Miss USA "personal issue" being examined

My point? This is a journalism board and we're referring to Jean Benay? Who the hell is Jean Benay? Is he possibly referring to Jon Benet?

 

I got that, which is why I spelled your name AileyAlan!

 

We get the point, Aic

 

Let's focus people...

wow...

 

http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/480361p-404096c.html

 

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

"Dry county" is a famous Kentucky oxymoron.

 

How so, coffeeman?

If "dry county" means it can't be sold in stores there, then how is it an oxymoron?

 

You know as well as I do that "dry county" doesn't mean the same thing as "you can't get alcoholic beverages there somehow."

 

I can't speak for that particular county, but my hometown was "dry" from the 1920s until the early 1970s and yet it was one of the "wettest" spots around.

Probably half of the city's residents (including my grandparents) were bootleggers. They either made their own or trucked it in from outlying towns and sold it to whoever wanted it. The reason there were so many bootleggers was because there was a huge market for their services -- nobody went without business.

The cops would phone the Legion branch to say they were on their way over for a raid, get the booze put away so we can make it look good to the chief and the police commission. The longtime mayor was a faithful Legionnaire and one of the biggest drunks in town.

The only reason the city stayed dry for so long was because the temperance forces geared up every time the issue came to a vote. They would basically win by default because the folks who wanted to drink were generally at the Legion or at a bootlegger's house getting shitfaced. ;D

 

Double J, are you from Appalachia?

 

Oh, I just thought you meant that somehow stores skirted the rules.

It never says you can't drink there. Just that you can't buy it in stores. That doesn't make it an oxymoron.

 

Midwestern Ontario. Same thing, except our mountains ain't quite as tall.