LOL-"We are in dry Ky. county we better not drink our wine"

[underpants]

Not an actual quote but my wife just told me this story.

Her big bad Republican former nurse boss(something like that) in the Army and National Guard was on a fishing trip with his old Army buddies (who each brought a $100 bottle of WINE ) and they found out that the lodge they had rented in Kentucky was in a "dry county" so they sat there for the weekend and didn't drink their wine.

The worst part of this is that it rained all weekend so they didn't fish either. They just sat around looking at each other for 3 days.

OMG that is the most sad and pathetic thing I have ever heard of. Army buddies on a fishing trip NOT drinking their WINE because they are IN a dry county.

[freetobegay]

1. I am from S.E. Kentucky

Middlesboro to be exact. All of S.E. Kentucky are dry Counties. Luckily for us, the Tennessee was just 3 miles away (Cumberland Gap). We could buy any type of beer or liquor we wanted!

ON EDIT: Just because it is a dry County does not mean you cannot consume, you just cannot buy it.

[underpants]

3. I know the moonshoners usually lobby to keep it dry

I went to college for two years (one year's credit) in Franklin County Va. (Ferrum) and the moonshiners funded the churches to lobby to make Franklin County a dry county AGAIN-strange bed fellows I guess.

[freetobegay]

5. This is how my Daddy explained it to me

The moonshiners paid the preachers to preach against drinking to keep them in business. The preachers were happy to do so because it sounds right & hey they get to make money off the deal & of course you can't forget the Sheriff who got cuts from the moonshiner & the preacher.

[underpants]

6. buSINess

Yep that is how it works. I forgot about the Sherriff angle.

When we used to go to the stores that didn't card the 'shiners would sit outside and make fun of us for drinking that "weak water". The main store in town openly sold copper tubing and bags of corn. You could see (and often smell) them cooking it up on the hill right behind campus.

As drinking goes I have to say the effects are unbelieveable ("there is a crack in the sidewalk....I am going to trip over that crack and ....there is pretty much nothing I can do about it......trip...) a real ride inside your brain. But you have to be careful who you get it from.

[PeteC]

8. Thanks

I've been visiting DU since The Great Theft of 2000. Reading mostly. I'm in Texas on a business trip and figured I'd take advantage of the free broadband.

[TNDemo]

9. It was just the opposite for us.

We lived in Albany, KY and had to drive to Static, TN to get our booze since KY was dry. Albany is known otherwise as the place to stick a thermometer if you were taking the temperature of the world. Two years there was quite enough. BTW, my brother is a right winger in Tazewell and goes to Middlesboro to shop. Any Democrats at that end of TN?

[PeteC]

2. That's Sad

When I was in the USMC in Milling ton Tn I took a trip with a buddy to his house in Ky (dry county). We just stopped by the local bootlegger and bought a jar of moonshine. Nasty hangover.

I had a similar experience when I was in Saudi Arabia (Gulf War 1). A Kiwi took us to his house on ARAMCO and shared some of his home brew. Spent the next day in the rack with another nasty headache.

Slow learner I guess.

[underpants]

4. Welcome to DU

and thanks for your service.

I was a Scout from '90-93 in the very not dry Germany. They asked for volunteers but..........you know the first thing they teach you in basic-NEVER VOLUNTEER!

[jarab]

7. In the not too distant past, the county

of Christian (Ky) was "wet", and Bourbon Co (Ky) was "dry".
...O...

[underpants]

10. F--kin' revenuers!

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