Don’t swallow in Utah! Wine used in wine tastings in Utah must not be swallowed!

 

Adding a miniature onion to a martini turns it into a Gibson.

 

The longest bar in the world is 684 feet (or about 208.5 meters) long and is located at the New Bulldog in Rock Island, Illinois.

 

# A drinking establishment is now located in the New York City building that once housed the National Temperance Society.

 

A tequini is a martini made with tequila instead of dry gin.

 

The body or lightness of whiskey is primarily determined by the size of the grain from which it is made; the larger the grain, the lighter the whiskey. For example, whiskey made from rye, with its small grain size, is bigger or fuller-bodied than is whiskey made from corn, with its large grain size.

 

Each molecule of alcohol is less than a billionth of a meter long and consists of a few atoms of oxygen, carbon and hydrogen.

 

Sixty-two percent of Americans report that they have used the service of a designated driver.

 

The founder of MADD (Mothers Against Drunk Driving) no longer belongs to the organization. She resigned after it became increasingly anti-alcohol rather than simply anti-drunk-driving.

 

Vassar College was established and funded by a brewer.

 

Franklin D. Roosevelt was elected President of the U.S. in 1932 on a pledge to end National Prohibition.

 

During World War II, reduction of consumption activists argued that soldiers should not be permitted to drink alcohol beverages. However, General George C. Marshall, Chief of Staff of the U.S. Army, insisted that such prohibition would be 'harmful to the men in the service."

 

The consumption of alcohol was so widespread throughout history that it has been called "a universal language."

 

Opposition to the enforcement of Prohibition increased as people became disillusioned with the Noble Experiment. Montana became the first state to repeal its enforcement of Prohibition, doing so in 1926 (Prohibition lasted from 1920 through 1933).

 

Shochu, a beverage distilled from barley, was the favorite beverage of the world’s longest-living man, Shigechiyo Izumi of Japan, who lived for 120 years and 237 days. He was born on June 29, 1865 and died on February 21, 1986.

 

In Pennsylvania the tax on wine and spirits is called the Jamestown Flood tax because it was imposed in 1936 to raise funds to help the city of Jamestown rebuild and recover from a devastating flood that year. The city of Jamestown quickly rebuilt and recovered but the tax still continues. It currently costs the taxpayers of the state over $160,000,000.00 each year.

 

# Of Texas' 254 counties, 79 are still completely dry seven decades after the Repeal of Prohibition. Many of the remaining counties are "moist" or partially dry. Some permit one form of alcohol beverage but not another, some prohibit on-premise consumption (except for private clubs), some permit (believe it or not) on-premise but no off-premise consumption, and some have other strange variations, often directly across the street from each other.

 

Vikings used the skulls of their enemies as drinking vessels.

 

I Heart Thursdays!!!

I think we should have an "Amature Thong Thursday" where girls from SL post up thier own pics of them in thongs. We'll vote on the best one each week, then on the last week of the month, we'll vote on a "Grand Champion" and send her a DR shirt.


Big Jarsh

 

ya sounds good.. :YEAH