I don't think I've ever lived anywhere with wine in the grocery store, much less hard alcohol.
In VA, we have wine and beer in all kinds of stores, but the hard alcohol is in the state-run ABC stores.
Mal: How come you didn't turn on me, Jayne? Jayne: Money wasn't good enough. Mal: What happens when it is? Jayne: Well... that'll be an interesting day.
'Serenity'
Natter 54: Right here, dammit.
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Bobbi - Sep 12, 2007 11:20:14 am PDT #30 of 10001
Dog is my co-pilot.
shrift - Sep 12, 2007 11:22:50 am PDT #31 of 10001
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
I love being able to pop into the grocery store for a tub of yogurt and some green beans and a GIGANTIC bottle of whiskey! I don't think I ever want to live someplace where I can't get toilet paper, tortillas, and tequila at the same store.
Daisy Jane - Sep 12, 2007 11:23:47 am PDT #32 of 10001
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."
Completely off topic, but pretty cool:
Am I the last person on the planet to know that Adrian Pasdar is one of the cute cops in the Dixie Chicks' "Goodbye Earl" video? [link]
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Laga - Sep 12, 2007 11:25:14 am PDT #33 of 10001
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
Ralph's grocery store was my one-stop-shop for my sister-in-law's birthday. On a Sunday even- I got Cuervo 1800, a birthday card, and a gift bag. The only thing they didn't have was tissue paper (shouldn't a store that has gift bags also sell tissue paper? Right next to the gift bags, maybe? Extra few bucks with every gift bag purchase? Silly humans) so I had to use fancy paper napkins.
bon bon - Sep 12, 2007 11:29:31 am PDT #34 of 10001
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.
That's just crazy.
Didja notice Duane Reade sells beer now?
§ ita § - Sep 12, 2007 11:32:03 am PDT #35 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I am one of the cool kids now. Fraudulent charges on my Citibank Mastercard number.
tommyrot - Sep 12, 2007 11:34:15 am PDT #36 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
I am one of the cool kids now. Fraudulent charges on my Citibank Mastercard number.
Um... woo-hoo?
Did you figure out how they got your number?
Kathy A - Sep 12, 2007 11:35:18 am PDT #37 of 10001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
One of the cool things about Illinois is our governor's name. The newspapers usually abbreviate it to 'Blaggo.'
His website used to have a little icon that spelt it phonetically to answer the rhetorical question "How do you say that name, anyway?"
Growing up in Illinois, I thought that you could get all sorts of booze at the grocery stores/liquor stores at all times of the day or night, and was surprised by my sister's reports of Washington state's state-run liquor stores.
Kathy A - Sep 12, 2007 11:36:11 am PDT #38 of 10001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
I am one of the cool kids now. Fraudulent charges on my Citibank Mastercard number.
Having BTDT, I say, "Yay, ita?" Did you catch them early, at least?
Ginger - Sep 12, 2007 11:39:19 am PDT #39 of 10001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Liquor laws are among the weirdest laws out there. In Georgia, you can't buy wine by mail unless you've actually been to the winery. You can buy beer and wine in grocery stores and minimarts, except on Sunday, but liquor is only sold in package stores. For a long time, you had to be able to physically separate beer and wine from hard liquor, leading to some rather odd floor plans that still linger. In Tennessee, you can't buy beer anywhere that sells wine or liquor, so beer is sold in grocery stores, but not wine, and wine is sold in liquor stores, but not beer.
Speaking of beer, Michael Jackson's last column was about cheating death [link]