After 65 yrs, alcohol sold in Ill. town

For the first time in a generation, people can legally buy alcohol in Martinsville, Ill.

[Fat Bob]

Yeah but after all that the, the town's residents are to old to enjoy it.

[Yobyag]

In honor of Patrick Swayze they have also dropped the ban on dancing.

[Denny]

The town drunk can move back now.
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[Bubbletoes]

There will no-doubt be an increase in unplanned pregnancy, crime and fun now.

[Jason Lee]

Seems the Woman's Christian Temperance Union has finally lost its grip on power. Took long enough.

[Across A Crowded Room]

I'm not sure if they allow singing yet, though.

[Jeffd902]

"To Alcohol, the cause of and solution to, all of life's problems."
Homer Simpson

[Smartypantz]

From being dry to the freedom to party ... sounds like divorce !

[blong]

"....mmmmmm....beeeer... "

[Marshall girl]

About time. Now if we can just get the idiots in Springfield to allow Sunday sales.....

[yernogood-]

Great, my gramma lived there and I would never visit her because of this. She just checked out and I was going to visit her to try and get in her good graces to be added to her will. Always a day late and a dollar short. Well gramma, fcuk you!!

[Just a thought]

Marshall girl wrote:

About time. Now if we can just get the idiots in Springfield to allow Sunday sales.....

Shows what U know. M'ville can sell it on Sunday

[Marshall girl]

Good for M'ville. I meant that I want the Frontier, Corner, VFW, etc to be open and doing business and for Moes and the Corner to be able to do business on Sundays. The State government and the local Churches have too much of a power grip.

[Owl Lover]

Marshall girl wrote:

Good for M'ville. I meant that I want the Frontier, Corner, VFW, etc to be open and doing business and for Moes and the Corner to be able to do business on Sundays. The State government and the local Churches have too much of a power grip.

What, it's too much for you to go one day a week without drinking in a public place?

[Jason Lee]

Marshall girl wrote:

About time. Now if we can just get the idiots in Springfield to allow Sunday sales.....

Do you mean Sunday sales of cars?

That ban has always ticked me off to. Saturday and Sunday are the only two days most people have to go car shopping.

[Twinkletoes]

I don't imbibe much at all but I, too, resent the government telling legitimate businesses when and how they may conduct business. Of course, this position can be applied to government regulations telling landowners what they cannot do or build on their own ground.

I haven't been inside the local bars more than a couple of times in the last year nor do we drink much at home- cook with booze mostly. It's amazing at the "I'm better than you because I don't drink" attitude that pervades the local Churches. We've been told by individuals at our Church that we aren't welcome at their home just because we have alcohol in our home. Nice people, huh?

[jack]

i have an idea. let's man drinking on monday and legalize on sundays.

that'd fly over good at clubs

[The Always Amazing Al]

Twinkletoes wrote:

I don't imbibe much at all but I, too, resent the government telling legitimate businesses when and how they may conduct business. Of course, this position can be applied to government regulations telling landowners what they cannot do or build on their own ground.
I haven't been inside the local bars more than a couple of times in the last year nor do we drink much at home- cook with booze mostly. It's amazing at the "I'm better than you because I don't drink" attitude that pervades the local Churches. We've been told by individuals at our Church that we aren't welcome at their home just because we have alcohol in our home. Nice people, huh?

Were you drunk when you wrote this?

[Jeffd902]

jack wrote:

i have an idea. let's man drinking on monday and legalize on sundays.
that'd fly over good at clubs

BETTER IDEA: It is now legal to buy and drink alcohol on any day that ends in "Y"!

[andy]

and if it's overpriced, the casher should take us into the back room and yank our crank for happy ending ;)