Opinion Talk

By Patrick

March 14, 2007 8:24 AM | Link to this

If my memory serves correctly, didn’t Jesus serve wine at His Last Supper? I believe he told his disciples that the wine represented his blood or something to that effect.

And let’s not forget the churches who serve wine on Sunday at Communion.

In short, yes alcohol sales should be permitted on Sundays. A lot of the Blue Laws in this state are outdated anyway. The only business I know of that’s closed on Sundays is Chick-Fil-A, not counting any privately-owned non-chain businesses like local restaurants or “Mom & Pop” stores.

By foster brooks

March 14, 2007 12:21 PM | Link to this

Whenever I see some young punks on TV lamenting the fact that they forgot you can’t buy alcohol on Sunday or I read or hear some transplant slam the state about being backwards, it makes me glad that you can’t buy it. For crying out loud people, what the hell is so hard about keeping alcohol on hand? I’m all for Sunday sales, but you nitwits that can’t plan ahead on Saturdays get what you deserve

By Elroy

March 14, 2007 12:22 PM | Link to this

As a conservative and registered Republican, I still think that it is childish to continue enforcing an old law on the books that prohibits people from purchasing alchohol on Sundays, yet allows them to get on the roads after being at an establishment on that same day after drinking God-knows how much! There is no reason for this statute other than the fact that religious groups want it to stay in place for their own personal beliefs.

By SundaySinner

March 14, 2007 12:22 PM | Link to this

Georgia’s laws are controlled by the zealots on the religious right! How ridiculous! If they are truly sincere, why don’t they push the legislature to close ALL businesses on Sunday, including ALL sporting events! Oh, guess we’ll have to close everything on Friday and Saturday, too, to cover all the reglions and not just their religion! And what’s with a restaurant not being able to serve a drink until 12:30? How did that get written into the law? Oh, I guess it was to make sure that all the church goers could have a drink after services!

By Rw

March 14, 2007 12:22 PM | Link to this

We must never compare communions with the sales of Alcohol. That point is well taken. Alcohol sales can be respected by the consumers. Sunday should be and remain as an acception to that sale. Consumer can purchase their alcohol from Monday thru Saturady and that can be enough time to drink on their Sunday if they so elect to do so! Mandating the sale of alcohol on sunddays is a big mistake and those that are caught DWI and killed someone or be killed, rest assure that those decisons comes back to haunt those who approve and those who sale. l

By Harold

March 14, 2007 12:43 PM | Link to this

The issue of a Sunday Alcohol Sales Expansion for Georgia is a complex one.

On one hand are the religious fundamentalists who believe Georgia will descend into chaos if citizens are allowed to decide for themselves if their community wishes to expand Sunday alcohol sales to grocery stores.

On the other hand are the majority of people.

Most of the areas where the majority opposes Sunday Sales oppose sales of alcohol entirely. An expansion of Sunday sales to include groceries would be meaningless in these areas as they are what we call “dry” counties. There is no alcohol sold whatsoever.

Since the expansion of Sunday Sales would have no effect where there are no sales any day of the week, one must ponder the motivations of the opposition from these areas of the state. Why on Earth should they care? It won’t affect them. They do not sell alcohol in their areas at all. Not Monday. Not Tuesday. Not Wednesday. Not any day. What is their motivation?

It is too easy to attribute their motivation to proselytizing. We might want to think that because they don’t drink themselves, they think nobody else should drink on Sunday.

That cannot be their true motivation. It is too simple. A quick deconstruction of their thought processes reveals this to be impossible:

Dear sir, Why should citizen Q be allowed to purchase on Thursday?

Sir: Well, Thursday is not the Lord’s Day.

Dear sir, Should the Lord not be honored every day?

Sir: Of course he should.

Dear sir, So why sell on Thursdays?

Sir: Alcohol is the devil’s work.

But sir, why not sell it on Sunday?

Sunday is the Lord’s Day.

Should you not honor the Lord every day?

Of course!

So, honoring the Lord every day, Sunday is really but just another day. Thus, there is no religious motivation to exclude grocery stores from selling on Sundays as restaurants and the special stores in Underground Atlanta do.

What is it, then?

Is it another ploy to try to revitalize Underground? They have the monopoly on Sunday sales outside restaurants. Can’t we just admit Underground is never going to succeed? Restricting the remainder of the state from purchasing a bottle of wine or beer in the grocery store on Sundays is not going to make Underground profitable. Nothing will make Underground profitable other than filling it in with water and putting fish in it and calling it a new wing to the Aquarium.

So, Underground tourism and religion have been eliminated as reasons to be opposed to Sunday Sales. We honor our Lord Jesus Christ every day in every way, so a preference for whether a grocery store cash register or a restaurant cash register prints the receipt for some beer sold on a Sunday is not dependent on one’s religious leanings.

What is the problem with a vote, then? If the majority does not want Sunday Sales expanded to restaurants, there will be no expansion of Sunday Sales to restaurants.

What is the motivation to oppose a vote then? Well, nothing but everything. Some folks just don’t care for other folks drinking alcohol. They can’t accept that some people will have a glass of wine with dinner without becoming an alcoholic. They want alcohol restricted as much as possible simply because they are anti-alcohol. Well, the United States of America already tried that. It led to rampant crime and disrespect for the law. The nation has still not quite recovered from Prohibition. In Georgia we currently have hordes of Illegal “businesses” that sell on Sundays. They used to be called Speakeasies. Now they are called Jose’s.

The forces that want to prevent Sunday Sales from expanding to groceries stores are the forces who also want Illegal Immigrants. It is the Illegals who line up at Sam’s Club on Saturdays and buy up all the Bud Bud Light Miller Miller Light. Sunday Sales are yet another way for these people to Illegally profit. It is a form of state welfare that supports them. They take Sunday off work, so on Sunday they are a liquor store.

We must put a stop to Illegal Immigration. It is ruining our state. We can pull the rug out from under a chunk of their Illegal tax free revenue by stripping them of their license to be a monopoly provider of beer and wine on Sundays. They are not legal, so what do they care?

End Illegal Immigration now. Tell your legislators to vote to let Georgia citizens, REAL citizens, not Illegals, to vote to expand Sunday Sales to groceries so the Illegals are not profiting off exploiting this legal loophole that grants the illegal a Sunday Sales monopoly.

Contact your legislator today. Do not send e-mail. E-mails go in the trash unread. Pick up the phone and call. Do it now!

(now that was nowhere near as fun as my usual writing style was it)

By test

March 14, 2007 2:18 PM | Link to this

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By IMF

March 14, 2007 2:19 PM | Link to this

foster brooks, do you really think there is anyone in the state that CAN’T plan ahead? That’s not the issue, and it’s insulting that people like Governor Purdue say as much. The issue is not about whether or not to plan ahead, it’s about why should you HAVE to plan ahead. I don’t have to plan ahead for any other day of the week, I just have to for Sunday. Why is this? Why if I happen to be doing my only grocery shopping for the week on Sunday do I have to make a return trip to the store on a different day because someone else thinks I should have to? Don’t people think there should be consistancy in ours laws? Don’t people think that laws should make sense? Don’t people think there should be valid reasons for restricting freedom? Those are the questions I ask Governor Purdue in response to his stupid question “Can’t you plan ahead?”.

By peggy

March 14, 2007 2:22 PM | Link to this

Time to do away with the Blue Laws. I remember when you couldn’t shop on Sunday.. This is the 21st century, people.. Time to allow alcohol sales on Sunday.

By Peyton Walters

March 14, 2007 2:26 PM | Link to this

My wife and I are going to start asking Baptist preachers what type of condoms to use, flavor of edible underwear, KY or Vaseline, red or white with the veal. After all, those Baptist preachers are never wrong on what we should do in our personal lives. But that’s just my literal and inerrant opinion.

By joe

March 14, 2007 2:33 PM | Link to this

There’s nothing complex about it. The law is old, antiquated, and out of touch. Throw it out immediately and let alcohol sales begin on Sundays. Good God, people who drink have always drunk on Sundays. It’s just that now they can get it, go home and stay off the roads.

By The72John

March 14, 2007 2:36 PM | Link to this

I wasn’t aware that being whimsical or acting on impulse made one a “nitwit”. We make last minute decisions about what we’re going to eat for dinner all the time. Why should our beverage choices be any different?

It all comes down to the erroneous assumption by religious conservatives that anyone who wishes to purchase alcohol on Sunday only does so because he or she is an alcoholic who simply can’t do without a drink. I’m sorry, but that is just false.

Lots of us enjoy wine and beer. Yes. We enjoy the flavor of a nice Syrah with our steak, or the flavor of a nice Port with good Stilton. If I decide at two o’clock on a Sunday afternoon that I want to cook a particular dish for dinner and have a particular wine with said dish, I should be able to run out and pick that wine up, just like I can pick up the ingredients for the dish.

Acting on a whim is not, I’m happy to say, indicative of a lack of time management skills. It’s simply part of being human.

By John

March 14, 2007 2:52 PM | Link to this

On the one hand, I certainly agree that the voters should decide. It’s not a ‘the legislature decides everything!’ vote by the legislature; it’s letting the voters of the state and the counties decide.

On the other, I am amused by the AJC’s position. Right after the “power to the people!” position of this issue, the editorial board’s official position to utterly ban alcohol advertisements during the NCAA basketball tournament is stated. Is the AJC ignoring that some of these “impressionable college students” who obviously need to be protected from the Big Bad Alcohol are also voters? Why does the AJC think that these people can make their own decisions about alcohol on one matter, but are too stupid on the other?

Before removing the plank from Sonny Perdue’s eye—and it’s very definitely admittedly there—perhaps the AJC needs to check on its own.

By Bertha

March 14, 2007 3:08 PM | Link to this

Mr. Purdue, if my husband of 20 years & I wake up on a Sunday, invite 4 of our friends over for dinner, make a kick a$$ lasagna, but realize we don’t have a good red wine to go with it, we can’t just run out & buy a bottle for our small dinner party??

Answer from Gov. Purdue: Due to your spontaneity, poor planning, time mismangement, and willingness to connect with your friends on a social level in your own home, you don’t deserve it.

Answer from foster brooks on blog: NO!!! For the love of Christ, you should NOT purchase spirits for consumption in your home, you nitwit! Learn how to NOT be spontaneous and eat dinner with friends! Let us pray for more sweet tea and lemonade!

By foster brooks

March 14, 2007 3:09 PM | Link to this

IMF, don’t forget, I’m all for Sunday sales. I just find the whining that the media chooses to display somewhat annoying. Plus, I’m looking at this thing in what I believe is a realistic light. And that is there is no chance any time soon that we’ll see Sunday sales. So I plan accordingly.

By catlady

March 14, 2007 3:11 PM | Link to this

Maybe we should just ban the illegal aliens from buying alcohol on Sundays! We know all they do is drink, make babies, and take our jobs!

By foster brooks

March 14, 2007 3:13 PM | Link to this

I say we just all go get a drink and discuss voting strategy come election time!

By foster brooks

March 14, 2007 3:26 PM | Link to this

Bertha, every time I’ve ever invited someone over for dinner, my guests, without fail, always ask if there is anything they can bring. I don’t think it would be out of line if you requested that they bring a bottle if they have one. And begging your pardon, I’m not sure how you came up with my answer. One more time, listen up, I’m all FOR Sunday sales.

By Ryan

March 14, 2007 3:32 PM | Link to this

RW, Are you kidding me? If Reducing the number of Alcohol related accidents and fatalities on the roads is the goal, Why would you oppose allowing people to buy Alcohol, go home, and THEN drink it. If they are home drinking then there is much less of a chance that they will get in a car. However by opposing Sunday sales in stores pushes people who want a drink on Sunday to go to a restaurant, drink, THEN get in a car to get home. Does’nt make sense does it? Reducing DUI’s cannot be a reason to not allow it. In actuality it may be the restaurant industry that is opposing this, as it could hurt their business. But should we make laws discouraging fair retail and restaurant competition because the restaurant industry wants it. I think not. So, Maybe it is a religious issue. Well, Don’t we have a separation of church and state? By Not allowing Sunday Sales due to Religious viewpoint differences the state is pushing a religious viewpoint. That is NOT suppossed to happen. All in All there is simply NO legitimate reason to not allow Sunday Sales, NONE. Or at the VERY LEAST allow people to vote and decide whether or not to allow government to push BS religious morality down their throats.

By getalife

March 14, 2007 3:36 PM | Link to this

Congratulations for The Pulitzer nomination.

Too bad Mike was not nominated and wingnut Wooten should retire.

I live in Cajun country and we buy liquor at the grocery store.

If a soldier comes home from the Iraq disaster, they should be allowed to drown out the terrible images in their heads with alcohol anytime they want.

By IMF

March 14, 2007 3:38 PM | Link to this

foster brooks, I understand that you are in favor of Sunday Sales, but by saying “Why can’t you plan ahead?” makes it sound as though you don’t think it’s a legitimate complaint that we can’t buy on Sunday. I whine about the Sunday law not because I can’t get it together enough to buy on Saturday, but because it’s wrong to make me do so. Can we just for the sake of argument assume that everyone in the state is capable of preparing for Sunday on Saturday (because we obviously all do) and move on to the real issue of why they’re forced to do so? BTW, I’m all for getting together for a drink, but only on Sunday.

By ntc

March 14, 2007 3:42 PM | Link to this

I have serious doubt that this bill will pass this time, but there is hope. Don’t forget that it wasn’t all that long ago when you couldn’t get a drink anywhere except at home when the polls were open.

By Former conservative

March 14, 2007 3:46 PM | Link to this

Why is it that when christian groups have such influence over the law and legislation that it is not considered illegal due to separation of church and state?

By ebdawg

March 14, 2007 3:50 PM | Link to this

From the AJC: Roll back the barrel Alcohol advertising puts stain on NCAA basketball, adds to a brewing disaster among American youths Shame on you Cynthia !! We need to be finding ways to make alcohol less available not more available.. Sitting around blasting Baptist preachers is not a solution. You attempt to incite the public against the Religious right, instead of refraining from name calling and finger pointing. Lets all be honest here… very little good comes from alcohol, no matter what day it’s sold on. Alcohol has destroyed many lives, many homes, many families… let’s not lose sight of that. While you may find fault in other things that they do, do not criticize Baptist preachers on this one.. as you have now done at least twice in your column over the past weeks.

By The72John

March 14, 2007 3:54 PM | Link to this

Excellent point, IMF. The question isn’t “Why can’t you plan ahead?” it’s “Why should I have to plan ahead?”

What compelling reason, other than the desire of certain religious conservatives to impose their beliefs on everyone else, is there to limit alcohol sales? There is none. So this foster fellow can label it “whining” all he wants. I call it standing up to injustice.

By foster brooks

March 14, 2007 3:57 PM | Link to this

IMF,Sunday works for me!! I do understand that it is a serious and legitimate complaint that this isn’t (hasn’t already been) put to the vote for the public to decide. Not to mention ridiculous. I am right there all the way. But I don’t have any faith that the elected officials have the backbone to do so. Also, Ryan is probably right in that the restaurant and bar industry is against it. Which makes me all the more for it considering drink prices.

By foster brooks

March 14, 2007 4:08 PM | Link to this

72John, I agree we shouldn’t have to plan ahead, but the sad fact is that today we have to. So in addition to planning for Sunday, it’s important to remember to plan for election day and end this nonsense. I will admit a poor choice of words and that the majority is not whining, but someimes when I see people on TV, some of them do come across as such.

By william

March 14, 2007 5:28 PM | Link to this

Congratulations, our elected politicans collectively have taken a simple problem and turned it into a difficult one. In most rational organizations, people are rewarded for only doing the opposite. They were each elected by receiving a majority of the vote during your campaign- I bet they would not argue with that outcome. Now is the time to allow those same voters and all Georgians the opportunity to vote and decide on Sunday alcohol sales. Each community should decide what is best for them. We do not need politicians pandering to religious groups, C- Store/liquor lobbyist or their own personal convictions-what we need is what this country is based on- “democracy”. So let the people vote.

I clearly understand the “competitive advantage” argument these politicains proffer for convenience/liquor stores vs. grocery stores, but again let the voters decide whether they want beer, wine, or liquor to be sold on Sunday. That will solve their dilemma of having to pick a winner or a loser amongst your lobbying constituents. Further, are these elected officials telling us that they are not ‘smart’ enough to resolve this issue that 47 other states have been able to resolve with no apparent backlash?. The point is this -let people vote and the “free market” will determine losers and winners in this religious/political/economic game. There is no need for them or their associates to protect the liquor, beer or wine interests. Consumer consumption and preferences will solve the operating dilemma. Laissez-faire economics works every time.

By zantac69

March 14, 2007 6:20 PM | Link to this

Ebdawg - you write Lets all be honest here… very little good comes from alcohol, no matter what day it’s sold on. My answer to that is…so has sweet tea. Very little good comes out it…its sweet so it can contribute to diabetes and weight gain…and lets not even look at the caffene loading in it. Maybe we should not sell sweet tea on Sundays.

Sounds stupid, huh?

Right about the same amount of credence has been given to your arguement about why sales should not be allowed on sundays.

By Chris D'

March 14, 2007 7:03 PM | Link to this

Why is Georgia still debating something that Alabama and Mississippi figured out years ago? That frightens me.

By Jim Ragan

March 14, 2007 7:24 PM | Link to this

I think the cat is out of the bag on this one and will never go back in. Very likely, one way or the other, there will be either alcohol sales on Sundays at stores or it will be determined at the County Level. The vote on the State Lottery back in 1990 came up against much of the same extreme scrutiny from many Georgia Religious Conservatives as has the Sunday Alcohol sales issue, yet the vote on the Lottery still passed barely 51-49%.

I don’t drink period, but I still believe the voters should be allowed their say on this issue. Gov. Perdue and many Republicans need to realize that people like Sadie Fields DOES NOT run this state and let the great people of Georgia think for themselves instead.

By The72John

March 14, 2007 8:49 PM | Link to this

Here’s some perspective on this issue. Yes - those of us not bound by religious fundamentalism tend to agree that Sunday alcohol sales should be allowed. However, in California, a Federal court has ruled that those who are dying of cancer and who use medical pot to stave off, however temporarily, the effects of the disease, chemo, etc., can be prosecuted for violating Federal Law.

What kind of a society do we live in when we condemn those who are in the MOST pain, those who are suffering more than any of us can imagine, to criminal prosecution for the simple act of trying to alleviate pain?

God help us all.

By Wesley

March 14, 2007 8:56 PM | Link to this

Sonny Perdue and his Time Management comments were overheard being laughed at in a Palm Springs, CA coffee shop this morning called Koffi. The residents of the “Fruits and Nuts state” were laughing our butt off at the Head Nut of Georgia. (my hometown is Atlanta)

By Andrew

March 14, 2007 9:16 PM | Link to this

It’s time for ALL Georgians to stand up and be heard about this issue. When does a politicain have the right to speak for any of us or decide what’s in our best interest. Sunny Perdue you and your group may goven over the state and it’s affairs, but we the people will be heard.

By king

March 14, 2007 9:44 PM | Link to this

if yall want to drink on sundays put some pressure on these law makers and start voting some of these hippocrites out of office

By GRACE

March 14, 2007 10:09 PM | Link to this

I BETCHA THEY USE TO LYNCH ON SUNDAY’S

By Gloria

March 14, 2007 10:47 PM | Link to this

This isn’t about religion and whether Jesus drank wine or not. It is about our Society . . the one that is going down the tubes. We are our own worse enemy. I think those who chose to drink on Sunday should buy their booze Mon-Saturday and exercise some restraint and not drink it all; save a bottle for Sunday if they chose. Quit acting like over grown babies who cry for their bottles. I’m appalled at Ms. Wooten’s opinion on this subject as well as all those who support buying booze 24/7! Give me a break!! More isn’t always better!!!

By hiccup

March 14, 2007 11:17 PM | Link to this

I’ll toast to that! To what? Oh never mind. I might offend some Christian if I try to exercise my right to free will by buying alcohol when I want, where I want.

By DeWayne A. Ross

March 14, 2007 11:21 PM | Link to this

The best I can tell about this up-coming bill, it is about BEING ALLOWED TO VOTE! That in itself should cause it to pass. If at a later date someone puts up a bill in attempt to allow Sunday purchases, Then worry! If it fails, we will still have those who go out on Sundays, get blitzed and attempt to drive home! If it passes, this same person stands a better chance of being home already when he/she over topes!

By buddy .a

March 14, 2007 11:56 PM | Link to this

Personally I favor the sale of alcohol on sundays.Countless Georgians close to our neighbors borders drive across state lines and get their booze anyways.Think of the number of drunk drivers this could take off the road? It makes you wonder what the reasons may be for Purdue and the state to keep it illeagal……. DUI profits comes to mind.I dont understand how it is legal 6 days of the week but not 7.Our state is one of only 2 that have this law weired huh? Our state would be a lot better off with sales legal just like everyone else but Im afraid like our SAT scores its going to be awhile.

By Flibberdigibbit

March 15, 2007 12:23 AM | Link to this

The Last Supper was a Passover Seder. At the Passover Seder, participants are REQUIRED to drink at least 4 full glasses of wine (3 before ingesting any food). Now you know why John was really leaning on Jesus at the legendary feast. As a Jew, am I now to be prohibited from exercising my religious freedom to purchase wine on the Sunday before the Passover meal in order to observe the tenets of my faith?

Who is Sadie Fields and the so-called Christian Coalition to dare interfere with my right to worship and observe the commandments of my Lord?

There aren’t enough stones on the Temple Mount to mete out scriptural justice on these deviant deists!

By Goober Peas

March 15, 2007 1:14 AM | Link to this

if you don’t want to buy beer on Sunday then don’t…..but don’t try to force your religious belief that “buying beer on Sunday will send a person straight to hell” on me….you practice your religion and I’ll practice mine….

and by the way, in my bible God says that the 7th day is the Sabbath, not the 1st day.

By kat

March 15, 2007 1:22 AM | Link to this

How does this keep getting past the Separation of Church and State clause? The government should not be telling us when we can and can’t buy alcohol, nor should they be enforcing a religious belief on an entire state.

By outtahere

March 15, 2007 7:05 AM | Link to this

Thanks to the leaders of this state in general, and Gwinnett County in particular, my fiance and I are planning to leave to live in a much more progressive and forward thinking state. And that state, my friends, is Alabama. How’s THAT for insulting?

By gainsevilleguy

March 15, 2007 7:18 AM | Link to this

We will find out if the elected leaders really believe in personal freedom and liberty or will they hide behind a small percentage of extreme right wingers? I am tired of legislators who think they need to decide on my morality. Sorry to tell Jim Beck and Sadie Fields—-the vast majority of Christians drink wine. If legislators are representing this minority of the Rep party, we should let them know next election that we won’t stand for this! Let’s not just vent our frustrations here. Call your legislators and tell them to listen to the polls. We are are smart enough to decide what is best for our community!

By NotaCynthiaFan

March 15, 2007 7:34 AM | Link to this

To all who are offended by cynthia’s comments to Christians: If you are insulted because of the name of Christ, you are blessed, for the Spirit of glory and of God rests on you. If you suffer, it should not be as a murderer or thief or any other kind of criminal, or even as a meddler. However, if you suffer as a Christian, do not be ashamed, but praise God that you bear that name. For it is time for judgment to begin with the family of God; and if it begins with us, what will the outcome be for those who do not obey the gospel of God? 1 Peter 4:14-17

By Social

March 15, 2007 8:37 AM | Link to this

The act of changing water into wine is a defacto vote for putting alcohol where there once was none, that is, on sunday.

By bronco

March 15, 2007 8:39 AM | Link to this

Would you just read the entries on this column and see how silly you all sound. Everybody knows that early christians bought their wine the other 6 days of the week.

By DBD

March 15, 2007 8:51 AM | Link to this

How is it legal in most restaurant establishments to be served alcohol on Sunday, but we can’t go to the grocery or convenience store and buy it? This makes absolutely no sense.

By Dan

March 15, 2007 8:58 AM | Link to this

For all the folks talking about republicans not believing in personal freedoms and yada yada yada. Where were these freedoms for the last what was it some 100+ years the dems were in control? Now I am all for Sunday sales but the fact is at least now we are discussing it? The Reps are not trying to ban Sunday sales the discussion is about taking away the ban that has been in place since we all can remember with dems ruling. I have only been here for about 13 years and I have never heard any serious political discussion about this before. So simple logic would suggest despite the vocal minority complaining the fact is reps are more supportive of this an most other freedoms and we finally may have a chance to buy on Sunday. Lets not forget also that if this is a subject of spirited discussion, we don’t really have many important things to talk about and life is pretty good.

By Miss Martini.....

March 15, 2007 9:11 AM | Link to this

Shoot Yeah!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Beer On Sunday it’s about that time GA……..

Then again that would put me out of business on Sunday’s Mmmmmmm……

By lopro

March 16, 2007 12:44 PM | Link to this

It’s a good thing there is a leap year next year because otherwise St. Paddy’s Day would fall on Sunday instead of Monday and I probably wouln’t be able to pour a pint at home because I would forget to buy extra on Sat. night. Crazy things happen and when you run dry on a holiday it can be very upsetting! HA