2. A Los Angeles jury that heard a bootlegging case was arrested after it drank the evidence to "find out whether it contained alcohol." The bootlegger was released due to lack of evidence.
3. During Prohibition, anti-alcohol activists paid a scholar to rewrite the bible and cut out all of the references to booze.
4. Anti-alcohol activists also insisted that Jesus drank grape juice. Somehow, it's not as impressive to turn water into grape juice. I can do it with a frozen can of Welch's. Whatever.
5. Anti-alcohol activists were almost thwarted by 1 Timothy 5.23 in the bible: "Use a little wine for thy stomach's sake." But, then they claimed the bible was telling people to rub alcohol on their abdomens.
6. Alphonse Capone: Hey! Let's go explore his vault! Member of the youth gangs: The Junior Forty Thieves, the Five Points Juniors, and the Five Points Gang. Earned the scars on his face by "inadvertently insulting" a woman when he was working as a bouncer (he asked her if she was pregnant). Made $60ish million off the Prohibition. Opened a soup kitchen and gave away clothes during the depression. One of nine children: Umberto, Vincenzo, Raffaele, Erminio, Salvatore, Mafalda, and "Rose and Matthew." Rose and Matthew? Huh?
7. Prohibition lasted for 13 years, 10 months, 19 days, 17 hours and 32.5 minutes--the historians counted every single moment because they couldn't drink and they were bored. It was repealed December 5, 1933.
8. There are still at least 500 dry counties that do not allow the sale of alcohol throughout the U.S.
5 comments:
"Pittsburgh - Halfway between hell and the boiler works" - Truer words have never been said. Brilliant post!
I can't imagine what 1929 looked like in prohibition Black Friday, no wonder the depression happened! Instead of drinking the stockbrokers launched themselves from high rise windows.
I have an old high school friend who's teaching university in a dry county, I can't remember which State off the top of my head.
Sometimes I like to piss her off by telling her how nice it was to be able to stop in at the liquor store on the way home and just browse the wines...not actually buy anything, just browse. Because I can.
She gets so mad. (What do you mean I should get a hobby? Shaddup!)
My college was in a dry town (oh the irony) but only 3 miles away in the town of Fillmore was "the store" where we got supplies anyway. Pretty useless being a dry town or county - hello ECONOMICS!
Alcohol - the cause and solution to all life's problems. -H.J.S.
Seriously funny!
Drank the booze, had to let them go.
"Make more booze and you will find yourselves back here!" Says the Judge.
"Can you make 25 pints by next Friday?" says the court officer.
I've been rubbing alcohol into my abdomen for years and it hasn't done me any harm.
Oh. Wait......
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