Something I said 9 years ago
Why is the tradition to buy liquor to someone who turns 21? The whole point is that now they can buy the liquor for other people. It would be like giving a ride home to a friend on the day he gets his drivers license.1
1I typed this random observation in an email to Leo dated Jan. 7, 1998. I recently uncovered a floppy disk containing my email folders from the 1990s, you see.
7 comments:
Advocating buying liquor for other people, drinking absinthe because it's illegal -- what's with all this flouting of the law?
I advocate neither buying liquor for the underaged nor drinking absinthe because it's illegal.
Yes, some of us are quite familiar with that disk of emails, dl004d.
It's ok, though. As 1996 SJB said: "stuff is cool."
In other words: you advocate drinking absinthe -- not because it's illegal, but because it's delicious.
Absinthe is legal in New York, New Jersey of California. In a couple of days, I plan on trying some. At this point, I expect it to be one of the more anticlimatic things I'll ever do.
dl004d makes a good point though. Being 21 means being able to use the greatest pick-up line ever -- "hey, I can buy you beer."
Wait, the four government-approved absinthe blends will be legal in all states starting Dec. 21.
@WFY: It will be anticlimactic, true, but if you drink enough, perhaps you won't remember your disappointment.
I can only imagine what's on an old floppy disc of Mike Huckabee's old e-mails.
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