[Sca-cooks] Drinking laws

[Martin G. Diehl]

"Laura C. Minnick" wrote:
> 
> At 09:02 PM 11/18/2004, you wrote:
> > > >
> > > >Even more important, why not give drivers random IQ 
> > > >tests?
> > >
> > > I like it! Can we have a mandatory sobriety and IQ 
> > > test before becoming parents?
> >
> >I dono ... can we require a sobriety test of underage 
> > people?
> 
> I don't see why not. Are you any more or less drunk 
> because of when your birthday is?

Sometimes ... on the day of ... <g>

As to requiring a test ... the prerequisite for that would 
be that many people admit the problem exists.  Not forgetting 
that too many people believe in effect and cause ... i.e. 
thinking about a problem causes it.  ... and we think we have 
advanced since the Little Renaissance of the 1200's.  

Extra credit reading assignment ... 

Gimpel, Jean; "Medieval Machine: the Industrial Revolution 
of the Middle Ages"; Hardcover; Publisher: Barnes & Noble 
(2003); ISBN: 0760735832 
Or ... Paperback: 274 pages; Publisher: Holt, Rinehart and 
Winston; 1st ed edition (1976); ISBN: 0030146364 

I have in mind ch. 8: "Reason, Mathematics and Science" 
(Abelard, Bernard of Chartres, Thierry of Chartres, 
Roger Bacon, his mentor Robert Grosssetete); 
and ch. 9: The End of an Era".  

> (BTW, I got carded the other day- it shocked me, but it 
> was just annoying, not flattering. The checker was plain 
> rude about it, especially when my mouth fell open and I 
> could barely stammer out 'but I turn 40 next week!')

That would be like the police officer who (after many 
questions) made one last request that I recite the alphabet 
... beginning with "Z" ... 

It was late, I had been tired (but was now wide awake, and 
well-focused to the task at hand).  I thought of asking, 

	"Is it true that they print the alphabet on the 
	back of the Miranda card?  Should I wait until 
	you get it out."  

It's a good thing (TM) that I saved that idea for times 
like this.  ... Oh yeah -- the officer wasn't pleased when 
I did what he asked.  

> > > (Mind you, many of us wouldn't be here...)
> >
> >Any estimates of where we would be instead?
> 
> In Ohio. Under a pile of uncounted provisional ballots.

ROTFLMAOWTIME

> 'Lainie

> The penalty good men pay for not being interested in 
> politics is to be governed by men worse than themselves. 
>   -- Plato

Of my ... in fact Ouch!  

-- 
Martin G. Diehl

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Reality: That which remains after you stop thinking about it.
  inspired by P. K. Dick