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Saturday, October 8, 2005 - 5:31pmSanction this postReply
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In fact, garage bars have sprung up in many cases, not as money-making operations, but simply as a way for friends and like-minded individuals to get together around a keg & smoke their asses off.

Now we'll have the cops getting tip-offs from suburban busy-bodies & do-gooders, which in turn will have the them executing search warrants when they should be chasing down murderers, rapists & pedophiles.

I can see it now: a bunch of dishevelled burly chaps in plaid shirts assuming the position up against the side of an aluminium garage. Inside, the forensic guys are taking photos of a half-consumed keg & ashtrays full of still glowing smokes. Meanwhile, three doors down, Dad's beating the shit out of Mum while little Jimmy gets put on hold after dialling 111.

Fact is, anti-smoking laws are *prohibitions* & garage bars are *speakeasys*. Suburban tinny (drug) houses & garage bars are one & the same.

Ross

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Saturday, October 8, 2005 - 6:29pmSanction this postReply
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Great post and mighty insight (and the perfectly apt (Star Wars!)) quote to go with it Ross.

This is exactly the sort of thing I'd steal for my podcast, if I were the sort of person who would do such a thing.

:: yoink ::

Thanks.


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Saturday, October 8, 2005 - 7:07pmSanction this postReply
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Thanks, Rick.

begin rant:

Star Wars (A New Hope) is full of great, quotable lines. Alas, that's as good as it got. Even the dark & mighty, The Empire Strikes Back, couldn't match it.

Revenge of the Jedi was a lyrical dustbowl. Don't even get me started on The Phantom Menace...

"Mees-a gonna go a-cwazy if mees-a big-a ears don't-a stop-a flappin'"

...Jeeeeeez!

Things were ever so slightly redeemed with AOTC & ROTS but, oh, never mind :-|

:end rant

Ross
(Edited by Ross Elliot
on 10/08, 7:09pm)


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Saturday, October 8, 2005 - 7:25pmSanction this postReply
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You had me at "Thanks, Rick".


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Tuesday, October 11, 2005 - 12:40amSanction this postReply
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Crap, now I'm concerned that my couch bar is going to get raided. How embarassing -- cops bursting in on me drinking bourbon alone in my underwear, smoking like a chimney.

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Wednesday, October 12, 2005 - 5:27pmSanction this postReply
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Gee, you keep your undies on? Take 'em off & spread. Now that's freedom!

Ross

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Wednesday, October 12, 2005 - 5:35pmSanction this postReply
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No dogs on the couch!

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