I mean seriously, would you quit drinking?
Drives me to drink...
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, Jul 18 2008 12:23 PM
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Posted 18 July 2008 - 12:23 PM
If you were around in 1919 (just before prohibition started) and came upon the following poster...
I mean seriously, would you quit drinking?
I mean seriously, would you quit drinking?
"The cure for anything is saltwater--sweat, tears, or the sea." - Isak Dinesen
"A good marriage is like an interlocking neurosis, where the rocks in one person's head fill up the holes in the other's."
"A good marriage is like an interlocking neurosis, where the rocks in one person's head fill up the holes in the other's."
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Posted 18 July 2008 - 12:51 PM
I think you have a point!!!
Handle every stresssful situation like a dog.
If you can't eat it or play with it,
Just pee on it and walk away.
If you can't eat it or play with it,
Just pee on it and walk away.
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Posted 18 July 2008 - 02:04 PM
Too funny. 
They were probably trying to look their best for the pic too.
They were probably trying to look their best for the pic too.
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Posted 18 July 2008 - 02:34 PM
If you were around in 1919 (just before prohibition started) and came upon the following poster...
I mean seriously, would you quit drinking?
It would have drove me to drink just so I could look at them!
-Mitch-
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Posted 18 July 2008 - 02:49 PM
But Mitch, then there would have been 20 of 'em!!!
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Posted 18 July 2008 - 02:51 PM
Mitch, I always wondered if that old saying was true, about the girls getting prettier by closing time......I guess we have our answer!
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Posted 18 July 2008 - 04:13 PM
Proof that is completely not true...Mitch, I always wondered if that old saying was true, about the girls getting prettier by closing time......I guess we have our answer!
As for the OP, if there was true justice Mohammad Atta would have found 70 virgins like that waiting for him in eternal paradise...
Remember, email is an inefficient communications forum. You may not read things the way it was intended. Give people the benefit of the doubt before firing back... Especially if it is ME...! 
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Posted 18 July 2008 - 04:22 PM
But Mitch, then there would have been 20 of 'em!!!
I could handle it!
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Posted 18 July 2008 - 04:26 PM
Mitch, I always wondered if that old saying was true, about the girls getting prettier by closing time......I guess we have our answer!
Yep, even Mickey Gilley sang about it! And believe me, if you would have ever went to Gilley's back in the day, you know what he meant!
-Mitch-
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Posted 18 July 2008 - 07:30 PM
BOY THAT WOULD BE A SHORT DRIVE, TO A BIG SHOT OF ,,,,,,,,,,,,SEVERAL SHOTS,,,,
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Posted 18 July 2008 - 09:53 PM
Proof that is completely not true...Mitch, I always wondered if that old saying was true, about the girls getting prettier by closing time......I guess we have our answer!
As for the OP, if there was true justice Mohammad Atta would have found 70 virgins like that waiting for him in eternal paradise...
Great commercial! But too much alcohol impairs, um, things - so does he "win"??? 
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Posted 19 July 2008 - 02:55 AM
Perhaps this poster is what inspired Elliot Ness to name his band of Prohibition lawmen "The Untouchables".
"The cure for anything is saltwater--sweat, tears, or the sea." - Isak Dinesen
"A good marriage is like an interlocking neurosis, where the rocks in one person's head fill up the holes in the other's."
"A good marriage is like an interlocking neurosis, where the rocks in one person's head fill up the holes in the other's."
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Posted 19 July 2008 - 06:56 AM
Brinybay
Maybe at the bar around 6pm
Landlocked Dive Nut
Maybe they would all look like this at 2am
"The Untouchables".
Maybe at the bar around 6pm
Landlocked Dive Nut
I always wondered if that old saying was true, about the girls getting prettier by closing time....
Maybe they would all look like this at 2am
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Posted 19 July 2008 - 08:33 AM
I wouldn't know. I don't drink...
Remember, email is an inefficient communications forum. You may not read things the way it was intended. Give people the benefit of the doubt before firing back... Especially if it is ME...!
Tech Support - The hard we do right away; the impossible takes us a little longer...
"I like ponies on no-stop diving. They convert "ARGH!! I'M GOING TO DIE" into a mere annoyance." ~Nigel Hewitt
Tech Support - The hard we do right away; the impossible takes us a little longer...
"I like ponies on no-stop diving. They convert "ARGH!! I'M GOING TO DIE" into a mere annoyance." ~Nigel Hewitt
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