually stayed there. Is it dry? The two GA counties here, Columbia and Richmond, sell it all day in every grocery store and grocery store except on Sunday. (Don't like that, but stocking up on Saturday has kinda become a lifestyle.....didn't have to do this in Jackson). Now, I think the liquor laws in SC are f'ed. Can't buy liquor after about 7PM.

(11-09-2009 11:57 PM)Rebel Wrote:  BTW, again, about this "extreme 'biblism' in the South", I just don't see it. ...and I'm a non-denominational Christian on a backslide to hell who hates organized religion and attends NO church. I just don't see it. I've been to many states in the union, from Alaska to Florida, California to New York. Easiest place to get booze, from what I've seen, is right here. In Alaska I had to walk into another section of the store and through a glass door to get it. In PA? A I had to find a beer distributor. NJ? I have to go to a licka sto. Here in Augusta? Any local convenience store. I have probably 10 within 2 miles.

There are THREE first baptist churches near me (city of 50K) with attendance larger than all local colleges (Wofford, Converse, 3 technicals) except USC Upstate. They operate their own TV/Radio stations. They have a fleet of vehicles owned and maintained on site. They operate their own separate schools. There is another church SO BIG that it leases out its space (a former MALL complex) as an Expo Center. See below:

http://maps.google.com/maps?client=opera...2&t=h&z=17

http://www.spartanburgexpo.com/

At the Southeast Linuxfest last year in Clemson, one of our vendors, a woman from the Free Software Foundation in Boston, MA ... was yelled at while getting breakfast at the hotel. The reason? She had a tattoo on her upper arm, which an 80 year old couple pointed out was "the mark of the devil" and "you WILL BURN IN HELL for eternity!"

Do I REALLY need to continue?

One other thing I observed, EVERY state has different liquor laws. I do, however, prefer Georgia's since I'm a beer drinker.

(11-10-2009 12:45 AM)Rebel Wrote:  One other thing I observed, EVERY state has different liquor laws. I do, however, prefer Georgia's since I'm a beer drinker.

Tennessee's is pretty good. Liquor and wine must be sold in a separate store than beer (which can be sold at grocery and gas stations etc.). But they're often next door to each other and owned by the same person, just different doors (kind of a pain). But you can buy beer after noon on Sundays (no liquor) which, for college at least, trumps Georgia's blue law. No liquor/wine on Sunday which saves the embarrassment of getting to the checkout line and being denied (since the liquor store is closed on Sundays).

We went to our game vs NC State and kids flipped out because they could buy wine at a gas station. So everyone had the worst hangovers and red lips after that game.

Indiana had some f'd up law about cold beer not being able to be sold in grocery stores. Which lead to price differences at liquor stores between cold and room temp. beer.

I've been looking for a website that has all the states' laws in one place, for when I get to a new place I can save embarrassment of doing something stupid, or worse, not getting booze before its cut-off for the day.

(11-10-2009 12:41 AM)Rebel Wrote:  Why? Only flown "to" Dallas. Never actually stayed there. Is it dry? The two GA counties here, Columbia and Richmond, sell it all day in every grocery store and grocery store except on Sunday. (Don't like that, but stocking up on Saturday has kinda become a lifestyle.....didn't have to do this in Jackson). Now, I think the liquor laws in SC are f'ed. Can't buy liquor after about 7PM.

When I moved to Dallas about 15 years ago, you had to buy a "club membership" to drink alcohol in most restaurants in Dallas County (one of the suburbs - Addison - was a big exception). There were only limited parts of the city that you could buy any kind of alcohol at all - one "suburb" - Buckingham - consisted of two liquor stores and a grocery store, about 10 houses and two apartment complexes and existed for no other reason than to sell liquor. Things have loosened up a lot lately - you can buy beer and wine at most grocery stores now, but you still have to drive a ways to buy liquor. I don't think Dallas was technically "dry", but it was unbelievable to me that such a large city was so highly regulated.

Marco Island in Fl. has drive thru liquor stores. Never seen any thing like it since.

(11-10-2009 12:43 AM)georgia_tech_swagger Wrote:  At the Southeast Linuxfest last year in Clemson, one of our vendors, a woman from the Free Software Foundation in Boston, MA ... was yelled at while getting breakfast at the hotel. The reason? She had a tattoo on her upper arm, which an 80 year old couple pointed out was "the mark of the devil" and "you WILL BURN IN HELL for eternity!"

Do I REALLY need to continue?

Cute little story. Don't believe it, but cute nonetheless.

(11-10-2009 08:01 AM)Machiavelli Wrote:  Marco Island in Fl. has drive thru liquor stores. Never seen any thing like it since.

A beer barn? Or drive thru? We have a few drive thru licka stos in Augusta. Never really understood the point.

(11-10-2009 12:45 AM)Rebel Wrote:  One other thing I observed, EVERY state has different liquor laws. I do, however, prefer Georgia's since I'm a beer drinker.

Minnesota has no liquor sale on Sunday. I think they call it the Blue Law.

(11-10-2009 08:30 AM)Rebel Wrote:  Cute little story. Don't believe it, but cute nonetheless.

Jump on #southeastlinuxfest on IRC Freenode. She's there every day and she'd be happy to tell you for herself.

(11-10-2009 09:18 AM)georgia_tech_swagger Wrote:  

(11-10-2009 08:30 AM)Rebel Wrote:  Cute little story. Don't believe it, but cute nonetheless.

Jump on #southeastlinuxfest on IRC Freenode. She's there every day and she'd be happy to tell you for herself.

I'm not saying she didn't tell you that. I'm saying she was probably embellishing, or made the entire thing up to paint the South in the same light as she's heard her entire life. She no doubt had preconceived biases. No one screams **** like that. Women have tattoos all over the Southeast.

(11-10-2009 12:45 AM)Rebel Wrote:  One other thing I observed, EVERY state has different liquor laws. I do, however, prefer Georgia's since I'm a beer drinker.

NC has State run ABC stores, though that may be about to change thanks to Easley and company bankrupting the state. The cheaper liquor and beer is in SC, across the border at Frugal McDougals.

Any Gin drinkers? If so try some Hendrick's Gin and Tonic with a Cucumber instead of a lime. something new I've discovered, expensive though. Or the Martini with Cucumber. Scottish Gin

(11-10-2009 09:33 AM)Rebel Wrote:  Women have tattoos all over the Southeast.

and in many cases very unfortunately.

Kind of goes against drinkin' and drivin' if you ask me. It was a liqour store with a drive thru window? No catchy name. Just a get your liquor here sign...............

(11-10-2009 09:34 AM)GGniner Wrote:  Any Gin drinkers? If so try some Hendrick's Gin and Tonic with a Cucumber instead of a lime. something new I've discovered, expensive though

I used to love me the gin, but once introduced to bourbon, and having a close friend who works with and is very close with the Jim Beam Distillery and the Noe family in Clermont KY means a never ending supply of the best bourbon in the world.

And while I am liquor name dropping, my wife and I have stayed at the distillery guest house as a guest of the Noe family -



in what could almost be said as one of the best vacations of my life. If you walk down the hill in this picture, there is a lake fed by the very stream that Beam uses to make their bourbon. I took 5 large flat stones from the stream and used them for a walkway at my house - it's my very own bourbon walk from what literally is known in KY as the Water of Life.....

drink it straight? smell of Bourbon makes my stomach churn. cool story though, guess there is a place like that in Tenn for Jack Daniels. They had a TV show series, forget the channel, showing how they make Tenn. bourbon, vs. Kentucky Bourbon, vs. Canadian vs. Scotch and blended Scotch. Then did Vodka's, Tequillas. It was good tv

my problem is I like the expensive liquors also, costly hobby.

(11-10-2009 09:33 AM)Rebel Wrote:  I'm not saying she didn't tell you that. I'm saying she was probably embellishing, or made the entire thing up to paint the South in the same light as she's heard her entire life. She no doubt had preconceived biases. No one screams **** like that. Women have tattoos all over the Southeast.

It wasn't she who told me -- it was one of my fellow Board members. And some of the speakers. It's true.

My thought on the tattoo lady and someone yelling out to her, and assuming it's true is, so what. She could encounter someone in Boston or anywhere else doing the same. That 80 year old couple could have been from Boston also on vacation, and when they went back home with their bias', told all their friends about "those freaky tattooed women down south".